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2025 Oscars: Robert Downey Jr., Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Emma Stone to Present at 97th Academy Awards

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2025 Oscars: Robert Downey Jr., Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Emma Stone to Present at 97th Academy Awards

Erik Anderson February 5, 2025

Academy Award winners Robert Downey Jr., Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Emma Stone will present at the 97th Oscars, executive producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producer Katy Mullan... Read More

Juliette Binoche to Preside over Jury of the 78th Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

Juliette Binoche to Preside over Jury of the 78th Cannes Film Festival

Erik Anderson February 4, 2025

Exactly 40 years after her first appearance on La Croisette, award-winning French actress Juliette Binoche will preside over the Jury of the 78th Festival de... Read More

AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 273 – Oscars Retrospective of the 73rd Academy Awards

Ryan McQuade February 3, 2025

On episode 273 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch contributors Jay Ledbetter and Josh Parham to go back 25... Read More

2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Final Audience Favorite Award Winner, Dates for 2026 Festival

Erik Anderson February 2, 2025

Today the Sundance Film Festival announced its final award for the 2025 edition: Come See Me in the Good Light in the Premieres category received the Festival... Read More

‘Wicked’ Leads Online Film and Television Association (OFTA) Nominations with 19

Critics Awards (Film)

‘Wicked’ Leads Online Film and Television Association (OFTA) Nominations with 19

Erik Anderson February 2, 2025

The nominations for the 29th Annual OFTA Film awards were announced today and Wicked was the top nominee this year with 19 nominations. Fellow Best Picture... Read More

45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards: ‘The Brutalist’ Named Film of the Year, ‘Nickel Boys,’ ‘A Real Pain’ Take Two Wins

Critics Awards (Film)

45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards: ‘The Brutalist’ Named Film of the Year, ‘Nickel Boys,’ ‘A Real Pain’ Take Two Wins

Erik Anderson February 2, 2025

The 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards were held today where Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist triumphed as the group’s Film of the Year, it’s only... Read More

‘Predators’ Review: Engrossing Examination at How the Rise of True Crime Shows Revealed its Complicity [A] – Sundance Film Festival

Alejandra Martinez February 1, 2025

If the phrase, “Hello, I’m Chris Hansen,” means anything to you, you are probably familiar with its source: To Catch A Predator. For the unfamiliar,... Read More

‘The Dating Game’ Review: Violet Du Feng’s Relationship Doc Struggles with the Balance of Political and Personal [C] – Sundance Film Festival

Alejandra Martinez February 1, 2025

In The Dating Game, the latest documentary from Violet Du Feng (Hidden Letters, Nanking) the complications of modern-day romance are framed by a specific context:... Read More

Sundance 2025 Reviews: ‘Omaha,’ ‘Plainclothes,’ ‘Sorry, Baby,’ ‘Twinless’

Erik Anderson January 31, 2025

In my first dispatch for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, I look at films from mostly first time feature directors dealing with the fallout of... Read More

‘Bunnylovr’ Review: Not Even the Songs of Charli XCX Can Save This Aimless Rabbit’s Tale [C] – Sundance Film Festival

Reuben Baron January 31, 2025

When her most insistent client John (Austin Amelio, AMC’s The Walking Dead) asks what sort of things she likes to do, Bunnylovr’s cam girl protagonist... Read More

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