Hamptons Film Fest Celebrates Record Oscar Nominations, 25th Anniversary

February 11, 2017 Beth Young 0 Comments

Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga in "Loving" — Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga in “Loving”

As the Hamptons International Film Festival enters its 25th year, the festival is celebrating this month with a record 45 Oscar nominations for films that screened at last October’s festival.

Among the nominated films are “La La Land,” “Loving,” “Moonlight,” “20th Century Women,” “Blind Vaysha,” “Fire At Sea,” “I Am Not Your Negro,” “Joe’s Violin,” “Lion,” “Manchester by the Sea,” The Red Turtle,” “The Salesman,” “Timecode,” “Toni Erdmann” and “The White Helmets.”

The recipients of the three HIFF Audience Awards — “La La Land,” “I Am Not Your Negro” and “The White Helmets” — also received nominations for Best Picture, Best Documentary Feature, and Best Documentary – Short Subject, respectively.

The film festival is celebrating its 25th year with screenings of films from the past 25 years in the Hamptons, Palm Beach, New York City, and Los Angeles, leading up to one final screening and Lifetime Achievement Award presentation before the annual October festival.

The festival will also present its rescheduled Winter Classic,”To Kill a Mockingbird,” on Saturday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. at Guild Hall in East Hampton. The film will be presented by festival Co-Chair Alec Baldwin and the festival’s Artistic Director, David Nugent, who will host a conversation about the film following the screening.

The 25 Years: 25 Films series will kick off on February 17th at Guild Hall in East Hampton with a screening of “The Piano” from 1993, and then heads to Palm Beach on Feb. 23 for “Black Swan” from 2010. Filmmakers and special guests will participate in conversations at many of these events.

“We thought this would be a great opportunity to bring some of the best films of the last 25 years to moviegoers around the country,” said HIFF Executive Director Anne Chaisson. “While our hearts are in the Hamptons, our mission is to share great narratives and documentaries with our film-loving supporters everywhere.”

“The festival has seen 24 years of unforgettable films from both first-time directors, as well as recognized masters,” said HIFF Artistic Director David Nugent. “To look back on the works that made the festival so enticing is to recognize a quarter-century of incredible cinema.”

The full list of films is below. We will include the dates, locations and times of the screenings in our film listings when they are announced.