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EXCLUSIVE: Damien Chazelle will be recognized with the Advanced Imaging Society ’s Gene Kelly Visionary Award at the 13th annual Lumiere Awards , taking place at The Beverly Hills Hotel on February 10. AIS’ honor will be bestowed upon the Babylon filmmaker by Kelly’s widow and biographer, Patricia Ward Kelly. Chazelle is only the second-ever recipient of the award, following Guillermo del Toro, who claimed the inaugural prize last year. He will be honored at the Advanced Imagining Society’s awards luncheon along with Avatar: The Way of Water collaborators James Cameron and Jon Landau, who were set last month to receive the Voices For the Earth Award. Said AIS President, Jim Chabin: “Damien Chazelle, like Gene Kelly, is an American original whose films burst with unbounded wit, intelligence and style, which he aptly demonstrates as he retells Hollywood’s earliest days as it moved from silent films to talkies in his latest work, Babylon . We are thrilled to … [Read more...] about ‘Babylon’ Filmmaker Damien Chazelle To Receive Gene Kelly Visionary Award At 2023 AIS Lumiere Awards

The PGA Awards announced its nominees for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures today, a list noted for a number of snubs and surprises. Seven films were recognized with nominations, including All That Breathes , Shaunak Sen’s documentary about two brothers to Delhi, India who have dedicated their lives to rehabilitating birds of prey that have fallen victim to the city’s polluted skies. It won the Best Feature honors at the IDA Documentary Awards over the weekend, so the PGA Awards nomination comes as no surprise. However, omitted from the PGA list was All the Beauty and the Bloodshed , the strong Oscar contender from director Laura Poitras which on Friday was named Best Non-Fiction Film by the New York Film Critics Circle. Also missing out on a PGA Award nomination were Moonage Daydream , Brett Morgen’s documentary on David Bowie that is far and away the top-grossing documentary of the year in theatrical release, and Good Night Oppy , Ryan White’s … [Read more...] about PGA Awards Documentary Nominations Bring Shocks And Surprises: ‘Nothing Compares’ In, ‘All The Beauty And The Bloodshed’ Out