AwardsWatch - aaron sorkin

16th Final Draft Award honorees: Aaron Sorkin, Steve McQueen, Sofia Coppola, Ramy Youssef and Radha Blank

Erik Anderson November 18, 2020

Final Draft, a Cast & Crew Company, now in its 30th year as the industry standard for screenwriting software, today announced the honorees for the 16th Annual Final Draft Awards. The... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (October)

Erik Anderson October 23, 2020

Two big changes in October’s top 10 for Best Director with Denis Villeneuve’s Dune falling off for a lat 2021 bow and the decision by... Read More

Chloé Zhao, Aaron Sorkin announced as first SFFILM Awards Night honorees

Erik Anderson October 20, 2020

SFFILM Awards Night has quickly become one of the top stops of an ever-growing awards season and this year is no different. The 2020 edition... Read More

Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) tributes and spotlights: Viola Davis, Sophia Loren, Delroy Lindo, Regina King and more

Erik Anderson October 5, 2020

The 43rd Annual Mill Valley Film Festival and DocLands Documentary Film Festival (previously postponed) to Run in Tandem October 8-18 Mark Fishkin, Founder/ Director of the... Read More

Middleburg Film Festival to honor Chloé Zhao, George C. Wolfe, the cast of ‘Minari’ and more

Erik Anderson October 5, 2020

Festival to also honor composer Kris Bowers, Academy Award-winning writer/director Aaron Sorkin; Academy Award-winning actress Sophia Loren to Receive Legacy Tribute Award The Middleburg Film... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (September)

Erik Anderson October 2, 2020

Florian Zeller (The Father) and George C. Rolfe (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) move up into the top 10 this month as Ron Howard (Hillbilly Elegy)... Read More

Retrospective: “I Have No Intentions of Being Friends with You”- A Look Back at ‘The Social Network’

Ryan McQuade October 1, 2020

“I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here.” This statement was spoken by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2018 in... Read More

43rd Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) full lineup announced; tributes to Viola Davis, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren, Kate Winslet

Erik Anderson September 26, 2020

Spotlight Program and Conversations include Delroy Lindo, Clare Dunne and Aaron Sorkin Mark Fishkin, Founder/Executive Director of the California Film Institute and Zoë Elton, MVFF... Read More

Film Review: ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ favors sensationalism over social impact

Rubin Safaya September 24, 2020

“The Democratic Convention is about to begin in a police state.” – Walter Cronkite 1968 was a year of global social upheaval. Mass student protest erupted... Read More

The blistering trailer for ‘Trial of the Chicago 7’ puts free speech on the line

Erik Anderson September 13, 2020

“The whole world is watching!” Today Netflix dropped the trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, detailing the initial peaceful protest at... Read More