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Awards and Criteria

The organization departs from many conventions of other award-giving bodies, both in thePhilippines and in other countries, in bestowing cinematic honors. For instance, the award for

Best Film of the Year is reserved for the director such that no separate prize for direction isneeded. The Best Performance award is most coveted as it is conferred on a screen performer

whether male or female, adult or child, individual or as part of an ensemble, in leading orsupporting role. To uphold a more dynamic and encompassing way of looking at films, technical

honors refer to fusion of outstanding efforts in fields otherwise deemed apart. In this case, the

Best Cinematography and Visual Design recognition covers both camerawork and art direction.

Similarly, Best Sound and Aural Orchestration encompasses not sound engineering alone butmusical score as well.

YCC draws its selection from both regular and non-regular releases comprising the entirety of

annual Philippine cinema output. Films considered for discussion are those that had at least two

screenings in any public venue. The group first comes up with a long list, where each film on thelist is discussed as to its merits and demerits. The list is further narrowed down to a shortlist ofany number. Only short-listed films earn the privilege to be nominated for any of the six

categories that are handed out each year. YCC does not confer nominations on artistic or

technical merit if the film does not qualify in the shortlist.

The seven awards handed out every year are:

Best Film

Best Performance

Best Screenplay Best Editing Best Achievement in Cinematography and Visual Design

Best Achievement in Sound and Aural Orchestration

Best First Feature

Criteria

Best Film of the Yearrefers to vision and direction that pay sensitive and keen attention to boththe language of cinema (presentation) and social reality (representation), in the process

refunctioning the possibilities of film as progressive art and popular culture. The Best Picture

citation is awarded to the Director not so much because he or she is the auteur or the central

intelligence of the film, but because his or her work lies at the conjuncture which coordinatesfilmmaking.

Best Screenplayrefers to the rhetoric of writing for film that articulates the complexity of social

life and personal perturbation through narrative logic or political conviction; or simply through

well-thought out dramatic tension that explores contestation between the personal and the

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political, the individual and the collective, the private and the public. The Best Screenplay award

is given to the writer of the film.

Best Performancerefers to acting, to the playing out of a role or character that implicatesemotion, feeling, and experience in the social conditions of the personal and in the political

economies of habit and gesture and how these forge the body politic. The Best Performancecitation is handed to the Performer, whether male or female, adult or child, in major or

supporting role, individual or ensemble.

Best Editingrefers to the configuration of relationships of time and space among scenes in afilm that is able to synthesize, engage in collision, reconcile, or transgress connections through

the complex interplay of mise-en-scene and montage. The Best Editing trophy is given to the

editor.

Best Cinematography and Visual Designrefers to the mise-en-scene and its visual/plasticqualities production design, lighting, art direction, visual effects that lend form to whatever

representation is projected on screen. The Best Cinematography and Visual Design honor isconferred on the cinematographer and the production designer.

Best Sound and Aural Orchestrationrefers to the rendering of the auditory aspects of film

music, natural sound, sound effects as these are counterposed against or harmonized with thelanguage of image, and so become meaningful sign systems on their own. The Best Sound

citation is awarded to the sound engineer and the musical scorer.

Best First Feature refers to outstanding narrative or documentary film that is the first feature-

length work of a director. The Best First Feature citation is conferred to the directors of three

selected first features.

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