FOX MOVIES PREMIUM IS PAY-TV HOME
TO 8 OSCAR-WINNING FILMS
Films carried by Asia’s leading premium movies channel have won 10 Academy Awards
for excellence in their respective categories
Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, 29 February, 2016 – FOX Networks Group (FNG), Asia’s leading pay-TV network, is celebrating today as the 88th Academy Awards have bestowed the highest honours on several films that are exclusively carried by its channel FOX Movies Premium (FMP) in the pay-TV category. Eight films featured by FNG’s flagship blockbuster movie channel won a total of ten awards—proof of FMP’s dedication to delivering international films of the highest quality to the region. Held this year at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, the Academy Awards are widely considered as the highest accolades that can be granted in the international movie industry. The Oscar-winning films that are part of FMP’s lineup show how the channel is committed to bringing viewers Hollywood excellence.
Leading the list of Oscar winners in the FMP lineup is The Revenant with three awards, including those for Best Actor (Leonardo Dicaprio, the first Academy Award for his career), Best Director (Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu) and Best Cinematography. This was followed closely by Spotlight, which took home the night’s biggest award, the Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Top-tier Academy Awards also went to other movies featured on the channel, such as Room, for which Brie Larson won Best Actress, and Bridge of Spies, which garnered Mark Rylance the award for Best Supporting Actor.
Two films that are to be featured soon on FMP also won the Oscar in their respective categories. Disney and Pixar’s box-office smash Inside Out won Best Animated Feature Film and will be premiering on the channel in May this year, while Amy, the documentary on singer Amy Winehouse’s life, won Best Documentary Feature and will be seen on FMP in June. Meanwhile, two more films to be featured by the channel also won for their music, with Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight getting Best Original Score (Ennio Morricone) and James Bond film Spectre bagging Best Original Song.
Along with the winners at the Academy Awards, FMP also takes pride in the films in its lineup that have been nominated in various categories. These include The Martian (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, among others), Brooklyn (Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay), Sicario (Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best Original Score), Joy (Best Actress) and Creed (Best Supporting Actor). All these fantastic films that have been recognized in different categories by the Academy Awards will soon be enjoyed at home by viewers in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia through FMP.
Andy Baek, Vice President of Programming for FOX Movies Premium at FNG, said, “FOX Movies Premium is thrilled that it is featuring films that have won or been nominated for Academy Awards in several categories. Ranging from winners of top-tier awards to those awarded for technical excellence, these films are exactly the type of content we want to continue giving our viewers: carefully crafted movies telling amazing stories that inspire and change our world.”
Academy Awards wins for films to which FMP has acquired the pay-TV rights in HK/SEA for broadcast on FOX Movies Premium (10):
The Revenant (3 wins)
Best Performance by an Actor in A Leading Role – Leonardo Dicaprio
Best Achievement in Directing – Alejandro González Iñárritu
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Spotlight (2 wins)
Best Picture
Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Room (1 win)
Best Performance by an Actress in A Leading Role – Brie Larson
Bridge of Spies (1 win)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – Mark Rylance
Inside Out (1 win)
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
The Hateful Eight (1 win)
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score – Ennio Morricone
Spectre (1 win)
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Amy (1 win)
Best Documentary, Feature
Academy Awards nominations for films to which FMP has acquired the pay-TV rights in HK/SEA for broadcast (50):
The Revenant (12 nominations)
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Best Performance by an Actor in A Leading Role – Leonardo Dicaprio
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – Tom Hardy
Best Achievement in Directing – Alejandro González Iñárritu
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Best Achievement in Film Editing
Best Achievement in Production Design
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
The Martian (7 nominations)
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Best Performance by an Actor in A Leading Role
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Best Achievement in Production Design
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Bridge of Spies (6 nominations)
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – Mark Rylance
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Best Achievement in Production Design
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Spotlight (6 nominations)
Best Picture
Best Directing
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – Mark Ruffalo
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role – Rachel McAdams
Best Film Editing
Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Room (4 nominations)
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Best Performance by an Actress in A Leading Role – Brie Larson
Best Achievement in Directing – Lenny Abrahamson
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Brooklyn (3 nominations)
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Best Performance by an Actress in A Leading Role – Saoirse Ronan
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
The Hateful Eight (3 nominations)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role – Jennifer Jason Leigh
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Sicario (3 nominations)
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Inside Out (2 nominations)
Best Writing, Screeplay Written Directly for the Screen
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Joy (1 nomination)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role – Jennifer Lawrence
Creed (1 nomination)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – Sylvester Stallone
Spectre (1 nomination)
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Amy (1 nomination)
Best Documentary, Feature
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