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 International Press Academy Award winners. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryn ... 733399.htm
'Hotel Rwanda,' 'Sideways' win at IPA Awards
BY MIKE SZYMANSKI
Zap2it.com
LOS ANGELES - "Hotel Rwanda," "Sideways" and a surprise win for Mel Gibson dominated the International Press Academy Awards Sunday.
"Hotel Rwanda" won best drama, star Don Cheadle won best dramatic actor and Wyclef Jean won for best original song, "Million Voices," in the film about the African genocide that occurred a decade ago.
The best comedy or musical went to "Sideways," along with a best supporting win for Thomas Haden Church, who plays a cad who flirts with a woman during a final road trip before his wedding.
Reflecting the wide-open Oscar race, Mel Gibson won the only award for "The Passion of the Christ," beating out a best director list that included Martin Scorsese for "The Aviator," Taylor Hackford for "Ray," Alexander Payne for "Sideways," Joshua Marston for "Maria Full of Grace" and Bill Condon for "Kinsey."
Jamie Foxx won for best actor in a comedy or musical for "Ray," as well as best actor in a mini-series or movie made for TV for FX's "Redemption: The Story of Stan Tookie Williams." The Ray Charles biopic also won best supporting actress for Regina King and best original screenplay.
The awards are handed out by the 200-member international group of film reviewers, who also honored Jerry Lewis and Susan Sarandon at the black-tie awards dinner held at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
"I'm quite proud of this award," says Lewis, who won the Tesla Award for technical achievement in cinema for his little-known work on the "video assist" technology for cameras. "After Dean (Martin) and I were over, in order for me to direct myself I had to have a technical tool for myself, and Paramount allowed me to fiddle around with cameras."
He used the first video assist on his 1964 film "The Bellboy," and the technology is still being used today.
Sarandon, who won the Mary Pickford Award for her humanitarian and acting efforts, was snowed-in in New York, but her partner Tim Robbins was in Los Angeles and accepted the honor.
"What people don't know about Susan is that she puts her whole heart and soul into her family, and when she says she's going to be at a Little League game, she's there," Robbins says. "She oftentimes has turned down work because it would take time from home and she'd be away too long and she hasn't ever been away from home for more than two weeks."
Robbins added, "I just talked to her a few minutes ago and she's almost finished shoveling the driveway."
A moment of silence for Johnny Carson, who died Sunday morning, kicked off the ninth annual awards which honors achievement in movies, film, DVD, games and other new media.
"Desperate Housewives" won best comedy TV series, but both comedy/musical actor and actress awards went to "Arrested Development" stars Jason Bateman and Portia De Rossi.
Best TV drama went to "Nip/Tuck" with Matthew Fox of "Lost" winning best TV dramatic actor and Laurel Holloman winning best actress for "The L Word."
"I hope my 11-week-old daughter will know the show someday," Holloman said of the Showtime series that focuses on several Los Angeles lesbians when she accepted the award.
Outstanding action game went to Activision's "Doom 3" and best overall DVD went to "Spider-Man 2" while best documentary and best DVD documentary went to the fast-food-bashing "Super Size Me."
Doom 3 sucks. 
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