We are thrilled to announce the recipients to receive the Virtuosos Award presented by UGG®, an honor created to recognize a select group of talent whose noteworthy performances in film have elevated them into the national cinematic dialogue. Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal), Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), Kingsley Ben-Adir (One Night in Miami), Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday), Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always), Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
There’s a scene in MANK from Netflix where the reading of a love letter turns into a rollover accident for Herman J. Mankiewicz, so with the Hollywood Foreign Press putting this movie in the lead of Golden Globes Nominees with six possible wins? Let’s hope that scenario in the gorgeous black and white film doesn’t turn out to be prophetic as this love letter to Old Hollywood as frontrunner but a red herring.
Over all, the 78...
The Dallas International Film Festival, powered by Capital One, announced the winners for its 2020 Fall Screenplay Awards: Elements of Story.
The Screenplay Awards, presented by Event Horizon Films, recognizes writers who specialize on an individual writing element. Each script was reviewed by working industry professionals at top rep agencies (ICM Partners, A3 Artists Agency, Gersh, etc.) and graded based on strength of characterization, dialogue, theme, concept and engageme...
The Hollywood Critics Association is pleased to reveal the full list of nominees for the 4th Annual HCA Film Awards. The virtual awards ceremony will stream on the official HCA Facebook page and YouTube channel on Friday, March 5, 2021, beginning at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET.
Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman topped the list with a total of nine nominations. The film, which received rave reviews after its premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for Bes...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
With Award Season 2021 quashed by the Pandemic and forced to go virtual for the first time in Hollywood's long history, the 25th Annual Satellite Award kicked off the season with a promising field of nominees this year.
After the insider buzz about Carey Mulligan’s rough ride through trade reviews, the International Press Academy (IPA) member voters picked Mulligan and PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN out of the line-up for ...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Presents Feature Film Prize to Son of Monarchs, Announces New Grants to Artists at 2021 Sundance Film Festival
Director-Screenwriter Alexis Gambis Honored
At the 2021 Sundance Film Festival today, the beneficiaries of $70,000 in grants from Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation were named. Doron Weber, Vice President and Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, presented the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film...
Congratulations to all the winners, nominees, and selectees!
Best Feature Film: Angie: Lost Girls By Julia Verdin
Best New Filmmaker: Before By Julia Monahan
Best Student Filmmaker: Breakfast at the Sunset Saloon By Joey Coalter
Best Music Video: My Way By Bruno Levinson and Leonardo Fiorito
Best Experimental Short: Ophelia By Hadi Moussally
Best Comedy Short Film: Manasanamaha By Deepak reddy
Best Suspense/Thriller Short Film: The Keeper By Bob Celli
CIFF Art Award: Inst...
The winners of various national and international competition sections of the the 37th edition of the Tehran International Short Film Festival (TISFF) were introduced and presented their awards to the medical staff who are combating Coronavirus in the Iran.
Addressing the gathering, the festival director Sadeq Mousavi thanked the event's organizers, as well as the Iranian artists and filmmakers who sent about 1700 short films to the secretariat of the event
Iran is top 10 short fil...
Ninety-three countries have submitted films that are eligible for consideration in the International Feature Film category for the 93rd Academy Awards. An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (more than 40 minutes) produced outside the United States with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track. Lesotho, Sudan and Suriname are first-time entrants.
Earlier this year, the Academy’s Board of Governors voted to expand the s...
Two hundred thirty-eight features are eligible for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 93rd Academy Awards. Some of the films have not yet had their required qualifying release and must fulfill that requirement and comply with all the category’s other qualifying rules to advance in the voting process.
Documentary features that have won a qualifying award or have been programmed at qualifying film festivals or have been submitted in the International Featu...
Twenty-seven features are eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 93rd Academy Awards. Some of the films have not yet had their required qualifying release and must fulfill that requirement and comply with all the category’s other qualifying rules to advance in the voting process.
To determine the five nominees, members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch are automatically eligible to vote in the category. Academy members outsid...
Miami Dade College’s renowned Miami Film Festival today announced that Sound of Metal star Riz Ahmed will receive the Festival’s inaugural Impact Award. The award tribute and conversation moderated by Variety’s Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis will take place on March 6, 2021. The 38th annual Festival will be a held from March 5-14, 2021 as a hybrid event, with both virtual and in-theater presentations.
“We are excited to recogniz...
Variety to Honor Steve McQueen with Creative Impact in Directing Award at 10 Directors To Watch Virtual Event
Variety will host a virtual 10 Directors to Watch and Creative Impact Awards event with the Palm Springs International Film Society on February 26 at 10:00 AM PT.
The event will consist of a virtual panel with the 10 Directors to Watch plus honor director Steve McQueen with its annual Creative Impact in Directing Award for his work on Amazon Studios’ collecti...
IFFI 51, 16-24 January 2021, 14: Into the Darkness won the Golden Peacock
The epic World War II film Into the Darkness (De forbandede år) which portrays the story of a Danish electronics factory owner who is forced to produce for the occupying Nazi forces, has won the coveted Golden Peacock Award at the just-concluded 51st edition of the International Film Festival of India. The Golden Peacock Award consists of a cash prize of Rs. 40 lakhs (Rs. 4 million) to be shared equ...
The final day of the Fourteenth Kustendorf International Film and Music Festival wrapped up with a closing ceremony held at the Stanley Kubrick theatre in Mećavnik.
Members of the jury joined professor Emir Kusturica in a teleconference, to present the Festival awards –Golden, Silver and Bronze Eggs and the Vilko Filač Award for Cinematography.
Miki Manojlović, Alice Rohrwacher and Bruno Tarrière have unanimously decided to award not one but two film authors. The G...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
On Jan. 25, AFI announced the recipients of the 2020 AFI Awards, and stated that “AFI’s global Movie Club program will showcase the official selections beginning in February.” During the rise of COVID-19 last year, these moments of movie exploration by AFI Movie Club gave viewers insight and a brief respite from the Pandemic.
“For 20 years, AFI AWARDS has been a moment to gather artists in one room with a singular goal &...
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Gary Oldman is the recipient of the Chairman’s Award for his performance in Mank.
"Gary Oldman gives another mesmerizing performance as Herman J. Mankiewicz in David Fincher’s Mank. Oldman plays the role to perfection as the films follows the screenwriter’s journey while is co-writing the script for Citizen Kane,” said Harold Matzner. “We are delighted to recognize one of t...
Awards announced in Nine Categories
Germany movie ‘Cherry Blossoms and Demons’ wins four awards
Chinese movie ‘The Highland Reflections’ wins three awards
Abhirami Bose wins Best Actress Award for Marathi film ‘Ratricha Paus’
Farmer is the focal point in the movie ‘Kaali Maati’, wins Award for the Best Political and Best Current Issue Film
JAIPUR:
The five-day digital edition of the13th Jaipur International Film Fest...
RIFF 07, 2021, 02: Yashpal Sharma to be awarded the Om Puri Memorial Common Man in Cinema award
The 7th edition of the Rajasthan International Film Festival (RIFF), accredited by the Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI) (North Region) will be organised by the RIFF Film Club in a Hybrid Format, from 20 to 24th March 2021, in Jaipur and Jodhpur, Rajasthan - India. This year the theme for the RIFF 2021 is "Music in Cinema". RIFF 2021 will also celebrate the Pre-Foundation Day o...
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Carey Mulligan is the recipient of the International Star Award for her performance in Promising Young Woman. As previously announced, the Festival and Film Awards Gala will not take place as an in-person event this year, but honoree selections will be announced to recognize this year’s great performances.
“In Promising Young Woman, Carey Mulligan boldly portrays Cassandra Thomas, a...
The Academy announced today that its Board of Governors voted to present Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Awards to filmmaker Tyler Perry and to the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF). The Oscar® statuettes will be presented at the 93rd Oscars®, which airs live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on Sunday, April 25, 2021.
“There has been such widespread generosity in our industry that limiting the Hersholt Humanitarian Award to one recipient, thi...
Congratulations! Well Deserved!
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SHORT FILM
Winner
ASHMINA / Nepal
directed by Dekel Berenson
Special Mention
3 BLADES, / Haiti
directed by
Matthieu Maunier - Rossi
NEW VISIONS
Winner
JUMBO / France
directed by Zoé Wittock
SPIRIT OF FREEDOM Documentary:
Winner
My Blood is Red / Brazil
directed by Marcelo Vogelaar, Thiago Dezan, Graciela G...
BEST FEATURE
The Assistant
First Cow
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
*WINNER* Nomadland
Relic
BEST DOCUMENTARY – TIE
76 Days
City Hall
Our Time Machine
*WINNER* A Thousand Cuts
*WINNER* Time
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
Bacurau
Beanpole
Cuties (Mignonnes)
*WINNER* Identifying Features
Martin Eden
Wolfwalkers
BINGHAM RAY BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR AWARD
Radha Blank, The Forty-Year-Old Version
Channing Godfrey Peoples, Miss Junet...
Dumbo, New york Screenwriting Competition
QUARTERFINALISTS
The Dumbo Film Festival in Brooklyn announced today the quarterfinalists for its 2020 Screenplay Competition, presented by Event Horizon Films. Each script was reviewed by working industry professionals at top rep agencies (ICM Partners, A3 Artists Agency, Gersh, etc.) and graded based on strength of plot, characterization, format, originality, style, dialogue, pacing and current market potential.
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