News

Drake ended 2018 with the #1 song of the year with “God’s Plan” and the #2 album with Scorpion. In all, he landed eight songs in the year-end Hot 100 and an incredible SIX albums on the chart’s 200 best sellers of the year.  Taylor Swift’s reputation was the #1 album of the year and her 1989 showed up at …

The Favourite (Fox Searchlight) The Seattle Film Critics Society has announced nominations for the 2018 Seattle Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2018. Leading the field with 11 nominations is Yorgos Lanthimos’ spellbinding comedy, The Favourite, earning nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Olivia Colman), and two Best Actress in a Supporting …

The Americans, FXThe Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (FX)Escape at Dannemora (Showtime) Finding room for freshman series and final seasons alike, the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA), the TV wing of the Critics’ Choice Awards, first seasons of Amazon’s Homecoming (3 nominations), BBCAmerica’s Killing Eve (3), Netflix’s My Brilliant Friend (1), FX’s Pose (2) and HBO’s Succession (2) will compete in Best Drama Series alongside AMC’s Better Call …

The Favourite (Fox Searchlight) No female-directed films in Best Picture, no women in Best Director The political period comedy The Favourite was definitely the favourite of the Broadcast Film Critics Association as the film earned a field-best 14 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards nominations this morning including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Ensemble and three individual acting noms for Olivia Colman, …

Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira in Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA (image courtesy of Netflix) The San Francisco Film Critics Circle have chosen ROMA as the best film of 2018, Spike Lee as Best Director for BlacKkKlansman, Melissa McCarthy as Best Actress for Can You Ever Forgive Me? and Michael B. Jordan as Best Supporting Actor for Black Panther.  The Favourite …

The FavouriteA Star Is BornVice The St. Louis Film Critics Associations nominations for 2018 were led by The Favourite, A Star Is Born and Vice with eight apiece although The Favourite missed out on a Best Film nomination that would have put it ahead of the pack. Here is the full list of nominations. Winners will be announced on December …

ROMA ROMA locked in another Best Picture win, this time with the Toronto Film Critics Association. The film also earned Alfonso Cuarón another Best Director win.  Lead acting wins went to Ethan Hawke (First Reformed) and Olivia Colman (The Favourite). Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) continued her domination of supporting actress and Steven Yeun (Burning) earned his first …

Debra Granik (Leave No Trace) After a heated battle, Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA is the best film of 2018, according to the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA). Lee-Chang Dong’s Burning was the group’s runner-up and in fact, three of the top five contender for Best Picture were foreign language films. Burning then tied with Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters as Best Foreign …

Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap (Hulu) Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap bested all competition at the 34th Independent Documentary Association’s awards last night, winning three prizes: Best Feature, Editing and Emerging Filmmaker for Liu. The coming of age skateboarding doc won a Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and is currently streaming …

ROMA ROMA was the big winner with the Chicago Film Critics Association tonight, taking Best Picture, Director, Editing, Cinematography and Foreign Film.  Ethan Hawke (First Reformed) and Toni Collette (Hereditary) won Best Actor and Actress while Olivia Colman earned a Supporting Actress win for The Favourite despite being pushed lead elsewhere.  Check here for their list of nominees. Full list …