76th American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Awards: ‘Sinners,’ ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘The Pitt’ Take Top Wins 
Interview: Stellan Skarsgård on Navigating the Ever-Changing Film Industry and the Cathartic Ending of ‘Sentimental Value’ 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 141 – ’49th Parallel aka The Invaders’ (Powell and Pressburger, 1942) 
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: The Last Battle Before the War is Won (2/27/26) 
‘Sinners’ Leads 57th NAACP Image Awards with 9 Going Into Final Night 
Producers Guild (PGA) and Screen Actors Actors Guild (SAG) Awards Television Predictions: Stop Me If You Think That You’ve Heard This One Before 
41st Casting Society Artios Awards (CSA): ‘Sinners,’ ‘Jay Kelly,’ ‘The Pitt,’ ‘The Studio’ and More 
César Awards: ‘The Ties That Bind Us’ Wins Best Film; Richard Linklater Becomes Second American-born Filmmaker to Win Best Director 
A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films 
A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films 
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: The Last Battle Before the War is Won (2/27/26) 
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: The Pre-BAFTA Conclave Begins, Will a New Frontrunner Be Anointed? (2/20/26) 
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Paul Thomas Anderson Inches Closer (2/13/26) 
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: The Calm Before the Storm (2/6/26) 
77th Primetime Emmy Awards: ‘The Pitt,’ ‘The Studio,’ ‘Adolescence’ Take Top Wins
Freshman shows made a big splash at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards where HBO Max’s The Pitt and AppleTV+’s The Studio took the top wins... Read More
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‘Poetic License’ Review: Maude Apatow’s Delightful Directorial Debut is a New Coming-of-Age Classic [B+] TIFF
Maude Apatow is no stranger to cross-generational coming-of-age stories. Growing up, she had minor roles in her father Judd Apatow’s comedic films (The 40-Year-Old Virgin,... Read More
‘Hamnet’ Wins 50th Toronto Film Festival Audience Award; ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ are Runners-Up
Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet has won the TIFF People’s Choice Award of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, making her the first director to win the... Read More
‘Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts)’ Review: A Narratively Ambitious Genre-Bending Tale of Familial Trauma [B] TIFF
After their extraordinary sophomore feature Wildhood, Bretten Hannem crafts another demonstration of being in touch with one’s own Indigenous heritage. One that is even more... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 116 – ‘Tokyo Story’ (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953)
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
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 306 – Breaking Down the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival
On episode 306 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello to break down the films, awards... Read More
‘Christy’ Review: Sydney Sweeney’s Boxer Biopic Has Familiar Filmmaking Genes but a Captivating Central Story of Perseverance [B] TIFF
It’s easy to look at Christy, the new boxing biopic from journeyman director David Michôd, and expect the most formulaic story: a scrappy fighter from... Read More
Oliver Hermanus Talks About the Journey of ‘The History of Sound’ and Working with Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
The history of The History of Sound began five years ago, at the beginning of COVID lockdowns in March 2020. Right at that point, Mescal... Read More
‘Dust Bunny’ Review: Bryan Fuller’s Hybrid Fantasy-Action-Horror Fable Has an Endearingly Childlike Sense of Enchantment [B] TIFF
There’s not much talking at the beginning of Dust Bunny. The opening 15 minutes of the long-awaited feature-length film from cult favorite TV writer Bryan... Read More
‘Scarlet’ Review: Mana Ashida’s Vocal Performance Highlights Mamoru Hosoda’s Animated Fantasy [B] TIFF
Minutes into Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet, we are thrust into a world that thematically plays with elements of his past works – films like Digimon, Summer... Read More
76th American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Awards: ‘Sinners,’ ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘The Pitt’ Take Top Wins 
Interview: Stellan Skarsgård on Navigating the Ever-Changing Film Industry and the Cathartic Ending of ‘Sentimental Value’ 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 141 – ’49th Parallel aka The Invaders’ (Powell and Pressburger, 1942)