AwardsWatch

NEON picks up Cannes Directors’ Fortnight winner ‘A Chiara’

Erik Anderson July 18, 2021

The Oscar-winning studio is behind this year’s Cannes Palme winner Titane, Jury Prize winner Memoria and Best Actress winner Renate Reinsve from The Worst Person... Read More

Cannes 2021 Winners: Ties, history and a huge Spike Lee flub highlight Closing Ceremony

Erik Anderson July 17, 2021

The winners of the 74th Cannes Film Festival were revealed tonight at the Closing Ceremony of the festival, which found a split jury, ties for... Read More

Interview: Liz Garbus recounts how she found out about her Emmy nomination for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

Dewey Singleton July 17, 2021

Liz Garbus’s experience finding out she was nominated is a unique one for sure. In the span of a few moments, the exceptionally talented director... Read More

‘In Front of Your Face’ review: A competent but isolating drama about dread from Hong Sang-soo [Cannes Review]

Adam Solomons July 17, 2021

It doesn’t become clear what In Front of Your Face is really about till pretty far in, though its sheer emotional refinement means we can... Read More

20th New York Asian Film Festival announces opening film, additional titles, Ann Hui as Variety Lifetime Achievement Award recipient

Erik Anderson July 16, 2021

The New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center have unveiled further highlights of the 2021 New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), including... Read More

See ya later, perks: HFPA bans members from accepting gifts, trips and more from studios, networks

Erik Anderson July 16, 2021

The ever under siege Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who put on the annual Golden Globe Awards, announced in a statement today that one of their... Read More

‘Memoria’ review: Tilda Swinton investigates an eerie mystery in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s slow-burning epic [Cannes Review]

Iana Murray July 16, 2021

It starts with a bang. Not the metaphorical, head-first into action kind of bang — not that you would ever expect that from an Apichatpong... Read More

NEON picks up U.S. rights to Joachim Trier’s Cannes hit ‘The Worst Person in the World’

Erik Anderson July 16, 2021

NEON announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to The Worst Person in The World from Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier (Reprise, Oslo, August 31st, Thelma). The film marks... Read More

‘Blue Bayou’ review: Justin Chon’s stunning portrait of immigration and what it means to be an “American” [Cannes Review]

Caroline Tsai July 15, 2021

What does it mean to be an American? The question reverberates throughout every frame of Blue Bayou, the new film from Ms. Purple and Gook... Read More

Sony Pictures Classics acquires rights to Juho Kuosmanen’s Cannes competition title ‘Compartment No.6’

Erik Anderson July 15, 2021

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired rights from Totem Films in North America, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East to Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No.6, produced by Jussi Rantamäki and... Read More

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