2024 Gotham Awards: ‘Anora,’ ‘Nickel Boys,’ ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Lead Nominations
The Gotham Film & Media Institute today announced the nominations for the 34th Gotham Awards where Sean Baker’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora led the... Read More
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‘Dune: Part Two’ Review: Villeneuve Can’t Make 2 Become 1 With His Uneventful Spice World Epic
There is something fundamentally terrifying about someone being branded as a messiah. A prophecy was written in stone long before they existed, only for their... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 12 – ‘Blade Runner 2049’ (Villeneuve, 2017)
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 11 – ‘Arrival’ (Villeneuve, 2016)
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 7 – ‘Incendies’ (Villeneuve, 2010)
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
Santa Barbara Film Festival Writer’s Panel: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sian Heder, Eskil Vogt and more on the processes and challenges of bringing their scripts to life
The annual Writer’s Panel at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival is always one of the highlights of the week, as the festival gathers writers... Read More
5th Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) Awards winners: ‘CODA’ named Best Picture, Andrew Garfield and Kristen Stewart nab lead acting prizes
The 5th Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) awards were held tonight in a live, in-person ceremony at the Avalon in Hollywood, California and CODA was named... Read More
Interview: Oscar-nominated hair and makeup artist Donald Mowat on the greatest challenges of designing ‘Dune’ and how he found out about his nomination
Last week, when the Academy announced Oscar nominations, hair and makeup designer Donald Mowat was on set in Spain, hard at work on his next... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: The ‘Power’ Surge
The Oscar nominations are here, leaving behind critics’ awards season (mostly) and on we press with BAFTA and the guilds to really start shaping the... Read More
FINAL 2022 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR
Best Picture and Best Director are usually the most linked Oscar categories as the latter often really tells us what the top 5 films are... Read More
2025 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (November) 
‘Sugarcane,’ ‘Soundtrack to A Coup d’Etat’ Lead 40th IDA Documentary Awards Nominations 
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Interview: ‘The Substance’ Special Makeup Effects Designer Pierre-Olivier Persin on Transforming Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley into a Funhouse of Horror and Using 4,000 Gallons of Blood