AwardsWatch - Ron Howard

‘Thirteen Lives’ review: Ron Howard presents an engrossing look at the dangerous real-life Thai cave rescue mission [B+]

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‘Thirteen Lives’ review: Ron Howard presents an engrossing look at the dangerous real-life Thai cave rescue mission [B+]

Abe Friedtanzer July 25, 2022

Condensing a rescue mission that took two and half weeks into a film that runs just under two and a half hours long is no... Read More

2023 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (June)

Erik Anderson June 30, 2022

Academy Award winner Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) might be finding himself back in the Oscar race with Thirteen Lives (trailer), one of a few... Read More

Trailer: Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton and Viggo Mortensen race against time to save ‘Thirteen Lives’

Erik Anderson June 28, 2022

From Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard, Thirteen Lives recounts the incredible true story of the tremendous global effort to rescue a Thai soccer team who become... Read More

Film Review: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’

Film Reviews

Film Review: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’

Catherine Springer November 16, 2020

Ron Howard is one of those directors who is really hard to categorize. He has won an Oscar for directing (A Beautiful Mind in 2002), and... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (October)

Erik Anderson October 23, 2020

Two big changes in October’s top 10 for Best Director with Denis Villeneuve’s Dune falling off for a lat 2021 bow and the decision by... Read More

Trailer: Glenn Close and Amy Adams go head to head in Appalachian drama ‘Hillbilly Elegy’

Erik Anderson October 14, 2020

7-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close and 6-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams star in Hillbilly Elegy, based on the #1 New York Times bestseller... Read More

Lulu Wang: “Media is perpetuating dangerous narratives that further the divide” (Exclusive)

Erik Anderson September 25, 2020

“How do we have a real conversation in 2020?” I spoke to the award-winning director exclusively about the framing of her response to her frustration... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (August)

Erik Anderson August 27, 2020

A tale of two Kings…and two Lees. Regina King’s One Night in Miami will land in Venice and Toronto, and presumably other fall festivals like... Read More

Trailer: ‘Rebuilding Paradise’ from Ron Howard and NatGeo

Erik Anderson June 25, 2020

National Geographic Films will release REBUILDING PARADISE from Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard on July 31, 2020 National Geographic Documentary Films announced today the release... Read More