Best Film - Kinatay, Swift Production and Centerstage Production
Best Director - Brillante Mendoza, Kinatay
Best Screenplay - Linda Casimiro, Lola
Best Actor - Lou Veloso, Colorum
Best Actress - Rustica Carpio & Anita Linda, Lola
Best Supporting Actor - Soliman Cruz, Himpapawid
Best Supporting Actress - Marissa Sue Prado, Himpapawid
Best Production Design - Brillante Mendoza, Lola
Best Cinematography - Raymond Red, Himpapawid
Best Editing - Orlean Tan, Ralph Crisostomo & Miko Araneta, Engkwentro
Best Music - Francis de Veyra, The Arrival
Best Sound - Albert Michael Idioma, Kinatay
Natatanging Gawad Urian - Armida Siguion Reyna Read more

By Nicanor G. Tiongson

At the age of 8, Armida Liwanag Ponce-Enrile appeared as an extra with the child star Tita Duran in a movie called Yaman ng Mahirap (1938), which was directed by Armida’s aunt, Carmen Concha. That experience enchanted the young Armida and from then on she was enthralled by the art of cinema. On her way to school (FEU Grade School), she would stop at the Star Theatre to gawk at the movie stills of Rudy Concepcion, Rosario Moreno and Corazon Noble. During the Japanese Occupation, she learned the songs of her idol Fely Vallejo, who was the ghost singer for Corazon Noble and Norma Blancaflor. From the film musicals of the late 30s she developed her passion for the Filipino song.

But her fascination with cinema and desire to be in film did not sit well with her father, the noted lawyer Alfonso Ponce-Enrile. Right after the war, she took screen tests with Palaris Films and was offered the chance to be the young lead of Fernando Poe Sr.’s company. Promptly, her father sent her away to the Academy of St. Joseph in Long Island, New York, where she graduated high school in 1948. The following year, she secretly auditioned for a role in the new Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I by singing the Deanna Durbin song, “The Italian Street Song” (with a high C in the end, Armida adds). Her chances of being taken were good but the nuns of Saint Joseph found out about the audition and reported it to her father. As expected, her father ordered her to come home immediately.Read more

Best Film

The Arrival, Erik Matti
Bakal Boys, Apogee Production with Queen Bessie, LLC
Colorum, Wild Cayote Pictures
Engkwentro, Pepe Diokno
Himpapawid, Pelikula Red, Pacific Film Partners, Ignite Media and Butch Jimenez
Hospital Boat, Skyweaver Productions, Hydeout Entertainment and Alchemy of Vision & Light
Kinatay, Swift Production and Centerstage Production
Lola, Swift Production and Centerstage Production
Last Supper No. 3, Veronica Velasco, Pablo Biglang-awa, Jr. and John Silva
Ang Panggagahasa kay Fe, Women’s Crisis Center

Best Director

John Steffan Ballesteros, Colorum
Pepe Diokno, Engkwentro
Ralston Jover, Bakal Boys
Erik Matti, The Arrival
Arnel Mardoquio, Hospital Boat
Brillante Mendoza, Kinatay
Brillante Mendoza, Lola
Raymond Red, Himpapawid
GB Sampedro, Astig
Veronica B. Velasco, Last Supper No. 3
Alvin Yapan, Ang Panggagahasa kay Fe
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