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The 88th Annual Academy Awards 2016 (TV 2016)

Awards

The 88th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2015 and took place on February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, having begun at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, and produced by David Hill and Reginald Hudlin and directed by Glenn Weiss. Actor Chris Rock hosted the show for the second time, having previously hosted the 77th ceremony held in 2005. In related events, the Academy held its 7th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 14, 2015. On February 13, 2016, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Olivia Munn and Jason Segel. Mad Max: Fury Road won six awards, the most for the evening, and The Revenant won three out of 12 total nominations. Other winners include Spotlight, which won two, including Best Picture, with A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, Amy, Bear Story, The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, The Danish Girl, Ex Machina, The Hateful Eight, Inside Out, Room, Son of Saul, Spectre, and Stutterer each winning one.

Starring: Margot Robbie, Olivia Munn, Eddie Redmayne, Benicio Del Toro, Charlize Theron, Ryan Gosling, Jacob Tremblay, Jared Leto, Julianne Moore, Reese Witherspoon, Lady Gaga, Priyanka Chopra, Steve Carell, Kevin Hart, Tina Fey

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Tags: Benicio Del Toro, Charlize Theron, Eddie Redmayne, Jacob Tremblay, Jared Leto, Julianne Moore, Kevin Hart, Lady Gaga, Margot Robbie, Olivia Munn, Priyanka Chopra, Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Tina Fey

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The Boy and the Beast / Bakemono no ko (2015)

Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy

The latest feature film from award-winning Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, Wolf Children): When Kyuta, a young orphan living on the streets of Shibuya, stumbles into a fantastic world of beasts, he's taken in by Kumatetsu, a gruff, rough-around-the-edges warrior beast who's been searching for the perfect apprentice. Despite their constant bickering, Kyuta and Kumatetsu begin training together and slowly form a bond as surrogate father and son. But when a deep darkness threatens to throw the human and beast worlds into chaos, the strong bond between this unlikely family will be put to ultimate test-a final showdown that will only be won if the two can finally work together using all of their combined strength and courage.

Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Shôta Sometani, Suzu Hirose, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Mamoru Miyano
Director: Mamoru Hosoda

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Tags: Aoi Miyazaki, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Koji Yakusho, Mamoru Hosoda, Mamoru Miyano, Shôta Sometani, Suzu Hirose

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Lost in Hong Kong / Gang jiong (2015)

Comedy

The film follows Xu Lai, a former artist whose dreams were dashed when the responsibilities of life set in. With his life now revolving around his wife Cai Bo who is obsessed with having children, the quirks of his eccentric family and his mediocre, ordinary existence, Xu Lai hopes to reconnect with his first love Yang YIi on an upcoming vacation. However, his hopes are dashed when he finds himself wrapped up in a murder investigation that proves truth is often stranger than fiction.

Starring: Zheng Xu, Wei Zhao, Bei-Er Bao, Juan Du
Director: Zheng Xu

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Atrapa la bandera / Capture the Flag (2015)

Adventure | Animation | Comedy

Mike Goldwing, a plucky, determined 12-year old boy, is the son and grandson of NASA astronauts. His grandfather Frank, a once revered, but now forgotten retired astronaut, lives his days isolated from his family after missing out on his big chance to fly to the moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as a part of the Apollo XI mission. When an eccentric billionaire sets an evil plan to fly to the moon, steal the moon's vast mineral resources, and destroy the American flag planted by the Apollo XI team, Mike embarks on a magnificent adventure as a stowaway on the space shuttle. Accompanied by his grandfather, best friends Amy and Marty, and a clever chameleon, Mike blasts off to the moon to capture the flag and reunite his family.

Starring: Dani Rovira, Michelle Jenner, Carme Calvell, Javier Balas, Camilo García
Director: Enrique Gato

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Tags: Camilo García, Carme Calvell, Dani Rovira, Enrique Gato, Javier Balas, Michelle Jenner

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The Last Days of Disco (1998)

Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance

During the early 1980s as the disco era comes to a close, recent Hampshire College graduates Alice and Charlotte move to Manhattan to search for love and entertainment. By day, they toil as publishing-house assistants.

Starring: Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman, Mackenzie Astin, Matt Keeslar, Jennifer Beals
Director: Whit Stillman

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The Red Shoes (1948)

Drama | Music | Romance

Michael Powell directs Hans Christian Andersen's tale of a famous ballerina who must choose between art and love filmed in glorious Technicolor Jack Cardiff cinematography.

Starring: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Robert Helpmann, Albert Bassermann, Ludmilla Tchérina
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

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Tags: Albert Bassermann, Anton Walbrook, Emeric Pressburger, Ludmilla Tchérina, Marius Goring, Michael Powell, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann

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Daughter / Shang shen (2015)

Horror | Thriller

Top psychiatrist Sharon, in order to squeeze into the upper class society, regardless of the wishes of her daughter Jenny, set her up with the community celebrities Ling son, so Jenny become more rebellious. At a dinner, Jenny was deliberately in front of the VIP incontinence, so that all people that Sharon has a mental illness, and began to alienated her daughter. Hit by the Sharon, at this time only to find the wrong Jenny, the face of more and more abnormal behavior of the daughter, even the Sharon also appears to be mental problems, must rely on drug stability. Sharon friends to introduce her to the Exorcist father, insisted that Jenny was evil ridden. However, after the successful exorcism, Jenny seems to be back to normal, but strange things still repeatedly occurred… What is evil spirits hard drive, or demons haunted?

Starring: Kara Hui, Yanny Chan, Tak-Bun Wong
Director: Pang Chun Chan

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Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance / Lady Snowblood 2 / Shura-yuki-hime: Urami Renga (1974)

Drama | Thriller

Lady Snowblood (Shurayuki-hime) is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes (in Lady Snowblood I). As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.

Starring: Meiko Kaji, Jûzô Itami, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Yoshio Harada, Shin Kishida, Tôru Abe
Director: Toshiya Fujita

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Tags: Jûzô Itami, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Meiko Kaji, Shin Kishida, Tôru Abe, Toshiya Fujita, Yoshio Harada

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Lady Snowblood / Shurayukihime (1973)

Action | Drama | Thriller

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Though she dies in childbirth, she makes sure that the child will be raised as an assassin to kill the criminals who destroyed her family. Young Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.

Starring: Kô Nishimura, Meiko Kaji, Takeo Chii, Akemi Negishi, Eiji Okada, Toshio Kurosawa
Director: Toshiya Fujita

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Tags: Akemi Negishi, Eiji Okada, Kô Nishimura, Meiko Kaji, Takeo Chii, Toshio Kurosawa, Toshiya Fujita

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Room (2015)

Drama

A modern-day story about the boundless love between mother and child; young Jack knows nothing of the world except for the single room in which he was born and raised.

Starring: Brie Larson, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Megan Park, Amanda Brugel, Sean Bridgers
Director: Lenny Abrahamson

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Tags: Amanda Brugel, Brie Larson, Joan Allen, Lenny Abrahamson, Megan Park, Sean Bridgers, William H. Macy

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In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Thriller

Based on the 1820 event, a whaling ship is preyed upon by a sperm whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home.

Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, Charlotte Riley, Brendan Gleeson, Michelle Fairley
Director: Ron Howard

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Mon roi / My King (2015)

Drama | Romance

Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio. Why did they love each other? Who is this man that she loved so deeply? How did she allow herself to submit to this suffocating and destructive passion? For Tony, a difficult process of healing is in front of her, physical work which may finally set her free.

Starring: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Bercot, Louis Garrel, Isild Le Besco, Chrystèle Saint Louis Augustin
Director: Maïwenn

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L'étudiante et Monsieur Henri / The Student and Mister Henri (2015)

Comedy

An elderly curmudgeon lets out a room in his large apartment rent-free to a young student – on condition that she does everything in her power to ruin his son's marriage.

Starring: Claude Brasseur, Guillaume de Tonquedec, Noémie Schmidt , Frédérique Bel, Thomas Solivéres
Director: Ivan Calbérac

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No Way Out (1987)

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Tom Farrell is a dedicated navy officer who, after an act of valor, gets posted to the Pentagon and is assigned to the secretary of defense David Brice. Prior to this, he had become involved with a young woman named Susan Atwell not knowing that she was Brice's mistress. When Susan is found dead, Tom ironically is assigned to the case of finding the killer who is believed to be a KGB mole code-named "Yuri." Tom could soon become a suspect in her murder when a indiscernible Polaroid negative of him is found at Susan's place. He only has a few short hours to find the killer before the negative can be processed. Also to make matters worse, he must contend with the ever shrinking noose of the relentless dragnet put in place to find the ever elusive "Yuri!"

Starring: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Howard Duff, George Dzundza
Director: Roger Donaldson

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The BRIT Awards 2016 (TV 2016)

Awards | Music

The 2016 Brit Awards were held on 24 February 2016 and was the 36th edition of the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The awards ceremony was held at The O2 in London and were presented by Ant & Dec for the third time. Award nominations were revealed on 14 January 2016. British fashion designer Pam Hogg has designed the trophies for this year's ceremony, styling the BRIT statue. The ceremony included a tribute to late British music icon David Bowie featuring an introduction by Annie Lennox, a tribute speech by Gary Oldman and a performance by Lorde backed by Bowie's long-time backing group.

Starring: Ant & Dec, Laura Whitmore, Rickie Haywood Williams, Melvin Odoom, Nick Grimshaw, Alice Levine, Adele

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Tags: Adele, Alice Levine, Ant & Dec, Laura Whitmore, Melvin Odoom, Nick Grimshaw, Rickie Haywood Williams

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Brooklyn (2015)

Drama | Romance

The profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey, a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother’s home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. But soon, her new vivacity is disrupted by her past, and Eilis must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Emory Cohen, Emily Bett Rickards
Director: John Crowley

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A Touch of Zen / Xia nü (1971)

Adventure

A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.

Starring: Chun Shih, Feng Hsu, Han Hsieh, Ying Bai
Director: King Hu

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Love the Coopers (2015)

Comedy

When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.

Starring: Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Ed Helms, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Diane Keaton
Director: Jessie Nelson

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Free the Nipple (2014)

Comedy | Drama

An army of passionate women launch a revolution to "Free the Nipple" and decriminalize the female body. Based on a true story, this mass movement of topless women, armed with First Amendment lawyers, graffiti installations and national publicity stunts, invade New York City to protest the backwards censorship laws in the USA.

Starring: Lola Kirke, Zach Grenier, Lina Esco, Casey LaBow, Monique Coleman, Griffin Newman
Director: Lina Esco

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Monsieur Hire / M. Hire (1989)

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Monsieur Hire is a maladjusted, balding, middle-aged man living in France. He doesn't like to talk to people. A young woman is murdered and a police detective suspects M. Hire, just because his neighbors think he is strange.

Starring: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier
Director: Patrice Leconte

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