The Latest Award (by 2017)

Festival Type Description of Festival and Award & Award Statuette

1. Taipei The Golden Horse Awards are
Golden among the most prestigious and
Horse Film time-honored film awards in the
Festival world of Chinese language cinema.
Established in 1962, the awards
have given recognition to numerous
excellent filmmakers working in
Chinese-language cinema.
2. The Cannes An annual film festival held in
(Festival de Cannes, France, which previews
Cannes) new films of all genres, including
documentaries, from all around the
world.
Official Website
- The 54th
- Established since 1962
http://www.goldenhorse.org.tw
/awards/nw/?serach_type=awar
d&sc=8&search_regist_year=20
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Golden Horse
- The 70th
- Established since 1946.
- Golden Palm is the highest
prize awarded at the Cannes
Film Festival.

http://www.festival- Golden Palm

cannes.com/en/festival/palmare
s/competition
3. The Oscars The Academy Awards, also known - The 90th
(The as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards - Established since 1929
Academy for artistic and technical merit in the
Awards) American film industry, given http://oscar.go.com/
annually by the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS),
to recognize excellence in cinematic
achievements as assessed by the Oscar Statuette
Academy's voting membership.
4. The Venice The 74th Venice International Film -The 74th
(Venice Festival is organized by La Biennale - Established since 1932
International di Venezia. The Festival is officially - The Venice was the first Film
Film Festival) recognized by the FIAPF Festival.
(International Federation of Film - The Golden Lion (Leone d'Oro)
Producers Association). is the highest prize given to a
film.
The aim of the Festival is to raise The Golden Lion
awareness and promote http://www.labiennale.org/en/c (Leone d'Oro)
international cinema in all its forms inema/2017
as art, entertainment and as an
industry, in a spirit of freedom and
dialogue.
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 The Latest Award (by 2017)
Festival Type Description of Festival and Award & Award Statuette
Official Website
5. The Berlinale The Berlin International Film Festival - The 67th
(The Berlin is one of the world's leading film - Established since 1951
International festivals and most reputable media
Film Festival) events. It is held annually in Berlin, https://www.berlinale.de/en/Ho
Germany. mePage.html

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca opened

the first Berlinale. Golden Bear,
Silver Bear
6. The Razzies The term “raspberry” originates - The 37th
(Golden from "blowing a raspberry." - Established since 1981
Raspberry It’s a mock award in recognition of
Awards) the worst in film. http://www.razzies.com/

Golden Raspberry
statuette

Common Film Award Categories (From the list of the Oscars)

1. Best Picture: “The Shape of Water”
2. Best Director: Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water”
3. Best Actor in a Leading Role: Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”
4. Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
5. Best Actress in a Leading Role: Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
6. Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
7. Best Animated Feature:“Coco”
8. Best Animated Short (Film): “Dear Basketball”
9. Best Cinematography [最佳攝影獎]: “Blade Runner 2049”
10. Best Costume Design: “Phantom Thread”
11. Best Documentary Feature [最佳紀錄片獎]: “Icarus”
12. Best Documentary Short (Subject) [最佳紀錄短片]: “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405”
13. Best Film Editing [最佳影片剪輯獎]: “Dunkirk”
14. Best Foreign Language Film [最佳外語片獎]: “A Fantastic Woman”
15. Best Live Action Short Film [最佳實景短片獎]: “The Silent Child”
16. Best Makeup and Hairstyling [最佳化妝與髮型設計獎]: “Darkest Hour”
17. Best Original Score [最佳原創音樂獎]: “The Shape of Water”
18. Best Original Song [最佳原創歌曲獎]: “Remember Me” from “Coco”
19. Best Production Design [最佳藝術指導獎]: “The Shape of Water”
20. Best Sound Editing [最佳音效剪輯獎]: “Dunkirk”
21. Best Sound Mixing [最佳混音獎]: “Dunkirk”
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 22. Best Visual Effects: “Blade Runner 2049”
23. Best Adapted Screenplay [最佳改編劇本獎]: “Call Me by Your Name”
24. Best Original Screenplay [最佳原創劇本獎]: “Get Out”

Other keywords and phrases related to the Film Festival:

 nominee and winner

 Walk the Oscar red carpet
 presenter
 deliver(give) an acceptance speech
 and the Oscar/the Academy Award goes to……/ and the winner is……
 win the Oscar for: i.e. The noted Taiwan director, Ang Lee, won the Oscar for best director in 2013.

Film Genre
Source: “Film Studies Research Guide: Genres, Styles, Categories, Series.” Yale
University Library. July 18, 2016. Dec. 26, 2017.
https://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=295800&p=1975072
1. Feature films [40 min or 13. Epic films 24. Fantasy films
more] 14. War films 25. Science fiction films
2. Short films [under 40 min] 15. Gangster films 26. Horror films
3. Animated films 16. Detective films 27. Musical films
4. Film adaptations 17. Disaster films 28. Religious films
5. Historical films 18. Foreign films 29. Erotic films
6. Biographical films 19. Comedy films 30. Thrillers
7. Silent films 20. Romantic comedy films 31. Zombie films
8. Documentary films 21. Western films
i.e. Nanook of the North (1922) 22. Adventure films
9. B films 23. Action and adventure films
10. Experimental films
11. Film noir
12. New wave films
Popular Genre on IMBD http://www.imdb.com/feature/genre/

Documentary Film:
Nanook of the North (1922) Dir. Robert J. Flaherty
1. Have you ever seen a documentary? What is it? How does a documentary differ from a feature film?

https://www.videouniversity.com/videou-how-tos/whats-the-difference-between-documentary-and-feature-film/

2. What is a documentary?

https://www.desktop-documentaries.com/what-is-a-documentary.html
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 Watch the Films of the Lumière Brothers & the Birth of Cinema (1895)
By Jonathan Crow

When Auguste and Louis Lumière unveiled their invention, the Cinématographe,
at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris on December 28, 1895, the art form of film
was born. Prior to that, other inventors looked for ways to photographically capture
motion in a commercially successful way but failed. Thomas Edison, for instance,
hawked a device called the Kinetoscope that looked a bit like a View-Master strapped
to a pulpit. It was big, bulky and, most importantly, offered an experience to a single
viewer at a time. The Cinématographe, on the other hand, projected images on a wall,
creating, for the first time ever, a movie audience.
The Lumière brothers screened 10 short films that night, each running about 50
seconds long. They are, as you might expect, about as primitive as you can get. Basic
elements of cinema like editing or camera movement were decades away from
evolving into the cinematic grammar that we take for granted today. You can see some
of those early films above.
The Lumière brother’s first film was called Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory
in Lyon (La Sortie des usines Lumière à Lyon) and that’s entirely what the short shows:
a single static shot of dozens of men and women, all of whom seem to be wearing hats,
leaving a factory for the day. It is a documentary in its most elemental form.
Above is The Waterer Watered (L'Arroseur arrosé), cinema’s first comedy. It
shows a gardener watering some plants before a naughty kid steps on the hose, cutting
off its flow. When the gardener looks down the nozzle, the kid takes his foot off the
hose and Bam! -- the world’s first example of someone getting punked on camera.
And below you can see the Lumière's most famous early short, screened in early
1896. It shows a train arriving at a station. The camera was placed right at the edge of
the platform so the train sweeps past the frame on a strong, dynamic diagonal. Legend
has it that audiences thought that the train was coming straight at them and panicked.
That’s probably not true but it did, for the first time, demonstrate the visual drama
that can be created by a well-placed camera.

Cited from:
Crow, Jonathan. “Watch the Films of the Lumière Brothers and the Birth of Cinema
(1895).” Open Culture. Aug. 28, 2014. March 4, 2018.
http://www.openculture.com/2014/08/watch-the-films-of-the-lumiere-brothers-the-
birth-of-cinema-1895.html
Film English
WEEK2: MARCH 8, 2018

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Oscars 2018
The Acceptance Speech by Guillermo del Toro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hnYE_URTpc
More about “The Shape of Water”:
http://oscar.go.com/news/oscar-news/oscars-2018-best-picture-winner-the-shape-of-water
Oscars 2018 Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb-awe5B6nk

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Contents for today
1. On Lumière Brothers’ Short Films
2. Screening and Discussion
3. On Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon (1902)
4. Screening and Discussion

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 Question

1. Movie
2. Cinema
3. Film
What’s the difference between them?
1. MOVIE
Commonly used to refer to film and
cinema. An alternative name for a
motion picture.
2. CINEMA
Originates from the French
cinematograph that is used to refer to
the device that projects a motion
picture on to a screen. This French
word comes from the Greek kinein,
which means to move.
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Film
A thin flexible strip of
plastic or other material
coated with light-sensitive
emulsion for exposure in a
camera, used to produce
photographs or motion
pictures.

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Animators, documentary filmmakers, Hollywood directors, and experimental filmmakers
perceive themselves as all working in the same medium — film. The films they produce,
however, differ totally in look, subject matter, and style. To the general public, film means
“movie” — a perfectly acceptable term that the noted American critic Pauline Kael always
championed.
Unfortunately, the word “movie” suggests popular culture rather than art. An alternative
term, “cinema”, suggests art rather than popular culture. Ironically, “cinema”, although it
is a French word, is derived from the Greek kinein (to move): thus, whether we say
cinema or movie, we are talking about an art form that was once known as “moving
pictures” — appropriately named because the pictures really moved.
There is nothing pejorative about the word “movie”; certainly some of the greatest
examples of film art ever produced are, and always will be, movies . . . Calling a film a
movie implies nothing about artistic worth. Whether we use the word “movie” or
“cinema”, we are discussing the same “spoke” of the umbrella term “film” (Dick 1-2).
Cited from National Library Board Singapore 2017. website: http://www.nlb.gov.sg/blogs/libraryesplanade/film/whats-the-
difference-between-film-and-movie/
 3 short films by the Lumières in 1895
1. Arrival of a Train at a Station (1895)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9MoAQJFn_8
2. Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon (1895)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO0EkMKfgJI
3. The Sprinkler Sprinkled (1895)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IooPPi1YzkM
 Group Discussion:
1: Identify the position of the camera in Arrival of a Train at
a Station, in Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon and
in The Sprinkler Sprinkled?
2: After watching the three short films, what impressed you the
most?
3: What information or messages are conveyed by the camera in
these films?
4. What are the similarities and differences of these film?
External Reading
http://www.openculture.com/2014/08/watch-the-films-of-the-lumiere-brothers-the-birth-of-
cinema-1895.html

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