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The Capri, Hollywood – The International Film festival in Italy wrapped its latest edition by naming Universal’s Get Out its best picture of 2017. The list from the fest jury featured three wins apiece from Focus Features’ Darkest Hour (Valerio Bonelli for editing, makeup and hairstyling, and Dario Marianelli’s…

UPDATE with list of winners: Lionsgate’s La La Land has won the Best Movie of the Year award at the Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival in Italy. The musical drama directed by Damien Chazelle took six total awards during the fest, including today for Best Actress Emma Stone. The pic also nabbed Best Ensemble…

The Capri Hollywood International Film Festival is honoring Mel Gibson with its Director Of The Year Award, in recognition of his pacifist WWII drama Hacksaw Ridge. Producer Bill Mechanic, who was already named by the festival as its Producer Of The Year, is accepting the prize on Gibson’s behalf. Hacksaw had its world…

The Weinstein Co’s emotional crowd-pleasing drama Lion has been selected to receive the award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 21st Capri Hollywood International Film Festival. The Garth Davis-directed adaptation of Saroo Bierley’s memoir A Long Way Home stars Sunny Pawar, Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. It was the…

The La La Land cast has something new to sing about. The Capri Hollywood International Film Festival said today that Damien Chazelle’s musical starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling will receive its Best Ensemble Acting Award and screen January 1 at the 21st annual event. J.K. Simmons, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt…

Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight took four big honors at the Capri Hollywood Film Festival. In addition to Hateful Eight being named Best Movie, Samuel L. Jackson and Jennifer Jason Leigh received nods as Best Actor and Supporting Actress, while composer Ennio Morricone received the prize for Best Musical…

The 19th annual Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival wrapped today off the Italian coast with an awards ceremony that saw the Weinstein Company’s The Imitation Game win Best Picture and its Morten Tyldum scooping Best Director. Other honors were scattered among numerous awards-season contenders including Best…

Italy's Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival has named Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida as its Best Foreign Language Film. The 1960s Polish drama was shortlisted for an Oscar last week, has a Golden Globe nomination, and won five European Film Awards earlier this month. Pawlikowski will receive the prize in Capri where…