Gay Theme Movie Sweeps Indonesia Festival Awards
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A gay-theme movie took best film honors and most of the acting awards at the Indonesian Film Festival, the first in the world's largest Muslim nation for 12 years, the Jakarta Post reported on Sunday.
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CANNES, France  - A hard-hitting Romanian movie set toward the end of the Communist era won the Cannes Film Festival's top honor on Sunday.
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Chinese entry "Tuya's Marriage", about a woman who must survive on the Mongolian steppe, won the Berlin film festival's top honor, the Golden Bear, on Saturday.
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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s The Line of Beauty has been awarded the Man Booker Prize, the first time the prestigious award has been given to a book dealing predominantly with gay issues.
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The nominees for best foreign-language film are politically charged and artistically successful.
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CANNES, France  - Two-time Cannes winner Emir Kusturica brought a happy ending to the film festival on Saturday with a boisterous Balkan romp, breaking the mould for a competition full of dark tales.
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Taiwanese director Ang Lee's sexually explicit spy thriller "Lust, Caution" was the surprise winner of the top award at the Venice film festival on Saturday, just two years after he won with "Brokeback Mountain".
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A Hong Kong movie took top honors on  Saturday at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, the most coveted  Chinese-language film prize in Chinese cinema.
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A German film that sparked a scandal  over its star's porn movie past and a Spanish yarn of gay  friends traumatised by childhood sexual abuse head the field in  Saturday's European Film Awards competition.
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LOS ANGELES  - Julie Taymor's Beatles-tuned "Across the Universe," the Israeli film "The Bubble," and ABC's "Brothers & Sisters" and "Desperate Housewives" are among the gay-friendly films and TV series nominated for the 19th annual GLAAD Media Awards.
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The film Turtles Can Fly directed by Iranian Bahman Ghobadi, portraying Iraqi villagers facing the approach of war, has won the top prize at Spain&#39;s prestigious San Sebastian International Film Festival.
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The Salman Khan-Shilpa Shetty-Abhishek Bachchan starrer Phir Milenge is in the spotlight. The film with an AIDS theme is organizing a show at The Leela today in the evening.
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Iranian movie Beautiful City scoops the main prize at the International Film Festival of India.
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Music from politically themed films  scored top Oscars on Sunday, while the winners used their  moment of glory to push issues ranging from global warming to  gay marriage.
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The Indo-American Arts Council brought in the Oscars with a fun party in New York City.
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Oscar winners Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson win awards from a US civil rights group.
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LUCKY MILES , an Australian comedy about a trio of illegal immigrants, has been awarded the prestigious Special Jury Prize at a Czech film festival. via News.com.au