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Regina King in If Beale Street Could Talk The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) announced its 2018 awards today, with If Beale Street Could Talk winning Best Film, Best Director (Barry Jenkins) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Acting award winners include Regina King as Best Supporting Actress for If Beale Street Could Talk, Richard E. Grant as Best Supporting Actor for Can You Ever Forgive …

If Beale Street Could Talk The Columbus Film Critics Association (formerly known as the Central Ohio Film Critics Association) has announced their winners for the best of 2018 and If Beale Street Could Talk has won Best Film, Supporting Actress (Regina King) and Score (Nicholas Britell). Impressively, the top prize came without its director, Barry Jenkins, nominated for Best Director. …

Amy Adams (Vice)Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) When the Screen Actors Guild announced their nominations last week, there was a shockwave sent out with them. In Female Actor in a Supporting Role the nominees were Amy Adams (Vice), Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place), Margot Robbie (Mary Queen of Scots), Emma Stone (The Favourite) and Rachel …

ROMAA Star Is Born ROMA, Alfonso Cuaron’s personal journey that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970’s has captured the minds and hearts of Las Vegas Film Critics Society, winning five awards including; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Foreign Film.   A Star is Born …

KiKi Layne and Stephan James in If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna) Barry Jenkins follows up his Oscar-winning Moonlight with another masterpiece;  a lush, visual love story and the first English-language film adaptation of James Baldwin’s work It doesn’t take long to fall in love with Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk. In the film’s opening shot, a gorgeous crane movement …

KiKi Layne and Barry Jenkins hit the red carpet of the closing night of the 41st Mill Valley Film Festival with ‘If Beale Street Could Talk‘ October 14, 2018 I first interviewed Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins before he was an Oscar winner at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October of 2016.  We met up, again at the Mill Valley …

Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox) It’s no secret that the Screen Actors Guild, which is comprised of over 160,000 members of SAG and AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) utilizes a randomly selected group of about 2000 members – the SAG nom comm – to come up with the yearly nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards.  In …

Drop Dead Red Redemption: The Hollywood Reporter’s Actress Roundtable The actress roundtables for awards season from The Hollywood Reporter are always the most interesting, most informative and most engaging and this year is no different.  With female-led films and rich supporting characters, 2018 has been a superb year for women in film and this year’s roundtable has gathered some of …

Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA wins big at NYFCC The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) has chosen ROMA as the best film of 2018 with Alfonso Cuarón also taking the prizes for Best Director and Best Cinematography.   For his performance of a deeply troubled priest being torn apart by his past and the overwhelming dread of the world, Ethan Hawke (First …

If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna Pictures) Annapurna Pictures has released the final trailer and a new poster for If Beale Street Could Talk, the first English-language adaptation of a James Baldwin work and the follow to Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winning Moonlight.  Set in early-1970s Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is a timeless and moving love story of both a couple’s unbreakable …