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32nd Golden Raspberry Awards
32nd Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzies), held April 1, 2012 at Magicopolis, Santa Monica, honoring 2011's worst films; Jack and Jill swept all ten categories, a Razzie first, with Adam Sandler winning Worst Actor and Worst Actress.
AACTA Awards
AACTA Awards, also known as the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, formerly the AFI Awards (since 1958): Australia's peer-assessed national film and TV awards, held on the Gold Coast each February with over 55 categories plus International Awards.
AFI Life Achievement Award
AFI Life Achievement Award: the American Film Institute's highest career honor, established February 23, 1973; first given to John Ford, with 51 recipients through Eddie Murphy (2026) and criteria extended in 1993.
American Film Institute
American Film Institute (AFI), US nonprofit founded 1967 from a Lyndon B. Johnson mandate; runs AFI Conservatory MFA film school, AFI Catalog, Life Achievement Award, AFI FEST, and DWW+ directing workshop, headquartered in Los Angeles.
American Film Institute Awards
American Film Institute Awards (AFI Awards): annual non-competitive honors created in 2000 by the American Film Institute, naming 10 films and 10 TV programs of the year, chosen by jury, with Special Awards for foreign and nonfiction works.
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Leading Actor: annual British Academy Film Award for the best leading male film performance, one of four acting categories, six nominees since 2021, decided by Acting Chapter nominations and all-member vote; 2026 winner Robert Aramayo for I Swear.
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
BAFTA Film Leading Actress award: the British Academy's prize for the year's best leading actress performance, decided by chapter longlisting, chapter nominations, and an all-member final vote; Jessie Buckley won in 2026 for Hamnet.
BAFTA Award for Best Film
BAFTA Award for Best Film, the top EE BAFTA Film Awards prize voted by all BAFTA film members in three rounds (10 longlist, 5 nominees, winner); requires 50+ UK screenings over 7 days or 350 screenings; recent winners include One Battle After Another (2026), Conclave (2025), Oppenheimer (2024).
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) is an independent UK arts charity formed from the 1947 British Film Academy's merger, running film, TV, craft, games, Scotland and Cymru awards with a ~8,000-member voting body.
British Academy Television Awards
British Academy Television Awards: annual BAFTA TV prizes (BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises), voted by BAFTA's television membership and held each May; 2026 ceremony on 10 May saw Adolescence win a record four awards.
British Film Institute
British Film Institute (BFI), UK's lead organisation for film and the moving image: cultural charity founded 1933, Royal Charter 1983, custodian of the BFI National Archive (1935), DCMS-sponsored NDPB and National Lottery distributor with a £150m 2026-2029 funding plan.
California Film Commission
California Film Commission (CFC): California state agency within GO-Biz, created 1984, headquartered at 7080 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles. It provides filming permits, location assistance, and administers the state Film and TV Tax Credit Program since 2009.
D23 (Disney)
D23 is The Walt Disney Company's official fan club, also called D23: The Official Disney Fan Club, launched in 2009 under Bob Iger. Known for its biennial Anaheim Ultimate Disney Fan Event, Gold membership tiers, and retired Disney twenty-three magazine.
European Film Awards
European Film Awards: annual prizes for European cinema presented by the European Film Academy, founded after the first 1988 West Berlin ceremony; since 2026 held each January, 39th edition in Athens 2027.
Film commissions in Africa and Oceania
Film commissions in Africa and Oceania: government-endorsed non-profit offices attracting film and TV production through free location, permitting, liaison, and funding services; includes Kenya, Rwanda, Durban, Cape Town, AACC, New Zealand Film Commission, Film Fiji, and Australia's Location Incentive.
Film commissions in Asia and the Middle East
Film commissions in Asia and the Middle East: agencies such as the Thailand Film Office, Saudi Film Commission, Abu Dhabi Film Commission, and AFCNet that issue permits, promote locations, and run cash-rebate incentives, including Thailand's up-to-30% rebate and Saudi Arabia's up-to-60% program.
Film commissions in Europe
Film commissions in Europe are government-endorsed offices helping productions find locations, permits and crew. The EUFCN network links 101 commissions in 33 countries, alongside EFAD's 38 national film agencies and regional funds like CineRegio.
Film commissions in the Americas
Film commissions in the Americas: government-endorsed offices, from the 1949 Moab commission to COMEFILM and US state and city offices, offering free production services and incentives to attract filming.
Film industry in Connecticut
Film industry in Connecticut: state film, TV and digital media production supported since 2006 by transferable tax credits of 10 to 30 percent, administered by DECD's Office of Film, TV & Digital Media, totaling over $1.5 billion issued since fiscal 2008.
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.
Gemini Awards
Gemini Awards: annual Canadian English-language television awards by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, 1986 to 2011/12, successor to the ACTRA Awards, replaced in 2013 by the Canadian Screen Awards; French counterpart Prix Gémeaux.
Genie Awards
Genie Awards: Canada's national film awards, presented 1980–2012 by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, replacing the Canadian Film Awards and merging into the Canadian Screen Awards in 2013.
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, the Razzies' top dishonor, given since 1980 (first winner Can't Stop the Music) the day before the Oscars to the year's worst film; recent winners include Madame Web and War of the Worlds.
List of films shot in Stamford, Connecticut
The list of films shot in Stamford, Connecticut catalogs movies filmed in the city, from 1910 silents to the 1947 film noir Boomerang, which premiered at the Palace Theatre.
Malta Film Commission
Malta Film Commission (MFC), Malta's government film agency in Kalkara, set up in 2000 and statutory under the 2005 Malta Film Commission Act; administers the 30–40% cash rebate, markets Malta as a filming location, and reports €1.2 billion sector value added 2018–2025.
Porn Film Festival Vienna
Porn Film Festival Vienna (PFFV), founded 2017 by Yavuz Kurtulmus and Jasmin Hagendorfer, first held 2018; annual Austrian feminist, queer, LGBTQIA+ alternative-porn film festival with 5 days, 125 films, and its Porn Gala awards night.