Film

The Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (LEJA) has announced the winners of their inaugural Latino Entertainment Film Awards. In its inaugural year, Netflix’s “Roma” won nine awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Alfonso Cuaron.  Cuaron won a total of five prizes as a producer, director, screenwriter, co-film editor, and foreign language feature.  Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther” was the next big winner with …

BurningZama The 16th ICS Awards saw two international films dominate the nominations with 9 apiece. In Zama, Lucrecia Martel’s magnificent critique of Spanish colonialism, Crown official Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho) is wasting his life in perpetual longing and cruel condescension while the Native rhythms of 18th-century Paraguay ebb and flow beneath his oblivious stare. His tale begins with …

Green Book (Universal) The 30th Producers Guild of America has chosen Peter Farrelly’s 1960s road comedy Green Book as the best produced film of 2018. Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga share the win, which bolsters the film’s chances at Oscar’s Best Picture as it beat heavy competition from BlacKkKlansman, ROMA and A Star …

BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)ROMA (Netflix)A Star Is Born (Warner Bros) The first industry award of the 2018-2019 Oscar season is here and it’s the biggest of them all: the Producers Guild of America (PGA) award. Since its inception in 1989, the PGA award has been our most consistent bellwether for the eventual Oscar Best Picture winner. In 29 years, the two …

Mission: Impossible -Fallout (Courtesy of Paramount) First Man, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, A Quiet Place and ROMA led the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) nominations for the 66th Golden Reel Awards today, all showing up in the group’s three main feature film categories for Dialogue/ADR, Effects/Foley and Music Underscore. A Star Is Born, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite earned two apiece …

Avengers: Infinity War, Christopher Robin, Ready Player One, Solo: A Star Wars Story and Welcome to Marwen will compete for the Visual Effects Society’s top prize as the nominations for the group’s annual awards were announced today. Avengers leads with 6, Ready Player One was next with 5 with Solo: A Star Wars Story and Welcome to Marwen next with …

Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini’s Leave No Trace based on the novel My Abandonment by Peter Rock The USC Scripter honors the adapted screenplays for film and television plus the authors of the source material they’re adapted from. Today, the USC Libraries named the 31st USC Scripter five nominees in film and six in television (due to a tie and combines limited series and regular …

We now have the Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice winners with PGA, DGA, SAG and BAFTA to come. Here is where the Best Picture, Director and acting races look in terms of nominations and wins. A Star Is Born still leads in terms of nominations (with a perfect track record) but ROMA and Alfonso Cuarón are pulling out ahead …

Alfonso Cuarón accepts the Critics’ Choice win for ROMA (CREDIT: STEWART COOK/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK) ROMA has won the Critics’ Choice for the Best Picture of 2018 from the Broadcast Film Critics Association. The film won four awards, the most of any film, also taking Director and Cinematography (for for Alfonso Cuarón) and Foreign Language Film The Favourite went in with the most …

A Star Is Born (Warner Bros) The Georgia Film Critics Association (GFCA) has named Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut, A Star Is Born, the best film of 2018. The film also picked up wins for Sam Elliott in Supporting Actor and “Shallow” for Best Song. The group announced their winners today and also named Alfonso Cuarón Best Director for ROMA, Ethan …