HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The 15th Annual
Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards together with
Yahoo! Movies are pleased to announce the nominees for the 2011
"Hollywood Movie Awards" competition.
The ten nominees in alphabetical order are "Captain America: The
First Avenger," "Cowboys & Aliens," "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2,"
"The Help," "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," "Rango,"
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes," "Super 8," "Transformers: Dark of
the Moon," "X-Men: First Class."
The Hollywood Movie Awards® are presented by Yahoo! Movies and
cover the public's favorites of the year. The voting takes place at
the Yahoo! Movies site at
http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/hollywood-movie-awards/vote-2011-hollywood-movie-184839623.html#more-id
"We are very excited that once again the Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film
Awards, together with Yahoo! Movies, will continue their tradition
of providing the public at large with the opportunity to vote for
their favorite movie," said Founder and Executive Director,
Carlos de Abreu.
"The Hollywood Movie Awards sets the early tone for the upcoming
movie awards season, and Yahoo! Movies is delighted to once again
be the destination where film fans can vote for their favorite
movie of the year," said Sean
Phillips, executive producer Yahoo! Movies.
The Hollywood Movie Awards winner by popular vote will receive
the award at the Hollywood Film Awards Gala Ceremony on Monday
evening, October 24, at the Beverly
Hilton Hotel.
The 2011 Hollywood Film Festival has also announced that they
will honor five-time Oscar nominee Glenn
Close with the "Hollywood Career Achievement Award," Academy
Award-nominated actress Michelle
Williams with the "Hollywood Actress Award" for "My Week
with Marilyn," Academy Award-nominated actor Christopher Plummer with the "Hollywood
Supporting Actor Award" for "Beginners," actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt with the "Hollywood
Breakthrough Actor Award" for "50/50," and actress Felicity Jones with the "New Hollywood Award"
for "Like Crazy." Other honorees include the cast of "The Help"
(Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Bryce
Dallas Howard, Allison
Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna
O'Reilly, Octavia Spencer,
Emma Stone, Sissy Spacek, Mary
Steenburgen, Cicely Tyson,
and Mike Vogel), Director
Michel Hazanavicius, Producer Letty
Aronson, Screenwriter Diablo Cody, Film Composer Alberto Iglesias,
Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, Editor Stephen Mirrione, Production Designer James
Murakami, and Visual Effects Supervisor Scott Farrar at their annual Awards Gala. In
addition, Gore Verbinski's "Rango" will be honored at the Hollywood
Film Awards Gala Ceremony, along with additional honorees to be
announced in the coming weeks.
The festival and awards will mark their return on October 20 for a weeklong series of screenings
and awards. The Hollywood Film
Festival will take place at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood.
YAHOO! MOVIES:
Yahoo! Movies is one of the leading websites for movie trailers,
news and information.
ABOUT STARZ ENTERTAINMENT, LLC:
The Hollywood Film Festival and
Hollywood Film Awards presenter is Starz Entertainment, LLC, a
premium movie and original programming entertainment service
provider operating in the United
States. The company offers 17 premium channels including the
flagship STARZ® and ENCORE® brands with approximately 19 million
and 32.9 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs
in total more than 1,000 movies and original series every month
across its pay TV channels. Starz Entertainment is recognized as a
pay TV leader in providing HD, On Demand, HD On Demand and online
advanced services for its STARZ, ENCORE and MOVIEPLEX brands. Starz
Entertainment (www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC,
which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation and
is attributed to the Liberty Starz tracking stock group (NASDAQ:
LSTZA).
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SOURCE Hollywood Film
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