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48 hours before the Oscars, it was the French who feted the best in French cinema in 2010 with the 36th edition of the Cesar Awards. A trio of films claimed the most awards: Of Gods and Men (the Cannes winning film which was on the Oscar shortlist of nine but didn't make it into the final round) took the top award of Best Film and three in total tying up with Gainsbourg (which was picked up this week by Music Box Films) which won for Best Actor. The big winner of the night with four awards out of eight total noms was roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer which isn't in the French language but was a French production that won the filmmaker the Best Director award.

Award season is among us on both sides of the Atlantic. Today the European Film Academy handed out their annual awards in Tallinn, Estonia and the big winner of the evening was Roman Polanski's Ghost Writer, claiming six awards, including Best Picture. Lebanon Israeli's Golden Lion winner of 2009, collected a pair: the award for European discovery, handed out to first time directors ("it's an honor being discovered when you're close to 50", said 48 year old director Samuel Maoz upon receiving the award), and the award for Best Cinematography, handed to Giora Bejach, for his extraordinary work, shooting an (almost) entire film from the POV of a tank.

This November, we profile first-time filmmaker Damien Chazelle whose micro-budgeted Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench has charmed critics and found itself on several Best Undistributed Films Lists of 2009. Via Variance Films, his film is finally receiving its theatrical debut this November 5th at the Cinema Village in New York City. Below, you'll find Damien's top ten list as of November 2010 -- a nice mix of films of retro and contemporary films ranging between studio films and obscure short film titles.

An ode to last year's big winner Kathryn Bigelow, the 20th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards were announced this afternoon and Debra Granik’s backwoods drama “Winter’s Bone” leads all the nominations with a total of three, while Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture) and Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) each end up with a pair of noms reminding us that there is some definite indiegrrrl power rising to the occasion this year.

National Geographic Ent have made what could pan out to be an extremely smart pick-up in Justin Chadwick’s The First Grader -- a sappy, button-pushing, tug at the heart, feel-good drama based on a true story that actually placed 2nd for the Toronto Int. Film Festival's “People’s Choice Award”.