Nominees announced for “people’s alternative” Academy Awards
by: Special to the World
January 28 2011
LOS ANGELES - The James Agee Cinema Circle has announced its fourth annual "Progie" Award nominees, for 2010's best progressive films, actors and filmmakers. Nominees include films like Oliver Stone's "South of the Border," John Sayles' "Amigo," and the British feminist strike drama "Made In Dagenham," and actors Naomi Watts for "Fair Game," Kevin Spacey for "Casino Jack," and Geoffrey Rush for "The King's Speech."
The film group says the Progies are the "un-Oscar," the people's "alternative Academy Awards." They honor movies and talents of conscience and consciousness in a variety of categories named after artists and films that are pro-people, pro-working class, pro-women, pro-gay, pro-environment, pro-human rights, anti-war, anti-racist and anti-fascist.
The James Agee Cinema Circle is an international group of left film critics and historians dedicated to advancing progressive cinema and filmmakers. One of its members, screenwriter and playwright Christopher Trumbo, died Jan. 9. Circle members include Ed Rampell, author of "Progressive Hollywood, A People's Film History of the United States" and editor of HollywoodProgressive.com, and Bill Meyer, film critic for the People's World and HollywoodProgressive.com.
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The Karen Morley award for best actress in a progressive film portraying women is named for Karen Morley, co-star of 1932's "Scarface" and 1934's "Our Daily Bread." Morley was driven out of Hollywood in the 1930s for her leftist views, but maintained her militant political activism for the rest of her life, running for New York lieutenant governor on the American Labor Party ticket in 1954. She died in 2003, unrepentant to the end, at the age of 93. The 2010 nominees are Sally Hawkins ("Made In Dagenham") and Naomi Watts ("Fair Game").
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3 comments:
Congratulation!
Thank you for Naomi.
She deserves it.
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