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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool is a 2017 Paul McGuigan biographical romance, also known by Peter Turner's memoir title, starring Annette Bening as Oscar winner Gloria Grahame and Jamie Bell as Turner, dramatizing their late-1970s affair and her 1981 final days in Liverpool.
Film stock
Film stock is the light-sensitive strip of plastic base coated with photographic emulsion on which motion pictures are recorded, duplicated, and printed; unprocessed film is called raw stock.
Film studies
Film studies is the academic discipline studying cinema through film history, criticism, and theory. Also called cinema studies; emerged in the 1950s-1970s from earlier courses like Columbia's 1915 Photoplay Composition; now often merged into film and media studies programs.
Film studio
Film studio: a company or facility that develops, produces, and distributes movies; the classical Hollywood studio system (Big Five: Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros., Fox, RKO) was vertically integrated until the 1948 Paramount Decree, and modern majors are consolidating conglomerates.
Film tax credits and production incentives
Film tax credits and production incentives are state and national programs returning a share of qualifying production spending via refundable or transferable credits, rebates, or grants; Louisiana pioneered them in 1992 and over 40 U.S. states plus 120 global programs now use them.
Film Thanapat
Film Thanapat, full name Thanapat Kawila (ธนภัทร กาวิละ), is a Thai actor and singer born in 1993 in Saraburi, known for lead roles in One31 dramas like Laws of Attraction.
Film theory
Film theory, also called theory of film, is the academic study of cinema as an art form, distinct from film criticism, which comments on particular films.
Film treatment
A film treatment is a present-tense prose document telling a film's entire story, ending included, without screenplay formatting; distinct from the shorter synopsis and the writer-facing outline, it is used to pitch projects and test structure before scripting.
Film Workers for Palestine
Film Workers for Palestine is an international coalition of film workers formed in early 2024, known for its Pledge to End Complicity, signed by more than 5,000 members of the film industry.
Film4
Film4 is Channel 4's feature film division and free-to-air film channel. Founded as Film on Four in 1982, it has backed over 400 British films, winning 88 BAFTAs and 37 Oscars, and is the UK's largest funder of independent film.
Film4 Productions
Film4 Productions is Channel 4 Television's feature film division, founded in 1982 as Film on Four. It develops and co-finances about 10-12 British features yearly, distinct from the Film4 TV channel.
Filmation
Filmation Associates was a US animation studio founded in 1962 by Lou Scheimer, Norm Prescott, and Hal Sutherland, known for Fat Albert, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and He-Man; it kept all production in America, closed February 3, 1989, and its library now sits with DreamWorks Classics.
Filmfare
Filmfare: Indian film and entertainment magazine founded 7 March 1952 in Bombay by the Times Group under JC Jain, now owned by Worldwide Media; its 1954 Filmfare Awards (originally the Clares) are among India's oldest film honours.
Filmfare Award for Best Actor
Filmfare Award for Best Actor: annual Hindi-cinema acting prize from Filmfare magazine, first given 21 March 1954 to Dilip Kumar for Daag; record eight wins shared by Dilip Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan.
Filmfare Award for Best Actress
Filmfare Award for Best Actress, also listed as Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female), an annual Filmfare trophy for leading-role performances in Hindi films, awarded since 1954; Alia Bhatt holds the record with six wins, most recently for Jigra (2025).
Filmfare Award for Best Costume Design
Filmfare Award for Best Costume Design, a technical Filmfare Award (Hindi cinema) given to costume designers; created after Rangeela (1995), first won by Manish Malhotra, with recent winners Veera Kapur Ee (2022) and the Sam Bahadur team (2024), plus a series equivalent at the Filmfare OTT Awards.
Filmfare Award for Best Director
Filmfare Award for Best Director: annual Hindi-cinema directing honor at the Filmfare Awards, first given 21 March 1954 to Bimal Roy for Do Bigha Zameen; latest winner Kiran Rao for Laapataa Ladies (70th, 2025).
Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut
Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut, formerly the Filmfare Lux New Face Award, honors a female actor's debut performance in Hindi cinema. Winners include Juhi Chawla, Preity Zinta, and Nitanshi Goel (2025).
Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer
Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer: annual Filmfare honor for a female playback singer in Hindi films. Asha Bhosle and Alka Yagnik lead with seven wins each; current holder Madhubanti Bagchi for "Aaj Ki Raat" (Stree 2).
Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer
Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer (Best Playback Singer, Male): Filmfare magazine honor for male playback singers in Hindi films, first given to Mukesh in 1960. Kishore Kumar and Arijit Singh hold the record with 8 wins each.
Filmfare Award for Best Music Director
Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, now often listed as Best Music Album, honors Hindi film soundtrack composers at the annual Filmfare Awards. First given 1954 to Naushad for Baiju Bawra; A. R. Rahman holds the record with 10 wins.
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress: annual Hindi-film acting honor from Filmfare (Times Group), awarded since 1955 by public voting plus jury; recent winner Chhaya Kadam for Laapataa Ladies (2025).
Filmfare Awards
Filmfare Awards, "Oscars of Bollywood," annual Indian film honors by The Times Group's Filmfare magazine since 1954 (originally The Clares), honoring Hindi cinema with the Black Lady trophy via public voting plus jury, with South, East, Marathi, Punjabi, and OTT editions.
Filmfare Awards South
Filmfare Awards South: annual Times Group film awards, founded 1964, honoring Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada cinema with Black Lady trophies via public voting plus jury; 70th edition held in Kochi, February 2026.
Filmi
Filmi is the popular music of South Asian cinema, songs composed for Indian films that blend classical, folk, and Western styles and dominated the region from the 1940s to 1980.
Filmmaking
Filmmaking: the process of producing motion pictures through development, pre-production, production, post-production and distribution. Covers its 1890s origins, sound and digital transitions, independent versus studio models, and AI's growing role.
FilmNation Entertainment
FilmNation Entertainment, founded 2008 by Glen Basner in New York, is an independent film sales, financing, and production company behind Anora, Conclave, Arrival, and The King's Speech, with over $3.4 billion in worldwide grosses and TV, theater, and podcast divisions.
FilmRise
FilmRise is a New York City film and TV studio and streaming network founded by Danny Fisher, Jack Fisher, and Alan Klingenstein, operating 700+ FAST channels and AVOD apps; acquired by Oaktree Capital in July 2025 and merged into Radial Entertainment with Shout! Studios.
Films dealing with Nazism and sexuality
Films dealing with Nazism and sexuality: Nazi-era German melodrama and Riefenstahl's body aesthetics, Cold War American 'democratic sexuality' rhetoric, Nazisploitation (Ilsa, Love Camp 7), The Night Porter, The Damned, The Reader, and queer Holocaust films.
Filmy ferns of the British Isles
The filmy ferns of the British Isles are three Hymenophyllaceae species, Tunbridge filmy-fern, Wilson's filmy fern, and the Killarney fern, restricted to humid western localities.