American Movie Awards

The American Movie Awards honor excellence in film and screenwriting. The first two ceremonies occurred in 1980 & 1982,^[1] with winners including Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, and Steven Spielberg. The event relaunched in 2013 with a focus on independent film.^[2]

Winners

1980

Best Film: Rocky II
Best Actor: Alan Alda (The Seduction of Joe Tynan)
Best Actress: Sally Field (Norma Rae)
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now)
Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep (The Deer Hunter)
Best Director: Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)
Best Screenplay: The China Syndrome
Best Original Song: Every Which Way But Loose (Every Which Way But Loose)
Favorite Film Star - Female: Jane Fonda
Favorite Film Star - Male: Burt Reynolds
Special Marquee: Clint Eastwood

1982

Best Film: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Best Actor: Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond)
Best Supporting Actor: John Gielgud (Arthur)
Best Supporting Actress: Jane Fonda (On Golden Pond)
Best Director: Steven Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Best Screenplay: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Best Original Song: Endless Love (Endless Love)
Favorite Film Star - Female: Sally Field
Favorite Film Star - Male: Alan Alda
Special Marquee: John Williams
Special Marquee: Hal B. Wallis
Special Marquee: Warren Beatty (Reds)

2014^[3]

Grand Jury Price: Magic Magic (Director: Sebastián Silva)
Special Marquee Award: The Woodsman and The Farmer (Director: Cory Malkin)
Special Marquee Award: Femme - Women Healing the World (Director: Emmanuel Itler)
Best Narrative Feature: Another Sertao (Director: Warlise Weller)
Best Narrative Short: Living Memories (Director: Nathan Colquhoun)
Best Documentary Feature: Soldiers' Sanctuary (Director: Luke L. Hansen)
Best Documentary Short: Simple As That (Directors: Kari Branch, Ashley McCue, Russell Walker)
Best Animated Film: Payada pa' Satan (Directors: Antonio Balseiro, Carlos Balseiro)
Best Foreign Film: Break-Up (Director: Alexander Tuschinski)
Best Student Film: Enlightenments (Director: Wilson Mbiavanga)
Best Experimental Film: Muve (Director: Rob Anderson)
Best Film Directing: 3:13 (Director: David Jaure)
Best First Time Director: Vinod Bharathan (Karma Cartel)
Best Music Video: Korn - Love & Meth (Director: Giovanni Bucci)
Best Cinematography: Don't Ask Questions (Director: Dotty Diehl)
Best Editing: All About Me (Director: Marlene Adler)
Best Production Design/Art Direction: Korn - Never Never (Director: Giovanni Bucci)
Best Produced Screenplay: Crisis (Director: Matthew Paris)
Best Actor: Gianpiero Alicchio (L'appuntamento)
Best Actress: Lea Thompson (The Trouble with the Truth)
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Ward (Check Please)
Best Supporting Actress: Cooper Shaw (Belleville)

2015^[4]

Grand Jury Price: Tom's Restaurant - A Documentary about Everything (Director: Gian Franco Morini)
Special Marquee Award: Snowflake (Director: Francesco Roder)
Special Marquee Award: Suparhearo: A True Tail By Chance (Director: Sean McCarthy)
Best Narrative Feature: The Stalker Cycle (Director: Joe Borg)
Best Narrative Short: If The Trees Could Talk (Director: Michael Weinstein)
Best Documentary Feature: Beauty and the Breast (Director: Liliana Komorowska)
Best Documentary Short: The Urban World (Directors: Warren Bass)
Best Animated Film: The Umbrella Factory (Directors: Nick Trivundza, Lexie Trivundza)
Best Foreign Film: Journey to Mt. Fuji (Director: Cris Ubermann)
Best Student Film: The Last Human (Director: Neda Kirilova)
Best Experimental Film: Icarus - Casting from the Clouds (Director: David Ondaatje)
Best Film Directing: Let's Play Ghost (Director: Damien Dematra)
Best First Time Director: Greece (Director: Sarah Deakins)
Best Music Video: The Ramona Flowers Tokyo (Director: Bouha Kazmi)
Best Cinematography: Decay (Director: Mike Stern Sterzynski)
Best Editing: The Box (Director: Hugo Martinez)
Honorable Mentions: The Kids from the Marx and Engels Street (Director: Nikola Vukcevic), Art House (Director: Don Freeman), Guy Moments (Director: Nathan Cox)
Best Production Design/Art Direction: You Can't Stop Me (Director: M.C. Martin)
Best Produced Screenplay: Get it Together (Director: Ingrid Stobbe)
Best TV Pilot: Todd and Anne: Water in the Pot (Director: Jeffrey Engels)
Best Trailer: Break The Rock Concept Trailer (Director: Michael O'Halloran)
Best Actor: Stelio Savante - Once We Were Slaves (Director: Dallas Jenkis)
Best Actress: Tracy Middendorf - Snowflake (Director: Francesco Roder)
Best Supporting Actor: Roberto D'Antona - Insane (Director: Eros D'Antona)
Best Supporting Actress: Cassidy Stone - Focus (Director: David Gwynn)
Feature Screenplay Competition: Grand Prize: The Snakeman (Jeffery Ryback)
Feature Screenplay Competition: Special Marquee Award: Blood Sugar (James D. Alexander & Nicolas T. Monaco)
Feature Screenplay Competition: Silver Prize: The Apocalypse Chronicles (Nathan Ludwig)
Feature Screenplay Competition: Bronze Prize: Winter Garden (Tucker Hannah)

References

↑ The Internet Movie Database
↑ "American Movie Awards Official Website: About the event". Retrieved 18 April 2014.
↑ "American Movie Awards Official Website: List of 2014 winners". Retrieved 18 April 2014.
↑ "American Movie Awards Official Website: List of 2015 winners". Retrieved 16 April 2015.

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