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TOP GROSSER

Refers to the film which got the

highest number of views.

BEST SOUND & AURAL ORCHESTRATION

Refers to the rendering of the auditory

aspects of the film music, natural
sound and sound effects as these are
the counter posed against or
harmonized with the language of
image and so become meaningful sign
system on their own. The Best Sound
citation is awarded to the sound
engineer and the musical scorer.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & VISUAL DESIGN

Refers to the mise-en-scene and its

visual/plastics qualities production
design, lighting, art direction, visual
effects that lend form to whatever
representation is projected on screen;
and absorbs the differences of social
forces and cultures. The best
cinematography and visual design
honor is conferred on the
cinematographer and the production

BEST EDITING

Refers to the configuration of

relationships of time and space among
scenes in a film that is able to
synthesize, engage in collision,
reconcile, or transgress connections
through the complex interplay of miseen-scene and montage. The best
editing trophy is given to the editors.

BEST PERFORMANCE

Refers to acting, to the playing out

of a role or character that
implicates emotion, feeling and
experience in the social condition
of the personal and in the political
economies of habit and gesture
and how these forge the body
politic. The best performance
citation is handed to the performer,
whether male or female, adult or

BEST SCREENPLAY

Refers to the rhetoric of writing for

film that articulates the complexity of
social life and personal perturbation
through narrative logic or political
conviction; or simply through wellthought out dramatic tension that
explores contestation between the
personal and the political and the
individual and the collective, the
private and the public. The Best
Screenplay is awarded to all the

BEST PICTURES

Refers to vision and direction that

pay sensitive and keen attention to
both the language of cinema
(presentation), in the process refunctioning the possibilities of film as
progressive art and popular culture.
The best picture award is given to
the Director not so much because he
or she is the auteur or the central
intelligence of the film. But because
his or her work lies at the