AwardsWatch

Netflix lines up its Oscar hopefuls: ROMA, 22 July, Buster Scruggs, Kindergarten Teacher main pushes

Erik Anderson October 11, 2018

Netflix, which broke through the Oscars last season with above-the-line Academy Award nominations for Mudbound (and also establishing two pieces of Oscar history in the... Read More

Denzel Washington to receive 47th AFI Life Achievement Award

Erik Anderson October 5, 2018

Denzel Washington will receive the 47th AFI Life Achievement Award, America’s highest honor for a career in film. The award will be presented to Washington... Read More

Gotham Awards: Tributes set for Rachel Weisz, Willem Dafoe, Paul Greengrass

Erik Anderson September 26, 2018

Weisz and Dafoe will receive the Actress and Actor Tributes and Greengrass the Director Tribute at the IFP Gotham Awards, set this year for November... Read More

Toronto Film Festival Winners: ‘Green Book’ drives into the Oscar race

Erik Anderson September 16, 2018

The Peter Farrelly race relations road comedy Green Book, starring Academy Award winner Mashershala Ali (Moonlight) and Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises, Captain... Read More

Student Academy Award Winners Announced

Erik Anderson September 12, 2018

All Winning Films Now Eligible for Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film or Documentary Short Subject Oscars The Academy has voted 19 students as... Read More

Venice Film Festival Winners: ‘ROMA,’ Olivia Colman, Willem Dafoe – The Full List

Erik Anderson September 8, 2018

Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA has won the Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival, the second year in a row the top prize has gone to... Read More

Golden Globes: Key dates announced for nominations and awards show

Erik Anderson July 23, 2018

The key dates for the 76th Golden Globe Awards have been announced yet, amazingly, without a network to put them on. While NBC has aired... Read More

‘Barbarians,’ Robert Pattinson among 53rd Karlovy Vary Film Festival Winners

Erik Anderson July 7, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The Romanian meta-drama I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians is the Grand Prize winner of the... Read More

Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar, Ava DuVernay top 2018 BET Awards Winners

Erik Anderson June 25, 2018

The 2018 BET Awards were held last night and Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar and Ava DuVernay came away winners in Female Hip Hop Artist, Album... Read More

2018 Cannes Awards: Kore-eda’s ‘Shoplifters’ Wins Palme d’Or; Spike Lee Takes Grand Prix for ‘BlacKkKlansman’

Erik Anderson May 19, 2018

Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda has won the highest honor from the Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters. He previously won the Jury Prize for... Read More

Film

Netflix lines up its Oscar hopefuls: ROMA, 22 July, Buster Scruggs, Kindergarten Teacher main pushes

Denzel Washington to receive 47th AFI Life Achievement Award

Gotham Awards: Tributes set for Rachel Weisz, Willem Dafoe, Paul Greengrass

Toronto Film Festival Winners: ‘Green Book’ drives into the Oscar race

Student Academy Award Winners Announced

Venice Film Festival Winners: ‘ROMA,’ Olivia Colman, Willem Dafoe – The Full List

Golden Globes: Key dates announced for nominations and awards show

‘Barbarians,’ Robert Pattinson among 53rd Karlovy Vary Film Festival Winners

Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar, Ava DuVernay top 2018 BET Awards Winners

2018 Cannes Awards: Kore-eda’s ‘Shoplifters’ Wins Palme d’Or; Spike Lee Takes Grand Prix for ‘BlacKkKlansman’

American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘The Studio’ and ‘Black Rabbit’

Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards: ‘Sinners,’ ‘Frankenstein’ Top Film Wins

Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Take Film Wins, ‘The Pitt’ Sweeps TV

In case you missed it

American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘The Studio’ and ‘Black Rabbit’

Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards: ‘Sinners,’ ‘Frankenstein’ Top Film Wins

Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Take Film Wins, ‘The Pitt’ Sweeps TV

True/False Film Fest Dispatch #2: ‘Phenomena,’ ‘Who Moves America,’ ‘Landscapes of Memory’

Film Festivals

Palm Springs International Film Festival Announces 2027 Dates

Boots Riley’s ‘I Love Boosters’ Lands West Coast Premiere as Centerpiece of 69th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM)

29th Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF): ‘Poetic License,’ ‘I Swear,’ Conversations with Julian Schnabel, Barry Jenkins and Lulu Wang

Sundance Film Festival Announces 2027 Dates, Boulder Venues

Final Additions to South by Southwest Film & TV Festival (SXSW), Including ‘Love Language,’ ‘Cookie Queens’ and ‘The Fox’

Awards

American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘The Studio’ and ‘Black Rabbit’

Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards: ‘Sinners,’ ‘Frankenstein’ Top Film Wins

Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Take Film Wins, ‘The Pitt’ Sweeps TV

Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards: ‘F1’ Takes Top Film Prize; ‘The Pitt,’ ‘The Studio,’ ‘Adolescence’ are TV Winners

‘Sinners’ Dominates Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics Dorian Awards; Rose Byrne, Amy Madigan Win Acting Prizes

Podcasts

Director Watch Ep. 142 ‘The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp’ (Powell and Pressburger, 1943) with Special Guest Bilge Ebiri

AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 335 – Reactions to the Split PGA and SAG Awards

Director Watch Podcast Ep. 141 – ’49th Parallel aka The Invaders’ (Powell and Pressburger, 1942)

AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 334 – 79th BAFTA Film Awards Reaction

Director Watch Podcast Ep. 140 – ‘A Couch in New York’ (Chantal Akerman, 1996)