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 The
CIMA Awards were created to promote and applaud media
that uplifts the spirit and help us better understand
what it is to be part of the human family.
Our upcoming
CIMA Awards will be November
4, 2007 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills,
CA. You may purchase tickets
online.
These awards are intended to recognize professionals
in the entertainment industry and honor their work as
a ministry, influencing people all over the world.
Nominations for awards come
from a panel of industry critics, reviewers, academics,
writers and directors. The CIMA Executive
Board, consisting of writers, directors, producers,
actors, agents, production and studio executives makes
the final selection of honorees. Recent award recipients
include:
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Feature
- Saving Private
Ryan
- Return To Me
- Schindler’s List
- Dead Man Walking
- Changing Lanes
- Seabiscuit
- The Passion of
the Christ
- Hotel Rwanda
- Narnia
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Television
- The Practice
- Homicide-Life
on the Streets
- Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
- Judging Amy
- The West Wing
- American Dreams
- Joan of Arcadia
- Medium
- Cold Case
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Life
Achievement Award
CIMA also bestows an
annual Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring an individual
whose significant contributions to the industry arts
has affirmed the highest ethical standards of Judeo
Christian tradition. Recent honorees: |
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- Martin Sheen
- Gregory Peck
- Patt & Jack
Shea
- Rosemary Clooney
- Carroll O’Connor
- Shelley Fabares
& Mike Farrell
- Ricardo Montalban
- Jane Wyatt
- Gregory Hines
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2007 Event
Committee
Doug Fahleson, Chair
Brian Oppenheimer, Producer
Jane Abbott, Laura Aguirre, Eva Marie Arquero, Haskell V. Anderson III, Katherine Beradino, Helena Buscema, Erin Braun, Audrey Casey, Debra & Charles Carner, Audrey Casey, Cynthia Chambers, Veronica Chambers, Stacey Collins, John Conte, Doug Fahleson, Mary Frances Fenady, Liz Florio, Barbara & Gary Gangi , Marita Geraghty, Marilyn Gill, Molly Hanson Ofelia Harrison, Joy Holland, Negrita Jayde, Timothy Lambert, Laraine La Monte, Pattee Mack, Julianne Mazzioti, Alice Menon, Noelle Michaels, Beverly Nichter, Nancy Norton, Sr. Rose Pacatte, Michael Parker, Gigi Perreau, Mary Pat Preciado, Maryann Ridini, Sharon Ringo, Elena Ruddy, Tom Russo, Johanna Santi, Rev. Anthony Scannell, Andrea Setterstrom, David Tlapek, Roberta Sherry Scelza, Mary-Ann Selvaggio, Patt & Jack Shea, Francis X. Tobin
 Each
CIMA Award is an original, signed abstract expressionist
work in laminated acrylic by the Yugoslav born artist, VASA.
Naturalized an American citizen in 1967, VASA is a Professor
of Art at the University of California at Los Angeles, and
is internationally recognized for his work. His artwork
"affirmatively confronts the spiritual and physical surroundings
from which it arises, and is seeking its place." This piece
was chosen to symbolize the ideals of CIMA because its obliquely
ascending, three-sided, luminous prism represents our human
and imperfect reach to capture the Light of the Trinity
in illuminating our work. In containing the same elements
of beauty of this sculptural piece, we honor our colleagues'
works as "vehicles of light," and express our gratitude
to them for presenting the complex colors of the human condition.
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