Nothing personal NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 06/15/2010

Nothing personal

NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 06/15/2010 On Friday, June 25, 2010, Movie and Television Review and Classification Board will recognize four Best Pictures in Drama, Comedy, Action and Fantasy, as well as Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay. It’s the first, ever, from the regulatory body, as well as the first where the harvest is gleaned from a year-and-a-half’s produce. The Academy Awards, more famously known as the Oscars, perhaps the mother of all award-giving bodies, makes its choices from films done in the year just past, from January to December lang talaga. So do our very own FAMAS, Film Academy of the Philippines and the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino, but this selection covers films shown since January of 2009, up to May of this year. MTRCB chairman Ma. Consoliza Laguardia says “It was easy for us to make our choices because all of us have already viewed the films.” Laguardia also says the awards-giving stands to be one of her legacies. Nothing personal here, especially as the recipient of the premiere MTRCB Film Awards Lifetime Achievement Award is Regal Films’ Lily Monteverde, whom I admire for being feisty and open with her political endorsements, where other producers are on the sly with their under-the-table arrangements..... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100615com4.html

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