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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… Read More

September 13, 2024

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… Read More

January 17, 2024

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… Read More

January 15, 2024

Interviews (Film)

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… Read More

January 12, 2024

2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (November)

Keeping Barbie in Original Screenplay for the time being, where its WGA designation is, until the Academy deems it otherwise… Read More

November 13, 2023

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… Read More

October 6, 2023

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… Read More

September 19, 2023

‘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… Read More

September 6, 2023

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… Read More

July 25, 2023