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2019 FAMAS Awards
The 67th Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) Awards was an awarding ceremony given by the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS), an organization composed of prize-winning writers and movie columnists, giving recognition to the Philippine mainstream and independent films, actors, actresses, directors and production staffs for their achievements in the year 2018. The awards night was held at the Meralco Theater, Pasig, Metro Manila on Sunday, April 28, 2019. The film ''Gusto Kita With All My Hypothalamus'' garnered the most wins with three including Best Picture and Best Director. Nadine Lustre took home the Best Actress award for the film '' Never Not Love You'', while Eddie Garcia and Victor Neri shared the Best Actor trophy for their respective films: '' ML'' and ''A Short History Of A Few Bad Things''. Awards Major Awards Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Special Awards Comedy King Dolphy Memorial Award * Maricel Soriano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filipino Academy Of Movie Arts And Sciences Award
The Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards (also known as the FAMAS Awards) are the annual honors given by the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS), an organization composed of award-winning writers and movie columnists, for achievements in Philippine cinema for a calendar year. Members of the academy including avid movie viewers, fans or enthusiasts cast their votes on who should win the statuettes in the different categories they were nominated. Established in 1952, it is the oldest existing film industry award-giving body in the Philippines (as of 2013) and one of the oldest in Asia. The FAMAS Award, from 1952 to 1982, was the highest Filipino film award a filmmaker or artisan could receive in the local movie industry. In 1982, after the inception of the Film Academy of the Philippines (Luna) Awards, the Philippine equivalent of the Oscars (where academy members are film professionals who nominate and choose awardees of the year) was mandated by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signal Rock
''Signal Rock'' is a 2018 Filipino independent drama film produced and directed by Chito S. Roño, starring Christian Bables together with an ensemble cast. The film was produced by CSR Productions and distributed by Regal Entertainment on August 15, 2018 which serves as the official entry to the Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino. It was selected as the Philippine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Based on a true story and set in 1990s, the film follows Intoy (Bables), as he takes care of his family in Biri, Samar while his sister is in the overseas, only to contact her using strange rock formations in the island. Premise The story follows Intoy (Bables) who lives with his family in Biri, Northern Samar while his sister Vicky works in Finland. Vicky marries a foreigner believing that it will solve their financial problems. In order to contact his sister, Intoy must scramble about the strange rock formations in the island to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Bables
Christian Mercurio Bables (born December 6, 1992), is a Filipino actor. He was declared Best Leading Actor at the 5th Hanoi International Film Festival for his character "Intoy" in the movie ''Signal Rock''. He was also given a Best Supporting Actor Award at the Gawad Urian Award The Gawad Urian Awards are annual film awards in the Philippines held since 1977. It is given by the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (MPP, "the Filipino Film Critics") and is currently regarded as the counterpart of the United States' New York Fi ...s for his trans woman character "Barbs" in the movie '' Die Beautiful''. Personal life Christian Mercurio Bables, better known as Christian Bables, was born on December 6, 1992 in Bacoor, Cavite. The second son of Rodrigo Bables (deceased) and Bing Mercurio-Urbano of Negros Occidental. He graduated with Communication Arts Degree at De La Salle University Dasma on 2013. His great passion for acting, hard work, and determination bore fruit and were finall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mon Confiado
Ramon Veroy Confiado (born March 19, 1968), professionally known as Mon Confiado, is a Filipino character actor, theater actor and businessman who has appeared in both mainstream and independent films. He is the son of late veteran actor Ángel Confiado from a second family. Confiado graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering at the Mapúa Institute of Technology. He practices method acting Method acting, informally known as The Method, is a range of training and rehearsal techniques, as formulated by a number of different theatre practitioners, that seeks to encourage sincere and expressive performances through identifying with, u ... and had also starred in a handful of international films.Mon_Confiado_continues_to_take_the_right_steps._BusinessMirror./ref>_Having_started_his_acting_career_in_the_early_1990s,_Confiado_has_been_Mon_Confiado#Awards_and_nominations.html" ;"title="BusinessMirror..html" ;"title="BusinessMirror">Mon Confiado continues to take the right steps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Reid (actor)
Robert James Reid (born 11 May 1993) is a Filipino-Australian singer-songwriter, actor, dancer, model, record producer and record label executive. He began his professional acting career in the early 2010s after being named as Big Winner of '' Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Clash 2010''. He came into prominence for his leading role in the film ''Diary ng Panget'' (2014). Reid has since starred in Philippines movies, such as '' Talk Back and You're Dead'' (2014), '' Para sa Hopeless Romantic'' (2015), '' This Time'' (2016) and '' Never Not Love You'' (2018). He also starred in the Philippine TV series '' Good Vibes'' (2011), '' On the Wings of Love'' (2015–16), and '' Till I Met You'' (2016–17). Reid is popularly referred to as the country's “Multimedia Prince” by multiple media outlets and has bagged a FAMAS Award, an MTV Europe Music Award and 2 SBS Pop Asia Award. He has released two studio albums: '' Palm Dreams'' (2017) and ''lovescene:'' (2022), both self-produced under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante Rivero
Dante Rivero is a Filipino film and television actor who has won a FAMAS award and nominated for a Gawad Urian Award The Gawad Urian Awards are annual film awards in the Philippines held since 1977. It is given by the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (MPP, "the Filipino Film Critics") and is currently regarded as the counterpart of the United States' New York Fi .... Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations *2008: 26th Luna Awards Best Supporting Actor: '' A Love Story'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rivero, Dante Living people ABS-CBN personalities Filipino male comedians Filipino male film actors GMA Network personalities Year of birth missing (living people) Kapampangan people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exes Baggage
''Exes Baggage'' is a 2018 Philippine romantic drama film directed by Dan Villegas, starring Angelica Panganiban and Carlo Aquino. The film was produced by Black Sheep Productions as their theatrical debut and is distributed by ABS-CBN Films The film also marks as Aquino and Panganiban's long-awaited reunion movie. Plot The story begins two years after the break up between Pia (Angelica Panganiban) and Nix Cabangon (Carlo Aquino) and they were invited in the party made by the married couple Reyna (Dionne Monsanto) and Tops. It shows some flashbacks where Pia and Reyna gazed on Nix at the bar which leads Pia to begin their romantic relationship with Nix after they both explained their main problems about their exes and Nix's hospitality to her. As soon as Pia sees Migs (Joem Bascon) and his family at All Home, Nix became jealous which leads them to have a fall out with each other at their home and mentioned Nix's ex-girlfriend Dwein (Coleen Garcia). Nix soon apologizes to Pia for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Aquino
Carlo Jose Liwanag Aquino (born 3 September 1985) is a Filipino actor and musician known for being the lead singer of the band Kollide and formerly of JCS with John Prats and Stefano Mori. Aquino achieved critical recognition for his performance in the 1998 film ''Bata, Bata… Pa'no Ka Ginawa?'' with veteran actress Vilma Santos based on the award-winning novel by Lualhati Bautista. Life and career Aquino started his showbiz career as a child actor and rose to popularity as a teen actor during the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Formerly an exclusive contract star of ABS-CBN's ''Star Magic'', he also appeared in some shows of rival station GMA Network as a contract artist under GMA Artist Center. As of 2012, he exclusively works for ABS-CBN again. He dated former on-screen love team Angelica Panganiban during their teens and remained friends after their break-up. Aside from Panganiban, Aquino previously dated Camille Prats and Maja Salvador. As of 2018, Aquino and Panganiban te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerrold Tarog
Jerrold Viacrucis Tarog (; born May 30, 1977) is a Filipino film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and composer. He is best known for directing ''Heneral Luna'' (2015), ''Bliss'' (2017), '' Goyo: The Boy General'' (2018), and the upcoming film ''Darna''. His first feature film was the independently-produced ''Confessional'' (2007), followed by ''Mangatyanan'' (2009) and ''Sana Dati'' (2013). He directed segments for the ''Shake, Rattle & Roll'' horror series. Early life and education Jerrold Tarog was born in Manila on May 30, 1977, and grew up in Canlubang, Laguna. He is the only child of Jose, an Overseas Filipino Worker from Bicol, and Aurora, who hails from Leyte. Tarog learned to play the drum at age six, and the piano at age seven. Tarog graduated from the University of the Philippines Rural High School in Los Baños, Laguna for his primary education, and spent two years in the University of the Philippines Los Baños studying agribusiness management for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BuyBust
''BuyBust'' (stylized as ''BUYBUST'') is a 2018 Philippine action thriller film co-written and directed by Erik Matti. It stars an ensemble cast top-billed by Anne Curtis and Brandon Vera. The plot centers on a team summoned by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to conduct a drug bust in a Manila slum. Realizing the mission is poorly executed, the team find themselves trapped by settlers and attempts to escape by fighting their way out. The film has been viewed as a social commentary on the controversial Philippine Drug War initiated by the Duterte government. This film was often criticized as a rip-off of the film The Raid: Redemption. Production on Matti's "first full-on action film" began in 2016, and Curtis and Vera were cast as leads the following year. On a budget of ₱86 million, principal photography began in March 2017. The film premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) on June 29, 2018, had a wide Philippine release on August 1 and a limited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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