The film and television honorees for the 2023 AFI Awards have been revealed!
19.11.2023 - 14:01 / variety.com
Angeles Cruz’s “Valentina or the Serenity” walked off Saturday night with the top best picture award and best actress (Myriam Bravo) in a high-caliber main competition at this year’s Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival. Best actor went to “Money Heist’s” Rodolfo de la Serna, for his weighty turn in Paramount Television Intl. Studios’ “The Rescue.” Cruz’s win underscored the focus and value of Huelva.
Despite funding challenges, Latin America’s big three – Mexico, Brazil and Argentina – alone produced 660 features in 2022. It is simply impossible for the media to pay sufficient attention to all but a highly select clutch of top titles. “Ibero-American cinema is constantly evolving.
Now, it is very easy to find great films, if not in budgetary terms, then in artistic ambitions,” Huelva director Manuel H. Martin told Variety in the run-up to the festival. “Valentina,” played Toronto and Mexico.
Despite that, it deserves far more attention. Titles, moreover, buck cliché and expectations. “Valentina” turns on a young Mixtec girl’s attempt to process her father’s death, which runs from guilt and denial to final remembrance.
Critics’ consensus, to the extent that it has received reviews, is that the final effect is an entertaining film. Huelva’s Audience Award winner “La Suprema,” from Colombia’s Felipe Holguín, is set in a dirt poor hamlet off the Caribbean coast. That said, it delivers a heart warming ode to community solidarity as the villagers rally round to fufill a long girl’s dream.
The film and television honorees for the 2023 AFI Awards have been revealed!
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Oppenheimer and Matthew Perry are among the most viewed Wikipedia pages of 2023.This year alone, the English language version of the website had 84billion views, with celebrity deaths and Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic about the creation of the atomic bomb ranking as two of the highest searches.The list of celebrity deaths, which includes the late Friends star Perry, has been viewed 42,666,860 times, while Oppenheimer has 28,348,248 pageviews.J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist on which the film is based (played by Cillian Murphy), also ranked high with 25,672,469 pageviews.Perry, who starred as Chandler Bing in Friends, was found dead in his Los Angeles home on 28 October, aged 54.
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Julia Roberts has broken her silence on actor Matthew Perry's tragic death, just over one month after the Friends actor was found dead at his home in Los Angeles.The Pretty Woman actress, 56, briefly dated Matthew, who played Chandler Bing in the hit US sitcom, in the 1990s.The pair's romance occurred around the same time Julia appeared in Friends episode The One After the Super Bowl in 1996, as Chandler's love interest and old school friend Susie Moss. Julia has now spoken out about ex Matthew's sudden passing on 28 October, branding it "heartbreaking" in a new interview.
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Nielsen streaming charts have revealed which shows people are watching the most – with Friends being on the rise following the death of Matthew Perry.The actor, best known for his role as Chandler Bing in the hit 1990s sitcom, died aged 54 at his home in Los Angeles on 28 October.Since then, many fans of the series have been turning to the beloved series and streaming it on various platforms. The comedy, which originally ran from 1994 to 2004 gathered 583million minutes of viewing on Max between 23 and 29 October.
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Lisa Kudrow has paid tribute to her friend and co-star Matthew Perry following the tragic death of the late actor.
David Schwimmer has recalled one of his 'favourite moments' with later friend and co-star Matthew Perry as he penned his own tribute following the actor's tragic death. Perry died aged 54 on October 28.
Friends co-star Matthew Perry.The actress, who portrayed Rachel Green in the US sitcom opposite Perry’s Chandler Bing, wrote in a lengthy note posted to Instagram today (November 15) that the loss has “cut deep” and has caused an “insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before”.Perry, 54, was found dead in his hot tub at his Los Angeles home on October 28.According to E! News the actor’s death certificate states that his cause of death is still “deferred” following the latest reports that his initial autopsy results were inconclusive. The toxicology report has since confirmed that his death was not caused by a methamphetamine or fentanyl overdose.Perry had longstanding substance abuse issues but it’s not yet known whether he was using at the time of his death or if another health issue was the cause or whether accidental drowning occurred.In Aniston’s fresh tribute she celebrates Perry’s funny nature and notes how much the Friends cast “loved him deeply” as a “chosen family that forever changed the course of who we were and what our path was going to be”.“Oh boy this one has cut deep…,” Aniston’s message begins.“Having to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before.
Marta Balaga India Donaldson picked up the Polish Film Institute Award for her upcoming feature “Good One” at the American Film Festival in Wrocław, coming with a $50,000 cash prize for post-production in Poland. “It’s an affirmation of how we have been working and what we have been working towards,” Los Angeles-based Donaldson told Variety after the ceremony. “Good One” – presented during AFF’s industry event U.S.
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Jennifer Aniston was reportedly 'keeping to herself' at Matthew Perry's funeral, held six days after the actor, best known for his role as Chandler Bing in Friends, was found dead at his home in Los Angeles.The cause of the 54-year-old's death is still unknown, but it's reported that he drowned in his hot tub. His devastated parents were present at the funeral, along with his other co-stars Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer and Matt Le Blanc.The group of friends, who all became household names in the hit American sitcom, were seen hugging and comforting each other before entering the hour-long service.