Final Additions to South by Southwest Film & TV Festival (SXSW), Including ‘Love Language,’ ‘Cookie Queens’ and ‘The Fox’ 
Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Unveils Recipients for Inaugural Jeffrey S. Wexler Award for Advancement in Sound Technology 
41st Spirit Awards Winner Predictions: In One of the Least Oscary Years in a Decade, it’s Anyone’s Game 
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol on the Unlikely, Legally-Challenged Journey of Getting ‘Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie’ to the Big Screen [VIDEO INTERVIEW] 
Oscar-Nominated Director Sam Davis on Creating ‘The Singers,’ Finding His Stars, and His Own Path to Filmmaking [VIDEO INTERVIEW] 
‘Kokuho’ Review: The Vibrant World of Kabuki is Spectacularly Recreated in Lee Sang-il’s Resilient Character Study [B+] 
‘Crime 101’ Review: Chris Hemsworth Brings the Heat in Michael Man-Influenced Actioner as Good as its Title is Bad [B+] 
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 332 – Oscars Retrospective of the 74th Academy Awards 
Final Additions to South by Southwest Film & TV Festival (SXSW), Including ‘Love Language,’ ‘Cookie Queens’ and ‘The Fox’ 
SXSW Adds 50+ Titles to 2026 Festival Slate Including ‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Two Thrillers with Adam Scott 
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: The Calm Before the Storm (2/6/26) 
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: We Need to Talk About ‘Marty’ 
Frontrunner Friday: First Take on 2026 Oscar Winner Predictions 
2023 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SONG (December)
We have the official Oscar eligibility list of 82 original songs and nominations from Critics Choice, Golden Globes and the winners from Hollywood Music in... Read More
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2022 Boston Online Film Critics Association awards: ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ wins 4
The Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA) has voted and chosen Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin as the best film of 2022, as well... Read More
Phoenix Critics Circle winners: ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ is Best Picture, Keke Palmer named Best Supporting Actress for ‘Nope’
Martin McDonaugh’s The Banshees of Inisherin was named Best Picture by the Phoenix Critics Circle where the director also took the group’s screenplay prize. Everything... Read More
2022 Online Association of Female Film Critics nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ leads with 11
The Online Association of Female Film Critics has announced their nominations for the best in film for 2022, where Everything Everywhere All At Once led... Read More
2023 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING (December)
Here are my 2023 Oscar predictions in Film Editing for December. Green – moves up ↑ Red – moves down ↓ Blue – new entry... Read More
‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ cinematographer Ben Davis on capturing loneliness and isolation on Ireland’s Aran Islands
The BAFTA-nominated lenser reveals “extraordinary” moment between Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan as his favorite scene Ireland’s Aran Islands have a vast sense of bleakness... Read More
Temi Ojo and Mark Ingber receive fellowships from SFFILM and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
$70,000 in fellowships have been awarded to filmmakers Temi Ojo and Mark Ingber for uplifting science in narrative films SFFILM, in partnership with the Alfred... Read More
Interview: Director Silas Howard on telling queer stories, breaking the fourth wall and capturing teen spirit in ‘Darby and the Dead’
The 21st century has proven to be a golden age of teen comedies: from 2004’s Mean Girls (that now has a cult-like following) to 2019’s... Read More
Interview: Writer/director J.D. Dillard on harnessing the action and the emotion of ‘Devotion’
Devotion recounts the true story of Jesse Brown, the first African-American pilot to complete the US Navy’s flight training program and the first African-American naval... Read More
‘Babylon’ review: Here’s to the fools who dream; Damien Chazelle’s epitaph for cinema is the evil b-side to ‘La La Land’
When Mia begrudgingly attends a party at the start of Damien Chazelle’s magical, much-discussed film La La Land, she stares at her reflection in the... Read More
Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Unveils Recipients for Inaugural Jeffrey S. Wexler Award for Advancement in Sound Technology 
41st Spirit Awards Winner Predictions: In One of the Least Oscary Years in a Decade, it’s Anyone’s Game 
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol on the Unlikely, Legally-Challenged Journey of Getting ‘Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie’ to the Big Screen [VIDEO INTERVIEW]