Best Film

The Natural Phenomenon of Madness (The Grit Project and Outpost Visual Frontier in cooperation with Noel D. Ferrer Production)
Ang Babae sa Septic Tank (Cinemalaya, Martinez Rivera Films, Quantum Films and Straight Shooters Media)
Busong (Solito Arts Production)
Bisperas (Cinemalaya Foundation, Quantum Films and HongKong-Asia Films Financing Forum)
Amok (Cinemalaya Foundation, Pelikulaw and Wild Coyote Pictures)
Ka Oryang (Cinema One Originals, Kino Arts Production in association with Optima Digital)
Niño (Cinemalaya Foundation in cooperation with Handurawan Films)
Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa (Vim Yapan/Alem Chua Production in cooperation with Big Top Media Productions, Inc., SQ Film Laboratories, Inc., Optima Digital and Far Eastern University)
Boundary (Bigtop, Optima Digital, Voyage Studios and Wanderlustproject Films)
Six degrees of Separation from Lilia Cuntapay (Cinema One Originals and Post Manila)

Best Director

Sari Lluch Dalena (Ka Oryang)
Lawrence Fajardo (Amok)
Benito Bautista (Boundary)
Loy Arcenas (Niño)
Marlon Rivera (Ang Babae sa Septic Tank)
Alvin Yapan (Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa)
Jeffrey Jeturian (Bisperas)
Antoinette Jadaone (Six degrees of Separation from Lilia Cuntapay)
Auraeus Solito (Busong)Read more

Best picture - Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria (Creative Programs, Inc., Panumduman Pictures)
Best director - Remton Siega Zuasola (Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria)
Best screenplay - Arnel Mardoquio (Sheika)
Best actor - Sid Lucero (Muli)
Best actress - Fe GingGing Hyde (Sheika)
Best supporting actor - Joem Bascon (Noy)
Best supporting actress - Rosanna Roces (Presa)
Best cinematography - Christian Linaban (Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria)
Best production design - Rodell Cruz (Amigo)
Best editing - Willie Apa, Jr. and Arthur Ian Garcia (Sheika)
Best music - Jerrold Tarog (Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria)
Best sound - Dempster Samarista (Limbunan)
Best Short Film - Wag Kang Titingin (Pam Miras)
Best Documentary Film - Kano: An American and His Harem (Monster Jimenez)
Natatanging Gawad Urian - Jose F. Lacaba
The Decade’s Best Actors - Coco Martin, Cherry Pie Picache and Gina PareñoRead more

By Benilda S. Santos

Jose Flores Lacaba, poet, freelance journalist, screenwriter, editor, translator, and professional lecturer on journalism and literature is a quintessential Filipino nationalist whose engagement in the humanities and the arts, as well as in film and in media, makes him one of our most important living writers and intellectuals.

Lacaba was born in Cagayan de Oro City in 1945 where his father’s work brought the family, but spent most of his youth in Pateros, his mother’s hometown where they finally settled. The eldest of six children, he attended school at Pasig Catholic College. A scholarship grant enabled him to enroll at the Ateneo de Manila University and work towards an A.B. in English Literature. However, three years were all he could allow himself to experience in an academic environment quite unlike the early postwar years, the ‘50s, and the ‘60s in Pateros, and even elsewhere in Manila and the suburbs. In junior year, he left the university. Perhaps, it was his way of coming into his own, his way of working as an artist who remains influential in his time.Read more