Gudrun Gut on her new plans with Bettina Köster and Malaria! to Anne-Katrin Titze, 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman, and B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 co-director Heiko Lange: “We have a plan for a movie.”
In the second instalment with Gudrun Gut (creative director and star of the miniseries Gut; founding member of Mania D; Malaria!; Matador), B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 co-director Heiko Lange (with Jörg A. Hoppe and Klaus Maeck), plus music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman, we discuss the work of editor Alexander von Sturmfeder; B- Movie’s ringmaster Mark Reeder (who is also the composer here with Micha Adam and for Hermann Vaske’s Can Creativity Save The World?), Blixa Bargeld and Nick Cave on the end of an era; a Buzzcocks concert in New York City; Public Image Ltd and Esg; Danny Boyle’s Pistol (his fictional miniseries on the Sex...
In the second instalment with Gudrun Gut (creative director and star of the miniseries Gut; founding member of Mania D; Malaria!; Matador), B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 co-director Heiko Lange (with Jörg A. Hoppe and Klaus Maeck), plus music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman, we discuss the work of editor Alexander von Sturmfeder; B- Movie’s ringmaster Mark Reeder (who is also the composer here with Micha Adam and for Hermann Vaske’s Can Creativity Save The World?), Blixa Bargeld and Nick Cave on the end of an era; a Buzzcocks concert in New York City; Public Image Ltd and Esg; Danny Boyle’s Pistol (his fictional miniseries on the Sex...
- 5/3/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Producer Ina Fichman, Oscar nominated for “Fire of Love,” was at the 25th edition of Hot Docs Forum on Tuesday to pitch her latest project “Ba’s Book.” Directed by Canadian filmmaker Ashley Da-Le Duong, the hybrid docu focuses on Duong’s father and his experiences living through both the Vietnam War and the Iranian Revolution.
“Let me take you somewhere for a moment,” Duong told the Forum audience and participating distributors including Arte, A24 and Al Jazeera. “It’s 1968 and a young man stands in the middle of a rice paddy field and looks up and sees a helicopter. Not unusual because his house is right beside an American army base, but this time the helicopter overhead shoots at him and he pretends to be dead. He vows to leave his village forever. Eventually he does escape. He wins a scholarship to Iran. But his escaping terror is short...
“Let me take you somewhere for a moment,” Duong told the Forum audience and participating distributors including Arte, A24 and Al Jazeera. “It’s 1968 and a young man stands in the middle of a rice paddy field and looks up and sees a helicopter. Not unusual because his house is right beside an American army base, but this time the helicopter overhead shoots at him and he pretends to be dead. He vows to leave his village forever. Eventually he does escape. He wins a scholarship to Iran. But his escaping terror is short...
- 5/1/2024
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Mohamed Kordofani’s Goodbye Julia and Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters lead the nominations for the 8th Critics Awards for Arab Films, which will be held during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
Both features picked up seven nominations apiece for the awards, focused on Arab films that were produced and premiered outside of the Arab world in 2023. Overseen and run by the Cairo-based Arab Cinema Centre (Acc), it was voted on by 209 critics from 72 countries and the winners will be announced during Cannes on May 18.
Scroll down for full list of nominations
This year’s nominees range from Sudan,...
Both features picked up seven nominations apiece for the awards, focused on Arab films that were produced and premiered outside of the Arab world in 2023. Overseen and run by the Cairo-based Arab Cinema Centre (Acc), it was voted on by 209 critics from 72 countries and the winners will be announced during Cannes on May 18.
Scroll down for full list of nominations
This year’s nominees range from Sudan,...
- 4/25/2024
- ScreenDaily
Sudanese first-timer Mohamed Kordofani’s “Goodbye Julia,” a timely morality tale that takes place just before the 2011 secession of South Sudan, and Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s “Four Daughters” lead the way in nominations for the eighth edition of the Critics Awards for Arab films, winners of which will be announced during the Cannes Film Festival.
The first Sudanese film ever to screen in Cannes’ official selection, “Goodbye Julia” (pictured) is the story of two women — one from the North, the other from the South — who are brought together by fate in a complex relationship that attempts to reconcile differences between northern and southern Sudanese communities in the currently war-ravaged country.
The drama, which marked Kordofani’s debut, has scored nominations in seven categories of the Arab film awards, including best feature, director, screenplay, actress, actor and editing.
Ben Hania’s hybrid doc/drama “Four Daughters,” about an Arab...
The first Sudanese film ever to screen in Cannes’ official selection, “Goodbye Julia” (pictured) is the story of two women — one from the North, the other from the South — who are brought together by fate in a complex relationship that attempts to reconcile differences between northern and southern Sudanese communities in the currently war-ravaged country.
The drama, which marked Kordofani’s debut, has scored nominations in seven categories of the Arab film awards, including best feature, director, screenplay, actress, actor and editing.
Ben Hania’s hybrid doc/drama “Four Daughters,” about an Arab...
- 4/25/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
‘Four Daughters’ & ‘Goodbye Julia’ Lead Nominations For 8th Edition Of Critics Awards For Arab Films
Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated documentary Four Daughters and Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofani’s Lupita Nyong’o-EPed drama Goodbye Julia lead the nominations in the eighth edition of the Critics Awards for Arab Films.
Hybrid work Four Daughters, exploring the story of a real-life Tunisian mother who lost two of her daughters to Isis after they were radicalized by a local preacher, world premiered in Competition in Cannes last year.
The film won Cannes’ Golden Eye for Best Documentary and also went on to be nominated for Best Documentary at the 2024 Academy Awards.
Kordofani’s Khartoum-set drama Goodbye Julia was also at Cannes in 2023, making history as the first Sudanese film to play in the festival across its 76 editions, with a debut in Un Certain Regard. It represented Sudan at in the 2023-24 Oscar race but was not nominated.
Set against the backdrop of the 2011 South Sudan Independence referendum,...
Hybrid work Four Daughters, exploring the story of a real-life Tunisian mother who lost two of her daughters to Isis after they were radicalized by a local preacher, world premiered in Competition in Cannes last year.
The film won Cannes’ Golden Eye for Best Documentary and also went on to be nominated for Best Documentary at the 2024 Academy Awards.
Kordofani’s Khartoum-set drama Goodbye Julia was also at Cannes in 2023, making history as the first Sudanese film to play in the festival across its 76 editions, with a debut in Un Certain Regard. It represented Sudan at in the 2023-24 Oscar race but was not nominated.
Set against the backdrop of the 2011 South Sudan Independence referendum,...
- 4/25/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated On April 22, 2024: With the addition of two new films to this year’s competition section, both directed by men, this year’s competition slate now includes 21 films, only four of which are directed by women. That tallies to just 19 percent of this year’s competition titles being helmed by women.
Our original story from April 11, 2024 follows.
Hot off last year’s record-breaking competition lineup — including seven films directed by women, plus an eventual Palme d’Or win for Justine Triet (only the third woman to win the festival’s top prize) — this year’s Cannes Film Festival has returned to old habits. The 77th edition will include (as of today’s announcement) just four films directed by women in the competition section, bringing representation down to 2021 levels (and returning the festival’s female-directed entries to a number that was only hit in 2011).
Among the competition titles announced today:...
Our original story from April 11, 2024 follows.
Hot off last year’s record-breaking competition lineup — including seven films directed by women, plus an eventual Palme d’Or win for Justine Triet (only the third woman to win the festival’s top prize) — this year’s Cannes Film Festival has returned to old habits. The 77th edition will include (as of today’s announcement) just four films directed by women in the competition section, bringing representation down to 2021 levels (and returning the festival’s female-directed entries to a number that was only hit in 2011).
Among the competition titles announced today:...
- 4/22/2024
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Clockwise from top left: The Taste Of Things, Asteroid City, Fallen Leaves and Four Daughters With much of the Cannes programme now announced for 2024, including heavy hitters Francis Ford Coppola, Andrea Arnold and David Cronenberg, we're taking a look back at last year's Class of Cannes 2023 for our Streaming Spotlight last week - which ended up being a bumper year in terms of dominating the following awards season. This year's Cannes runs from May 14 to 25 and you can read all our coverage as it comes in here.
Anatomy Of A Fall, free to stream with Amazon Prime
Justine Triet's slowburn courtroom drama - written with her partner - Arthur Harari won the top prize Palme d'Or before heading on a statuette-winning spree around the awards circuit, culminating in an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Sandra Hüller could also easily have won for her performance as writer Sandra Voyter, who stands...
Anatomy Of A Fall, free to stream with Amazon Prime
Justine Triet's slowburn courtroom drama - written with her partner - Arthur Harari won the top prize Palme d'Or before heading on a statuette-winning spree around the awards circuit, culminating in an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Sandra Hüller could also easily have won for her performance as writer Sandra Voyter, who stands...
- 4/16/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Berlin-based German Federal Film Board (Ffa) is following the lead of other European countries and launching its dedicated minority co-production fund with an annual budget of €1m.
Producers based in Germany can apply to this fund if their financial participation is at least 10% and less than that of the foreign delegate producer.
The fund is open to feature-length fiction, animation and documentary films that have a high degree of festival potential, or could be commercially successful in Germany and abroad.
The projects applying for support must show that they have a German financing share of at least €350,000.
The minimum...
Producers based in Germany can apply to this fund if their financial participation is at least 10% and less than that of the foreign delegate producer.
The fund is open to feature-length fiction, animation and documentary films that have a high degree of festival potential, or could be commercially successful in Germany and abroad.
The projects applying for support must show that they have a German financing share of at least €350,000.
The minimum...
- 4/11/2024
- ScreenDaily
“The Killing” star Sofie Gråbøl will serve as the president of this year’s Canneseries competition jury, it was announced on Tuesday.
The Danish actor kickstarted her career with the 1986 film “Barndommens gade” (“The Streets of My Childhood”) and is known for her TV roles including “The Killing,” “Nikolaj og Julie” and “Taxa.”
Joining Gråbøl on the jury are “Madame Hollywood” director, screenwriter and producer Olivier Abbou; “Four Daughters” composer Amine Bouhafa; “City of God” actor Alice Braga; “Blancanieves” actor Macarena García; and “Samber” actor Alix Poisson.
Together, the jury will judge the eight series in competition and unveil the winners on April 10. The series competing in the festival’s main lineup include “Dark Horse” (Denmark), “Dumbsday” (Norway), “Living on a Razor’s Edge” (Brazil), “Moresnet” (Belgium), “Operation Sabre” (Serbia), “This Is Not Sweden” (Spain and Sweden), “To the Wonder” (China) and “The Zweiflers” (Germany).
“This upcoming edition feels like the...
The Danish actor kickstarted her career with the 1986 film “Barndommens gade” (“The Streets of My Childhood”) and is known for her TV roles including “The Killing,” “Nikolaj og Julie” and “Taxa.”
Joining Gråbøl on the jury are “Madame Hollywood” director, screenwriter and producer Olivier Abbou; “Four Daughters” composer Amine Bouhafa; “City of God” actor Alice Braga; “Blancanieves” actor Macarena García; and “Samber” actor Alix Poisson.
Together, the jury will judge the eight series in competition and unveil the winners on April 10. The series competing in the festival’s main lineup include “Dark Horse” (Denmark), “Dumbsday” (Norway), “Living on a Razor’s Edge” (Brazil), “Moresnet” (Belgium), “Operation Sabre” (Serbia), “This Is Not Sweden” (Spain and Sweden), “To the Wonder” (China) and “The Zweiflers” (Germany).
“This upcoming edition feels like the...
- 4/2/2024
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
The Killing star Sofie Gråbøl is leading the Canneseries jury.
Gråbøl will be joined by Olivier Abbou, Amine Bouhafa, Alice Braga, Macarena García and Alix Poisson in the six-strong jury judging a strong competition lineup that includes the likes of Denmark’s Dark Horse, Euro co-pro This is Not Sweden and Beta Film’s Operation Sabre.
Multi-award-winner Gråbøl is best known as the star of Scandi noir smash The Killing, in which she played the role of police inspector Sarah Lund, which brought her international fame. Past credits include breakout Early Spring, Taxa and Nikolaj og Julie.
She is joined by Abbou, the director and producer of a number of series and movies including Madame Hollywood, Territories and Get In, along with Braga, the Brazilian actress who has starred in internationally-acclaimed City of God and Hollywood movies such as The Suicide Squad.
García, meanwhile, made her film debut with Pablo Berger...
Gråbøl will be joined by Olivier Abbou, Amine Bouhafa, Alice Braga, Macarena García and Alix Poisson in the six-strong jury judging a strong competition lineup that includes the likes of Denmark’s Dark Horse, Euro co-pro This is Not Sweden and Beta Film’s Operation Sabre.
Multi-award-winner Gråbøl is best known as the star of Scandi noir smash The Killing, in which she played the role of police inspector Sarah Lund, which brought her international fame. Past credits include breakout Early Spring, Taxa and Nikolaj og Julie.
She is joined by Abbou, the director and producer of a number of series and movies including Madame Hollywood, Territories and Get In, along with Braga, the Brazilian actress who has starred in internationally-acclaimed City of God and Hollywood movies such as The Suicide Squad.
García, meanwhile, made her film debut with Pablo Berger...
- 4/2/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
We live in strange times. This young century has been defined by harrowing disasters both natural and man-made, political tribalism, and existential threats to the future of the planet. What better time for documentary filmmaking?
Non-fiction cinema has been evolving since the birth of the medium while capturing a world in motion. From the actualités of the Lumière brothers in the late 19th century to the heavily manipulated ethnographic films of the 1920, from the vérité films of the Maysles brothers to the man-on-the-street agitprop popularized by Michael Moore, documentaries have naturally always been more responsive to their times than any other mode of filmmaking.
Not only do they reveal our world to us, but they shape how we view it, and the early years of the 21st century have proven that to be more true than ever before. On one hand, digital technology has infinitely expanded our range of vision,...
Non-fiction cinema has been evolving since the birth of the medium while capturing a world in motion. From the actualités of the Lumière brothers in the late 19th century to the heavily manipulated ethnographic films of the 1920, from the vérité films of the Maysles brothers to the man-on-the-street agitprop popularized by Michael Moore, documentaries have naturally always been more responsive to their times than any other mode of filmmaking.
Not only do they reveal our world to us, but they shape how we view it, and the early years of the 21st century have proven that to be more true than ever before. On one hand, digital technology has infinitely expanded our range of vision,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Series projects by filmmakers Kevin Macdonald, Barbera Albert and Erik Matti have won key prizes at the second edition of Seriesmakers, Series Mania’s development lab for film directors moving into series.
Macdonald and producer Femke Wolting won one of two Beta Development Awards worth €50,000 for their series project George Blake which tells the story of the prolific British double agent.
Macdonald has won the Oscar best documentary feature prize for One Day In September, while The Last King of Scotland won an Oscar for lead actor for Forest Whitaker. He was unable to collect the prize which was picked up by Wolting.
Macdonald and producer Femke Wolting won one of two Beta Development Awards worth €50,000 for their series project George Blake which tells the story of the prolific British double agent.
Macdonald has won the Oscar best documentary feature prize for One Day In September, while The Last King of Scotland won an Oscar for lead actor for Forest Whitaker. He was unable to collect the prize which was picked up by Wolting.
- 3/20/2024
- ScreenDaily
Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald has won the €50,000 Series Mania Seriesmakers award.
The One Day in September director’s project is one of two winners to take home the prize, which has been forged by the Lille Confab and German major Beta Film.
Macdonald and producer Femke Wolting’s project is titled George Blake and tells the story of one of the most prolific double agents of not just the Cold War, but British history. The other winner is director Erik Matti and producer Ronald Monteverde for The Squatter from The Philippines, about a secretive Filipino maid and a tenacious Ukrainian detective who have to unravel the mysteries of a crime just as the crime itself unravels who they truly are.
The development lab is for feature film directors sidestepping into series production. Ten projects faced off including those helmed by Kaouther Ben Hania, who directed the Oscar-nominated doc Four Daughters.
The One Day in September director’s project is one of two winners to take home the prize, which has been forged by the Lille Confab and German major Beta Film.
Macdonald and producer Femke Wolting’s project is titled George Blake and tells the story of one of the most prolific double agents of not just the Cold War, but British history. The other winner is director Erik Matti and producer Ronald Monteverde for The Squatter from The Philippines, about a secretive Filipino maid and a tenacious Ukrainian detective who have to unravel the mysteries of a crime just as the crime itself unravels who they truly are.
The development lab is for feature film directors sidestepping into series production. Ten projects faced off including those helmed by Kaouther Ben Hania, who directed the Oscar-nominated doc Four Daughters.
- 3/20/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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The 2024 Academy Awards have come and gone.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (which entered with the most nominations) stole the show this year with seven wins, including best picture, director, actor (Cillian Murphy), supporting actor (Robert Downy Jr.), original score, cinematography, and film editing. Best actress, meantime, went to Emmy Stone for her portrayal of Bella Baxter in Poor Things, while supporting actress went to The Holdovers‘ Da’Vine Joy Randolph.
The 2024 Academy Awards have come and gone.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (which entered with the most nominations) stole the show this year with seven wins, including best picture, director, actor (Cillian Murphy), supporting actor (Robert Downy Jr.), original score, cinematography, and film editing. Best actress, meantime, went to Emmy Stone for her portrayal of Bella Baxter in Poor Things, while supporting actress went to The Holdovers‘ Da’Vine Joy Randolph.
- 3/12/2024
- by Oscar Hartzog
- Rollingstone.com
Sunday marked the 96th Academy Awards, hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel. 2023 saw box office hits Oppenheimer and Barbie dominating the summer to critical favorites Poor Things and Killers of the Flower Moon bringing outstanding roles for actresses Emma Stone and Lily Gladstone.
Oppenheimer swept most of the top honors, including Best Picture, while fan favorite Barbie took just a single award.
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell set a new record as the youngest people to win two Oscars for their song “What Was I Made For?” for the Barbie soundtrack. The Best Actor/Actress categories featured previous Oscar winners such as Michelle Yeoh and Brendan Fraser introducing the nominees with personal messages to each star.
See below for all the 2024 Oscar winners.
Best Picture
Winner: Oppenheimer
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
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Oppenheimer swept most of the top honors, including Best Picture, while fan favorite Barbie took just a single award.
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell set a new record as the youngest people to win two Oscars for their song “What Was I Made For?” for the Barbie soundtrack. The Best Actor/Actress categories featured previous Oscar winners such as Michelle Yeoh and Brendan Fraser introducing the nominees with personal messages to each star.
See below for all the 2024 Oscar winners.
Best Picture
Winner: Oppenheimer
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
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- 3/11/2024
- by Ann Hoang
- Uinterview
The 2024 Academy Awards ceremony just came to an end!
The event aired on Sunday night (March 10) on ABC, and was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, who previously led the awards show in 2017, 2018 and 2023.
Oppenheimer led the pack with 13 nominations, and certainly had a good night! The film took home Best Picture, among wins in several other categories.
Keep reading to see all the nominees and winners from the 2023 Academy Awards…
2024 Oscar Nominations & Winners:
Best Picture
Barbie
Maestro
Past Lives
Poor Things
Oppenheimer - Winner
The Holdovers
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
The Zone of Interest
Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Actress
Emma Stone, ‘Poor Things’ - Winner
Carey Mulligan, ‘Maestro’
Lily Gladstone, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
Annette Bening, ‘Nyad’
Sandra Huller, ‘Anatomy of a Fall’
Best Actor
Cillian Murphy, ‘Oppenheimer’ - Winner
Paul Giamatti, ‘The Holdovers’
Bradley Cooper, ‘Maestro’
Colman Domingo, ‘Rustin’
Jeffrey Wright, ‘American Fiction’
Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt,...
The event aired on Sunday night (March 10) on ABC, and was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, who previously led the awards show in 2017, 2018 and 2023.
Oppenheimer led the pack with 13 nominations, and certainly had a good night! The film took home Best Picture, among wins in several other categories.
Keep reading to see all the nominees and winners from the 2023 Academy Awards…
2024 Oscar Nominations & Winners:
Best Picture
Barbie
Maestro
Past Lives
Poor Things
Oppenheimer - Winner
The Holdovers
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
The Zone of Interest
Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Actress
Emma Stone, ‘Poor Things’ - Winner
Carey Mulligan, ‘Maestro’
Lily Gladstone, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
Annette Bening, ‘Nyad’
Sandra Huller, ‘Anatomy of a Fall’
Best Actor
Cillian Murphy, ‘Oppenheimer’ - Winner
Paul Giamatti, ‘The Holdovers’
Bradley Cooper, ‘Maestro’
Colman Domingo, ‘Rustin’
Jeffrey Wright, ‘American Fiction’
Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt,...
- 3/11/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
20 Days in Mariupol won best documentary at the 2024 Oscars, with director Mstyslav Chernov celebrating what he said is the first Oscar win for Ukraine while also acknowledging his wish to have never made his documentary in the first place.
“I am honored but probably I will be the first director on this stage to say I wish I never made this film. I wish to be able to exchange this for Russia never attacking Ukraine and never occupying our cities,” said Chernov. “I would give up all the recognition for Russia not killing tens of thousands of my fellow Ukrainians. I wish for them to release all the hostages, all of the soldiers who are protecting their lands, all of the civilians who are now in their jails. But I can’t change history; I cannot change the past.”
20 Days in Mariupol was shot during the early days...
“I am honored but probably I will be the first director on this stage to say I wish I never made this film. I wish to be able to exchange this for Russia never attacking Ukraine and never occupying our cities,” said Chernov. “I would give up all the recognition for Russia not killing tens of thousands of my fellow Ukrainians. I wish for them to release all the hostages, all of the soldiers who are protecting their lands, all of the civilians who are now in their jails. But I can’t change history; I cannot change the past.”
20 Days in Mariupol was shot during the early days...
- 3/11/2024
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In one of the most competitive races in years, 20 Days in Mariupol won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature tonight, earning director Mstyslav Chernov an Academy Award to go with a Pulitzer Prize.
The film from the Associated Press, PBS’ Frontline and GBH came into the night a slight favorite but faced a tough test from fellow nominees Bobi Wine: The People’s President, The Eternal Memory, Four Daughters, and To Kill a Tiger. The documentary, which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, centers on the harrowing siege of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country. Thousands of civilians were killed in Russia’s assault.
On the Osar stage, Chernov, a native of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, thanked his collaborators and said, “This is the first Oscar in the Ukrainian history. And I’m honored.” But with rising emotion,...
The film from the Associated Press, PBS’ Frontline and GBH came into the night a slight favorite but faced a tough test from fellow nominees Bobi Wine: The People’s President, The Eternal Memory, Four Daughters, and To Kill a Tiger. The documentary, which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, centers on the harrowing siege of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country. Thousands of civilians were killed in Russia’s assault.
On the Osar stage, Chernov, a native of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, thanked his collaborators and said, “This is the first Oscar in the Ukrainian history. And I’m honored.” But with rising emotion,...
- 3/11/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Oppenheimer was the big winner at the 2024 Academy awards, taking home best picture, best director, best actor for Cillian Murphy and a host of other prizes.
The ceremony took place tonight (March 10) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting for a fourth time.
Read our full report from the ceremony here.
Full list of winners
Best picture
American Fiction Anatomy Of A Fall Barbie The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Oppenheimer Past Lives Poor Things The Zone Of Interest
Directing
Justine Triet, Anatomy Of A Fall Martin Scorsese, Killers Of The Flower Moon Christopher Nolan,...
The ceremony took place tonight (March 10) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting for a fourth time.
Read our full report from the ceremony here.
Full list of winners
Best picture
American Fiction Anatomy Of A Fall Barbie The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Oppenheimer Past Lives Poor Things The Zone Of Interest
Directing
Justine Triet, Anatomy Of A Fall Martin Scorsese, Killers Of The Flower Moon Christopher Nolan,...
- 3/11/2024
- ScreenDaily
It's Hollywood's biggest night — and all the stars are out! Movie stars, that is! Yes, it's time for the Oscars, the yearly ceremony where Hollywood pats itself on the back for a job well done. And you know what? The nominees this year are pretty darn solid! Christopher Nolan's thriller-biopic "Oppenheimer" leads the pack with a whopping 13 nominations. Will this finally be the year Nolan takes home Oscar gold? It sure seems that way — but you never know. There could be some surprises in store. Follow along with us here at /Film as we bring you the winners of the 2024 Oscars in real time. We'll be keeping this post updated throughout the night, so put on your tux and/or gown and get ready for all the glitz and glamor of a potentially boring awards ceremony!
Read more: Famous Characters Who Never Actually Appear On Screen
And The Nominees Are.
Read more: Famous Characters Who Never Actually Appear On Screen
And The Nominees Are.
- 3/10/2024
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
The most anticipated night in Hollywood is finally here!
On Sunday, the biggest names in film gathered for the 96th Academy Awards, marking the official end to awards season. Jimmy Kimmel returns to host the ceremony for the third time, which is airing live from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on ABC.
Check below for the full list of winners (in bold).
Best Picture
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best Director
Jonathan Glazer,...
On Sunday, the biggest names in film gathered for the 96th Academy Awards, marking the official end to awards season. Jimmy Kimmel returns to host the ceremony for the third time, which is airing live from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on ABC.
Check below for the full list of winners (in bold).
Best Picture
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best Director
Jonathan Glazer,...
- 3/10/2024
- by Jodi Guglielmi
- Rollingstone.com
Ceasefire pins among Oscar guests and nominees were numerous on this afternoon’s red carpet with Poor Things actor Ramy Youssef, Oscar nominated supporting actor Mark Ruffalo from that pic, as well as Barbie “What Was I Made For?” songwriting team Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell donning them.
Youssef told Deadline, “This is for Artists for Ceasefire” about the pin.
“We have a growing list of so many artists who want a permanent immediate ceasefire in Gaza,” the actor added.
“To get really universal about it, it’s about stop killing kids,” he continued.
“We’re using our voices to speak to people’s hearts,” he added, “we want people to have safety and justice.”
“It’s obvious something a lot of people have a lot of opinions about, and I think there can be a place and time to process feelings,” Youssef said, speaking about the divided political situation in Israel and Gaza.
Youssef told Deadline, “This is for Artists for Ceasefire” about the pin.
“We have a growing list of so many artists who want a permanent immediate ceasefire in Gaza,” the actor added.
“To get really universal about it, it’s about stop killing kids,” he continued.
“We’re using our voices to speak to people’s hearts,” he added, “we want people to have safety and justice.”
“It’s obvious something a lot of people have a lot of opinions about, and I think there can be a place and time to process feelings,” Youssef said, speaking about the divided political situation in Israel and Gaza.
- 3/10/2024
- by Antonia Blyth and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Hundreds of protesters have shut down a major section of Hollywood during the Oscars red carpet, turning Hollywood’s biggest night into a traffic nightmare. With just a few minutes ahead of the telecast’s scheduled start time, much of the ballroom is uncharacteristically empty and people are running to their seats.
There was a growing sense of anxiety from production staffers and publicists on the red carpet that tonight’s Oscars will not start on time due to the gridlock. The broadcast itself kicked off five minutes late.
Protesters shut down Sunset Boulevard between Vine Street and La Brea Avenue. They marched down the street with signs that read “No awards for genocide” and drove school buses covered with Palestinian flags. Police ordered the protest to disperse and waited on Sunset Boulevard with battering rams.
Executives, such as Bob Iger, waited an hour to walk the red carpet due to the traffic jam.
There was a growing sense of anxiety from production staffers and publicists on the red carpet that tonight’s Oscars will not start on time due to the gridlock. The broadcast itself kicked off five minutes late.
Protesters shut down Sunset Boulevard between Vine Street and La Brea Avenue. They marched down the street with signs that read “No awards for genocide” and drove school buses covered with Palestinian flags. Police ordered the protest to disperse and waited on Sunset Boulevard with battering rams.
Executives, such as Bob Iger, waited an hour to walk the red carpet due to the traffic jam.
- 3/10/2024
- by Jaden Thompson, Matt Donnelly and Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
Photo: Emma McIntyre (Getty Images)
Despite two historic strikes, shifting release schedules, and the ongoing risk of coronavirus, Hollywood had a lot to celebrate at tonight’s 96th Academy Awards. If there was a message to take away from this year’s awards season, it’s that 2023 was a very good year for movies.
Despite two historic strikes, shifting release schedules, and the ongoing risk of coronavirus, Hollywood had a lot to celebrate at tonight’s 96th Academy Awards. If there was a message to take away from this year’s awards season, it’s that 2023 was a very good year for movies.
- 3/10/2024
- by Cindy White
- avclub.com
Kaouther Ben Hania will make history for her native Tunisia on Sunday with its first Academy Award if her hotly tipped nominated work Four Daughters triumphs in the Best Documentary category on Sunday.
The director belongs to a generation of Tunisian filmmakers who emerged in the wake of their country’s so-called Jasmine Revolution, which ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in early 2011.
Habib Attia, who is one of the original producers on Four Daughters, has been an integral part of this movement too.
The Tunis-based producer has cinema in his blood as the son of late producer Ahmed Bahaeddine Attia, whose credits included Moufida Tlatli’s 1994 breakout The Silences of the Palace, starring Tunisian-Egyptian star Hend Sabry in her first major big screen role.
On finishing his high school studies, Attia headed to his mother’s native Italy to study engineering in Milan, rather than immediately following in his father’s footsteps.
The director belongs to a generation of Tunisian filmmakers who emerged in the wake of their country’s so-called Jasmine Revolution, which ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in early 2011.
Habib Attia, who is one of the original producers on Four Daughters, has been an integral part of this movement too.
The Tunis-based producer has cinema in his blood as the son of late producer Ahmed Bahaeddine Attia, whose credits included Moufida Tlatli’s 1994 breakout The Silences of the Palace, starring Tunisian-Egyptian star Hend Sabry in her first major big screen role.
On finishing his high school studies, Attia headed to his mother’s native Italy to study engineering in Milan, rather than immediately following in his father’s footsteps.
- 3/10/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar contenders and Berlin prize-winners will be among the European films represented by visiting companies to FilMart that are making use of the European Film Promotion umbrella stand within the annual Hong Kong market.
In total, 29 European film sales companies are making the trip, including more than a dozen from France under the Unifrance banner. Prominent rights brokers include Charades, Goodfellas, Fandango and Filmax.
“Efp has built up the European brand at Hong Kong for many years through setting up a prominent umbrella. The aim was always to prominently flag our mission as being the one-stop shop for the European industry and European films,” said Efp executive Susanne Davis. “And we’re happily surprised that so many of them are taking advantage.”
The 29 companies are collectively representing over 140 new European titles, including Oscar contender “Anatomy of a Fall,” represented by MK2 Films, while “Four Daughters” is handled by the Party Film Sales.
In total, 29 European film sales companies are making the trip, including more than a dozen from France under the Unifrance banner. Prominent rights brokers include Charades, Goodfellas, Fandango and Filmax.
“Efp has built up the European brand at Hong Kong for many years through setting up a prominent umbrella. The aim was always to prominently flag our mission as being the one-stop shop for the European industry and European films,” said Efp executive Susanne Davis. “And we’re happily surprised that so many of them are taking advantage.”
The 29 companies are collectively representing over 140 new European titles, including Oscar contender “Anatomy of a Fall,” represented by MK2 Films, while “Four Daughters” is handled by the Party Film Sales.
- 3/10/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Best Picture:
And the Oscar Goes to: - OPPENHEIMER
AMERICAN FICTION
ANATOMY OF A FALL
BARBIE
THE HOLDOVERS
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
MAESTRO
PAST LIVES
POOR THINGS
THE ZONE OF INTEREST
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Emma Stone - POOR THINGS
Annettte Bening - NYAD
Sandra Huller - ANATOMY OF A FALL
Carey Mulligan - MAESTRO
Lily Gladstone – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Best Achievement in Directing:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Christopher Nolan - OPPENHEIMER
Jonathan Glazer - THE ZONE OF INTEREST
Yorgos Lanthimos - POOR THINGS
Martin Scorsese – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Justine Triet - ANATOMY OF A FALL
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Cillian Murphy – OPPENHEIMER
Bradley Cooper - MAESTRO
Colman Domingo - RUSTIN
Paul Giamatti - THE HOLDOVERS
Jeffrey Wright - AMERICAN FICTION
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song):
And the Oscar Goes to: - Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell - BARBIE: "What Was I Made For?"
Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson - AMERICAN SYMPHONY: "It Never Went Away"
Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt - BARBIE: "I'm Just Ken"
Dianne Warren - FLAMIN' HOT: "The Fire Inside"
Scott George - – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: ""Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)"
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score):
And the Oscar Goes to: - Ludwig Göransson - OPPENHEIMER
Laura Karpman - AMERICAN FICTION
John Williams - INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
Robbie Robertson - – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Jerskin Fendrix - POOR THINGS
Best Sound:
And the Oscar Goes to: - THE ZONE OF INTEREST
THE CREATOR
MAESTRO
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE
NAPOLEON
OPPENHEIMER
Best Live-Action Short Film:
And the Oscar Goes to: - THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR
INVINCIBLE
KNIGHT OF FORTUNE
RED, WHITE, AND BLUE
THE AFTER
Best Achievement in Cinematography:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Hoyte Van Hoytema - OPPENHEIMER
Ed Lachman - EL CONDE
Rodrigo Prieto – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Matthew Libatique - MAESTRO
Robbie Ryan - POOR THINGS
Best Documentary Feature:
And the Oscar Goes to: - 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
BOBBY WINE: THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT
FOUR DAUGHTERS
THE ETERNAL MEMORY
TO KILL A TIGER
Best Documentary Short Film:
And the Oscar Goes to: - THE LAST REPAIR SHOP
THE ABCs OF BOOK BANNING
THE BARBER OF LITTLE ROCK
THE ISLAND IN BETWEEN
NAI NAI & WAI PO
Best Achievement in Editing:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Jennifer Lame - OPPENHEIMER
Laurent Sénéchal - ANATOMY OF A FALL
Kevin Tent - THE HOLDOVERS
Thelma Schoonmaker – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Yorgos Mavropsaridis - POOR THINGS
Best Achievement in Visual Effects:
And the Oscar Goes to: - GODZILLA MINUS ONE
THE CREATOR
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE
NAPOLEON
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Robert Downey Jr. - OPPENHEIMER
Sterling K. Brown - AMERICAN FICTION
Robert De Niro – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Ryan Gosling - BARBIE
Mark Ruffalo - POOR THINGS
Best International Feature Film:
And the Oscar Goes to: - THE ZONE OF INTEREST
IO CAPINTANO
PERFECT DAYS
SOCIETY OF THE SNOW
THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE
Best Achievement in Costume Design:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Holly Woddington - POOR THINGS
Jacqueline Durran - BARBIE
Jacqueline West – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Janty Yates, David Crossman - NAPOLEON
Ellen Mirojnick - OPPENHEIMER
Best Achievement in Production Design:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Yorgos Mavropsaridis - POOR THINGS
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer - BARBIE
Jack Fisk Adam Willis – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Arthur Max, Elli Griff - NAPOLEON
Jennifer Lame - OPPENHEIMER
Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling:
And the Oscar Goes to: - POOR THINGS
GOLDA
OPPENHEIMER
SOCIETY OF THE SNOW
MAESTRO
Best Adapted Screenplay:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Cord Jefferson - AMERICAN FICTION
Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach - BARBIE
Christopher Nolan - OPPENHEIMER
Tony McNamara - POOR THINGS
Jonathan Glazer - THE ZONE OF INTEREST
Best Original Screenplay:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Arthur Harari, Justine Triet - ANATOMY OF A FALL
Josh Singer, Bradley Cooper - MAESTRO
Samy Burch, Alex Mechanic - MAY DECEMBER
Celine Song - PAST LIVES
David Hemingson - THE HOLDOVERS
Best Animated Feature Film:
And the Oscar Goes to: - THE BOY AND THE HERON
ELEMENTAL
NIMONA
ROBOT DREAMS
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
Best Animated Short Film:
And the Oscar Goes to -WAR IS OVER!
LETTER TO A PIG
NINETY-FIVE SENSES
OUR UNIFORM
PACHYDERME
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:
And the Oscar Goes to - Da'Vine Joy Randolph - THE HOLDOVERS
Emily Blunt - OPPENHEIMER
Danielle Brooks - THE COLOR PURPLE
America Ferrera - BARBIE
Jodie Foster - NYAD...
And the Oscar Goes to: - OPPENHEIMER
AMERICAN FICTION
ANATOMY OF A FALL
BARBIE
THE HOLDOVERS
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
MAESTRO
PAST LIVES
POOR THINGS
THE ZONE OF INTEREST
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Emma Stone - POOR THINGS
Annettte Bening - NYAD
Sandra Huller - ANATOMY OF A FALL
Carey Mulligan - MAESTRO
Lily Gladstone – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Best Achievement in Directing:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Christopher Nolan - OPPENHEIMER
Jonathan Glazer - THE ZONE OF INTEREST
Yorgos Lanthimos - POOR THINGS
Martin Scorsese – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Justine Triet - ANATOMY OF A FALL
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Cillian Murphy – OPPENHEIMER
Bradley Cooper - MAESTRO
Colman Domingo - RUSTIN
Paul Giamatti - THE HOLDOVERS
Jeffrey Wright - AMERICAN FICTION
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song):
And the Oscar Goes to: - Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell - BARBIE: "What Was I Made For?"
Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson - AMERICAN SYMPHONY: "It Never Went Away"
Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt - BARBIE: "I'm Just Ken"
Dianne Warren - FLAMIN' HOT: "The Fire Inside"
Scott George - – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: ""Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)"
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score):
And the Oscar Goes to: - Ludwig Göransson - OPPENHEIMER
Laura Karpman - AMERICAN FICTION
John Williams - INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
Robbie Robertson - – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Jerskin Fendrix - POOR THINGS
Best Sound:
And the Oscar Goes to: - THE ZONE OF INTEREST
THE CREATOR
MAESTRO
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE
NAPOLEON
OPPENHEIMER
Best Live-Action Short Film:
And the Oscar Goes to: - THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR
INVINCIBLE
KNIGHT OF FORTUNE
RED, WHITE, AND BLUE
THE AFTER
Best Achievement in Cinematography:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Hoyte Van Hoytema - OPPENHEIMER
Ed Lachman - EL CONDE
Rodrigo Prieto – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Matthew Libatique - MAESTRO
Robbie Ryan - POOR THINGS
Best Documentary Feature:
And the Oscar Goes to: - 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
BOBBY WINE: THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT
FOUR DAUGHTERS
THE ETERNAL MEMORY
TO KILL A TIGER
Best Documentary Short Film:
And the Oscar Goes to: - THE LAST REPAIR SHOP
THE ABCs OF BOOK BANNING
THE BARBER OF LITTLE ROCK
THE ISLAND IN BETWEEN
NAI NAI & WAI PO
Best Achievement in Editing:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Jennifer Lame - OPPENHEIMER
Laurent Sénéchal - ANATOMY OF A FALL
Kevin Tent - THE HOLDOVERS
Thelma Schoonmaker – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Yorgos Mavropsaridis - POOR THINGS
Best Achievement in Visual Effects:
And the Oscar Goes to: - GODZILLA MINUS ONE
THE CREATOR
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE
NAPOLEON
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Robert Downey Jr. - OPPENHEIMER
Sterling K. Brown - AMERICAN FICTION
Robert De Niro – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Ryan Gosling - BARBIE
Mark Ruffalo - POOR THINGS
Best International Feature Film:
And the Oscar Goes to: - THE ZONE OF INTEREST
IO CAPINTANO
PERFECT DAYS
SOCIETY OF THE SNOW
THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE
Best Achievement in Costume Design:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Holly Woddington - POOR THINGS
Jacqueline Durran - BARBIE
Jacqueline West – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Janty Yates, David Crossman - NAPOLEON
Ellen Mirojnick - OPPENHEIMER
Best Achievement in Production Design:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Yorgos Mavropsaridis - POOR THINGS
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer - BARBIE
Jack Fisk Adam Willis – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Arthur Max, Elli Griff - NAPOLEON
Jennifer Lame - OPPENHEIMER
Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling:
And the Oscar Goes to: - POOR THINGS
GOLDA
OPPENHEIMER
SOCIETY OF THE SNOW
MAESTRO
Best Adapted Screenplay:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Cord Jefferson - AMERICAN FICTION
Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach - BARBIE
Christopher Nolan - OPPENHEIMER
Tony McNamara - POOR THINGS
Jonathan Glazer - THE ZONE OF INTEREST
Best Original Screenplay:
And the Oscar Goes to: - Arthur Harari, Justine Triet - ANATOMY OF A FALL
Josh Singer, Bradley Cooper - MAESTRO
Samy Burch, Alex Mechanic - MAY DECEMBER
Celine Song - PAST LIVES
David Hemingson - THE HOLDOVERS
Best Animated Feature Film:
And the Oscar Goes to: - THE BOY AND THE HERON
ELEMENTAL
NIMONA
ROBOT DREAMS
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
Best Animated Short Film:
And the Oscar Goes to -WAR IS OVER!
LETTER TO A PIG
NINETY-FIVE SENSES
OUR UNIFORM
PACHYDERME
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:
And the Oscar Goes to - Da'Vine Joy Randolph - THE HOLDOVERS
Emily Blunt - OPPENHEIMER
Danielle Brooks - THE COLOR PURPLE
America Ferrera - BARBIE
Jodie Foster - NYAD...
- 3/9/2024
- IMDbPro News
Les Blank’s ‘Burden of Dreams’ Sees Werner Herzog Try to Push a 320-Ton Ship Up a Hill in the Jungle
On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Can Documentaries Make for Great Midnight Movies?
American documentaries are facing headwinds in awards. It’s not my area of expertise. But Anne Thompson’s predictions for the Best Documentary Feature race ahead of the 96th Oscars on Sunday explain the situation well.
“With the international membership now representing more than 20 percent of the total voters, this year all five documentary nominees were international,” Thompson wrote, tying the trend to numerous non-fiction films left without distributors at Sundance.
“As the top American film festival for docs, Sundance usually supplies...
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Can Documentaries Make for Great Midnight Movies?
American documentaries are facing headwinds in awards. It’s not my area of expertise. But Anne Thompson’s predictions for the Best Documentary Feature race ahead of the 96th Oscars on Sunday explain the situation well.
“With the international membership now representing more than 20 percent of the total voters, this year all five documentary nominees were international,” Thompson wrote, tying the trend to numerous non-fiction films left without distributors at Sundance.
“As the top American film festival for docs, Sundance usually supplies...
- 3/9/2024
- by Alison Foreman and Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Actors (Betsey Brown)
With its central storyline revolving around a male actor (Peter Vack) adopting a phony trans identity in order to secure roles, Betsey Brown’s Actors is engineered to court controversy. But the film is more than empty provocation. Actors is about the inherent vulnerability it takes to be a working actor, and we catch glimpses of the ceaseless cycle of auditions and self-tapes listed as private on Vimeo. This includes one very funny early sequence in which Brown’s mother and father (played by her actual parents) walk her through a self-tape for a lewd part. It’s a role Brown knows she has little chance at landing, so why go through with the humiliation? Because born performers have no choice.
Actors (Betsey Brown)
With its central storyline revolving around a male actor (Peter Vack) adopting a phony trans identity in order to secure roles, Betsey Brown’s Actors is engineered to court controversy. But the film is more than empty provocation. Actors is about the inherent vulnerability it takes to be a working actor, and we catch glimpses of the ceaseless cycle of auditions and self-tapes listed as private on Vimeo. This includes one very funny early sequence in which Brown’s mother and father (played by her actual parents) walk her through a self-tape for a lewd part. It’s a role Brown knows she has little chance at landing, so why go through with the humiliation? Because born performers have no choice.
- 3/8/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Bruno Dumont’s recent Berlinale selection The Empire.
‘The Empire’: Berlin Review
Anamaria Vartolomei, Camille Cottin, Lyna Khoudri, and Fabrice Luchini star in the sci-fi farce about extraterrestrial forces who descend on Earth after the birth of a baby in a French village triggers a secret intergalactic war.
The film won the Silver Bear Jury Prize in Berlin and is a Tessalit Productions production in co-production with Red Balloon Film, Ascent Film, Novak Prod, Rosa Filmes, and Furyo Films.
Jean Bréhat and Bertrand Faivre produced, and the co-producers are Dorothe Beinemeier,...
‘The Empire’: Berlin Review
Anamaria Vartolomei, Camille Cottin, Lyna Khoudri, and Fabrice Luchini star in the sci-fi farce about extraterrestrial forces who descend on Earth after the birth of a baby in a French village triggers a secret intergalactic war.
The film won the Silver Bear Jury Prize in Berlin and is a Tessalit Productions production in co-production with Red Balloon Film, Ascent Film, Novak Prod, Rosa Filmes, and Furyo Films.
Jean Bréhat and Bertrand Faivre produced, and the co-producers are Dorothe Beinemeier,...
- 3/7/2024
- ScreenDaily
Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to Bruno Dumont’s “The Empire,” a sci-fi satire starring Anamaria Vartolomei (“Happening”), Camille Cottin (“Call My Agent!”), Lyna Khoudri (“The Three Musketeers”) and Fabrice Luchini.
“The Empire” just world premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Jury Prize. The movie marks Dumont’s follow up to “France,” a dark comedy starring Léa Seydoux which competed at the Cannes Film Festival.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year, followed by a home video, educational and digital release on all major platforms. The acquisition of “The Empire” marks the sixth time that Kino Lorber has collaborated with Dumont, with previous releases including “Li’l Quinquin,” “Coincoin and the Extra-Humans,” “Slack Bay,” “Camille Claudel 1915” and, most recently, “France.”
The film is set in a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, where a special...
“The Empire” just world premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Jury Prize. The movie marks Dumont’s follow up to “France,” a dark comedy starring Léa Seydoux which competed at the Cannes Film Festival.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year, followed by a home video, educational and digital release on all major platforms. The acquisition of “The Empire” marks the sixth time that Kino Lorber has collaborated with Dumont, with previous releases including “Li’l Quinquin,” “Coincoin and the Extra-Humans,” “Slack Bay,” “Camille Claudel 1915” and, most recently, “France.”
The film is set in a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, where a special...
- 3/7/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best International Feature Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’
Weekly Commentary: The United Kingdom is poised to win its first Academy Award with Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” and what a deserved win it will be.
But while I have the floor: it’s time for the...
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best International Feature Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’
Weekly Commentary: The United Kingdom is poised to win its first Academy Award with Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” and what a deserved win it will be.
But while I have the floor: it’s time for the...
- 3/7/2024
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Documentary Feature
Weekly Commentary: With the Directors Guild of America and BAFTA Awards in hand, in addition to the tragic news of the death of Alexei Navalny, the subject of the Oscar-winning “Navalny” last year, “20 Days in Mariupol” is too important to ignore.
Will Win:...
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Documentary Feature
Weekly Commentary: With the Directors Guild of America and BAFTA Awards in hand, in addition to the tragic news of the death of Alexei Navalny, the subject of the Oscar-winning “Navalny” last year, “20 Days in Mariupol” is too important to ignore.
Will Win:...
- 3/7/2024
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Following multiple nominations for “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest,” industry insiders are excited for more “international” Academy Awards.
“The Oscars have been opening up to international filmmakers in recent years. I am happy to be one of them,” says Kaouther Ben Hania, nominated for doc “Four Daughters.”
“The Academy has made efforts to diversify its membership and nominations, leading to increased recognition for films from around the world. The expansion of categories like international feature film — formerly foreign-language film — and the inclusion of more international voices in other categories demonstrate a growing appreciation for global cinema,” Ben Hania adds.
“Let’s hope this becomes a trend, as audiovisual productions are increasingly global not only in their themes but also in their production models, which involve various countries for financing, artistic talents and technical expertise,” says Gabriela Sandoval, producer and president of Chile’s Assn. of Film and Television Producers.
“The Oscars have been opening up to international filmmakers in recent years. I am happy to be one of them,” says Kaouther Ben Hania, nominated for doc “Four Daughters.”
“The Academy has made efforts to diversify its membership and nominations, leading to increased recognition for films from around the world. The expansion of categories like international feature film — formerly foreign-language film — and the inclusion of more international voices in other categories demonstrate a growing appreciation for global cinema,” Ben Hania adds.
“Let’s hope this becomes a trend, as audiovisual productions are increasingly global not only in their themes but also in their production models, which involve various countries for financing, artistic talents and technical expertise,” says Gabriela Sandoval, producer and president of Chile’s Assn. of Film and Television Producers.
- 3/6/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Beta Film has picked up distribution rights to French thriller Homejacking, which is co-created by Lupin writer Tigran Rosine, and will launch sales at Series Mania.
The German major has revealed its slate for the Lille confab that kicks off in two weeks, with Homejacking set to air in the French Competition Section.
Commissioned for French pay-tv network Ocs, Homejacking is set in an affluent suburban residence where one morning, a middle-class couple is the victim of an intrusion by a hooded assailant. No one know yet what he is looking for, but deep in their basement lies a secret that was hidden for decades.
The series is co-created by Rosine, who penned eight episodes of Netflix smash Lupin. Florent Meyer (Blackspot) is the other co-creator and show was made in collaboration with Emmanuelle Faguer.
Beta also has Latvia’s Soviet Jeans, Germany’s 30 Days of Lust and Herrhausen...
The German major has revealed its slate for the Lille confab that kicks off in two weeks, with Homejacking set to air in the French Competition Section.
Commissioned for French pay-tv network Ocs, Homejacking is set in an affluent suburban residence where one morning, a middle-class couple is the victim of an intrusion by a hooded assailant. No one know yet what he is looking for, but deep in their basement lies a secret that was hidden for decades.
The series is co-created by Rosine, who penned eight episodes of Netflix smash Lupin. Florent Meyer (Blackspot) is the other co-creator and show was made in collaboration with Emmanuelle Faguer.
Beta also has Latvia’s Soviet Jeans, Germany’s 30 Days of Lust and Herrhausen...
- 3/5/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Ten projects have been selected for the second edition of Seriesmakers, Series Mania’s development lab for feature film directors sidestepping into series production.
The lab is run in collaboration with Beta, and this year features projects helmed by directors including Kaouther Ben Hania, who directed the Oscar-nominated doc Four Daughters, and Kevin Macdonald, best known for The Mauritanian.
Ben Hania’s project is titled Freedom Academy and is produced by Nadim Cheikhrouha. The synopsis reads: In the competitive world of television, a cunning producer and his optimistic wife battle for control of a daring reality TV show set in a high-security prison, hoping to capture the intense competition among incarcerated radicals all while the jury grapples with their divergent opinions on prisoners’ rehabilitation.
Macdonald’s series is titled George Blake and is produced by Femke Wolting. Synopsis reads: What makes a person turn against everything they ever stood for?...
The lab is run in collaboration with Beta, and this year features projects helmed by directors including Kaouther Ben Hania, who directed the Oscar-nominated doc Four Daughters, and Kevin Macdonald, best known for The Mauritanian.
Ben Hania’s project is titled Freedom Academy and is produced by Nadim Cheikhrouha. The synopsis reads: In the competitive world of television, a cunning producer and his optimistic wife battle for control of a daring reality TV show set in a high-security prison, hoping to capture the intense competition among incarcerated radicals all while the jury grapples with their divergent opinions on prisoners’ rehabilitation.
Macdonald’s series is titled George Blake and is produced by Femke Wolting. Synopsis reads: What makes a person turn against everything they ever stood for?...
- 3/4/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Seriesmakers, a joint initiative of Series Mania, Europe’s biggest TV festival, and European film-tv powerhouse Beta Group, has revealed the 10 top-notch project lineup of the second edition of its novel and high-powered mentoring program for filmmakers making their TV creator debut.
This year’s Seriesmakers features in development drama series from Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald (“George Blake”), behind “The Last King Of Scotland,” and from Finnish director Mikko Myllylahti, who burst onto the scene co-writing with Juho Kuosmanen the latter’s “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Makki,” a 2016 Cannes Un Certain Regard winner.
Also in the mix is the highly courted Kaouther Ben Hania, a double Oscar nominee for the “compelling, ambitious hybrid” “Four Daughters,” said Variety, in the doc category and the “The Man Who Sold His Skin” (2020), Tunisia’s entry in international feature.
In all, however, nine of the ten directors winning berths this...
This year’s Seriesmakers features in development drama series from Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald (“George Blake”), behind “The Last King Of Scotland,” and from Finnish director Mikko Myllylahti, who burst onto the scene co-writing with Juho Kuosmanen the latter’s “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Makki,” a 2016 Cannes Un Certain Regard winner.
Also in the mix is the highly courted Kaouther Ben Hania, a double Oscar nominee for the “compelling, ambitious hybrid” “Four Daughters,” said Variety, in the doc category and the “The Man Who Sold His Skin” (2020), Tunisia’s entry in international feature.
In all, however, nine of the ten directors winning berths this...
- 3/4/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Sci-fi blockbuster Dune: Part Two opens in 721 venues this weekend, carrying the hopes of many UK-Ireland cinemas after a slow start to 2024.
Denis Villeneuve’s sequel is Warner Bros’ fourth-widest opening of all time in the territory, after last year’s Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom (749) and Barbie (724), and 2022’s Elvis (746).
It is opening on 62 sites more than Dune, which started in 659 venues in October 2021. That film began with a £4.8m weekend at a £7,210 average, dethroning James Bond title No Time To Die. It went on to a £22.1m total – a decent result in a market still feeling the effects of the pandemic.
Denis Villeneuve’s sequel is Warner Bros’ fourth-widest opening of all time in the territory, after last year’s Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom (749) and Barbie (724), and 2022’s Elvis (746).
It is opening on 62 sites more than Dune, which started in 659 venues in October 2021. That film began with a £4.8m weekend at a £7,210 average, dethroning James Bond title No Time To Die. It went on to a £22.1m total – a decent result in a market still feeling the effects of the pandemic.
- 3/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Babylon Berlin has landed a new U.S. home on a newly-merged streaming service created as Kino Lorber’s MHz Choice and Topic combine.
The boutique streamer will be named MHz Choice and feature the likes of The Killing, The Bridge, Detective Montalbano, The Sea Beyond and Pagan Peak, alongside the popular Babylon Berlin, which moves over from Netflix after three seasons on that streamer.
Kino Lorber said the new streamer will “combine the best European dramas and mysteries with Nordic noir crime and thrillers under the MHz Choice brand.”
The Four Daughters distributor owns MHz Choice and Topic, the latter of which in a Jv with First Look Media under which Kino has a majority stake and management oversight. The news comes a few weeks after we revealed layoffs at First Look production subsidiary Topic Studios.
Viaplay has also exited the U.S. following a disastrous 12 months that has...
The boutique streamer will be named MHz Choice and feature the likes of The Killing, The Bridge, Detective Montalbano, The Sea Beyond and Pagan Peak, alongside the popular Babylon Berlin, which moves over from Netflix after three seasons on that streamer.
Kino Lorber said the new streamer will “combine the best European dramas and mysteries with Nordic noir crime and thrillers under the MHz Choice brand.”
The Four Daughters distributor owns MHz Choice and Topic, the latter of which in a Jv with First Look Media under which Kino has a majority stake and management oversight. The news comes a few weeks after we revealed layoffs at First Look production subsidiary Topic Studios.
Viaplay has also exited the U.S. following a disastrous 12 months that has...
- 2/29/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Note: Watch the full rebroadcast of the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Award livestream on our YouTube channel. Highlights below.
Thanks to the weather gods for pushing the expected rain back by a day, the 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards returned to Santa Monica this Sunday under hot and somewhat muggy conditions, giving way to a gorgeous sunset which began to touch down just as the ceremony was ending. Which is to say, for the first time in years it was not freezing cold in the press tent (yay!).
As in past years, Official Partner Bulleit Frontier Whiskey was back at the pre-ceremony outdoor reception with multiple stations serving custom cocktails, alongside the official beer of these Spirit Awards, Stella Artois. For guests tackling two or three awards shows within 24 hours this weekend (the SAG Awards and the PGA Awards both fell on the same weekend) and dying for a caffeine boost,...
Thanks to the weather gods for pushing the expected rain back by a day, the 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards returned to Santa Monica this Sunday under hot and somewhat muggy conditions, giving way to a gorgeous sunset which began to touch down just as the ceremony was ending. Which is to say, for the first time in years it was not freezing cold in the press tent (yay!).
As in past years, Official Partner Bulleit Frontier Whiskey was back at the pre-ceremony outdoor reception with multiple stations serving custom cocktails, alongside the official beer of these Spirit Awards, Stella Artois. For guests tackling two or three awards shows within 24 hours this weekend (the SAG Awards and the PGA Awards both fell on the same weekend) and dying for a caffeine boost,...
- 2/28/2024
- by Su Fang Tham
- Film Independent News & More
Paramount’s “Bob Marley: One Love” topped the U.K. and Ireland box office for the second consecutive weekend with £2.3 million ($3 million), according to numbers from Comscore.
The biopic now has a total of £11.3 million after its second weekend on release. Studiocanal’s “Wicked Little Letters” debuted in second place with £1.6 million. Universal’s “Migration” slid down a place to third with £1.4 million in its fourth weekend for a total of £16.4 million.
Sony’s “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To The Hashira Training” bowed in fourth position with £641,878. Rounding off the top five was another Sony title, “Madame Web,” which earned £602,018 in its second weekend for a total of £3.4 million.
The National Theatre Live release of filmed play “Vanya” with Andrew Scott premiered in 737 venues across U.K. and Ireland on Feb. 22, its widest release since the initiative began in 2009. National Theatre Live screenings play in a variety of venues which include cinemas,...
The biopic now has a total of £11.3 million after its second weekend on release. Studiocanal’s “Wicked Little Letters” debuted in second place with £1.6 million. Universal’s “Migration” slid down a place to third with £1.4 million in its fourth weekend for a total of £16.4 million.
Sony’s “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To The Hashira Training” bowed in fourth position with £641,878. Rounding off the top five was another Sony title, “Madame Web,” which earned £602,018 in its second weekend for a total of £3.4 million.
The National Theatre Live release of filmed play “Vanya” with Andrew Scott premiered in 737 venues across U.K. and Ireland on Feb. 22, its widest release since the initiative began in 2009. National Theatre Live screenings play in a variety of venues which include cinemas,...
- 2/27/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Film Independent Spirit Awards stayed ahead of the Oscar curve once more, announcing their winners on Sunday, February 25 in the usual chilly white tent on the Santa Monica beach (and on YouTube). With Oscar voting not over until the evening of February 27, the winners at the 39th Spirits could gain valuable Oscar momentum.
Host Aidy Bryant played to a warm crowd who chuckled at her jokes. The Spirits are “also known as the bisexual Oscars,” she said. Being an awards show host is tricky, she added, “I could be panned, considered out of touch, and sexist, and potentially be slapped. Worst case: nobody mentions me.”
When she tried roasting the celebrities, she called “May December” star Natalie Portman a “stupid bitch,” Sterling K. Brown “a Stupid K. Bitch,” and said of Charles Melton, “everyone wants to have sex with you, you stupid bitch” and Greta Lee, “you...
Host Aidy Bryant played to a warm crowd who chuckled at her jokes. The Spirits are “also known as the bisexual Oscars,” she said. Being an awards show host is tricky, she added, “I could be panned, considered out of touch, and sexist, and potentially be slapped. Worst case: nobody mentions me.”
When she tried roasting the celebrities, she called “May December” star Natalie Portman a “stupid bitch,” Sterling K. Brown “a Stupid K. Bitch,” and said of Charles Melton, “everyone wants to have sex with you, you stupid bitch” and Greta Lee, “you...
- 2/26/2024
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
“Past Lives” se lleva el Spirit Award 2024 a la Mejor Película.
Ayer se anunciaron los ganadores de los Spirit Awards, conocidos como los “Film Independent Spirit Awards”, unos premios cinematográficos que honran los logros en la producción de películas independientes en los Estados Unidos. Unos premios en los que Past Lives se llevó el de Mejor Película y el de Mejor Dirección. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los ganadores de esta edición:
Mejor PELÍCULA
Past Lives
Mejor DIRECCIÓN
Celine Song, Past Lives
Mejor ACTUACIÓN Protagonista
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Mejor ACTUACIÓN De Reparto
DaVine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Mejor ACTUACIÓN REVELACIÓN
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers
Mejor Guion
American Fiction
Mejor FOTOGRAFÍA
The Holdovers
Mejor Montaje
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Mejor ÓPERA Prima
A Thousand and One
Mejor Primer Guion
May December
Mejor PELÍCULA Internacional
Anatomy of a Fall
Mejor Documental
Four Daughters
¡SÍGUENOS!
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Ayer se anunciaron los ganadores de los Spirit Awards, conocidos como los “Film Independent Spirit Awards”, unos premios cinematográficos que honran los logros en la producción de películas independientes en los Estados Unidos. Unos premios en los que Past Lives se llevó el de Mejor Película y el de Mejor Dirección. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los ganadores de esta edición:
Mejor PELÍCULA
Past Lives
Mejor DIRECCIÓN
Celine Song, Past Lives
Mejor ACTUACIÓN Protagonista
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Mejor ACTUACIÓN De Reparto
DaVine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Mejor ACTUACIÓN REVELACIÓN
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers
Mejor Guion
American Fiction
Mejor FOTOGRAFÍA
The Holdovers
Mejor Montaje
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Mejor ÓPERA Prima
A Thousand and One
Mejor Primer Guion
May December
Mejor PELÍCULA Internacional
Anatomy of a Fall
Mejor Documental
Four Daughters
¡SÍGUENOS!
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- 2/26/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
The rain stayed away from Santa Monica Beach on Sunday (February 25) as Past Lives was named best film and Celine Song best director at the 39th annual Spirit Awards.
While the legacy studio and streamer contenders have dominated much of the big-ticket awards shows this season like Saturday night’s SAG Awards, last weekend’s Baftas, the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, this was a good opportunity for the Oscar-nominated A24 romance and Song to earn gongs for a film which has done well among critics groups since its world premiere at Sundance just over one year ago.
Jeffrey Wright...
While the legacy studio and streamer contenders have dominated much of the big-ticket awards shows this season like Saturday night’s SAG Awards, last weekend’s Baftas, the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, this was a good opportunity for the Oscar-nominated A24 romance and Song to earn gongs for a film which has done well among critics groups since its world premiere at Sundance just over one year ago.
Jeffrey Wright...
- 2/26/2024
- ScreenDaily
Another big award show took place this weekend (in addition to the SAG Awards), the Film Independent Spirit Awards, which celebrates indie film and TV. One thing about this awards show is that their idea of independent sometimes makes me scratch my head a bit, with HBO’s big-budget The Last of Us nominated a whole bunch in the TV category, along with Netflix’s Beef and several other streaming shows, which I’m not sure one could call independent. For films, there’s a $30 million budget cap. For TV, I’m honestly not sure what the benchmark is because Last of Us was notoriously an expensive show to shoot, costing at least $100 million.
Indeed, The Last of Us won some key awards on the TV side, winning Best Supporting Performance (for Nick Offerman) and Best Breakthrough Performance (for Keivonn Montreal Woodard). Over on the film side, American Fiction and...
Indeed, The Last of Us won some key awards on the TV side, winning Best Supporting Performance (for Nick Offerman) and Best Breakthrough Performance (for Keivonn Montreal Woodard). Over on the film side, American Fiction and...
- 2/26/2024
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
A24’s Past Lives won the top prize for best feature at the 39th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, with writer-director Celine Song also winning best director for her feature film debut.
American Fiction’s Jeffrey Wright won best lead performance for his role in the Amazon MGM Studios comedy, presented to him by his fellow Oscar nominee Colman Domingo. “It’s funny, you go to these award shows, and you kind of grow tired of them,” laughed Wright. “And then you get one. It changes the vibe a little bit.”
American Fiction writer-director Cord Jefferson also won best screenplay for his directorial debut. “Our film is so independent that one morning I woke up at our hotel to find out that there had been a triple stabbing the night before in the lobby,” said Jefferson. “They were cleaning up the blood. And I would not have it any other way.
American Fiction’s Jeffrey Wright won best lead performance for his role in the Amazon MGM Studios comedy, presented to him by his fellow Oscar nominee Colman Domingo. “It’s funny, you go to these award shows, and you kind of grow tired of them,” laughed Wright. “And then you get one. It changes the vibe a little bit.”
American Fiction writer-director Cord Jefferson also won best screenplay for his directorial debut. “Our film is so independent that one morning I woke up at our hotel to find out that there had been a triple stabbing the night before in the lobby,” said Jefferson. “They were cleaning up the blood. And I would not have it any other way.
- 2/26/2024
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Past Lives was named best feature at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards, which were handed out Sunday afternoon in Santa Monica.
In addition, Celine Song was named best director for her work on the film.
Elsewhere, Da’Vine Joy Randolph won the Spirit Award for best supporting performance, for her role in The Holdovers, repeating her win from Saturday night’s SAG Awards and other shows this awards season. Her co-star, Dominic Sessa, won the Spirit Award for best breakthrough performance.
American Fiction also collected two trophies: Cord Jefferson won the award for best screenplay, while Jeffrey Wright won for best lead performance.
May December won the award for best first screenplay for Samy Burch (story by Burch and Alex Mechanik). Four Daughters was named best documentary.
On the TV side, Beef was named best new scripted series, while Ali Wong won best lead performance for her role in the show,...
In addition, Celine Song was named best director for her work on the film.
Elsewhere, Da’Vine Joy Randolph won the Spirit Award for best supporting performance, for her role in The Holdovers, repeating her win from Saturday night’s SAG Awards and other shows this awards season. Her co-star, Dominic Sessa, won the Spirit Award for best breakthrough performance.
American Fiction also collected two trophies: Cord Jefferson won the award for best screenplay, while Jeffrey Wright won for best lead performance.
May December won the award for best first screenplay for Samy Burch (story by Burch and Alex Mechanik). Four Daughters was named best documentary.
On the TV side, Beef was named best new scripted series, while Ali Wong won best lead performance for her role in the show,...
- 2/26/2024
- by Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
People protesting the Israel-Hamas war outside the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards could be heard inside throughout the ceremony on Sunday afternoon.
A handful of protesters were outside the tent located on the beach in Santa Monica playing previously recorded chants on a megaphone such as “free Palestine,” “long live Palestine” and “ceasefire now.” The chants continued as awards were presented inside and were also heard during the red carpet arrivals earlier in the day.
Protesters chant “Free, Free Palestine” and “Ceasefire Now” outside the 2024 #SpiritAwards pic.twitter.com/HajqDt1D76
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 25, 2024
Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that the chants were “very audible” inside the tent where the ceremony was taking place. They could also be heard on the livestream of the event on Film Independent and IMDb’s YouTube channels. At one point, while actor and comedian Jim Gaffigan was presenting, he appeared to be...
A handful of protesters were outside the tent located on the beach in Santa Monica playing previously recorded chants on a megaphone such as “free Palestine,” “long live Palestine” and “ceasefire now.” The chants continued as awards were presented inside and were also heard during the red carpet arrivals earlier in the day.
Protesters chant “Free, Free Palestine” and “Ceasefire Now” outside the 2024 #SpiritAwards pic.twitter.com/HajqDt1D76
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 25, 2024
Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that the chants were “very audible” inside the tent where the ceremony was taking place. They could also be heard on the livestream of the event on Film Independent and IMDb’s YouTube channels. At one point, while actor and comedian Jim Gaffigan was presenting, he appeared to be...
- 2/25/2024
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Live from a tent on the beach in Santa Monica, California, it’s the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards! This year’s ceremony, which kicked off this afternoon, was hosted by “Saturday Night Live” alum Aidy Bryant and feted the best in indie film and TV.
This year’s pack of nominees included a slew of Oscar contenders and a number of indie gems, all competing for the biggest prizes in the indie sphere.
Celine Song’s “Past Lives” won Best Feature (which the filmmaker picked up just minutes after winning Best Director as well), while “The Holdovers” and “American Fiction” also enjoyed multiple wins, including a Best Performance win for “American Fiction” star Jeffrey Wright and Best Screenplay for writer Cord Jefferson, and a Best Supporting Performance win for “The Holdovers” standout Da’Vine Joy Randolph and a Breakthrough Performance win for newbie Dominic Sessa.
Thanks to the Spirits’ various TV categories,...
This year’s pack of nominees included a slew of Oscar contenders and a number of indie gems, all competing for the biggest prizes in the indie sphere.
Celine Song’s “Past Lives” won Best Feature (which the filmmaker picked up just minutes after winning Best Director as well), while “The Holdovers” and “American Fiction” also enjoyed multiple wins, including a Best Performance win for “American Fiction” star Jeffrey Wright and Best Screenplay for writer Cord Jefferson, and a Best Supporting Performance win for “The Holdovers” standout Da’Vine Joy Randolph and a Breakthrough Performance win for newbie Dominic Sessa.
Thanks to the Spirits’ various TV categories,...
- 2/25/2024
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Gold Derby is backstage at the 39th Annual Indie Spirit Awards on the beach in Santa Monica, CA on Sunday, February 25, hosted by comedian, actress and “SNL” alumnus Aidy Bryant. We’ll bring you all of the up-to-date details on the presenters, nominees and winners. (See the complete winners list here.) Read on for the 2024 Spirits live blog.
The kudofest is streaming live on IMDb’s YouTube Channel as well as Film Independent’s YouTube and Twitter accounts starting at 2 p.m. Pst/5 p.m. Est.
On the film side, the nominations were dominated by “American Fiction,” “Past Lives” and “May December,” which picked up five nods apiece. Those three films are up for Best Feature along with “All of Us Strangers,” “Passages” and “We Grown Now.” Since 2012, Film Independent and the Spirits have forecast 7 of 12 Best Picture winners at the Academy Awards, including “The Artist” (2012), “12 Years a Slave...
The kudofest is streaming live on IMDb’s YouTube Channel as well as Film Independent’s YouTube and Twitter accounts starting at 2 p.m. Pst/5 p.m. Est.
On the film side, the nominations were dominated by “American Fiction,” “Past Lives” and “May December,” which picked up five nods apiece. Those three films are up for Best Feature along with “All of Us Strangers,” “Passages” and “We Grown Now.” Since 2012, Film Independent and the Spirits have forecast 7 of 12 Best Picture winners at the Academy Awards, including “The Artist” (2012), “12 Years a Slave...
- 2/25/2024
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
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