‘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 
Tessa Thompson on Creating a Definitive Modern Take on Ibsen’s Iconic Pro-Antagonist in ‘Hedda’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
It was a little over ten years ago, the world discovered one of the best actresses we have working today in Dear White People as... Read More
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2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST CASTING (November)
The Casting Society nominations won’t be announced until December 17 but that won’t stop predictions for November for the new Best Casting Oscar category. The... Read More
Mara Brock Akil to Receive Norman Lear Achievement Award from Producers Guild
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today that Mara Brock Akil will be honored with the Norman Lear Achievement Award. She will accept the award at the 37th... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 127 – ‘Beau Travail’ (Claire Denis, 1999)
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
SFFILM 2025 Awards Night Honorees: Scott Cooper, Benicio Del Toro, Wunmi Mosaku, and Kristen Stewart
SFFILM 2025 Awards Night Honorees: Scott Cooper, Benicio Del Toro, Wunmi Mosaku, and Kristen Stewart
Today, SFFILM announced the honorees for its annual 2025 SFFILM Awards Night, recognizing four distinguished artists who continue to shape contemporary cinema: award-winning director Scott... Read More
‘Hamnet’ to Receive Vanguard Award From the Palm Springs International Film Awards
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Focus Features’ Hamnet is the recipient of the Vanguard Award. The Vanguard Award is a group... Read More
2025 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) Craft Winners: ‘Die My Love,’ ‘Pillion,’ ‘Warfare’ and More
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) today announced the winners of its ten film craft categories. The announcement was made by BIFA in partnership with... Read More
Chase Infiniti On Discovering Willa’s Strength and Becoming the Soul of ‘One Battle After Another’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
Back in September, at an early screening of One Battle After Another, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson said in the Q&A that it took him years... Read More
Regina Hall on Becoming a Watchful, Reactive Protector Yet Complicated Revolutionary in ‘One Battle After Another’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
Eight minutes and six seconds. That’s how long actress Regina Hall has on screen within Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic One Battle After Another, as she... Read More
Interview: Wunmi Mosaku on Finding the Grounded Spirituality of Annie in Ryan Coogler’s Emotionally Charged Vampire Epic ‘Sinners’
The wildly tight tonal balance of Ryan Coogler’s surprise 2025 hit Sinners, the 1930s-set Southern period drama turned survive-the-night pulpy vampire genre thriller, is not... 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