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FAMAS Award
Annual Filipino awards for achievements in film
FAMAS Award
The Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards, or simply the FAMAS Awards, are the annual honors given by the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS), an organization composed of writers and movie columnists, for achievements in Philippine cinema for a calendar year. Members of the academy including avid movie viewers, fans or enthusiasts cast their votes on who should win the statuettes in the different categories they were nominated. Established in 1952, it is the oldest existing film industry award-giving body in the Philippines and one of the oldest in Asia. The FAMAS Award, from 1952 to 1982, was the highest Filipino film award a filmmaker or artisan could receive in the local movie industry. In 1982, the Philippine government mandated the creation of the Film Academy of the Philippines, whose Luna Awards are voted on by film professionals. FAMAS was afterwards unofficially regarded as secondary to the Luna Awards. The FAMAS Award is one of the highly distinguished...
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