‘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 
2025 Emmys: ‘The Traitors’ vs ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ and How the Reality Competition Program Category Could Allow Voters to Make a Statement on LGBTQ+ Rights
The first six months of Trump’s presidency have already seen historic setbacks for LGBTQ+ and, specifically, trans rights. Like this past year’s Oscars, there is... Read More
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Interview: Ari Aster on America’s Need For a Reckoning and Creating a Political Rorschach Test with ‘Eddington’
Over the last decade, there are very few writer/directors creating as many unique cinematic experiences within their filmographies as Ari Aster. Known mostly more making... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (July)
While July is the month of Emmy nominations, it’s also when Venice announces its lineup (July 22) and Toronto reveals its sidebar sections and a... Read More
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 295 – Reviewing James Gunn’s ‘Superman’
On episode 295 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson and AwardsWatch contributor Griffin Schiller to review the... Read More
FINAL 2025 Emmy Nomination Predictions: Is ‘Matlock’ Poised to Break the Network Curse?
With Emmy nominations imminent, it’s time to take one last look at the possible nominees that will be announced on Tuesday, July 15th by Brenda... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 107 – ‘Basic Instinct’ (Paul Verhoeven, 1992) with Special Guest Brandon Streussnig
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
‘The Young and the Restless’ Leads 2025 Daytime Emmy Nominations
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences revealed its nominations for the 52nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which will take place this fall on... Read More
‘The Pitt,’ ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ ‘Nickel Boys’ Among 2025 Humanitas Prize Nominees
The Humanitas org has revealed nominations for this year’s Humanitas Prizes. Nominees on the TV side include The Pitt, The Last of Us, The Handmaid’s Tale and... Read More
‘Severance’ Leads 2025 Television Critics Association (TCA) Nominations
Apple TV+’s Severance leads the 41st Television Critics Association nominees announced this morning, with five nominations. Close behind were Netflix’s Adolescence, HBO Max’s The Pitt and... Read More
‘Superman’ Review: James Gunn Reinvigorates the DC Hero with a Splashy Comic-Book Verve [B]
In 1978, Richard Donner helped Warner Bros. convince audiences that a man could fly with the Christopher Reeve–starring, groundbreakingly successful Superman. Over the 45-plus years... 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