This is where Dune should be able to clean up quite easily, especially in visual effects. As the only Best Picture nominee and with the... Read More
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Costume Design and Production often have a lot of crossover nominations and this year is no different as we have 3/5 with Dune, Nightmare Alley... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED SHORT, DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT, LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM (February)
2022 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED SHORT, DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT, LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM (February)
Here are my ranked 2022 Oscar winner predictions in Animated Short, Documentary Short Subject and Live-Action Short for February. ANIMATED SHORT FILM 1. Robin Robin (Netflix) –... Read More
This year’s Spirit Awards promises plenty of laughs as Film Independent announced today that comedy power couple Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman will host the 2022... Read More
Power stays on, and respect continues to be the only currency here. “Here” is a reference to the city of Chicago in Power Book IV:... Read More
The Oscar nominations are here, leaving behind critics’ awards season (mostly) and on we press with BAFTA and the guilds to really start shaping the... Read More
The Guild of Music Supervisors have revealed the nominees for its 12th annual awards, celebrating outstanding achievement in the craft of Music Supervision for film,... Read More
Don’t call it a breakthrough, Kodi Smit-McPhee’s been here for years. Kodi Smit-McPhee may have just earned his first Oscar nomination at the young age... Read More
It’s been 50 years since Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant premiered at Berlinale and to mark this anniversary, prolific French... Read More
Film Independent has named the winners of three unrestricted $25,000 Spirit Awards cash grants – $75,000 total. The three Grant recipients from 2021, Ekwa Msangi,... Read More

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