‘Wishful Thinking,’ ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Among 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Juried and Audience Award Winners 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More 
Trailer Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘Dune: Part Three,’ Disclosure Day,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine’ 
‘Anima’ Review: Sydney Chandler and Takehiro Hira Ground Brian Tetsuro Ivie’s Low-Fi Sci-Fi Road Movie [B+] SXSW 
Six Join 51st Residence of the Festival de Cannes, including Harry Lighton, Mansi Maheshwari, Oliver McGoldrick 
‘Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat’ Review: The Emmy-Nominated Hit Returns as an Hilarious Workplace Comedy [B+] 
‘The Comeback’ Season 3 Review: Cherish is the Word I Use to Describe Lisa Kudrow [A-] 
Trailer Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘Dune: Part Three,’ Disclosure Day,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine’ 
Six Join 51st Residence of the Festival de Cannes, including Harry Lighton, Mansi Maheshwari, Oliver McGoldrick 
Predictions for 2024 National Board of Review (NBR) and AFI’s Top 10
Both the National Board of Review (NBR) and AFI reveal their top 10 films of the year and there is often significant crossover between the... Read More
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Interview: Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin on Finding Freedom, Family and Hope in ‘Sing Sing’
It took time for Sing Sing to come to life but that’s something the stars of the film know a little something about; time and... Read More
2024 New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC): ‘The Brutalist’ Wins Best Film, Carol Kane Surprises in Supporting Actress
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), the oldest film critics group in the U.S., have named Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist the best film of 2024.... Read More
2024 Gotham Awards: ‘A Different Man’ Takes Best Feature; Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin, ‘Nickel Boys’ Win Big
Awards season has begun. The 2024 Gotham Awards were held tonight at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, where a shocking winner was crowned... Read More
‘Nosferatu’ Review: Lily-Rose Depp Gives a Ferocious Performance as Robert Eggers Creates a Wicked, Wintry Wonderland of Sex, Desire and Death [A]
The dreamlike twinkling of a music box trills as if to begin a fairy tale. This lullaby-like tune has an unsettling feeling, though, and instead... Read More
2025 Golden Globes: Ted Danson Named Carol Burnett Award Honoree
Today, the Golden Globes announced that 13-time Golden Globe nominee and three-time winner Ted Danson has been named the Carol Burnett Award honoree for 2025. Danson earned Golden Globes... Read More
Predictions for the 2024 Gotham Awards and New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC)
The Gotham Awards are tonight, followed by the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) tomorrow. Can we skip to the good part? Here are my... Read More
Interview: Yura Borisov is the Heart and Soul of ‘Anora’
Gentle giant. Strong but silent type. We’ve seen this description attributed to brutish men in films and in the real world for decades; a symbol... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 73 – Three Colours: White (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
Frontrunner (Black) Friday Oscar Predictions: The Post-Thanksgiving Malaise Makes Way for the Beginning of Awards Season
It’s Black Friday. It’s Frontrunner Friday. It’s the combination Frontrunner Black Friday Oscar predictions. If you’re not in retail or food service, most of the... Read More
‘Wishful Thinking,’ ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Among 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Juried and Audience Award Winners 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More