2015: PANAHON NG PAG-AANI NI NORA AUNOR

Masasabi ngang ang Taong 2015 ay isa na namang panahon ng pag-aani ng karangalan para kay Nora Aunor at sa bayang Pilipinas.  Marapat lamang na ipagdiwang ang isang pagpapala. Ang pagmamahal sa sining at ang pagpupunyagi na mapabuti ang sining ay tunay na nagbunga ng masagana.  Bagama’t sinasabi ni Nora Aunor na hindi niya mararating ang kalagayang ito kung wala ang suporta ng mga humahanga sa kanya subalit ang tagumpay na ito ay dahil na rin sa talento at talino na binigay ng Poong Maykapal at nilinang ng kahusayan ng nag-iisang Nora Aunor na nagmula rin sa kanya.  Lahat ng papuri ay para sa Diyos!

Narito ang talaan ng mga parangal at pagkilala sa Sining ni Nora Aunor sa Taong 2015.

BEST ACTRESS AWARDS

1. 3^rd St. Tropez International Film Festival - Dementia

2. Star Awards for Movies: Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) - Dementia

3. Kapuri-puring Aktres: Gawad TANGLAW - Dementia

4. Pinakapasadong Aktres: Gawad PASADO (Pampelikulang Samahan ng mga Dalubguro) - Dementia and Hustisya

5. 1st Urduja Heritage Film Awards - Dementia

6. Best Performance by a Male or Female in a Leading Role: Annual Brun Film Awards (Readers Choice) - Hustisya

7. Outstanding Actress: Sangyaw Awards (Tacloban City) - Taklub

8. Outsatanding Performance by an Actress in a Single Drama / Telemovie Program: Golden Screen Awards for TV (Enpress) - When I Fall In love

ARTS AND CULTURE AWARDS:

1. Gusi Peace Prize International Award – International Excellence in Performing Arts and Cinema

2. Gawad CCP para sa Sining for Film and Broadcast Arts – Cultural Center of the Philippines

RECOGNITIONS FROM THE ACADEME:

1.Bulawan na Bikolnon Award - Ateneo de Naga University

2.Gawad Lasallian Para sa Sining - De La Salle University (Taft)

3. Alagad at Yaman ng Konkretong Obra (AYKON) - Far Eastern University (FEU)

4. Natatanging Alagad ng Sining - National Teachers College (NTC)

5. Pambansang Artista ng Bayan - Communication Dept., Bicol University

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS:

1. ASEAN International Film Festival and Awards (AIFFA)

2. Natatanging Gawad Award: Gawad URIAN ng Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino

3. 1^st Urduja Film Festival: Espada ni Urduja, Kampeong ng Sining ng Pelikula

GOVERNMENT CITATIONS:

1. Senate Resolution 1270 - Commendation for her AIFFA Award

2.Honorary Nagueña - Naga Ctiy, Bicol

3. ONRA Citation - Ako Bicol Partylist Group

4. Diwa ng Lahi Award - City of Manila

SPECIAL AWARDS:

1. Ecumenical Jury Award: Un Certain Section – 2015 Cannes Film Festival (TAKLUB)

1. Outstanding Asian Actress and Movie Icon - 26th Asia- Pacific Excellence Awards

2.Iconic Movie Queen of Philippine Cinema: Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS Awards)

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Pagkilala:

Imahe: Bernie Placido

Art Barbadillo

Nora Aunor Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Aunor

NORA AUNOR: BEST PERFORMER at Young Critics Circle Awards 2013

 

Superstar MS. NORA AUNOR receives her 5th Best Performance Award from the YOUNG CRITICS CIRCLE Awards last September 3, 2013 in U.P. Vargas Hall, Diliman for her internationall-acclaimed film THY WOMB 
directed by Brillante Mendoza.

SWEET DOUBLE VICTORY IN TWO DAYS!

By: ALVIN DELA CRUZ BERNARDINO

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THE ARTISTRY OF NORA AUNOR

Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=210259579141156&set=a.192191627614618.1073741828.192185854281862&type=1&theater

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For Nora Aunor, winning has become sweeter than ever... Her most recent triumphs occurred in record two successive days... Last August 29, 2013, Nora was awarded Best Actress by Gawad Tanglaw, an Academe-based group of film critics from the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Calamba, Laguna. She, of course, won for her mesmerizing performance in Brillante Mendoza's Thy Womb.

On the following day, August 30th, Aunor earned another best actress prize (and a BIG one at that!) -- from the 3rd Sakhalin International Film Festival in Russia also for Thy Womb. The award is Nora's fourth international acting recognition for 2012 and 2013 for just a singular film. An amazing feat indeed!

Both local and foreign film critics singled out Aunor as the best of the best. And she is bound to receive another local acting award from the Young Critics Circle on September 3, 2013.

Yes, for Nora Aunor, when it rains, it really pours...

AND NOW THERE ARE FOUR...

By: ALVIN DELA CRUZ BERNARDINO

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Just a couple of months ago, this Page posted an artwork showing Nora Aunor clutching her three international acting trophies (one of them is actually an enormous plate with a golden eel on it) from Italy, Australia and Hong Kong which she won for just a single film -- Thy Womb... That alone is already a remarkable feat that will be hard to duplicate... But on the afternoon of August 30, 2013, a huge surprise greeted the entire Philippines when the news broke out that La Aunor won as best actress during the closing rites of the 3rd Sakhalin International Film Festival in Russia... AND NOW THERE ARE FOUR... 

NORA AUNOR SETS YET ANOTHER RECORD IN THE HISTORY OF PHILIPPINE CINEMA... AN EXTRAORDINARY FEAT BEFITTING AN ARTIST OF HER STATURE...

As our way of expressing our GRATITUDE to God Almighty for this new blessing in the life and career of the great artist NORA AUNOR, here is an inspiring quote: 

"When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching you, not because they’re making you do it. You do it to honor God."

Just like Nora Aunor, let us strive for excellence in whatever noble endeavor we pursue --- with all HUMILITY, PASSION, DEDICATION and the full ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Greatest One who gave us our strengths and talents ...

Ms. NORA AUNOR: LIGHT OF CULTURE AWARDEE

LIGHT OF CULTURE AWARDS

By ISAGANI CRUZ

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NORA AUNOR for pioneering in the integration of theater, television, and film.

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Source:  http://www.philstar.com/education-and-home/2013/03/21/922192/light-culture-awards

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March is World Theater Month, and March 27 is World Theater Day. Spearheading the worldwide celebration is the International Theatre Institute, the UNESCO World Organization for the Performing Arts.

Last year, Manila was the global launch site of the 50th anniversary of World Theater Day. In her message that year, Irina Bokova, the Director General of UNESCO, said, “Theater has the power to move, inspire, transform and educate in ways that no other art form can. Theater reflects both the extraordinary diversity of cultures and our shared human condition, in all its vulnerability and strength.”

Nobel Prize laureate Dario Fo (who has also been to Manila, by the way) is this year’s writer of the traditional World Theater Day Message. In the message, Fo attributes the decline of theater audiences to an attempt by those in power to silence actors and theater companies. He quotes Saint Carlo Borromeo, who wrote in the 16th century, “Concerned with eradicating the evil weed, we have done our utmost to burn texts containing infamous speeches, to eradicate them from the memory of people, and at the same time to prosecute also those who divulged such texts in print. How far more devastating to the minds of adolescents and young girls is the spoken word and the appropriate gesture, than a dead word printed in books. It is therefore urgent to rid our cities of theater makers, as we do with unwanted souls.”

Fo could actually have chosen a more suitable quote. Then archbishop of Milan, Borromeo excommunicated everyone who watched a play. He believed that theater “substituted illusion for reality, denied temporal space and time, and trafficked in dreams and imaginings.”

The Philippine Centre of the International Theatre Institute and the ITI-Earthsavers UNESCO Dream Center are taking the lead in celebrating World Theater Month in our country. Among several projects ongoing is a World Theater Festival on Radio, aired over Radyo Balintataw on DZRH on weekdays.

A highlight of the Philippine celebration is the awarding of this year’s Lampara ng Kultura (Light of Culture) Awards. (Since next week is Holy Week, the awards will be given after World Theater Month.) The awards are given annually to individuals and corporations or groups that have helped spread the light of Philippine culture and arts inside and outside the country.

This year’s batch of awardees include:

AIR 21 for sponsoring the first Philippine participation in the Prague Quadrennial on Performance Design and Space, run by the International Organisation for Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT).

PLDT-SMART for assisting global connectivity for the Tri-Continental Intercultural Dialogue on Defying Disasters.

CHOWKING and SAN MIG COFFEE for sponsoring the ITI program of Cultural Caregiving Services for vulnerable groups.

SM for providing venues for arts events, particularly those involving persons with disabilities.

METROBANK for its continuing patronage of arts competitions and arts education.

LISA MACUJA for popularizing ballet, integrating indigenous art forms, and initiating international interactive dance projects.

LEA SALONGA and MONIQUE WILSON for projecting Filipino excellence in acting and singing and lending their popularity for social causes.

NORA AUNOR for pioneering in the integration of theater, television, and film.

JUVENAL SANSO for integrating painting with stage design.

ALBERTO FLORENTINO for excelling in the art of playwriting, particularly in the field of social realism.

DANNY DOLOR for animating culture among various schools groups, primarily Emilio Aguinaldo College Theatre Center.

ROSALINDA OROSA for being the Dean of Culture and Arts Criticism in media.

BOY ABUNDA for theater patronage through media, promotions, and arts communication.

GEORGE YANG for promoting scholarship in the field of music and performing in concerts and theater presentations.

A special International Award is being given this year to the SEOUL INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS, headed by Duk Hyung Yoo, for its collaborative projects with Philippine theater groups.

The selection committee consisted of Vilma Labrador (chair), Cecile Guidote Alvarez, Heherson Alvarez, Fray Paulo Casurao, Tomas Ongoco, Fernando Peña, Frank Rivera, Jose Laderas Santos, and myself.

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THY WOMB bags 7 awards at MMFF 2012

NORA AUNOR: BEST ACTRESS

BRILLANTE MA. MENDOZA: BEST DIRECTOR and BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

MELVIN M. MANGADA: PRODUCER

HENRY BURGOS: BEST STORY

3 AWARDS FOR 'THY WOMB' IN VENICE FILM FEST

By Bayani San Diego Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer

September 10, 2012

Source: http://entertainment.inquirer.net/57768/brillante-mendozas-thy-womb-wins-3-awards-in-venice

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Everywhere she went in Lido, Filipino actress Nora Aunor was greeted by admirers—clapping, cheering and congratulating her for “Thy Womb” (Sinapupunan), which won three honors at the 69th Venice International Film Festival over the weekend.

Aunor, considered a superstar in the Philippines, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in Filipino: “The Italians kept saying: ‘Bellissima! Bravissima!’”

Her latest starrer, Brillante Mendoza’s “Thy Womb” won three awards in Venice: Bisato D’Oro, La Navicella or Venezia Cinema prize and the P. Nazareno Taddei Award Special Mention.

Aunor attended the Venice fest with Mendoza and costars Lovi Poe and Mercedes Cabral.

Producer Larry Castillo said the critics adored Aunor who won the Bisato D’Oro prize for her performance. Castillo told the Inquirer that Aunor’s award was given by Premio della Critica Indipendiente, an independent critics’ group.

Previous recipients of the award were directors and producers. Aunor is the first actress and Filipino to win the prize.

Aunor recalled that the Bisato D’Oro ceremony was held on Friday at Bar Maleti, a restaurant near her hotel.

The Philippine contingent stayed at the Hotel Excelsior Venezia in Lido, Venice.

“I am happy that our film was invited to Venice. It’s a great honor just to be included in this year’s lineup. To win an award is a wonderful bonus,” Aunor said of her award.

She said the critics were touched by the film. “They told me that they cried, especially toward the ending. They said they were moved by the emotions I showed in the movie.”

La Navicella award

On Saturday morning, Mendoza received La Navicella/Venezia Cinema prize—one of the collateral awards handed out before the fest’s major honors.

According to the Venice website, the award is given by critics and the Rivisita del Cinematografo, an Italian publication. “La Navicella is awarded to the director of a film considered particularly relevant for the affirmation of human values,” an online report said.

A previous winner of the La Navicella award was Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker,” which went on to win an Oscar in 2010. Other past winners of the prize included such heavyweights in world cinema as Louis Malle, Zhang Yimou, Stephen Frears and Abel Ferrara.

The Navicella jury commended the Filipino film “for giving voice to the Badjao community in a respectful and emotionally involved manner.”

In the film, Aunor portrays a barren Badjao midwife searching for a suitable woman (Poe) who can bear a child for her husband (Bembol Roco).

Taddei award

In the citation, the Navicella jury praised the film: “Although … ethnographic, the film goes beyond naturalism and turns into poetry. Mendoza brings to the screen an act of total love which stands out today as true scandal against frivolous provocation.”

During the closing ceremony on Saturday night, Mendoza won the P. Nazareno Taddei Award Special Mention.

The P. Nazareno Taddei Award went to Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk’s “Pieta,” which won the Golden Lion as well.

Established in 2007, the P. Nazareno Taddei Award was named after a Jesuit priest. It is given to films that “express authentic human values.”

The Hollywood Reporter critic Neil Young considered Aunor one of the front-runners for the best actress award, which went to Israel’s Hadas Yaron of “Fill the Void.”

Although it failed to bring home major awards, “Thy Womb” received a rousing ovation after its premiere on Thursday and was showered with glowing notices by critics.

Mendoza, who won best director in Cannes for the graphic crime drama “Kinatay” in 2009, said his goal in making “Thy Womb” was to tell a story of “unconditional love set in a beautiful but troubled place.”

Variety review

Mainstream publication Variety gave the film a positive review, praising the cinematography (by Odyssey Flores), acting (by Aunor) and production design (by Mendoza).

Variety’s Guy Lodge said “Aunor’s softly crinkled face beautifully registers the internal pain of her every decision in this curious process.” Lodge said the cinematography “negotiates picture-postcard skies and grubby boltholes with equal fluidity” and the production design “forges the unusual story with just the right balance of the exotic and the authentic.”

Variety described the film as “part marital tearjerker, part cultural comedy of manners … open-hearted … sentimental.”

Variety pointed out that “Thy Womb” had more in common with Mendoza’s Venice entry in 2009, “Lola,” than the “propulsive” “Captive,” which was the “hard-working Filipino provocateur’s” entry at the Berlin fest earlier this year.

CineVue’s Jo-Ann Titmarsh called the film “one of the most poignant and intimate films at this year’s Venice fest … a moving and visually captivating movie with two commanding yet understated central performances.”

“Thy Womb” also has screenings in the Toronto International Film Festival this month (on September 7, 9 and 16).

On the fest’s website, Toronto programmer Steve Gravestock raved about Aunor’s “moving portrayal of a woman determined to provide her husband with a child.” He also pointed out that Roco was “equally good as her stoic husband.”

Gravestock noted that Mendoza’s direction possessed an “unfailingly keen eye for detail and attention to the rhythms of rural life.”

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Contributor:  Alvin Umahon

Nora Aunor bags int'l critic's award at the 69th Venice film fest

By PATRICIA DENISE CHIU

GMA NEWS September 8, 2012 11:13am

Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/273118/showbiz/nora-aunor-bags-int-l-critic-s-award-at-the-69th-venice-film-fest

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Superstar Nora Aunor bagged a coveted critic’s award Friday for her performance in Brillante Mendoza’s “Thy Womb." The prize was awarded a day before the end of the 69th Venice International Film Festival.

Aunor, whose other critically-acclaimed starer "Himala" is also being exhibited in the festival under the “Venice Classics” category, won the Bisato d’Oro Award from the Premio Della Critica Indipendiente, an independent film critics’ group in Italy. Bisato d’Oro translates to Golden Eel in English.

The Premio Della Critica Indipendiente is not affiliated with the Venice film festival’s award giving body, but Aunor’s recognition is seen as a vote of confidence, and bolstered the Pinay actress’ chance at bagging the Volpi Cup, the Venice film fest’s best actress prize at the awarding rites on Saturday (Sunday in Manila).

In “Thy Womb” (Filipino title: Sinapupunan), Aunor portrayed the role of a barren Badjao midwife who puts a nubile young woman in her husband’s bed. The film by award winning director Brillante Mendoza was lauded by foreign critics, and is in the running for the Il Leone d’Oro, or the Golden Bear, the highest prize to be awarded in the festival.

Along with director Brillante Mendoza, Aunor was joined in Venice by castmates Lovi Poe and Mercedes Cabral.

Poe posted a picture on her twitter account congratulating the Superstar for winning the award. Poe's gown was also voted 'most beautiful' in the festival. All four received a five-minute standing ovation after the red carpet premiere of the film. — LBG, GMA News

AWARDS AND CITATIONS OF NORA AUNOR

CINEMA

Latest picture of Nora Aunor & German Moreno during her arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on August 10, 2011.Aunor has received numerous national and international awards and nominations. She is the first Filipino actress to win an International acting award in a major Film Festival (Cairo 1995 for the movie The Flor Contemplacion Story). She has been directed by four Philippine National Artist Awardees, Gerardo de Leon, Lamberto Avellana, Lino Brocka, and Ishmael Bernal. Since the late 1960s, Nora Aunor has appeared in more than 170 films.

MUSIC

Nora Aunor has released more than 360 singles and recorded more than 200 songs and over 50 albums. She has notched more than 30 gold singles and with an estimated gross sales of one million units, Nora's cover of "Pearly Shells" (1971) is one of the biggest-selling singles in the Philippines.

TELEVISION

Year / Title / Network Genre

2011 - Sa Ngalan ng Ina / TV5 Drama

2011 - Walang Tulugan / GMA Musical Variety Talk Show

2002 - Bituin / ABS-CBN Soap Opera

2002 - Nora Mismo / NBN 4 Public Service Program

1995 - Superstar sa 4 / PTV 4 Musical Show

1995 - Nora / ABC 5 Drama Anthology

1994 - Modern Romances / GMA 7

1993 - Spotlight on Nora / GMA 7 Drama Anthology

1992 - Star Drama Presents — NORA / ABS-CBN Drama Anthology

1990 - Superstar — The Legend / IBC 13 Musical

1984 - La Aunor / RPN 9

1978 - Makulay na Daigdig ni Nora / RPN 9 Drama

1975 - Superstar / RPN 9 The Longest running musical-variety show

1974 - The Nora Aunor Show / GTV 4 Variety show

1969 - Nora-Eddie Show / Channel 9 Musical-Variety Show

1968 - Oras ng Ligaya / Channel 3

THEATRE

Year / Title / Producer

1991 - Minsa'y Isang Gamu-Gamo PETA (Philippine Education Theater Association)

1993 - DH (Domestic Helper) PETA (Philippine Education Theater Association)

1994 - Trojan Women Cecille Guidote-Alvarez’s Theater Company

NOTABLE CITATIONS AND AWARDS

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Year / Movie / Group Award

2004 - Naglalayag Brussels Festival of Independent Films (Belgium) - Best Actress

1997 - Bakit May Kahapon Pa? East Asia Film and Television Award (Malaysia) - Best Actress

1995 - The Flor Contemplacion Story Cairo International Film Festival (Egypt)- Best Actress

1983 - Himala Berlin Film Festival (Germany) Nominee

1981 - Bona Cannes film Festival (France) Certificate of Honor

CINEMANILA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Year / Citation 

2000 Lifetime Achievement Award (Philippines)

2011 Lifetime Achievement Award (World Cinema)

10 ASIAN BEST ACTRESSES OF THE DECADE

Year / Group Award

2010 Green Planet Movie Awards (Hollywood) Recipient

PHILIPPINE AWARDS

FAMAS (Filipino Academy of Movie, Arts and Sciences)

Year / Title of the Movie / Award

1976 - Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos - Best Actress

1979 - Ina Ka ng Anak Mo - Best Actress

1984 - Bulaklak sa City Jail - Best Actress

1989 - Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit - Best Actress

1990 - Andrea, Paano Maging Isang Ina - Best Actress

1991 - Special Citation Best Actress Hall of Fame

1995 - Special Citation Circle of Excellence

GAWAD URIAN AWARDS (Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino)

Year / Title of the Movie / Award

1976 - Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos - Best Actress

1980 - Bona - Best Actress

1989 - Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit - Best Actress

1990 - Andrea, Paano Maging ISang Ina - Best Actress

1991 - Special Citation Best Actress of the Decade (1980s)

1995 - The Flor Contemplacion Story - Best Actress

1996 - Bakit May Kahapon Pa?- Best Actress

2001 - Special Citation Best Actress of the Decade (1990s)

Nora Aunor received the first-ever Best Actress Star award from Gawad Urian.

FAP [Film Academy of the Philippines (Luna Awards)]

Year / Title of the Movie / Award

1989 - Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit - Best Actress

1990 - Andrea, Paano Maging Isang Ina - Best Actress

1991 - Ang Totoong buhay ni Pacita M. - Best Actress

1993 - Special Citation Lifetime Achievement Award

1995 - The Flor Contemplacion Story Best Actress

STAR AWARDS (Philippine Movie Press Club)

Year / Title of the Movie / Award

1984 - Merika Best Actress

1990 - Andrea, Paano Maging Isang Ina - Best Actress

1991 - Ang Totoong Buhay ni Pacita M. - Best Actress

1994 - Special Citation Star of the Decade (1980s)

1995 - The Flor Contemplacion Story - Best Actress

1997 - Special Citation The Vic Silayan Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award for Acting

1999 - Bakit May Kahapon Pa? Special Recognition for Golden Pearl Award

2004 - Special Citation Best Actress of the Decade (1990s)

2009 - Special Citation Himala

Nora Aunor received the first Best Actress Star Award from the Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC).

METRO MANILA FILM FESTIVAL (MMFF)

Year / Title of the Movie / Award

1978 - Atsay Best Performer*

1979 - Ina Ka ng Anak Mo - Best Actress

1982 - Himala - Best Actress

1984 - Bulaklak sa City Jail - Best Actress

1990 - Andrea, Paano Maging Isang Ina - Best Actress

1991 - Ang Totoong buhay ni Pacita M. - Best Actress

1992 - Special Citation Gawad ng Natatanging Pagkilala

1992 - Muling Umawit ang Puso - Best Actress

1996 - The Flor Contemplacion Story Plaque of Recognition for Winning in the Cairo International Film Festival

Note:

Nora Aunor is the first and only Best Performer awardee of the Metro Manila Film Festival; it is equivalent to Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress Award

MANILA FILM FESTIVAL

Year / Title of the Movie / Award

2004 - Naglalayag Best - Actress

CATHOLIC MASS MEDIA AWARDS (CMMA)

Year / Title of the Movie / Award

1981 - Bakit Bughaw ang Langit - Best Actress*

1984 - Bulaklak sa City Jail - Best Actress

YOUNG CRITICS CIRCLE (YCC)

Year /Title of the Movie / Award

1990 - Andrea, Paano Ba Maging Isang Ina - Best Performer

1991 - Ang Totoong Buhay ni Pacita M. - Best Performer

1993 - Inay - Best Performer

1995 - The Flor Contemplacion Story - Best Performer

Note:

Nora Aunor received the first ever Best Performer award from the Young Critic Circle, equivalent to Best Performance by Male or Female, Adult or Child, Individual or Ensemble in Leading or Supporting Role.

QUEZON CITY FILM FESTIVAL

Year / Title of the Movie / Award

1972 - And God Smiled at Me - Best Actress

BACOLOD FILM FESTIVAL

1975 - Best Actress - Banaue (Grand Buglas Award)

DAVAO CITY FILM FESTIVAL

1976 - Best Actress - Ibilanggo Si Neneng Magtanggol

MOVIE MAGAZINE AWARDS

1991- Best Actress - Ang Totoong Buhay Ni Pacita M.

ATENEO GALIAN 

1991 - Best Actress - Ang Totoong Buhay Ni Pacita M.

KRITIKA

1991 - Best Actress - Ang Totoong Buhay Ni Pacita M.

Joel David Awards for Excellence in Philippine Cinema

1991 - Best Performer - Himala

PEOPLE'S CHOICE (PPC Publications)

1995 - Best Actress - The Flor Contemplacion Story

1997 - Best Actress - Babae

1st CAPE TIP FESTIVAL

2004 - Best Actress - 'Naglalayag

PASADO (Pampelikulang Samahan ng mga Dalubguro)

2004 - Pinakapasadong Aktres - Naglalayag

2009 - PinakaPasadong Artista sa Lahat ng Panahon

2010 - Pinakapasadong Dakilang Artista ng Bayan

GAWAD TANGLAW

2004 - Kapuripuring Aktres - Naglalayag

2012 - Pinaka Kapuri-puring Artista ng Dekada - 10th Gawad Tanglaw Awards

S Magazine People's Choice Award Actress of the Year

2004 - Naglalayag

BALATCA (Batangas Laguna Teachers Association for the Culture and the Arts)

2004 - Best Actress - Naglalayag

2006 - Special Citation - Dakilang Kayumangging Lahi National Artist

2006 - Special Citation - Outstanding Achievement in Film Acting - Feminist Centennial Film Festival, UP

2011 - Movie Icon Of Our Time - 8th Golden Screen Awards - ENPRESS

2011 - Lifetime Achievement Award (For International Achievements) - 13th Cinemanila International Film Festival

2011 - Originals in Philippine Cinema Award - 7th Cinema One Originals Digital Film Festival

2011 - Lifetime Achievement Award - 59th FAMAS Awards

2012 - Gawad Lino Brocka Lifetime Achievement Award - 9th Golden Screen Awards - ENPRESS

Notable dialogue terms in other works

"I did not... kill.. Anybody!" - Flor Contemplacion Story (1995)

 "Walang Himala!" ("There is no miracle!") - Himala (1981)

 "My Brother is not a Pig"- from the film Minsa'y Isang Gamu-Gamu (1979)

 "Nasaan, Nasaan Si Bernadette at Melody!" ("Where Where is Bernadette and Melody!") - From the TV Series Bituin (2003-2004)

 "Hindi mo mabibilang ang luhang galing sa puso." ("You can't count the tears from the heart") - From the TV Series Sa Ngalan ng Ina (2011)

 "Umalis ka sa harapan ko. Sasampalin kita!" ("Get out of my sight. I'll slap you!") - From the TV Series Sa Ngalan ng Ina (2011)

NOTABLE CITATIONS AS AN ACTOR

*The only Filipino actor with the most number of best actress International awards & nominations (Cairo 1995, East Asia 1997, Brussels 2004), and nominations (Berlin 1983, Singapore 1997, Cairo 1999, Singapore 1999).

*The first Filipino actor to win an International acting award in a Major Film Festival (Cairo 1995 for the movie "The Flor Contemplacion Story").

*The first and only Filipino actor to receive an acting nomination from a Top-Tier International Film Festival (Berlin 1983 for the movie "Himala").

*The first Filipino actress to sit as juror in an International Film Festival (Hawaii 1996).

*The only Filipino and Asian actress apart from China's Gong Li to be featured by HBO, an American cable network, in a documentary film about the lives and achievements of the world's greatest actresses (1997).

*Himala was the first and only Filipino film ever to qualify in the Competition Section of the Berlin International Film Festival (1983). For its international accolades, it bagged 1983's Bronze Hugo Prize at the Chicago International Film Festival

*Himala was the lone Filipino film chosen by CNN as one of the ten best Asian films of all time from the provisional list of 18 great films (September 2008). CNN cited "Himala" for its "austere camera work, haunting score, and accomplished performances that sensitively portray the harsh social and cultural conditions that people in the Third World endure."

*Himala was awarded the CNN APSA Viewers Choice Award for Best Asia-Pacific Film of all Time (November 14, 2008)

*The Flor Contemplacion Story became the first Filipino movie to win the grand prize in a Major International Film Festival (Cairo '95).

*The Flor Contemplacion Story grossed US$ 3.3 million in its domestic and international exhibitions, making it one of the highest-grossing films in Philippine history.

*Bona was cited as one of "The Best 100 Films in the World" by the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, USA (1997).

*The Filipino actor with the most "Best Performer" awards (5).

*The first Filipino actor ever to win the "Best Performer" award (1978).

*The only actress included in the prestigious "CENTENNIAL HONOR FOR THE ARTS" given by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (1999).

*The first actress to be honored with the "Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service" (TOWNS) award (1983).

*The youngest recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" given by the Film Academy of the Philippines (1993).

*The only Filipino actress to win three successive best actress awards in the Film Academy of the Philippines (1989,1990,1991).

*Chosen by the Gawad Urian as "Actress of the Decade" (1980s and 1990s).

*The only Filipino actor to bag seven Metro Manila Film Festival best actress awards.

*The first actress to be crowned as "Box Office Queen of Philippine Cinema" (1971).

*The only actress of her generation to have been directed by four Philippine National Artist Awardees, Gerardo de Leon, Lamberto Avellana, Lino Brocka, and Ishmael Bernal.

*The only Filipino actor honored by the City of Kileen, Texas U.S.A. with a "Nora Aunor Day" (September 23, 2006)

*The only Filipino actor honored by the City of San Francisco, California, U.S.A. with a "Nora Aunor Day"(May 21, 2004)

*The actress was honored by the Office of the Governor of Las Vegas with a "Certificate of Recognition for Phenomenal Talent and Extraordinary Performance" (March 31, 2006)

*Named by YES! Magazine as one of the "Philippines' 15 Best Actresses of All Time" in 2005

*Named by S Magazine as the "Philippines' Best Actress of All Time" in 2006

*The first and only Filipino actor included in the "10 Best International Actress of the Decade (Asia)" in the 2010 Green Planet Film Awards, Hollywood, California

*Named by Cultural Center of the Philippines as the "ACTRESS OF THE CENTURY" in 1999

NOTABLE CITATIONS AS RECORDING ARTIST

In 1968, Nora Aunor was contracted by Alpha Records upon the recommendation of singer Carmen Soriano. Although Aunor's first singles were not major hits, she subsequently went on to smash local record sales with songs like "It's Time to Say Goodbye", "Silently", "Forever Loving You", "It's Not Unusual", and countless others. In her seven years with Alpha Records, Aunor was able to set all-time high record sales which up to this day has not been surpassed. At the height of her popularity as a recording artist in the late 1960s and early 1970s, local records soared up to 75% of national sales according to Alpha Records Philippines. She is the artist with the most singles in Philippine recording history (with more than 260 singles). Over-all she has recorded more than 500 songs. She has notched more than 30 gold singles, a record in the local music industry. With estimated sales of one million units, Nora's cover of "Pearly Shells" (1971) is one of the biggest-selling singles in the Philippines ever. Nora has also recorded some 46 hit long-playing albums, and several extended plays.

At the height of her popularity as a recording artist in the late 1960s and early 1970s, sales of local records soared up to 75% of national sales according to Alpha Records Philippines.

She is the artist with the most singles in Philippine recording history (with more than 260 singles). Overall she has recorded more than 500 songs.

She has notched more than 30 gold singles.

With estimated sales of one million units, Nora's cover of "Pearly Shells" (1971) is one of the biggest-selling singles in the Philippines.

Nora has also recorded some 46 hit long-playing albums, and several extended plays.

1964 - Certificate of Honor, First Prize Liberty Big Show, Camarines Sur

1965 - Winner (14 weeks) Darigold Bulilit Contest

1966 - Certificate of Honor, First Prize Darigold Jamboree, Naga City

1967 - Pinakamahusay na Tuklas na Talino, Grand National Finals Champion - Tawag ng Tanghalan

1969 - Favorite Singer of Northern Luzon Eagle Broadcasting Corporation, Dagupan City

1969 - Best New Recording Artist of the Year - PREDA

1970 - Best New Female Recording Artist - 1969 Awit Awards

1970 - Singer for the Months of February, March, and April - DWOW Radio

1970 - Best Female Singer in English - Philippine Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences

1971 - Female Singer of the Year - PREDA

1973 - Binibining Pilipinas ng Pelikula at Awiting Pilipino given by First Lady Imelda Marcos

1973 - Top Selling Records, Female Singer of the Year, English Version - PREDA

1973 - Top Selling Records, Female Singer of the Year, Tagalog Version - PREDA

1974 - Queen of Northern Luzon for 100 Hit Records

1984 - Gallery of Distinction - Aliw Awards

1991 - Gold Record Award (Langit Pala ang Umibig the Album) - Aguilar Music Corp.

1991 - Gold Record Award (Handog ni Guy LIVE, the Album) - Universal Records

1995 - Best Country Folk Singer (Maliit Man sa Tingin) - 1st Katha Awards

1995 - Best Interpreter of Movie Theme Song (Kahit Konting Awa) - 9th Awit Awards

1995 - Gold Record Award (Kahit Konting Awa the Album) - Viva Records

1997 - National Music Festival Award - Sandiwa Philippines

1998 - Dangal ng Musikang Pilipino - 11th Awit Awards

1999 - Gawad Siglo as One of the 50 Best Live Entertainers of the Century - Aliw Awards

2011 - Dangal Ng OPM Award - Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-aawit

2011 - Lifetime Achievement Award - 3rd PMPC Star Award for Music

2011 - One of 15 OPM Icons - 3rd PMPC Star Award for Music

2011 - Lifetime Achievement Award 24th Aliw Awards