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Honor Swinton Byrne in The Souvenir (A24, photo: YouTube) The first trailer and poster for Joanna Hogg’s Sundance-winning feature The Souvenir is here and is a gorgeously intoxicating morsel in the vein of Phantom Thread. The film is the first of a two-part series with part two already in pre-production. Official synopsis from A24: A shy but ambitious film student …

The stage design for the 91st Oscars by David Korins With just six days until the 91st Academy Awards, the dust is still settling on the most controversial and mistake-riddled Oscar season in memory. With over 500 actors, directors and filmmakers stepping up after the #PresentAll24 campaign caught fire, the Academy relented and will now present all 24 Oscar categories …

Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Sony) Bohemian Rhapsody and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse each took home two top MPSE Golden Reel Awards tonight, further boosting their guild totals for the season. Bohemian Rhapsody won the Feature Film categories of Dialogue/ADR and Musical while Spider-Man won Animated and Music Underscore for a Feature Film. A Quiet Place won …

Eighth Grade (A24)Can You Ever Forgive Me (Fox Searchlight) Just when you thought this awards season couldn’t get any stranger, the Writer Guild of America did something that’s never happened in the WGA history (since it established the two categories in 1984); they gave their top feature film prizes, Adapted Screenplay and Original Screenplay to two films not in the …

Vice (Annapurna)Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features) A pair of Oscar nominees triumphed at the 6th annual Makeup and Hair Stylists Guild Awards (MUAH) last night as Vice and Mary Queen of Scots both took home wins. Vice won both awards it was up for: Best Period and/or Character Makeup and Best Special Makeup Effects, largely for Christian Bale’s extensive …

The musical biopic of rock band queen and its frontman Freddie Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody, the death defying documentary Free Solo and the stop-motion Isle of Dogs were the big winners from last night’s 55th Cinema Audio Society awards, the guild which honors the best in sound mixing for film, animation and television. This win gives Bohemian Rhapsody another edge in …

Betsy West and Julie Cohen (Photo by Patrick Lewis/Starpix/REX/Shutterstock) At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed abreathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But without adefinitive Ginsburg biography, the unique personal journey of this diminutive, quietwarrior’s rise to the nation’s highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of …

After a truly wild week of social media uproar and industry backlash from actors, directors and editors, cinematographers and makeup & hairstylists guilds, the Academy and Oscars producers have relented. All 24 categories will be presented in the live Oscars broadcast. Industry Open Letter to Academy Reaches 550+ This decision breaks from Academy protocol that would have required the 54-member …

Mary Zophres, costume designer of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (right) Costume designer Mary Zophres had created some of the most iconic looks in modern movie history. From The Dude’s robe and sweater in The Big Lebowski to the simple but strikingly effective dresses in La La Land (for which she won a Costume Designers Guild award earned one of …

A Star Is Born (Warner Bros) The 9th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards announced their winner on Wednesday evening in a ceremony that took place at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles.    A Star Is Born was a double winner, taking the awards for best music supervision for a film budgeted over $25 million, and for …