HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 15th
Annual Hollywood Film Festival's "Hollywood Awards" ceremony was
held last night before a standing-room-only audience of over 1,100
Hollywood Film Festival® attendees at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in
Beverly Hills.
The festival and awards, presented by Starz, announced this
year's winner of the "Hollywood Movie Awards" -
David Yates' "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part
2" - which was chosen by the public voting online at the Yahoo!
Movies website. The nominees for the "Hollywood Movie Awards" were:
"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," and "X-Men: First Class."
The winners of the festival's film competition were announced
Sunday night at the "Hollywood Discovery Awards®" Presentation
Ceremony at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood. This year's winners are:
"Dorfman" by Brad Leong -
Best Feature Film; "The World of Z" by Brad Besser and Vince
Clemente - Best Documentary; and "Clear Blue" by
Lindsay MacKay - Best Short
Subject.
Special honors went to Glenn
Close for career achievement; George
Clooney, Michelle Williams,
Christopher Plummer, Carey Mulligan, Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, Felicity
Jones, Berenice Bejo,
Jean Dujardin, Elle Fanning, Amber
Heard, Andrea Riseborough,
Shailene Woodley, Anton Yelchin, Viola
Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard,
Allison Janey, Ahna O'Reilly,
Octavia Spencer, Mary Steenburgen, Emma
Stone, and Cicely Tyson for
acting; Bennett Miller for
directing; Michel Hazanavicius for
directing; Letty Aronson for
producing; Diablo Cody for
screenwriting; "Rango," directed by Gore Verbinski, for animation;
Alberto Iglesias for film composing;
Emmanuel Lubezki for cinematography; Stephen Mirrione for editing; Scott Farrar ("Transformers: Dark of the Moon")
for visual effects; and James J.
Murakami for production design.
Celebrities and Hollywood
notables who attended the Hollywood Awards included Chris Albrecht - President and Chief Executive
Officer of Starz LLC, Stephan
Shelanski - Executive Vice President of Starz Entertainment,
Timothy Sean Phillips - head of
Yahoo!Movies, Ben Affleck,
Craig Brewer, Beau Bridges, Michael
Barker, Jerry Bruckheimer,
Ted Danson, Drake Doremus, Tom
Felton, Paul Haggis,
Anne Hathaway, Jonah Hill, Julianne
Hough, Rosie
Huntington-Whiteley, Ray
Liotta, Ewan McGregor,
Penelope Ann Miller, Don Murray, Christoph
Waltz, Harvey Weinstein and
Owen Wilson, to name a few. The gala
awards presentation Monday evening was hosted by Nancy O'Dell of
"Entertainment Tonight" and attendees were treated to the music of
Johnny Crawford and his
Orchestra.
The sponsors of the Hollywood
Film Festival include presenter sponsor Starz Entertainment, and
American Cinema Editors, American Society of Cinematographers,
ArcLight Cinemas, Art Director's Guild, The Casting Society of
America, Celebrity Services, Columbia Pictures, Creative Artists
Agency, DreamWorks SKG, Entertainment Tonight, Focus Features, Fox
Searchlight, Gerry Turnbull, The
Hollywood Network, HollywoodNews.com, ICM, ILM, Johnny Crawford
Orchestra, Los Angeles Times, Motion
Picture Editors Guild, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics,
Sony Pictures, Summit Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Variety,
Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., The Weinstein Company and YAHOO!
Movies, Inc., among others.
About Starz Entertainment, LLC:
The festival and 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).
For more information please go to www.HollywoodFestival.com.
SOURCE Hollywood Film
Festival