Wednesday 18 November 2009

Session 7: The Fido awards are the canine Oscars


Hello!

This news is about a special recognition to dogs, the third annual Fido awards, the Oscars for canine actors, and it will be presented in London. The ceremony has different categories and list with its nominees, this year, there is a special nomine list in comedy, because in this list is: the dogs in Beverley Hills Chihuahua and the CGI film Bolt.

Other category is the mutt moment category and here is nominated Lucy Reichardt that appear in the indie road movie Wendy and Lucy alongside Michelle Williams and also the mutt dog Tennents in the film Fish Tank because there is scenes with social realism.

The founder of these awards is a journalist called Toby Rose. He set up other awards to the dogs, the Palm dog, at the Cannes film festival in 2001.
To create these awards, Rose was inspired in his dog, a fox terrier called Mutley, who died. This dog met many stars, like Steven Spielberg, Charlotte Rampling, Chloë Sevigny.
Moreover, Mutley has appeared on TV and starred in fashion magazines.

In 2007, after that Rose wanted set up a British awards ceremony for dogs, the Fido awards were launched at the British Film Festival. On that ocassion, the winner was the corgis in The Queen. Last year, the winner was a dog called Dolly, a Norfolk terrier for the movie St Trinian’s.

What do you thing about this canine recognition? :)


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