FIDO Awards Winners Announced!

The Fido Awards, presented in association with Dogs Trust and honouring canine cinematic excellence, were held at the BFI Southbank last night. The list of categories included the first ever Dogs Trust Star of Tomorrow Award.

• HISTORICAL HOUND (for period drama excellence) The Young Victoria
• ROM-COM ROVER (for romantic-comedy companionship) Marley and Me
• COMEDY CANINE (for outstanding comedic contribution) Beverly Hills Chihuahua
• BLOCKBUSTER BOWSER (for event-movie performance) Up
• MUTT MOMENT (for stand-out cinematic canine moment) Fish Tank
• BEST IN WORLD (for best of the best) The Young Victoria
• DOGS TRUST STAR OF TOMORROW Paddy
  

Amongst the winners present to accept their awards handed out by presenters Kerry Fox, Christopher Biggins, Camilla Rutherford and Fenella Fielding was Tori (aka Dash, pictured) from The Young Victoria, Syrus (aka Tennants) from Fish Tank and Paddy, a six year-old crossbreed rescue dog from Dogs Trust Darlington, winner of the special Dogs Trust "Star of Tomorrow" award, the first of its kind at the ceremony.

This year's judging panel was made up of leading film critics and writers, including: Derek Malcolm, EVENING STANDARD; Angie Errigo, EMPIRE; James Christopher, THE TIMES; Kaleem Aftab, THE INDEPENDENT and Charles Gant, HEAT.

Well done to all the winners!

Glam guestblogger Krystyna attends the Fido Awards

Fresh from her Cosmo makeover, Krystyna hit the town for the Fido Awards, honouring dogs on film. Here's the lowdown on the festivities:

My glamorous career at Dogs Trust continues! Yesterday I went to the Fido Awards, which is like a canine version of the Oscars. These awards honour doggy actors who have starred alongside less hirsute (and sometimes less well trained) actors in blockbusters this year. Organisers also run this at the oh-so glamorous Cannes film festival: http://www.palmdog.com/ but my invite extended only to a trendy East London cinema on a cold winter Sunday afternoon!

The nominations included:

• Samantha, the German Shepherd starring alongside Will Smith in I Am Legend
• Dolly aka Mr Darcy, in St Trinian’s
• Afghan Hounds, starring alongside Julia Roberts in Charlie Wilson’s War
  [Ed's note: LOVED this film!]
  
• SATC’s Samantha’s Yorkshire Terrier

Film critics from The Times, the London Evening Standard, the Independent and Heat magazine had the unenviable task of deciding the winners, while actress Camilla Rutherford and famous portrait subject Sue Tilley were on hand to deal out the awards.

Pleasingly, the rosettes were in Dogs Trust colours! My plus-one was Sarah who used to work here in the press office and jumped at the chance of coming along.

We both had a great time and were delighted to have our photos taken with the overall winner (“Best in World”!) Dolly (pictured above with Krystyna, left, and Sarah), who actually played a male dog in St Trinian’s and whose job was to hump Colin Firth’s leg….