With more nominations than any other country, France is in a unique position this year. Back with another Cannes winner (but without the baggage that Emilia Pérez brought last season), Jafar ...
After their extraordinary sophomore feature Wildhood, Bretten Hannem crafts another demonstration of being in touch with one’s own Indigenous heritage. One that is even more ambitious in ...
Chloé Zhao, Colin Farrell, Rose Byrne, Jafar Panahi, Jay Kelly Ensemble and Casting Directors Among Honorees The Middleburg Film Festival announced today an initial lineup of films and ...
Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet has won the TIFF People’s Choice Award of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, making her the first director to win the TIFF People’s Choice Award ...
As bleak as last month was for this category, it’s actually even more so now. With Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals wrapped and very little in the way of major pickups by studios ...
On episode 306 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello to break down the films, awards buzz, and wild moments they had ...
It’s easy to look at Christy, the new boxing biopic from journeyman director David Michôd, and expect the most formulaic story: a scrappy fighter from rural West Virginia rises through the ranks ...
Do movies need dialogue? It’s not a silly question. After all, film is a visual medium. And the visual existed quite a while before synchronized sound. Denis Villeneuve recently said that he ...
The history of The History of Sound began five years ago, at the beginning of COVID lockdowns in March 2020. Right at that point, Mescal burst onto the scene with the limited series Normal People, ...
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema’s greatest ...
Coming in late with screenplay predictions this season, largely to see if any ‘is it adapted or original’ contenders could get ironed out but there doesn’t really seem to be any that are going to ...
The California Film Institute (CAFILM) has named Rose Kuo as Artistic Director, a newly created leadership position established earlier this year to guide the organization’s artistic vision and ensure ...