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The 2018 Movieguide Awards ceremony honored the best films and television of 2017.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡). [1] [2] [3] [4]
Epiphany Prize for Most Inspiring Movie - Honoring movies that are wholesome, spiritually uplifting and inspirational | Epiphany Prize for Most Inspiring TV Program |
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Faith and Freedom Award for Movies - Honoring movies that promote positive American values | Faith and Freedom Award for TV |
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Best Movie for Families | Best Movie for Mature Audiences |
Grace Award for Most Inspiring Performance for Movies | Grace Award for Most Inspiring Performance for TV |
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Leonard Michael Maltin is an American film critic, film historian, and author. He is known for his book of film capsule reviews, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, published annually from 1969 to 2014. Maltin was the film critic on Entertainment Tonight from 1982 to 2010. He currently teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and hosts the weekly podcast Maltin on Movies. He served two terms as President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and votes for films to be selected for the National Film Registry.
Millard Robert E. Theodore Baehr is an American media critic and chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission, a division of Good News Communications, Inc. He is publisher and editor-in-chief of Movieguide, a website and biweekly journal that evaluates motion pictures and other entertainment products from a Christian perspective on suitability for family consumption. He also hosts nationally and internationally syndicated Movieguide radio and television programs.
Jason Jones is an American film producer and human rights activist.
Sean Baker is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing independent feature films about the lives of sex workers, including Take Out (2004), Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), The Florida Project (2017), Red Rocket (2021), and Anora (2024), the last of which won him the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. He is also known for creating the Fox/IFC puppet sitcom Greg the Bunny (2002–2006) and its spin-offs.
What If... is a 2010 drama film directed by Dallas Jenkins and starring Kevin Sorbo, John Ratzenberger, Kristy Swanson and Debby Ryan. The film was released in theaters on August 20, 2010. It is the first film in a two-film partnership between Jenkins Entertainment and Pure Flix Entertainment.
Amish Grace is a television film that premiered on the Lifetime Movie Network on Palm Sunday, March 28, 2010. The film is based on the 2006 West Nickel Mines School shooting at Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and the spirit of forgiveness the Amish community demonstrated in its aftermath.
Monterey Media Inc. started as a home video company founded in 1982 by Scott Mansfield. It was initially financed by Noel C. Bloom, and the titles were distributed by the Family Home Entertainment subsidiary of Caballero Control Corporation. Monterey is the second sub-label of NCB Entertainment, after FHE.
Transforming Stories International Christian Film Festival (TSICFF) is an annual Christian film industry film festival held in South Africa. The festival is funded by Humble Pie Entertainment. In 2010, the festival's inaugural year, the award ceremony took place in Johannesburg, South Africa. Screenings took place in five different cities across the country. 18 countries submitted a total of 108 films, 12 of which were chosen as semi-finalists from which 5 became finalists. Awards were presented for Best Feature Film, Best Documentary Film, and Best Short Film. Greg Laurie's Lost Boy: The Next Chapter won the Best Documentary Film Award. In 2011, 19 countries participated, submitting a total of 190 films. Ryley Grunenwald's The Dawn of a New Day was named Best Documentary.
Paramount Players is an American film production label of Paramount Pictures, focusing on "contemporary properties" while working with other Paramount Global brands. The name alludes to the company's earliest origins as Famous Players Film Company, before its 1914 founding by William Wadsworth Hodkinson.
The Movieguide Awards is an annual award ceremony for Christian entertainment held every year in Hollywood and broadcast on the Hallmark Channel around the same time as the Academy Awards. The awards are commonly described as "The Christian Oscars" in industry circles.
The Chosen is an American Christian historical drama television series. Created, directed, and co-written by filmmaker Dallas Jenkins, it is the first multi-season series about the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. Primarily set in Judaea and Galilee in the 1st century, the series centers on Jesus and the people who met and followed him. The series stars Jonathan Roumie as Jesus as well as Shahar Isaac, Elizabeth Tabish, Paras Patel, Noah James, and George H. Xanthis.
Jonathan Roumie is an American actor known for his role as evangelist Lonnie Frisbee in the 2023 film Jesus Revolution and as Jesus in The Chosen, a crowd-funded television series about the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. He is also a voice artist.
The Movieguide Awards give the Epiphany Prize for Inspiring Movies to movies that are wholesome, spiritually uplifting and inspirational.
The Movieguide Awards give the Epiphany Prize for Most Inspiring TV or Streaming Movie or Program to programs that are wholesome, spiritually uplifting and inspirational.
Movieguide gives the Faith and Freedom Award for Movies to movies that promote positive American values.
Movieguide gives the Faith and Freedom Award for Television and Streaming to programs that promote positive American values.
Every year Movieguide gives an award to the Best Movie for Families.
Every year Movieguide gives an award to the Best Movie for Mature Audiences.
Movieguide gives the Grace Award for the most inspiring performances in movies and TV.