Hollywood Awards winners
The 11th Annual Hollywood Film Festival’s “Hollywood Awards” ceremony, was held recently at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. This year’s winner of the “Hollywood Movie of the Year Award” went to Zach Snyder’s “300″ being chosen by the public voting online, beating up “The Bourne Ultimatum,” “Hairspray,” “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” “Ocean’s Thirteen,” “Ratatouille,” “Shrek the Third,” “The Simpsons Movie,” “Spider-Man 3,” and “Transformers.”
The Hollywood Film Festival presented the “Hollywood World Award” to “4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days” by Cristian Mungiu. A drama from Romania, distributed by IFC Films, a story which centered around an illegal abortion.Other winners were “Gone With The Woman” by Petter Naess as Best Feature Film, “Knee Deep” by Michael Chandler named as Best Documentary, “Crossing The Heart” by Steven Hood got Best Short Subject,”A Gentlemen’s Duel” by Francisco Ruiz and Sean McNally is Best Animated Short Subject while Timz “Iraq” by Timz, aka Tommy Hanna, received the Best Music Video.
Special honors went to:
- Richard Gere, Marion Cotillard, John Travolta, Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Page and Casey Affleck for acting;
- The cast of “Hairspray” for ensemble acting;
- Ben Affleck and Marc Forster for directing;
- Craig Zadan and Neil Meron for producing;
- Christopher Hampton and Diablo Cody for screenwriting;
- “Ratatouille,” directed by Brad Bird, for animation;
- Mark Isham for film composing;
- Stephen Goldblatt for cinematography;
- Joe Hutshing for editing;
- Scott Farrar (”Transformers”) for visual effects;
- Dante Ferretti for production design.