It’s awards season once more.
Just like last year in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, awards ceremonies were unstoppable but mostly virtual.
This year is no different.
From Aparri to Jolo, from Alaska to Down Under, awards rites are ubiquitous even online.
The Star Awards for Movies of the Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) has just staged its proceedings last Sunday with Angie Ferro as the recipient of the prestigious Nora Aunor Ulirang Artista Lifetime Achievement Award and Elwood Perez as the winner in the Likod ng Kamera Lifetime Achievement Award.
Because the PMPC wasn’t able to hold its Star Awards for Movies last year, it had a heavy list of winners in more or less thirty categories.
Meanwhile, on October 21, 2021 at 8 pm, the most awaited 44th Gawad Urian of the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (MPP) will hold its awards night via TVUP YouTube channel and the MPP Facebook page.
Here are some of the exciting nominations for the acting plum. For the Best Actress award, the nominees are: Jasmine Curtis-Smith (“Alter Me”); Glaiza de Castro (“Midnight in a Perfect World”); Alessandra de Rossi (“Watch List”); Charlie Dizon (“Fan Girl”); Shaina Magdayao (“Tagpuan”); Bella Padilla (“On Vodka, Beers, and Regrets”); Lovi Poe (“Malaya”) and Sue Ramirez (“Finding Agnes”).
For the Best Actor, the nominees are Elijah Canlas (“He who is without sin”); Enchong Dee (“Alter Me”); Noel Escondo (“Memories of Forgetting”); Keann Johnson (“The Boy Foretold by the Stars”); Nanding Josef (“Lahi, Hayop”); Adrian Lindayag (“The Boy Foretold by the Stars”); Batangas Boy Zanjoe Marudo (“Malaya”) and JC Santos (“On Vodka, Beers, and Regrets”).
We can zero in on Charlie as the other Batangas beauty in showbiz as the youngest daughter of the former Chairman of Barangay Pasipit in Agoncillo, Batangas.
Meanwhile, however belatedly, the other 2021 Gawad Urian nominations were recently released by MPP. In the Best Documentary Award, the nominees are Alyx Arumpac (“Aswang”), Roel Hoang Manipon (“Buklog: The Ritual System of the Subanen of Zamboangga Peninsula”), Kristoffer Brugada (“Elehiya sa Paglimot”), Jean Claire Dy and Manuel Domes (“House in Pieces”), Kristoffer Villarino and Januar Yap (“Masterpiece”) and Ramona Diaz (A Thousand Cuts”).
In the Best Short Film Award, the nominees are Arjanmar Rebata (“My father is an Astro-Not”), Cris Bingas (“Next Picture”), Kim Timan (“Noontime Drama”), Jules Lumiged (“Dad-aan Na”), Mijan Jumalon (“Ola”), Sine Sanyata (“Yawyaw ni JP”), Hubert Tibi (“Pabasa Kan Pasyon),” Norbin de los Santos (“Isang Daa’t Isang Mariposa”) and Levilou Corpuz (“Ang Bahagharing Uhaw sa Ulan”).
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Lav Diaz is the recipient of the highest MPP, Natatanging Gawad Urian, a fitting recognition in the lifetime achievement in filmmaking.
Meanwhile, the Gawad Pasado, a group of academicians, has just recently held its online awarding.