Cate Blanchett’s “Carol” leads Film Independent Spirit Awards noms November 25, 2015 - 10:44 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Nominations for the 31st Independent Spirit Awards were announced on Tuesday, November 24. Todd Haynes' "Carol" leads the pack with six nominations including Best Feature and Best Female Lead for stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, AceShowbiz reports. In the Best Feature category, "Carol" fights against other spectacular movies such as "Anomalisa", "Beasts of No Nation", "Spotlight" and "Tangerine". Also dominating the nominations are Cary Fukunaga's "Beasts of No Nation" and Tom McCarthy's "Spotlight", nabbing a total of five nominations each. Meanwhile, lead actor nominees go to Christopher Abbott ("James White"), Abraham Attah ("Beasts of No Nation"), Ben Mendelsohn ("Mississippi Grind"), Jason Segel ("The End of the Tour") and Koudous Seihon ("Mediterranea"). In supporting categories, Robin Bartlett ("H.") and Marin Ireland ("Glass Chin") join Jennifer Jason Leigh, Cynthia Nixon and Mya Taylor, who are nominated for "Anomalisa", "James White" and "Tangerine" respectively. The 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards will be held on February 27, 2016, the day before the Academy Awards ceremony, and will be broadcast exclusively on IFC.  Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |
