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
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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

Best Film

Amigo (Anarchists’ Convention Films)
Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria (Creative Programs, Inc., Panumduman Pictures)
Ang Mundo sa Panahon ng Yelo (Sampaybakod Productions)
Chassis (Happy Gilmore Productions)
Halaw (Los PeliculasLinterna Studio)
Limbunan (Bidadali House Productions)
Noy (Cinemedia Films, Inc., VIP Access Media Productions, Star Cinema, ABS-CBN Film Productions)
Sheika (Skyweaver Production-Hydeout Entertainment, Alchemy of Vision and Light TV and Film Productions)
Tsardyer (Creative Programs, Inc., Lasponggols Collective)

Best Director

Adolf B. Alix, Jr. (Chassis)
Sigfreid Barros-Sanchez (Tsardyer)
Sheron R. Dayoc (Halaw)
Mes de Guzman (Ang Mundo sa Panahon ng Bato)
Mes de Guzman (Ang Mundo sa Panahon ng Yelo)
Khavn de la Cruz (Maynila sa Mga Pangil ng Dilim)
Robin Fardig and Sherad Anthony Sanchez (Balangay)
Gutierrez Mangansakan II (Limbunan)
Arnel Mardoquio (Sheika)
Dondon Santos (Noy)
John Sayles (Amigo)
Remton Siega Zuasola (Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria) Read more