The Society of Camera Operators has announced that submissions for the Camera Operator of the Year and Technical Achievement Awards are now open. The awards will be presented during the SOC Lifetime Achievement Awards weekend on February 15, 2025, at the Loews Hollywood Hotel.
American Cinema Editors have announced the ceremony date, venue and full voting timeline for the 75th Annual ACE Eddie Awards, recognizing outstanding editing in 13 categories of film and television.
MTI Film has been honored with a Technical Engineering Emmy Award at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards. The award was presented in recognition of the significant impact MTI Film's DRS Nova software system has made on television post-production.
Will Mauricette began working on his short film Spare Me in the summer of 2022, just before his junior year at Ringling College of Art and Design. It has since been selected for entry to more than 20 film festivals and earned a number of awards—including 2024 Best Picture from the Mometu College Shorts Film Festival in Los Angeles. Mometu, a streaming service specializing in independent and international titles, subsequently awarded funding to adapt Spare Me into a full-length film.
Cinesystem Cinemas will receive the ShowEast 2024 Enrique Ramirez LATAM Exhibitor of the Year Award as part of the International Awards Luncheon on Monday, October 21 at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel. Cinesystem Cinemas founder and chairman Marcos Barros will accept the award.
The London-based cinema advertising company Digital Cinema Media has announced the nominees for the eighth annual Digital Cinema Media Awards, held in partnership with Campaign. The competition, which is judged by a panel of leading experts, aims to celebrate and reward the best strategic use of the cinema medium and most outstanding big screen campaigns created by the media industry in the past year.
The Hollywood Professional Association Awards Committee has announced that FotoKem will receive HPA’s prized Charles S. Swartz Award at the 19th HPA Awards gala on November 7. The ceremony will return to the Wolfe Theater at the Television Academy.
The Avon Theatre - Deborah & Chuck Royce Cinema Arts Center, has announced that acclaimed actor, producer and Academy Award winner Michael Douglas will be the recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. The award ceremony will occur October 22 at the Avon Theatre in Stamford, Connecticut, with a private after-party at Towne Parlor, a few blocks down from the theatre.
The American Film Institute will confer a Doctorate of Fine Arts degree honoris causa for contributions of distinction to the art of the moving image upon Jamie Lee Curtis. Curtis will be recognized during the AFI Conservatory’s commencement ceremony celebrating the Class of 2024 August 10, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
FilmLight has finalized the jury for the 2024 FilmLight Color Awards and announced Australian film director, screenwriter and producer, George Miller, as guest of honor, and award-winning Australian cinematographer, Mandy Walker, as 2024 jury president.
