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FINAL SHORTLISTED NOMINATIONS

(Not including the special categories: The Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year Award, Footage Library of the Year, Footage Library Person of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Award - see below)

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i-iii) Awards for Best Use of Footage in Factual Productions (3 separate Awards will be presented)
A Wall in Berlin (Un Mur à Berlin) Kuiv Productions
Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil   BBC
Dear Elena Francis (Querida Dona Elena)
Televisio de Catalunya  
Franco and Fidel: An inconvenient Friendship  Televisio de Catalunya
Iran and the West Brook Lapping Productions
JFK 3 Shots That Changed America   New Animal Productions  
Monsieur Advertising: Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet  Artline Films  
The Lost World of Communism BBC
Under the Banners (Sous les Drapeaux) AMIP  
 

 

iv) Award for Best Use of Footage in an Entertainment Production

 

Harry Hill's TV BURP Avalon Television
The Great British Foreign Holiday BBC  
The Most Annoying People of 2009 Shine TV

 

v) Award for Best Use of Footage in an Arts, Music or Drama Production

 

Arena: T.S. Eliot BBC Arena  
Folk America   BBC Music Entertainment  
Legends: The Motown Invasion BBC Wales

 

vi) Award for Best Use of Wildlife and Natural History Stock Footage

 

Operation Deep Sea - Shedding Light in the Darkness Marco Polo Film AG
Shark Nicole NHNZ
Walk on the Wild Side   BBC  
 

 

vii) Award for Best Use of Sports Footage

 

Empire of Cricket   BBC
Jim Clark - The Quiet Champion   Mark Stewart Productions  
The Story of Bolero with Torvill and Dean   ITV Studios
 

 

viii) Award for Best Use of Footage in an Advertisement or Trailer

 

 

EDF Energy: 'Olympic London' for Green Britain Day Euro RSCG London  
IG INDEX: Cause and Effect DDB London  
MERCEDES BENZ: Era Radical Media GMBH  

 

ix) Award for Best Use of Footage in a Short Production

 

AA100 Short Films Open University Virals   360 production  
Flash Forward (And Back) David Hopkinson
Sibos 2009: One Year On Jack Morton Worldwide
 

 

x) Award for Best Use of Footage in an Educational or Corporate Production

 

13 in de Oorlog (13 at War)  NPS
Centenary: The BP Story   Lone Star Productions  
Witness: Apartheid, South Africa BBC
 

 

xi) Award for Best Use of Footage in a Cinema Release  

Déchaînées (Unleashed) Rita Productions
Farewell Pieter van Huystee Film & TV  
L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno)  Lobster Films
 

 

xii) Award for Best Use of Footage on Non-television Platforms

 

Hunky Blues - The American Dream   Filmpartners Ltd
It felt like a kiss BBC
Filmhíradók Online (Newsreels Online) John von Neumann Digital Library and Multimedia Centre
 

 

xiii) Award for Best Use of Footage in a Home Video Release  


 
British Invasion- Small Faces: All Or Nothing 1965-1968   Reelin' In The Years Productions  
Over Our Dead Bodies   Stewkley Film Archive  
The Norman Lear Collection Authorized Pictures
 

 

xiv) Award for Archive Restoration or Preservation Project

 

 

Accident (1967)   Studio Canal / Optimum Releasing / BFI / Deluxe Digital London
Comedy Playhouse: Are You Being Served (1972) BBC / BBC Studios and Post Production
Now and Then (1967-68) BFI National Film Archive / Prime Focus
The Red Shoes (1948)   ITV/BFI/The Film Foundation/UCLA Film &Television Archive  
United Press International Television News Collection (1963-85)   AP Archive
 

 

 

xv) The Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year Award

 

xvi) Award for Footage Library of the Year

 

 

xvii) Award for Footage Library Person of the Year
xviii) Award for Lifetime Achievement
 

The final nominations of these 4 categories will be announced at the Awards ceremony 27 April, 2010.