2024 Humanitas Prize Winners: Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin,’ ‘Fellow Travelers,’ ‘Hacks,’ ‘Nimona’
Winners of the 2024 Humanitas Prizes were announced and honored last night at the Avalon Hollywood during The 2024 Humanitas Prizes Awards Show & Toast,... Read More
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USC Scripter Awards: ‘American Fiction,’ ‘Origin,’ ‘Slow Horses,’ ‘The Crown’ Among Nominees
The USC Libraries named the finalists for the 36th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the writers of the year’s most accomplished film and episodic... Read More
African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Awards: ‘Origin,’ ‘American Fiction,’ ‘The Color Purple’ Win Big
The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) announced today the winners of the 15th annual AAFCA Awards honoring outstanding achievement in film and the organization’s... Read More
Interview: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on Collaborating with Ava DuVernay, Meeting the Moment, and Playing a Journalistic Indiana Jones
Early in Ava DuVernay’s remarkable new film Origin, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson (a transcendent Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) listens to a recording of the 911 call... Read More
Keeping Barbie in Original Screenplay for the time being, where its WGA designation is, until the Academy deems it otherwise and likewise Ava DuVernay’s Origin... Read More
26th SCAD Film Festival Lineup: ‘NYAD’ to Open, Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’ to Close, First Look at ‘The Color Purple’
The Savannah College of Art and Design’s 26th annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival, the largest university-run film festival in the U.S., will return in person... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (September)
After weeks of debate and discussion among awards fans and pundits, Warner Bros officially announced it will run the Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach-penned Barbie... Read More
‘Origin’ Review: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor’s Stunning Performance Drives Ava DuVernay’s Story of the American Caste System | Venice
Examining non-fictional source material through its process of creation is always a fascinating endeavour. Ava DuVernay has adapted Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson’s... Read More
Starry 2023 Venice Lineup Includes Cooper’s ‘Maestro,’ Coppola’s ‘Priscilla,’ Fincher’s ‘The Killer,’ Mann’s ‘Ferrari,’ DuVernay’s ‘Origin’
Glitzy lineup marred by the inclusion of films from accused rapists and sexual assaulters like Woody Allen, Roman Polanski and Luc Besson The lineup for... Read More
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