FINAL 2025 Oscar Nomination Predictions: 2025 BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR
It’s probably fair to say that after all of the nominations and precursors we have that we all likely have the same top seven films... Read More
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FINAL 2025 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
It all starts on the page. With the USC Scripter nominations not coming until January 22, the day before Oscar nominations, I don’t have them... Read More
36th Producers Guild (PGA) Awards Nominations: ‘Anora,’ ‘Emilia Pérez’ Make the Cut, ‘Nickel Boys’ Snubbed, and the ‘September 5’ Surprise
Today, the Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced the nominees in the Motion Pictures and Television categories for the 36th Annual Producers Guild Awards where... Read More
‘Conclave’ Leads AARP The Magazine’s Movies for Grownups Nominations; Glenn Close to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Gladiator II, September 5, Sing Sing, A Complete Unknown and Emilia Pérez all earn multiple nominations AARP The Magazine today announced nominees for the annual Movies... Read More
Trailer Watch: Featurettes for ‘A Complete Unknown,’ ‘Gladiator II,’ plus ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘September 5,’ ‘Maria,’ ‘Our Little Secret,’ ‘Severance’ Season 2, ‘Laid,’ and ‘Goosebumps: The Vanishing’
This week’s trailer watch round sees two film featurettes – for A Complete Unknown and Gladiator II – plus trailers for The Brutalist, September 5,... Read More
‘Conclave’ and ‘September 5’ Win Audience Awards at 2024 Middleburg Film Festival
Martha takes home top documentary prize; The Seed of the Sacred Fig wins top international award The Middleburg Film Festival announced its 2024 Audience Award winners, recognizing the... Read More
Official Selections Represent 44 Countries and Include 9 Best International Feature Oscar Submissions The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today the full lineup for AFI FEST... Read More
2025 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (September)
With the Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals behind us, the race has changed quite a bit since early summer (or has it?). While Telluride... Read More
2024 Telluride Film Festival Capsule Reviews: ‘Anora,’ ‘September 5,’ ‘The Piano Lesson’
ANORA (dir. Sean Baker, NEON) Mikey Madison is truly an iconic star. As the spunky Ani, an exotic dancer from Brooklyn, Madison owns the screen... Read More
‘Wishful Thinking,’ ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Among 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Juried and Audience Award Winners 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More 
Trailer Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘Dune: Part Three,’ Disclosure Day,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine’