‘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 
2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (June)
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American Cinema Editors (ACE) Announce Key Dates for 2026 Awards
American Cinema Editors (ACE) has announced the key dates for the 76th Annual ACE Eddie Awards, honoring outstanding editing in film, television and documentaries. The... Read More
Interview: ‘Elio’ Directors Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafin and Producer Mary Alice Drumm Expand the Pixar Universe [VIDEO]
Three years after her first feature, Turning Red, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Domee Shi returns with Elio, a sci fi story about... Read More
Interview: Young Star Yonas Kibreab Takes Center Stage in Pixar’s ‘Elio’ [VIDEO]
At just 14, Yonas Kibreab has already built an impressive filmography that includes Better Things, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Sweet Tooth, and several animated Disney shows. Now Kibreab is the... Read More
Interview: Brad Garrett Joins the Pixar Animated Villain Universe with ‘Elio’ [VIDEO]
Long before he became everybody’s favorite TV brother, Brad Garrett got his first taste of screen stardom when he became the first grand prize winner... Read More
‘Elio’ Review: Pixar Shoots for the Stars for a Cinematic and Heartfelt Journey [A-]
It’s easy to be cynical about Pixar. After establishing themselves as an animation powerhouse right out the gate with Toy Story, followed by their incredible... Read More
‘F1 The Movie’ Review: Joseph Kosinski’s Racing Drama Hits the Apex of Expertly Designed Summer Crowd-Pleasers [A-]
Of all the types of directorial projects to get pigeonholed into based on the achievement of previous work, action movies centered around the highly technical,... Read More
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 291 – Reviewing Celine Song’s ‘Materialists’
On episode 291 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch contributor Karen Peterson to review the second feature film from... Read More
Interview: ‘The Pitt’ Breakout Star Patrick Ball Talks Medical Jargon, Balancing His Love of the Stage and More [VIDEO]
Patrick is having a Ball and a benzo on The Pitt Patrick Ball is having a moment. While currently at the Mark Taper Forum in... Read More
Interview: Carrie Coon on Laurie’s Epiphany in ‘The White Lotus’ and Traveling Back to ‘The Gilded Age’
The last time I spoke to Carrie Coon, she wasn’t allowed to speak about her then-recently announced addiction to the cast of the newest season... 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