Director Solondz Wins Visionary Award
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Filmmaker Todd Solondz, whose movies examine the quirky and often tempestuous relationships shared by families, will receive the Stockholm International Film Festival's first Visionary Award.
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The road comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" won best picture and three other prizes for independent films at the Spirit Awards on Saturday, one day before competing for Hollywood's top honors at the Academy Awards.
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Film festival favorite "Maria Full of Grace," director-screenwriter Joshua Marston's first film, was awarded the Deauville Festival of American Film's top prize, the Grand Prix for Independent Film, on Sunday.
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Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men wins top prize at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) awards.
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Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement: Peter Eisenman, for his role as teacher, mentor, and architect.
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The director will be  honoured at the Dubai International Film Festival.
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Gary Rydstrom, the Oscar-winning sound designer behind "Finding Nemo" and "Saving Private Ryan," will receive a career achievement award during the Motion Picture Sound Editors' 51st annual Golden Reel Awards at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on Feb. 27.
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Director Woody Allen is given a lifetime achievement award at the 52nd San Sebastian Film Festival.
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Wrapped in a luxurious skin of colorful cast-glass panels, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision is the most gorgeous work to date by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk.
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Spike Lee has been awarded the $50,000 Wexner Prize, which recognizes innovation, quality and integrity among artists.
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"The Lives of Others", a drama about a secret policeman in Communist East Germany, won the top prize at the European Film Awards on Saturday held in Poland's capital.
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Film-maker James Miller, who died while making a documentary in Gaza, wins a Rory Peck award.
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"Volver," directed by Pedro Almodovar, has received the best film of the year award from the International Federation of Film Critics.
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MONTREAL  - Israeli director Eran  Riklis' "The Syrian Bride," about a Druze family divided by the  Israeli-Syrian border, won the top prize at the 28th Montreal  World Film Festival Monday.
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Bruno Delbonnel, the cameraman for the French World War I epic "A Very Long Engagement," won the award for best cinematography in a feature film on Sunday in an industry prize given out two weeks before the Oscars.
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Don Cheadle and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" will be honored with Gotham Awards from the Independent Film Project.
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Mike Friedlander, an architect for New Yorkâs Department of Sanitation, wins a design award.