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2025 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (August)

Erik Anderson August 22, 2024

Category placement can be tricky, especially without confirmations and there are a few contenders who might be straddling the line a bit. The Venice and... Read More

Director Watch Podcast Ep. 60 – ‘Days of Heaven’ (Terrence Malick, 1978)

Ryan McQuade August 22, 2024

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

‘Emilia Pérez’ to Receive MVFF Ensemble Spotlight Award at 47th Mill Valley Film Festival

Erik Anderson August 22, 2024

The cast of Emilia Pérez – Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz – will receive the MVFF Ensemble Spotlight Award at... Read More

TIFF 2024 Announces Juries and Awards Categories, Return of Canadian Discovery Award

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)

TIFF 2024 Announces Juries and Awards Categories, Return of Canadian Discovery Award

Erik Anderson August 22, 2024

All film awards to be announced at Festival close on September 15 TIFF has announced its 2024 award categories, jury members, and prizes to celebrate... Read More

NYFF62 Revivals Section Includes Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Model,’ Marva Nabili’s ‘The Sealed Soil,’ Clive Barker’s ‘Hellraiser’

New York Film Festival (NYFF)

NYFF62 Revivals Section Includes Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Model,’ Marva Nabili’s ‘The Sealed Soil,’ Clive Barker’s ‘Hellraiser’

Erik Anderson August 22, 2024

World premieres of restorations include Ardak Amirkulov’s The Fall of Otrar, Zeinabu irene Davis’s Compensation, Raymond Depardon’s Reporters, John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s Northern Lights, and Robina Rose’s Nightshift Film... Read More

Interview: Tadanobu Asano on Bringing Depth to Kashigi Yabushige in FX’s ‘Shōgun’ and His First Emmy Nomination

Interviews (TV)

Interview: Tadanobu Asano on Bringing Depth to Kashigi Yabushige in FX’s ‘Shōgun’ and His First Emmy Nomination

Landon Johnson August 21, 2024

The FX series Shōgun has emerged as a powerhouse in this year’s Emmy race, earning a remarkable 25 nominations, including Outstanding Limited Series. The show... Read More

Blood is a Chord in First Trailer for Malcom Washington’s ‘The Piano Lesson’

Trailers

Blood is a Chord in First Trailer for Malcom Washington’s ‘The Piano Lesson’

Erik Anderson August 21, 2024

Netflix today released the first trailer for Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson, the latest of August Wilson’s award-winning plays to be brought to the screen... Read More

Interview: With ‘Fallout,’ Walton Goggins is Getting a Well-Earned, Long Overdue Moment and Having a Ghoulishly Good Time With It [VIDEO]

Interviews (TV)

Interview: With ‘Fallout,’ Walton Goggins is Getting a Well-Earned, Long Overdue Moment and Having a Ghoulishly Good Time With It [VIDEO]

Griffin Schiller August 20, 2024

Goggins has been electrifying the big and small screen alike for three decades, particularly in his deeply committed inhabitations of complicated, conflicted, and occasionally tragic... Read More

Interview: ‘Sing Sing’ Director Greg Kwedar Talks About the Power of Colman Domingo and Protecting His Formerly Incarcerated Cast

Interviews (Film)

Interview: ‘Sing Sing’ Director Greg Kwedar Talks About the Power of Colman Domingo and Protecting His Formerly Incarcerated Cast

Connor Lightbody August 20, 2024

There are not many films this year that have been as critically acclaimed as the Greg Kwedar-directed Sing Sing. The film premiered to rapturous acclaim... Read More

NEON Snaps Up U.S. Rights to Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk’s Horror Comedy ‘Hell of a Summer’

Erik Anderson August 20, 2024

Award-winning studio NEON announced today that it has picked up the U.S. rights to Hell of a Summer from Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things, It, Ghostbusters: Afterlife) and Billy Bryk... Read More

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