OFFICIAL SELECTION 8TH EKOIFF. MARCH 5-10,2018

FEATURE FILMS

– Florian Schnell                       OFFLINE                                   (Germany)
– Moses Iwang Sneeze            ALTER EGO                               (Nigeria)
– Gorge Tiller                            OVERNIGHT FLIES                   (Austria)
– Greg Blakey                           WEDGETAIL                               (Germany)
– Stanlee Ohikhuare                 BEHIND THE WHEELS             (Nigeria)
– Fritz v Eichhorn                     DIE TRACHT                               (Germany)
– Darasen Richards                  BETRAYAL                                  (Nigeria)
– Justin John Doherty              WILDERNESS                              (UK)
– J Leo Uche                      SPIRIT OF THE JUNGLE                 (Nigeria)
– Osezua Elimihe                        THE MANIAC                            (Nigeria)
– Blessing Egbe                     THE WOMEN                                 (Nigeria)
– Paul Hoffmann                  1000 MEXIKANER (P. SCHOLZ)      (Germany)



SHORT FILMS

– Benedykt Zasadzki              ABRAKADABRA                                 (UK)
– Olawale Awoyinka              MEMOIRE OF A CABBIE                   (Uk)
– E.G. Bailey                         NEW NEIGHBOURS                          (USA)
– Ruke Amata                   CHRONICLE OF ELIZABETH              (UK)
– Toru Takano                         SHE’S BEYOND ME                         (Japan)
– CHOI Yoonyoung                    HAPPY ENDING                           (France)
– Mathijs Geijskes                          STUCK                             (Netherlands)
– Gabrielle Pfeiffer-Fasbender         STIFF                                  (Germany)
– Honey –Ann Ndubuisi                     NUMB                                 (Nigeria)
– Benny                              TEARS OF A BROKEN VIRGIN        (Nigeria)
– Adeleke Joseph                         THE ABUSED                           (Nigeria)
– Banji Oyemaja                     THE HOUSE KEEPER                   (Nigeria)
– Hellmut Mario    VERAS TONGUE IN MY MOUTH FULL OF CHOCOLATE(Germany)
– Quam Balogun                           THE ANSWER                         (Nigeria)
– Moneyshot                                  DAUGHTERS                          (Nigeria)
– Seyi Oluyole                                     GBERA                               (Nigeria)
– Zwelethu S.Z. Radebe               THE HANGMAN                 (South Africa)
– Sir Osy Livingstone                        DON’T                                 (Nigeria)
– Fidelis Ogoja                                   TWISTED                             (Nigeria)
– Kolade Owolabi                  IYABO POLICE WAHALA                (Nigeria)
– Kingsley Omoefe                     TAKE CARE OF ME                   (Nigeria)
– Paul Hoffmann          ZWEI SOLDATEN – TWO SOLDIERS   (Germany)



DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS

– Iara Lee                      K2 AND THE INVISIBLE FOOTMAN      (Pakistan)
– Eric Bednarski               A FILM FOR NORTHERN UGANDA       ( UK)
– Fumiko Kiyooka    REED:THE LIFE AND WORK OF ROY KIYOOKA  (Canada)
– Robert Clem                     HOW THEY GOT OVER                      (USA)
– Adres Roccatagliata               BABYLONDON                                (UK)
– Rosine Mbakam        THE TWO FACES OF A BAMILÉKÉ WOMAN     (Cameroon)
– Hyeongsuk Kim                        SEMPERVIVUM                  (South Korea)



DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS

– Catherine Ricoul        THE GALLEON OF THE GALLERY        (Germany)
– Prince Abiola                     SANGO IN GERMANY                         (Germany)
– Federiba Vairani & Manuel Marano     A LIFE OF CHAINS                  (Italy)
– Julian Catro & Vlami Criz              AROUND THE SUN                    (Brazil)
– Oluwasun Babalola                       REPRESENT (ṢOJU)                   (USA)
– Alice McDowell                              AS HUMAN AS I AM                    (Ireland)



INDIGENOUS FEATURE FILMS


– Abking Yakub                                    OMO BABA                                (Nigeria)
– Chidi E.Chidi                                         UCHU                                      (Nigeria)
– Queen Blessing Ebigieson             IBAJE MI DANA                            (Nigeria)

Oscars : Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• Timothée Chalamet in "Call Me by Your Name"
• Daniel Day-Lewis in "Phantom Thread"
• Daniel Kaluuya in "Get Out"
• Gary Oldman in "Darkest Hour"
• Denzel Washington in "Roman J. Israel, Esq."

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Willem Dafoe in "The Florida Project"
• Woody Harrelson in "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri"
• Richard Jenkins in "The Shape of Water"
• Christopher Plummer in "All the Money in the World"
• Sam Rockwell in "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri"

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• Sally Hawkins in "The Shape of Water"
• Frances McDormand in "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri"
• Margot Robbie in "I, Tonya"
• Saoirse Ronan in "Lady Bird"
• Meryl Streep in "The Post"

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Mary J. Blige in "Mudbound"
• Allison Janney in "I, Tonya"
• Lesley Manville in "Phantom Thread"
• Laurie Metcalf in "Lady Bird"
• Octavia Spencer in "The Shape of Water"

Best animated feature film of the year

• "The Boss Baby" Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito
• "The Breadwinner" Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo
• "Coco" Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson
• "Ferdinand" Carlos Saldanha
• "Loving Vincent" Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart

Achievement in cinematography

• "Blade Runner 2049" Roger A. Deakins
• "Darkest Hour" Bruno Delbonnel
• "Dunkirk" Hoyte van Hoytema
• "Mudbound" Rachel Morrison
• "The Shape of Water" Dan Laustsen

Achievement in costume design

• "Beauty and the Beast" Jacqueline Durran
• "Darkest Hour" Jacqueline Durran
• "Phantom Thread" Mark Bridges
• "The Shape of Water" Luis Sequeira
• "Victoria & Abdul" Consolata Boyle

Achievement in directing

• "Dunkirk" Christopher Nolan
• "Get Out" Jordan Peele
• "Lady Bird" Greta Gerwig
• "Phantom Thread" Paul Thomas Anderson
• "The Shape of Water" Guillermo del Toro

Best documentary feature

• "Abacus: Small Enough to Jail" Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman
• "Faces Places" Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda
• "Icarus" Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
• "Last Men in Aleppo" Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen
• "Strong Island" Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes

Best documentary short subject

• "Edith+Eddie" Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright
• "Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405" Frank Stiefel
• "Heroin(e)" Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon
• "Knife Skills" Thomas Lennon
• "Traffic Stop" Kate Davis and David Heilbroner

Achievement in film editing

• "Baby Driver" Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos
• "Dunkirk" Lee Smith
• "I, Tonya" Tatiana S. Riegel
• "The Shape of Water" Sidney Wolinsky
• "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri" Jon Gregory

Best foreign language film of the year

• "A Fantastic Woman" Chile
• "The Insult" Lebanon
• "Loveless" Russia
• "On Body and Soul" Hungary
• "The Square" Sweden

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

• "Darkest Hour" Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick
• "Victoria & Abdul" Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
• "Wonder" Arjen Tuiten

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

• "Dunkirk" Hans Zimmer
• "Phantom Thread" Jonny Greenwood
• "The Shape of Water" Alexandre Desplat
• "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" John Williams
• "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri" Carter Burwell

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

• "Mighty River" from "Mudbound"
  Music and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson
• "Mystery Of Love" from "Call Me by Your Name"
  Music and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens
• "Remember Me" from "Coco"
  Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
• "Stand Up For Something" from "Marshall"
  Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren
• "This Is Me" from "The Greatest Showman"
  Music and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

Best motion picture of the year

• "Call Me by Your Name" Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito, Producers
• "Darkest Hour" Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski, Producers
• "Dunkirk" Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
• "Get Out" Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele, Producers
• "Lady Bird" Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Evelyn O'Neill, Producers
• "Phantom Thread" JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi, Producers
• "The Post" Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
• "The Shape of Water" Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale, Producers
• "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri" Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers

Achievement in production design

• "Beauty and the Beast" Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
• "Blade Runner 2049" Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola
• "Darkest Hour" Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
• "Dunkirk" Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
• "The Shape of Water" Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin

Best animated short film

• "Dear Basketball" Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant
• "Garden Party" Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon
• "Lou" Dave Mullins and Dana Murray
• "Negative Space" Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata
• "Revolting Rhymes" Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer

Best live action short film

• "DeKalb Elementary" Reed Van Dyk
• "The Eleven O'Clock" Derin Seale and Josh Lawson
• "My Nephew Emmett" Kevin Wilson, Jr.
• "The Silent Child" Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton
• "Watu Wote/All of Us" Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen

Achievement in sound editing

• "Baby Driver" Julian Slater
• "Blade Runner 2049" Mark Mangini and Theo Green
• "Dunkirk" Richard King and Alex Gibson
• "The Shape of Water" Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira
• "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce

Achievement in sound mixing

• "Baby Driver" Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis
• "Blade Runner 2049" Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth
• "Dunkirk" Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo
• "The Shape of Water" Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier
• "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson

Achievement in visual effects

• "Blade Runner 2049" John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover
• "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick
• "Kong: Skull Island" Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus
• "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
• "War for the Planet of the Apes" Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist

Adapted screenplay

• "Call Me by Your Name" Screenplay by James Ivory
• "The Disaster Artist" Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
• "Logan" Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold
• "Molly's Game" Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin
• "Mudbound" Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

Original screenplay

• "The Big Sick" Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
• "Get Out" Written by Jordan Peele
• "Lady Bird" Written by Greta Gerwig
• "The Shape of Water" Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro
• "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri" Written by Martin McDonagh

Jonathan Ball - Michael Jackson Tribute - Happy Birthday Song

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Australian Actor Cate Blanchett Jury President Festival de Cannes 2018

Australian actor Cate Blanchett is to be President of the Jury of the Festival de Cannes, the 71st edition of which will be taking place in May 2018.

“I have been to Cannes in many guises over the years; as an actress, producer, in the marketplace, the Gala-sphere and in Competition,” she declared, “but never solely for the sheer pleasure of watching the cornucopia of  films this great festival harbours.”

Cate Blanchett follows Pedro Almodóvar, Jury President of the 70th edition, whose jury awarded the Palme d’or to The Square by Swedish director Ruben Östlund.

"I am humbled by the privilege and responsibility of presiding over this year's jury,” she continued. “This festival plays a pivotal role in bringing the world together to celebrate story; that strange and vital endeavour that all peoples share, understand and crave."

Pierre Lescure, Festival de Cannes President and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, said: "We are delighted to welcome such a rare and unique artist whose talent and convictions enrich both screen and stage. Our conversations from this autumn tell us she will be a committed President, a passionate woman and a big-hearted spectator.