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27th FAMAS Awards
The 27th Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1979 in the Philippines . This is for the Outstanding Achievements of the different films for the year 1978. Pagputi ng Uwak, Pagitim ng Tagak of VS Films was the most awarded film of the 27th FAMAS Awards winning the top prize for FAMAS Award for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Story, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score and Best in Production Design. Awards Major Awards Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Special Awardee * References External linksFAMAS Awards {{FAMAS Awards FAMAS Award FAMAS FAMAS ...
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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 ...
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Vilma Santos
Rosa Vilma Tuazon Santos-Recto (, born November 3, 1953) is a Filipino actress, singer, dancer, TV host, producer, and politician. She served as a House Deputy Speaker since 2019 to 2022 and as the Representative of Batangas' 6th district since 2016 to 2022. Her career as an actress has spanned more than five decades, beginning when she debuted as a child actress in the 1963 film ''Trudis Liit'', for which she won her first FAMAS Award (Best Child Performer). She won the FAMAS Award for Best Actress for her dual role in ''Dama de Noche'' (1972). She has portrayed the superhero Darna in four films beginning with ''Lipad, Darna, Lipad!'' (1973). Santos produced ''Pagputi ng Uwak, Pag-itim ng Tagak'' (1978), which won both the FAMAS Award for Best Picture and the Gawad Urian for Best Film. In local media, she has been referred to as "Star for All Seasons" for the varied genres of her films and holds the titles of Grand Slam Queen, Queen of Queens, and the Longest Reigning Box Offic ...
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Julie Vega
Julie Pearl Apostol Postigo (21 May 1968 – 6 May 1985), better known by her stage name Julie Vega (), was a Filipina child actress, singer and commercial model. She remains very popular in her native Philippines, years after her death at the peak of her career at age of 16.Skipojack (October 30, 2004). . Sun.Star Davao. Archived frothe originalon November 18, 2004. Retrieved October 20, 2012. She won two FAMAS Awards for Best Child Actress during her brief showbiz career. Early life and family Julie Vega was born as Julie Pearl Apostol Postigo on 21 May 1968 at the UERM in Quezon City, Philippines to a practicing Roman Catholic family '' Maalaala Mo Kaya: Unan''. Aired over ABS-CBN on October 2, 2003. and was the youngest and only girl of six children of dentists Julio Postigo (1931–1991) from Zamboanga del Sur and Perla Apostol (born 1932) from Iligan City. Her family nicknamed her Darling and Tata, which was given to her by her nanny Flor Argawanon and means "youngest child ...
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Marissa Delgado
Maria Epifania Garcia Boyle, better known by her stage name Marissa Delgado, is a Filipino actress of American descent. She has appeared in nearly 90 films from 1965 up to present. She is the mother of former character actor Kevin Delgado and commercial model Avon Garcia. Career Delgado won two awards in Philippine films - Best Supporting Actress for ''Lumuha Pati Mga Anghel'' in 1971, and ''Till Death Do Us Part'' in 1972. She was nominated for Gawad Urian Award in 1977 for ''Ligaw Na Bulaklak'' and FAMAS Award, Best Supporting Actress for ''Sa Akin Pa Rin ang Bukas'' in 1988.Imdb Awards for Marissa Delgado /ref> Delgado started in showbiz as an extra via Dance-O-Rama starred Susan Roces and Jose Mari as the lead actors. After 2 years, she came back as made her a leading lady of two of the great comedians in the Philippines which is Dolphy Rodolfo Vera Quizon Sr. (; July 25, 1928 – July 10, 2012), better known by his stage names Dolphy, Pidol, and Golay, was a Fil ...
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Anita Linda
Alice Bueñaflor Lake (November 23, 1924 – June 10, 2020), better known by her stage name Anita Linda, was a Filipino film actress. A romantic lead in her youth, she later gained critical acclaim for her portrayals in maternal or elderly roles. At the age of 74, she became the oldest actress to ever win a FAMAS Award, when she was named Best Supporting Actress for ''Ang Babae sa Bubungang Lata''. In 2008, at age 83, she was named Best Actress in the 10th Cinemanila International Film Festival (Southeast Asia Film Competition) for her portrayal of the title character in ''Adela''. Early career Linda was born Alice Bueñaflor Lake in Pasay to James Lake, an American soldier and mining engineer, and Gorgonia Bueñaflor of Iloilo. Linda was discovered by renowned director Lamberto Avellana while watching a stage show at the Avenue Theater starring Leopoldo Salcedo, Lopito, among others. Then a Ilongga teenager that couldn't speak Tagalog, she had second thoughts when she w ...
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Laurice Guillen
Laurice Ilagan Guillen-Feleo (born January 31, 1947) is a Filipino actress, film and television director, and college professor. Early life and acting career Guillen studied at St. Theresa's College, Cebu City, earned an AB English degree before finishing an MA in Communication at Ateneo de Manila University, where she taught at the college level. She took a television production course under Nestor Torre, in 1967. She then began work as an actress, starring in productions of ''Mrs. Warren's Profession'', before crossing over to film and television work, playing a seductress in ''Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang'', and Corazon Aquino in the drama ''A Dangerous Life''. In 2009, she accepted a role in the indie film ''Karera'', her first role in an independent production. Other credits include such notable films as ''Tinimbang ka Ngunit Kulang'' (1974), ''Lunes, Martes ...'' (1975), ''Inay'' (1977); ''Init'' (1978); ''Ina, Kapatid, Anak'' (1979), ''Moral'' (1982); ''Nagalit ang Buwan sa ...
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Amy Austria
Esmeralda Diaz Tuazon (born December 13, 1961), known professionally as Amy Austria-Ventura, is a Filipino film and television actress. Austria is recognized as one of the defining actresses in Philippine cinema. She has won a FAMAS Award, 2 Gawad Urian Awards, 3 FAP Awards and 4 MMFF Awards (including two Best Actress wins). The Philippine Star listed Austria mong the 15 Best Actresses of All Time. In 2019, Austria was inducted at the ''Hall of Fame'' at the Metro Manila Film Festival. Biography Esmeralda Tuazon was the second to the eldest among six children born in 1961 to an impoverished family. She helped the family by selling chewing gum. She studied at the Rajah Soliman High School. She was introduced to the producer Baby Martinez of MBM Productions through a common friend. She was then cast in Bitayin Si Baby Ama (1976), the movie that made a star of Rudy Fernandez. After her second film, ''Alas'' (1976), with Jun Aristorenas, she was given minor parts in several othe ...
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Joonee Gamboa
Joonee Gamboa (born Jose Espineli Gamboa Jr.; August 7, 1936) is a Filipino actor. As veteran actor, he appeared in more than 145 movies and television shows. Life and career Gamboa won the Best Supporting Actor in the 1977 Metro Manila Film Festival for the movie ''Burlesk Queen''. He did movies such as Enter the Ninja (1981), Bayaning 3rd World (1999) with Ricky Davao and Cris Villanueva, and Feng Shui (2004) starring Kris Aquino. His other film credits include ''Iskul Bukol: 20 Years After'' (2008) and Ang Panday (2009) played by Bong Revilla. Gamboa's TV projects include ''Ful Haus'' (2007) with Vic Sotto and Pia Guanio, and ''Totoy Bato'' (2009) played by Robin Padilla. He was included in the cast of Philippine TV series' ''Kahit Konting Pagtingin'' starring Angeline Quinto, Sam Milby and Paulo Avelino, premiered in ABS-CBN on January 28, 2013. He is a resident of Malolos City. He has been part of Barasoain Kalinangan Foundation, Inc. community theater in Malolos, Bulaca ...
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Anthony Alonzo
Antonio Viana Hernandez (April 2, 1948 – October 9, 1998), also known as Anthony and Tony, was a Filipino actor, singer, and councilor of Quezon City. Early life He was born as Antonio Viana Hernandez on April 2, 1948, in Quezon City to Alfredo Hernandez and Lourdes Viana. He is the brother of actress Alicia Alonzo, who herself is still appearing in Filipino films and soaps. Education Antonio V. Hernandez received his elementary and secondary education at the Marulas Elementary School and Espiritu Santo High School, respectively. He took up Commerce at the Mapua Institute of Technology. Movie career Besides the so-called bold and sexy films that pervaded the movie industry in the '70s and early '80s, the period also saw the emergence and proliferation of true-to-life movies. Producers then banked on the colorful and controversial lives of known notorious criminals to come up with profitable film projects, i.e. ''Nardong Putik'', ''Kapitan Eddie Set'', ''Baby Ama'', ''Ronquillo ...
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Mario O'Hara
Mario Herrero O'Hara (April 20, 1946 – June 26, 2012) was a Philippines, Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter known for his sense of Realism (arts), realism often with dark but realistic social messages.O'Hara profile


Early life

He was born in Zamboanga City on April 20, 1946. His mother, Basilisa Herrero, was a native of Ozamiz in Misamis Occidental and had Spanish ancestry. His father, Jaime O'Hara was the son of Irish-American Thomasite, and a former member of the University of the Philippines Dramatic club. Mario had eight brothers and three sisters. Because Jaime was the son of an American citizen, Mario's family was eligible to apply for US citizenship; however, Mario rejected any such offers. From Zamboanga City, the O'Haras moved to a middle-class ...
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George Estregan
Jesús Jorge Ejército (; July 10, 1939 – August 8, 1988), better known as George Estregan or George Estregan Sr., was a Filipino ''mestizo'' film actor. Estregan made his film debut in 1963 with ''Jose Nazareno, ang Taxi Driver''.Villanueva, p. 243 He was often cast as a villain and was infamously known as the "Penetration King" of erotic Philippine cinema. Estregan won critical acclaim for many of his performances. In 1972, he was named FAMAS Best Actor for ''Sukdulan'', and would win two other FAMAS Awards for Best Supporting actor for ''Kid Kaliwete'' (1978) and ''Lumakad Kang Hubad sa Mundong Ibabaw'' (1980). He was nominated for the FAMAS Award three other times, as Best Actor for ''Lumapit, Lumayo ang Umaga'' (1975) and ''Lalake Ako'' (1982), and for Best Supporting Actor in ''Magkayakap sa Magdamag'' (1986). He also received a nomination from the Gawad Urian as Best Actor for ''Hostage: Hanapin si Batuigas'' (1977). Early life Jesus Jorge Marcelo Ejercito was born ...
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FAMAS Award For Best Supporting Actress
The FAMAS Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the FAMAS Awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award, which are voted on by Palanca Award The Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, popularly known as the Palanca Awards, are a set of literary awards for Philippine writers. Usually referred to as the " Pulitzer Prize of the Philippines", it is the country's highest litera ...-winning writers and movie columnists and writers within the industry. Winners and nominees The list may be incomplete such as some of the names of the nominees and the roles portrayed especially during the early years of FAMAS Awards. *Note - The year indicates the awards for the films of that year when those films were originally released. Please refer to the Academy Awards how they label the awards for the films original release date and not the awards ceremony date. 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 20 ...
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