With the superb, award-winning import, The Farewell Party, the film's co-writers and co-directors, Sharon Maymon and Tal Granit, explore the lives of group of seniors in a retirement home coping with the mental and physical decline of their loved ones.
Showalter said Matthews deserved a Gold Glove award for his superb defense.
Prof Andy MacMillan, who chaired the judging, said: "Every year the submissions for this award demonstrate the superb architectural skills we are blessed with in Scotland.
In 2012, for example, our 2009 runner-up Joff Winterhart, was shortlisted alongside Hilary Mantel for best novel in the Costa book awards for his superb Days of the Bagnold Summer.
Two of them - A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love - were extended into superb features and won festival awards which encouraged the French to take him up.
Bafta made some smart choices with Tarantino's superb revenge Western Django Unchained, awarding it best original screenplay for Tarantino himself and best supporting actor to Christoph Waltz, who cut his habitual elegant figure at the ceremony.
The film is the first traditional feature from British director Kevin Macdonald, already garlanded with awards after two superb documentaries: One Day in September, about the siege of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, and Touching the Void, about a death-defying mountain expedition.
For a player that averaged just three points and 10 minutes per game with the Portland Trail Blazers last season, Will Barton has put his name in the hat for the Most Improved Player award following a string of superb performances for Denver.
The 30-year-old midfielder will tonight pick up the much-vaunted Football Writers Association Footballerr of the Year award in honour of his superb performances for the struggling Hammers this season.
Sheffield Wednesday striker Gary Madine has won the Football League Young Player of the Month award for September after a superb start to the season.
Awarded to Kevin Rudd for his superb performance at the first leaders' debate before the election.
