Films From the Hamptons International Film Festival’s 19th Edition Have Received 24 Oscar Nominations

The Artist

HIFF is pleased to announce that films screened at our Festival are represented in all of the major categories.

We would also like to note it is the second year in a row our Audience Award winning film has been nominated for Best Picture. In addition, we screened 3 of the 5 eventual Oscar nominated documentaries.

We are also thrilled that films in our 19th edition received 17 Golden Globe nominations with 6 wins, earlier this year. For the Golden Globes, films that we screened won both Best Drama, as well as Best Musical or Comedy and we also screened films with 3 of the 4 major Acting Awards.

HIFF’s Closing Night Film and Audience Award winner, THE ARTIST, has received 10 Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director - Michael Hazanavicius, Best Actor - Jean Dujardin, Best Supporting Actress - Berenice Bejo and Best Original Screenplay.

THE DESCENDANTS has received 5 nominations, including Best Picture while MY WEEK WITH MARILYN has received two with Michelle Williams up for Best Actress and Kenneth Branagh up for Best Supporting Actor.

Pina

HIFF is also very pleased to note that the Festival’s featured documentaries and short films have received several nominations. These include PARADISE LOST 3: PURGATORY, PINA, UNDEFEATED, THE SHORE, THE TSUNAMI AND THE CHERRY BLOSSOM and THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS LESSMORE.

Rooney Mara at our 2009 Festival as a Breakthrough Performer

HIFF would also like to extend a special congratulations to our 2009 Breakthrough Performer Rooney Mara, nominated for Best Actress for THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, and our 2010 Breakthrough Performer Jessica Chastain, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for THE HELP.

Don’t forget to tune in to watch this year’s Academay Awards ceremony on February 26th!

The 12th Annual Screenwriter’s Lab is Now Open for Submissions

A photo from the 2010 Screenwriter's Lab

The Hamptons International Film Festival’s Screenwriters’ Lab, going into its 12th year, is an intimate gathering that takes place each Spring in East Hampton, New York (April 13 - 15, 2012). The Lab develops emerging screenwriting talent by pairing established writers & creative producers with up-and-coming screenwriters (chosen by HIFF in collaboration with key industry contacts). The mentors advise in a one-on-one creative laboratory setting while additional events bring the participants together with board members, sponsors, the local artistic community, and other friends of the festival. With scripts from past writers produced year after year, the Lab continues to be a safe and inspiring place for artists to find and hone their creative vision.

Recent mentors at the lab include Michael Cunningham (The Hours, Evening); James Vanderbilt (Zodiac); Mark Heyman (Black Swan); Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson, Sugar, It’s Kind of a Funny Story); Billy Frolick (Madagascar); J.D. Zeik (Ronin); J. Robin Baitz (People I Know, The Substance of Fire); Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco); Ira Sachs (40 Shades of Blue, This Married Life); Jeff Sharp (Producer, You Can Count on Me, Evening); Maria Maggenti (The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love); Sabrina Dhawan (Monsoon Wedding, Cosmopolitan); Gregory Widen (Highlander, Backdraft); Mark Christopher (54); Maggie Greenwald (Songcatcher, Ballad of Little Jo); Lawrence Lasker (Sneakers, War Games); Chap Taylor (Changing Lanes, National Treasure); and Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, P.S.).

We seek a broad selection of screenplays addressing a wide subject matter. Additionally, in collaboration with The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s initiative in furthering the public understanding of science, we encourage writers to submit screenplays that explore science, technology, mathematics, invention, and engineering in fresh and innovative ways.

2011 Hamptons International Film Festival

Award Winners Announced

The Artist (2011)

HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CONGRATULATES THE WINNERS:

THE ARTIST

Audience Award Narrative

Directed by Michel Hazanavicius

HARD TIMES: LOST ON LONG ISLAND

Audience Award Documentary

Directed by Marc Levin

TWO’S A CROWD

Audience Award Winner for Best Short

Directed by Jim Isler and Tom Isler

THE FAIRY

Narrative Jury Winner

Directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon & Bruno Romy

LAURA

Documentary Jury Winner

Directed by Fellipe Barbosa

THE STRANGE ONES

Short Narrative Jury Winner

Directed by Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein

WITHOUT

The Kodak Award for Best Cinematography.

The Wouter Barendrecht Pioneering Vision Award

Directed by Mark Jackson.

YOU’VE BEEN TRUMPED

Winner of the Victor Rabinowitz and Joanne Grant Award for Social Justice

Director Anthony Baxter

SPECIAL JURY MENTIONS:

THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD

Directed by Joshua Marston

VODKA FACTORY

Directed by Jerzy Sladkowski

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED

SMALL, BEAUTIFULLY MOVING PARTS

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Feature Film Prize

Directed by Annie Howell and Lisa Robinson

THE BULLY PROJECT

The Brizzolara Family Foundation Award for a Film of

Conflict and Resolution

Directed By Lee Hirsch

2011 Breakthrough Performer Recipients

Emily Browning – SLEEPING BEAUTY

Alexander Skarsgard- MELONCHOLIA

Stine Fischer Christensen – CRACKS IN THE SHELL

Ezra Miller – ANOTHER HAPPY DAY

Shailene Woodley – THE DESCENDANTS

Anton Yelchin – LIKE CRAZY