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ROMAA Star Is Born ROMA, Alfonso Cuaron’s personal journey that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970’s has captured the minds and hearts of Las Vegas Film Critics Society, winning five awards including; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Foreign Film.   A Star is Born …

Black Panther If Beale Street Could Talk The largest grossing domestic film of the year, Marvel’s Black Panther continued it’s historic run as it shattered the record for most nominations in a single year. Director Ryan Coogler’s cultural touchstone secured 17 nominations to top Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls’ previous record of 14 from the group. Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could …

Curtis Clark to receive John A. Bonner Award The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that nine scientific and technical achievements represented by 27 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation on Saturday, February 9, 2019, at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. In addition, cinematographer Curtis Clark will receive the John …

The FavouriteVice The Favourite and Vice lead the Phoenix Critics Circle nominations with seven apiece. ROMA, First Reformed and BlacKkKlansman followed with four. Here is the full list of nominations. Winners will be announced on Saturday, December 15th, 2018. BEST PICTUREThe FavouriteFirst ReformedRomaA Star is BornVice BEST COMEDY FILMEighth GradeThe FavouriteGame NightSorry to Bother YouVice BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILMAnnihilationA Quiet …

KiKi Layne and Barry Jenkins hit the red carpet of the closing night of the 41st Mill Valley Film Festival with ‘If Beale Street Could Talk‘ October 14, 2018 I first interviewed Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins before he was an Oscar winner at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October of 2016.  We met up, again at the Mill Valley …

Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox) It’s no secret that the Screen Actors Guild, which is comprised of over 160,000 members of SAG and AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) utilizes a randomly selected group of about 2000 members – the SAG nom comm – to come up with the yearly nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards.  In …

The Marvelous Mrs. MaiselOzark The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Ozark topped the Screen Actors Guild nominations for television this morning, earning four apiece including Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series, respectively. Two-time SAG winner Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black) and first-time nominee this morning, Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians), announced the nominees …

A Star Is Born A Star Is Born led the Screen Actors Guild nominations for Motion Pictures with four nods today, Male Actor for Bradley Cooper, Female Actor for Lady Gaga, Supporting Actor for Sam Elliott and the ever-important Outstanding Cast nomination. Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black) and Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians) are announced the nominees for the 25th awards live …

Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me?Nicole Kidman in Destroyer The Women Film Critics Circle, an association of 80 women film critics and scholars from around the country and internationally, have revealed their 2018 nominations in film for movies for, by and about women.  While the group has categories for men, like Best Actor, the group primarily shines a …

Black Panther Black Panther, the highest grossing film of the year and Marvel’s top-grossing domestic film, is the African-American Film Critics Association’s Best Film of 2018.  The comic book juggernaut also earned Best Director kudos for Ryan Coogler and Best Song for “All the Stars.’ John David Washington was named Best Actor for BlacKkKlansman and the film’s writers – Charlie Wachtel …