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Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before. Just as in Best Picture, the Best Director race is tied at #1 and by the directors of the same films. Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water) and Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk) hold the top spot for October. Steven Spielberg remains at #3 with The Post but with a 7-point …

Based on Brian Selznick’s critically acclaimed novel Ben (Pete’s Dragon’s Oakes Fegley) and Rose (newcomer Millicent Simmonds) are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his home and …

The Current War, Darkest Hour, Rose Marie, Dee Rees, Last Flag Flying and Greta Gerwig highlight the announcement of the lineup of the 40th Mill Valley Film Festival The Mill Valley Film Festival is entering its 40th season and while it may not have the early instant recognizability of Toronto or Telluride it more than makes up for that with …

SAN RAFAEL, CA (August 8, 2017) – The Mill Valley Film Festival is proud to honor acclaimed director Todd Haynes (Carol, Far From Heaven, Safe, I’m Not There) with a Tribute, featuring an onstage conversation and presentation of the MVFF Award in recognition of a career that exemplifies the art of great directing. Haynes was last here for MVFF30 in …

Fresh off its debut at the Cannes Film Festival this summer, the first teaser trailer for Wonderstruck, the new film from Todd Haynes (Carol) is here. Merging two worlds in a kaleidoscope set to David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” the film, based on Brian Selznick’s best seller, follows two children in New York City, Ben in the 1970s and Rose in …

As with Best Picture, Todd Haynes enjoyed a single month at #1 with Wonderstruck but falls all the way down to #7 in Best Director for June. Also the same as Best Picture, Steven Spielberg jumps over Detroit‘s Kathryn Bigelow for the top spot. Joe Wright (Darkest Hour) and Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk) make small moves up with Haynes’ departure as …

Predictions for the top prizes at the Cannes Film Festival are never easy. While there are critics’ reviews and polls upon polls to guide you there are two factors at hand that come into play in a much more important way. The first being the main jury is only made up of nine people, including its president. A Cannes In …

The 2017 Cannes Film Festival has just kicked off and the new film from Todd Haynes, Wonderstruck, was first out of the gate and gives us the festival’s first Oscar player. The first reviews and reactions were overall positive, if not the glowing and rapturous reviews that greeted Haynes’ Carol two years ago. But, as we saw, the best of …

The 70th Cannes Film Festival kicks off this week (Thursday, to be exact) but did you know that only Cannes Palme d’Or winner has ever won the Best Picture Oscar? 1955’s Marty is still the only Best Picture Oscar winner to first strike gold at Cannes. Incidentally, 1955 was the first year of the designation of the Palme d’Or as …