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Simu Liu to host Academy's SciTech Awards

Actor Simu Liu will host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards presentation on Friday, February 24, 2023, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. He will present nine awards, including an Oscar® statuette, to 20 individual award recipients during the evening. ...
Winners at the 2023 Golden Globes

The 80th Golden Globes both met expectations, and left viewers speechless. However, it was thewinners of film that highlighted the night, especially first-time winners Ke Huy Quan andMichelle Yeoh for Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Austin Butler for Elvis. All threeactors had been predicted to win in...
2023 Oscars: 301 Films Eligible For Best Picture

The Academy has revealed the 301 films deemed eligible for Best Picture at this year's 95th Oscars. The requirements for consideration under rules implemented for the 95th Academy Awards year, are that feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in at least one of six U.S. metropolitan are...
VIFF 2022 Interview: Sr. Programmer PoChu AuYeung

I’ve been covering the Vancouver International Film Festival for parts of three decades. It’s always a delight! Running from late September through early October, VIFF gathers gems from the Cannes, Venice, and Toronto festivals, and presents them alongside a big helping of mostly Canadian and Asian premi...
'Broker' Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda and Song Kang Ho

Hirokazu Kore-eda has directed 20-plus features and TV series since 1991. Four of the first five were documentaries. One featured adorable first-graders who learn basic math, biology, and teamwork by raising a calf. Another puzzled over the suicide of the government Minister who’d investigated an industria...
2023 Oscars Announces Shortlist for 95th Academy Awards

It's Award Season again and we are looking forward to next year's 2023 Oscars! The 95th Oscars® will be held at the Dolby® Theatre on Sunday, March 12th in Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has recently announced shortlists in 10 categories for the...
Margot Robbie, Ryan Coogler honored at 2022 SFFilm Awards Night

The 2022 SFFilm Awards Night, SFFilm's annual fundraiser supporting SFFILM’s mission-driven initiatives, which took place on Monday, December 5, 2022, honored Ryan Coogler with the Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction, Sarah Polley with the SFFILM Award for Storytelling, and Margot Robbie with the Mar...
LA International Film Festival to host 2022 edition in Santa Monica

Independent filmmakers getting back on their feet after a tough two years will benefit from an array of events at the LA International Film Festival (LAIFF) from November 1-6, 2022, which will be held in Santa Monica at Monica Film Center. Join us for LAIFF 2022's films and special networking events at Laemm...
Eddie Redmayne is dark and riveting in 'The Good Nurse'

The 45th Mill Valley Film Festival closed on Sunday, October 16th, with Director Tobias Lindholm's (Another Round) crime, drama The Good Nurse starring Eddie Redmayne (Theory of Everything MVFF37), Jessica Chastaine (Armageddon Time, The Eyes of Tammie Faye) and Nnamdi Asomugha (Sylvie's Love). The film, a bi...
Stellar 2022 Mill Valley Film Festival Line-Up Continues

The 2022 Mill Valley Film Festival kicked off last Thursday, October 6th with an exciting Opening Night Film and Gala. For Director Rian Johnson’s latest comedic murder mystery, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which stars Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn and Leslie Odom Jr. the cast was present for the red car...
Cannes 2022 Winners: 'Triangle of Sadness' wins Palme d’or

And the jury has spoken. Cannes Jury President Vincent Lindon and his team, which includes British actress Rebecca Hall (Passing), Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (A Hero), and Norwegian director Joachim Trier (Worst Person in the World), granted more than half the festival’s competitors prizes last night,...
Cannes Review: Baz Luhrman’s 'Elvis' starring Austin Butler

Cannes’ red-carpet premieres may require black tie, but there are no regulations re coifs. So it was not unusual to see young men (and old!) scale the steps of the Palais last night, jet black hair all slicked back, in homage to the King of Rock’N’Roll. Priscilla Presley, Elvis’ wife, was there, lend...
Cannes Review: 'Decision to Leave'

With two days left in the Competition, it looks like Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave may be the film to beat. I’m not predicting who’ll win the Palme d’or, Cannes’ top prize. Juries are idiosyncratic, and this one, led by the ubiquitous Vincent Lindon (Best Actor at Cannes in 2015 for&...
Cannes Review: 'Crimes of the Future'

“Surgery is the new sex,” someone says – could’ve been anyone, really – in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future. The “future” referred to in the title is a world where people sleep in beds that resemble giant capsized jellyfish, beds that can adjust to sleepers’ individual pain para...
Cannes Review: Davy Chou’s 'Return to Seoul'

Newcomer Park Ji-min (not to be confused with the BTS K-pop star of the same name) carries French-Cambodian director Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul. [Sony Pictures Classics and Mubi will distribute the film in the US this Fall.] Slow out of the gates, R2S – originally titled, way more appropr...