Interview: Director David Lowery on How ‘The Red Shoes,’ Taylor Swift, and Artistic Internal Struggles Were Forged to Conjure Up ‘Mother Mary’ [AUDIO] 
George Clooney to be Honored at 51st Chaplin Award Gala by Stephen Colbert, Sam Rockwell and More 
Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) Announces 2027 Dates 
Juan Devis Announced as New President of Film Independent 
58th Directors’ Fortnight Lineup of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival 
‘Mother Mary’ Review: Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel See Red in David Lowery’s Dramaturgy of Pop Divinity [A-] 
65th Critics Week (Semaine de la Critique) Lineup of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival Announced 
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 340 – Oscars Retrospective of the 64th Academy Awards 
George Clooney to be Honored at 51st Chaplin Award Gala by Stephen Colbert, Sam Rockwell and More 
Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) Announces 2027 Dates 
2019 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (October)
The top 4 of If Beale Street Could Talk, BlacKkKlansman, Can You Ever Forgive Me? and Boy Erased hold tight this month as Widows creeps... Read More
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Oscar Podcast #68: Fall festivals post-mortem and more with guest Kristy Puchko
On the 68th AwardsWatch Oscar podcast I am joined by Kristy Puchko, Managing Editor of Pajiba and we dig into what we saw at the... Read More
Frontrunner Friday – Annapurna in flux; category changes
After last week’s drops of trailers for Vice and The Mule, this week’s Frontrunner Friday brings us a few changes that may or may not... Read More
Oscars: Shortlists to be revealed in nine categories on the same day
For the first time since 1979 we’ll have shortlists in Original Score and Original Song The Academy announced yesterday that instead of dropping shortlists in... Read More
Netflix lines up its Oscar hopefuls: ROMA, 22 July, Buster Scruggs, Kindergarten Teacher main pushes
Netflix lines up its Oscar hopefuls: ROMA, 22 July, Buster Scruggs, Kindergarten Teacher main pushes
Netflix, which broke through the Oscars last season with above-the-line Academy Award nominations for Mudbound (and also establishing two pieces of Oscar history in the... Read More
AFI Fest adds world premiere of Sandra Bullock-Sarah Paulson s ‘Bird Box’ to Gala lineup
Netflix is making sure they’re dominating the festival season ahead of awards season and that now includes the world premiere of Susanne Bier’s dystopian thriller... Read More
Trailer: Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell are ‘The Best of Enemies’
After the success of timely and true story race dramas with a flair for comedy like BlacKkKlansman the upcoming Green Book, STX Films has released... Read More
Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges face the struggle of their lives in trailer for family drama ‘Ben is Back’
“For the next 24 hours you are mine, all mine, got it?” A son struggling with drug addiction and a mother fighting to keep him... Read More
Watch Timothée Chalamet explain who he is to Steve Carell in new clip from ‘Beautiful Boy’
Amazon Studios has released a new clip for Beautiful Boy, which chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years. In... Read More
AFI Fest Sets Nicole Kidman Tribute with ‘Destroyer’ Gala
The 2018 AFI Fest will host An Evening With Nicole Kidman. The event will include a conversation with the Academy Award-winning actress (The Hours) in a... Read More
Interview: Director David Lowery on How ‘The Red Shoes,’ Taylor Swift, and Artistic Internal Struggles Were Forged to Conjure Up ‘Mother Mary’ [AUDIO] 
Juan Devis Announced as New President of Film Independent