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Martin Sheen, Tom Shadyac & John McCook Headline 19th Annual CIMA Awards on April 29

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CHICAGO, IL (April 17, 2012) - Golden Globe Award-winner Martin Sheen and blockbuster comedy director/writer Tom Shadyac headline the 19th Annual Catholics in Media Associates (CIMA) Mass and Film and TV Awards Brunch on Sunday, April 29th which honors the 5-time Academy Award-winning, Martin Scorsese-directed family film Hugo, the Tom Shadyac documentary I Am and ABC Television's Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Peabody Award-winning series Modern Family. The Emilio Estevez film The Way will receive the CIMA 2012 Board of Directors Award. The Way stars Martin Sheen, a previous CIMA Lifetime Achievement Award winner. The 2012 CIMA Awards at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA, will begin with a 10:00 AM Mass with a brunch and awards ceremony to follow, announced CIMA President Haskell V. Anderson III. Master of Ceremonies is John McCook, Emmy-nominated star of the CBS daytime drama The Bold and The Beautiful. 2012 CIMA Awards Honorary Chairperson is Barbara M. Gangi, CEO of Ubiquity Pictures.

10-time Emmy Award nominated Martin Sheen will present the 2012 CIMA Board of Directors Award to David Alexanian, producer for The Way. Director/writer Tom Shadyac will accept the 2012 CIMA Documentary Award for I Am. Two-time Emmy Award winners Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh, executive producers of Modern Family, will accept the 2012 CIMA TV Award. CIMA board member John Kelly is executive producer and CIMA Vice President Nancy Norton Bevins is producer of the 2012 CIMA Awards program.

The CIMA Awards were created in 1992 by former DGA President Jack Shea and his wife, veteran television screenwriter Patt Shea and other prominent Catholics in the entertainment industry. Their purpose is "To promote and applaud individuals, films and TV programs that uplift the spirit and help us better understand what it is to be part of the human family."

The CIMA 2012 Film Award will be presented to the Martin Scorsese film Hugo, Scorsese's first 3D film, a family mystery based upon the Brian Selznick novel about a boy who lives alone in a Paris railroad station and the enigmatic owner of a toy shop. Winner of five Academy Awards and named "Best Picture" by the 2012 National Board of Review Hugo has received two 2012 BATFA Awards and the 2012 Golden Globe for "Best Director." Graham King's GK Films and Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil are producers. David Crockett, Barbara De Fina, Christi Dembrowski, George Kacandes, Charles Newirth and Emma Tillinger are executive producers. Hugo was released nationally on DVD on February 28th.

The 2012 CIMA Television Award will be presented to the ABC Television series Modern Family, created by Executive Producers Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan and revolving around three families interrelated thru patriarch Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill). Modern Family has received the 2009 Peabody Award, the 2010 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Comedy Series," the 2010 Screen Actors Guild Award for "Outstanding Ensemble Performance" and the 2012 Golden Globe Award for "Outstanding Television Series - Musical or Comedy."

The CIMA 2012 Documentary Award will be presented to I Am, written, directed and narrated by prolific Hollywood film and television comedy director Tom Shadyac (Bruce Almighty, Liar Liar, Ace Ventura, The Nutty Professor) relating his personal experiences and personal journey following a devastating 2007 bicycle accident. I am is concerned with "The nature of humanity and the world's ever growing addiction to materialism" and asks the questions "What's wrong with the world?" and "What can I do about it?" Jennifer Abbott and Jonathan Watson are executive producers.

The CIMA 2012 Board of Directors Award will be presented to the Emilio Estevez film The Way, starring previous CIMA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Martin Sheen. The Way is a powerful and inspirational story about family and friends and navigating the challenges of an ever-changing and complicated world. Filmed on location in Spain and France along "The Way of St. James," The Way was written and directed by Emilio Estevez. Trevor Drinkwater, Ramon Gerard Estevez, Alberto Marini, Janet Sheen and John Sloss are executive producers. The Way was released nationally on DVD on February 21st.

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ABOUT CIMA
CIMA was formed in 1992 by working professionals in the entertainment industry to help them relate their faith to their professional lives. Through their annual awards, CIMA "Recognizes films, television programs and other entertainment forms that lift the spirit and help us better understand what it is to be part of the human family."

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