Youth, The Lobster and 45 Years Lead 2015 European Film Award Nominations
Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster lead the nominations for the European Film Awards today with 5 mentions including European Film, European Director and European Actor for... Read More
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2015 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) Nominations: The Lobster Leads with 7
The British Independent Film Awards (the U.K.’s version of the The Independent Spirit Awards in the U.S.) have announced their nominees and Cannes entry... Read More
2016 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS – Lawrence, Blanchett, Larson and Ronan locking it up
It seems like it happens every year but we’re not even to November yet and Best Actress is a category that is almost sewn up.... Read More
MVFF38 Review: ’45 Years’
Is there anything more insidious than a secret? Kate and Geoff Mercer (Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay) lead a quiet and charmingly simple life... Read More
Forum Oscar Poll Results – September 2015: Carol, Joy, Steve Jobs Rise
The votes for the September Forum Oscar Polls are in and with it some dramatic results. August’s #1 film in Best Picture, The Danish Girl... Read More
When Oscar Bait Fails: How Film Festival Response Makes or Breaks a Film
What has happened to this Oscar season? The Toronto International Film Festival, currently underway, is normally the jumping off point, or in some cases... Read More
42nd Telluride Film Festival Brings Steve Jobs, Beasts of No Nation, Carol, Suffragette
Part of the thrill of the Telluride Film Festival is that the quick, four-day fest only announces its lineup the day before the festival itself... Read More
TIFF40 Adds I Saw the Light, Our Brand Is Crisis, Truth, 45 Years, About Ray
You didn’t think the first announcement was all there was, did you? TIFF director Cameron Bailey is still dead set on Toronto being the... Read More
Gold Rush Gang 2016 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (July)
As is often the case with Awardswatch and our Gold Rush Gang, the Best Actress race is usually our best category and we’ve been solid... Read More
TRAILER: Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay are Oscar-worthy in ’45 Years’
It would seem that after careers spanning decades as Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay’s have that you wouldn’t or couldn’t be surprised by them but... Read More
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Interview: Director Robert Eggers (‘Nosferatu’) on the Consequences of Temptation, Training Hundreds of Rats, and Playing with Vampire Lore 
Interview: Guy Pearce on the Beauty and Violence of ‘The Brutalist’ and Van Buren’s Call to His Therapist