AwardsWatch - Film Festivals

2018 Tribeca Lineup: ‘Disobedience,’ Sundance winner ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ set for fest

Erik Anderson March 7, 2018

The 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, which runs April 18-29, will dazzle New York festival goers next month with new films from Drake Doremus, Liz Garbus... Read More

San Francisco Film Festival Announces Golden Gate Award Narrative Feature Competition

Erik Anderson March 6, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] San Francisco, CA — SFFILM today announced the films in competition for the Golden Gate Awards (GGAs), which will distribute nearly $40,000 in total prizes... Read More

Berlin Film Festival Wrap-up: Our Top 10 Favorite Films

Erik Anderson February 27, 2018

Over the past 12 days, we’ve watched over 25 films at the Berlin Film Festival, a wonderful opportunity to enjoy some of the most daring,... Read More

2018 Berlin Film Festival Winners: ‘Touch Me Not,’ ‘Isle of Dogs,’ ‘The Heiresses’ and more

Erik Anderson February 24, 2018

Touch Me Not (above), the debut film Romanian director Adina Pintille and about the graphic sexual awakening of a 50-something woman, won the Berlin International Film... Read More

Berlin Film Festival: The Critics Grid Scores So Far – Which Films are the Best Reviewed So Far?

Erik Anderson February 18, 2018

With a third of the Berlinale Competition already behind us, here’s where the competition stands on the Screen International Jury Grid: Isle of Dogs leads... Read More

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Isle of Dogs’

Erik Anderson February 15, 2018

Synopsis: In Japan, after a wave of dog-flu hits the city’s dogs, they are all exiled to trash island. Meanwhile, one of the dog’s owners... Read More

‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post,’ ‘The Kindergarten Teacher’ win 2018 Sundance Film Festival Awards

Erik Anderson January 27, 2018

The future is female for the 2018 Sundance Film winners as the top top awards went to women film makers. Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of... Read More

2017 AFI FEST Special Preview: 3 Foreign Language Film Underdogs You Shouldn’t Miss

Erik Anderson November 8, 2017

The 2017 AFI FEST kicks off tomorrow and promises a wide range of American and international films with fascinating stories, characters and themes. And since... Read More

Mudbound, Call Me By Your Name, All the Money in the World set for AFI Fest 2017

Erik Anderson October 24, 2017

AFI Fest 2017 will be the world premiere of Ridley Scott’s second film this year, the Getty-kidnapping drama All the Money in the World starring... Read More

MUDBOUND Wins 2017 Mill Valley Film Festival Audience Award

Erik Anderson October 16, 2017

Dee Rees’s post-World War II drama Mudbound has won the Overall Audience Award at the 40th Mill Valley Film Festival. The festival has Audience Favorite... Read More

Film Festivals

2018 Tribeca Lineup: ‘Disobedience,’ Sundance winner ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ set for fest

San Francisco Film Festival Announces Golden Gate Award Narrative Feature Competition

Berlin Film Festival Wrap-up: Our Top 10 Favorite Films

2018 Berlin Film Festival Winners: ‘Touch Me Not,’ ‘Isle of Dogs,’ ‘The Heiresses’ and more

Berlin Film Festival: The Critics Grid Scores So Far – Which Films are the Best Reviewed So Far?

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Isle of Dogs’

‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post,’ ‘The Kindergarten Teacher’ win 2018 Sundance Film Festival Awards

2017 AFI FEST Special Preview: 3 Foreign Language Film Underdogs You Shouldn’t Miss

Mudbound, Call Me By Your Name, All the Money in the World set for AFI Fest 2017

MUDBOUND Wins 2017 Mill Valley Film Festival Audience Award

2026 True/False Film Fest Dispatch #1: ‘The Oldest Person in the World,’ ‘Broken English’

FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST CASTING

FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING

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Film Festivals

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’

SXSW Adds 50+ Titles to 2026 Festival Slate Including ‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Two Thrillers with Adam Scott

Awards

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

4th Children’s & Family Emmys: ‘Sesame Street,’ ‘Heartstopper,’ ‘Descendants: The Rise of Red’ Among Top Winners

32nd SAG Actor Awards: ‘Sinners,’ ‘The Pitt,’ ‘ The Studio’ Take Top Honors

30th Art Directors Guild (ADG) Awards: ‘Frankenstein,’ One Battle After Another,’ ‘Severance’ and More

16th Guild of Music Supervisors (GMS) Awards: ‘Sinners,’ ‘Marty Supreme,’ ‘One Battle After Another’

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)