The article published on the website Woman.ru on January 26, 2013 is headlined “Golden Eagle 2013: Who Got the Main Russian Cinema Award”. The article carries a lot of comment on the 11th Golden Eagle Award, its organization, guests and winners. Speaking of the ceremony it is necessary to note that the first pavilion of Mosfilm studio for the 11th time welcomed the guests of The Golden Eagle Award, among which the most renowned Russian actors, directors, writers and other professionals in the film industry, like Nikita Mihalkov, Irina Skobtseva, Olga Kabo, and Irina Rozanova were. It’s an open secret, that evening, as in previous years, while some of the stars were posing for photographers, the others talked about the movies, and when everyone took their seats the ceremony began.
Analyzing the situation, it is interesting to note that the main surprise of the evening was the choice of the pregnant Anna Snatkina and her husband Viktor Vasilyev as the ceremony’s hosts. Viktor, who by all appearances conducted such an event for the first time, stammered, confused words and apologized to the audience, and, moreover, by the middle of the ceremony his wife began to give her positions up too, which made Alena Babenko announce several nominations instead of Anna. Besides, it is necessary to point out that an interesting feature of the ceremony was an unusual presentation of movies, claiming the top prize in the category “The Best Film of the Year”. The audience was shown a video in which small children tried to say something about each of the films-nominees in their own words. Organizers of the ceremony managed to make these videos pretty funny and touching.
Giving appraisal of the situation, it’s necessary to note that Sergei Makovetsky, who performed in the TV series “The Case of Gastronome №1”, won in the nomination “The Best Man’s Role on the Television”, while Anna Mihalkova received the eagle statuette for her role in Rezo Gigineishvili’s “Love with a Focus”. Another Golden Eagle went to Victoria Tolstoganova who performed in “The Spy”. Victoria was touched by the fact that the Academy awarded her the prize, because it was her first eagle statuette for many years of nominations. Therefore, that evening as she did not expect to go home with a victory she was loss of words, because she had not prepared her acceptance speech in advance.
The article draws a conclusion that the most eagle statuettes went to “The Horde”, however, Karen Shakhnazarov’s “The White tiger” won the main prize. Thus, the film went around four competitors: “Soulless” by Roman Prygunov, “The Horde” by Andrew Proshkin, “The Spy” by Alexey Adrianov and Pyotr Buslov’s “Vysotsky. Thank You for Being Alive”. Besides, there is also a full list of The Golden Eagle Award winners in the article.
As for me, I think that The Golden Eagle Award is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the Russian cinematograph. As for the categories, The Golden Eagle Award consists of 19 merit awards and 1 special award. As for merit awards, they are Best Feature Film, Best TV Movie or Mini-Series, Best TV Series, Best Documentation, Best Animated Feature Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Debut Work of a Director, Best Cinematography, Best Foreign Language Film, etc. As for the special award, it is Lifetime Achievement. Moreover, having known the results of the ceremony, I want to watch all the films which took the main prizes.
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-It would be better to say "It’s an open secret, that during the evening, as in previous years, while some of the stars were posing for photographers..."