Best Film

Ang Paglalakbay ng mga Bituin sa Dilim ng Gabi (Producers: Cinema One Originals, Skyweaver Productions, Red Motion Media, HYDEntertainment, Alchemy of Vision and Light Film and TV Productions and Conrad Cejoco)
Baybayin (Cinema One Originals in association with Solito Arts with the Support of HUBO Productions Inc.)
Bwakaw (Producer Antonio P. Tuviera, Producer-Ferdinand Lapuz, Executive Producers Ramel David, Joselito Oconer & Michael Tuviera, Executive Producers Perci Intalan & Jun Robles Lana)
Colossal (Producer: Joenathann Alandy and Paulo Alcazaren)
Diablo (Producer: Cinemalaya with Mes De Guzman, Line Producer-Rhea Operaña-De Guzman; Associate Producer-Gay Ace Domingo Florentina Ubaldo, CTE (Producer: Lav Diaz/sine olivia pilipinas)
Mater Dolorosa (Producer: Cinema One with Maan Dimla)
Oros (Producer: Cinemalaya with Joey Abacan and Paul Sta. Ana)
Posas (Producer: Cinemalaya with Josabeth Alonso, Armando Lao, John Victor Tence)
Thy Womb (Sinapupunan) (Producer: Center Stage Productions and the Film Development Council of the Philippines, with Larry Castillo, Melvin Mangada. Brillante Mendoza, and Jaime Santiago)

Best Director

Arnel Mardoquio (Ang Paglalakbay ng mga Bituin sa Gabing Madilim)
Aureaus Solito (Baybayin)
Ian Loreños (Alagwa)
Whammy Alcazaren (Colossal)
Mes De Guzman (Diablo)
Lav Diaz (Florentina Ubaldo, CTE)
Sigfreid Barros Sanchez/ Racquel Zaballero-Sanchez (Huling Biyahe)
Adolfo Alix (Mater Dolorosa)
Maribel Legarda/Maria Isabel Legarda (Melodrama Negra)
Paul Sta. Ana (Oros)
Lawrence Fajardo (Posas)
Emmanuel Quindo Palo (Sta. Niña)
Brillante Mendoza (Thy Womb)
Jun Robles Lana (Bwakaw)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