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The new organization, only in its second year, dropped their nominations today with The Favourite and Black Panther topping list with ten each, while A Star is Born earns nine, and BlacKkKlansman earns eight. Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade scored six nominations. Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk was also well-received by the members of the LAOFCS as the film scored a total of five nominations including Best Supporting Actress for critics’ …

Incredibles 2 (Pixar)Ralph Breaks the Internet (Disney)Mary Poppins Returns (Disney) Incredibles 2 and Ralph Breaks the Internet stormed the Annie Awards nominations today with 11 and 10 apiece, respectively. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Early Man came in with 8 and 7, respectively, and all were nominated in the top category of Best Animated Feature alongside Isle of Dogs. The …

Elsie Fisher and Josh Hamilton in Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade The Detroit Film Critics went Gucci for Eighth Grade, naming it the best film of 2018, as well as Supporting Actor win for Josh Hamilton and Best Breakthrough for writer/director Bo Burnham. The film’s star, Elsie Fisher, lost out to Hereditary‘s Toni Collette. Vice also found love from the group, …

Drop Dead Red Redemption: The Hollywood Reporter’s Actress Roundtable The actress roundtables for awards season from The Hollywood Reporter are always the most interesting, most informative and most engaging and this year is no different.  With female-led films and rich supporting characters, 2018 has been a superb year for women in film and this year’s roundtable has gathered some of …

The FavouriteAmerican AnimalsYou Were Never Really Here The British Independent Film Awards has chosen The Favourite as the Best British Independent Film of 2018, one of its 10 record-setting wins today.  Among those wins, Olivia Colman continued her perfect record at the BIFAs, taking home Best Actress to make it four wins from four nominations from the group.  Bart Layton’s American Animals also …

A Star Is Born, If Beale Street Could Talk, ROMA also score top mentions The political and sexual dramedy The Favourite earned 10 nominations from the Washington DC Film Critics Association (WAFCA) today, including Best Film, Best Director for Yorgos Lanthimos for all three of the film’s actresses: Olivia Colman in lead and Emma Stone & Rachel Weisz in supporting …

Song Appears in the Upcoming Film A PRIVATE WAR, Starring Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Tom Hollander and Stanley Tucci Today Annie Lennox is debuting the music video for her single “Requiem For A Private War,” her first new song in eight years. The song was written for the film A Private War, which stars Rosamund Pike as the late, iconic …

Twitter has spoken: Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Avengers, Tiffany Haddish & Maya Rudolph, and John Mulaney & Nick Kroll should be considered as Oscar hosts Yesterday I was thinking about how strange it was that it was almost December and we still had no announcement of an Oscars host. Last year we knew it was Jimmy Kimmel way back in May …

Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade led the 2018 Detroit Film Critics Society nominations with eight mentions this morning, including Best Film, Director and Actress, with A Star Is Born following closely with six.  The Favourite and Vice came in with five nominations apiece. Although neither got into Best Film, Vice‘s Adam McKay made the Best Director list.  Single nomination oddities included …

Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA wins big at NYFCC The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) has chosen ROMA as the best film of 2018 with Alfonso Cuarón also taking the prizes for Best Director and Best Cinematography.   For his performance of a deeply troubled priest being torn apart by his past and the overwhelming dread of the world, Ethan Hawke (First …