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6 votes
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‘Hamnet’ wins Toronto Film Festival audience award
9 votes -
Venice Film Festival winners: Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ takes Golden Lion, Benny Safdie gets Best Director for ‘Smashing Machine’
8 votes -
Dwayne Johnson uncontrollably sobs as ‘The Smashing Machine’ gets fifteen-minute Venice standing ovation and generates Oscar buzz
25 votes -
Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression
3 votes -
Cannes winners: Palme D’Or goes to Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just An Accident’; Grand Prize is Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’
9 votes -
Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’ wows Cannes in premiere, gets extraordinary nineteen-minute ovation
10 votes -
Dogma 25: Group of Scandi filmmakers launching refreshed manifesto
9 votes -
'Coyote Vs. Acme' heads to the Cannes market for sales
12 votes -
Cannes 2025 competition: Ari Aster, Joachim Trier, Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Kelly Reichardt, Julia Ducournau and Wes Anderson among lineup
7 votes -
It’s Boulder! Sundance exits Utah for 2027 move to blue state Colorado.
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Berlin Film Festival: Norwegian film ‘Dreams (Sex Love)’ wins Golden Bear, Andrew Scott and Rose Byrne take acting honors
8 votes -
‘Atropia,’ ‘Twinless’ win top Sundance 2025 awards
5 votes -
Julie Delpy to receive lifetime honor at Sweden's Gothenburg Film Festival – French multi-hyphenate will be honored with the 2025 Honorary Dragon Award
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‘The Life Of Chuck’ wins Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award
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Venice Film Festival awards: Pedro Almodóvar wins Golden Lion for ‘The Room Next Door’
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‘Furiosa’ fires up Cannes with six-minute standing ovation for Anya Taylor-Joy and teary Chris Hemsworth
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Cannes Film Festival: ‘Anora’ wins Palme d’Or
7 votes -
Meryl Streep: It’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters
34 votes -
Documentary ‘The Home Game’, about an Icelandic village's football team, has taken the top honour at the Glasgow Film Festival
6 votes -
Sundance Film Festival awards: ‘In The Summers’, ‘Dìdi’, ‘Daughters’ top winners list
4 votes -
Berlin reveals 2024 competition lineup: Rooney Mara, Mati Diop, Isabelle Huppert, Abderrahmane Sissako movies among selection
3 votes -
Martin Scorsese interviewed by Edgar Wright | British Film Institute London Film Festival 2023 Screen Talk
6 votes -
‘American Fiction’ wins Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award
3 votes -
Netflix landing Anna Kendrick’s ‘Dating Game’ serial killer tale ‘Woman Of The Hour’ for $11 million in first big TIFF 2023 deal
5 votes -
Venice Film Festival: Yorgos Lanthimos wins Golden Lion with ‘Poor Things’
6 votes -
‘Drive-Away Dolls’ eyes September exit; what’s involved in possible ‘Dune: Part Two’ spring 2024 move
4 votes -
Venice Film Festival lineup: Mann, Lanthimos, Fincher, DuVernay, Cooper, Besson, Coppola, Hamaguchi in competition; Polanski, Allen, Anderson, Linklater out of competition
3 votes -
Toronto International Film Festival lineup unveiled amid strikes: Awards contenders ‘Dumb Money’, ‘The Holdovers’, ‘Rustin’
4 votes -
Cannes awards: ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ takes Palme d’Or, ‘The Zone of Interest’ and ‘The Pot au Feu’ among winners
2 votes -
Netflix buys ‘May December,’ starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, for $11 million following buzzy Cannes debut
5 votes -
Cannes: ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ debuts to six-minute standing ovation
7 votes -
2023 Cannes lineup revealed: Wes Anderson, ‘The Idol,’ Glazer, Rohrwacher, McQueen, and more
3 votes -
Johnny Depp starrer ‘Jeanne Du Barry’ to open Cannes Film Festival
1 vote -
Cannes 2023: Thierry Fremaux on the festival’s relationship with Hollywood, Scorsese, Netflix, Oscars and TikTok
1 vote -
Go behind the scenes of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City ahead of likely Cannes 2023 premiere
1 vote -
Berlin Film Festival winners: French documentary ‘On The Adamant’ by Nicolas Philibert wins Golden Bear
2 votes -
Sundance title ‘Cat Person’ has no buyer and stands to lose millions
2 votes -
Malou Reymann picked up the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at the Göteborg Film Festival with her second feature Unruly
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Is Roman Polanski’s new film ‘The Palace’ going to Cannes or Venice?
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Sundance winners: ‘A Thousand and One’ takes US dramatic jury prize
3 votes -
Apple confirms ‘Flora And Son’, streamer’s biggest Sundance deal since ‘CODA’
3 votes -
‘Fair Play,’ starring Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor, sells to Netflix for $20 million in huge Sundance deal
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Berlin Film Festival unveils competition lineup, Sean Penn’s Ukraine doc to screen out of competition
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Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Poor Things’ set to premiere at Cannes
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Sundance readies big return as indie film business struggles to survive
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Post-fall festivals 2023 Oscar predictions
Okay, I promise this is the last time I’ll make one of these posts for the rest of the year. The major fall festivals (TIFF, Telluride, and Venice) happened. So many movies got mediocre reception...
Okay, I promise this is the last time I’ll make one of these posts for the rest of the year.
The major fall festivals (TIFF, Telluride, and Venice) happened. So many movies got mediocre reception at these festivals (namely Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu’s Bardo, Florian Zeller’s The Son, and Sam Mendes’s Empire of Light).
So the race has taken a more serious shape. Here are the old predictions.
Here are the renewed predictions:
Picture:
- The Fabelmans
- Babylon
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Women Talking
- Elvis
- TAR
- The Whale
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Alt: Top Gun: Maverick
Director:
- Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans
- Damien Chazelle - Babylon
- James Cameron - Avatar: The Way of Water
- Daniels - Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Todd Field - TAR
DGA Snub: Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Inisherin
Lead Actor:
- Brendan Fraser - The Whale
- Austin Butler - Elvis
- Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin
- Bill Nighy - Living
- Hugh Jackman - The Son
Alt: Diego Calva - Babylon
Lead Actress:
- Margot Robbie - Babylon
- Naomi Ackie - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
- Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Cate Blanchett - TAR
- Olivia Colman - Empire of Light
Alt: Jennifer Lawrence - Causeway
Supporting Actor:
- Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin
- Paul Dano - The Fabelmans
- Brad Pitt - Babylon
- Ben Wishaw - Women Talking
Alt: Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin
Supporting Actress:
- Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans
- Claire Foy - Women Talking
- Sadie Sink - The Whale
- Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin
- Janelle Monae - Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Alt: Nina Hoss - TAR
Original Screenplay:
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Babylon
- The Fabelmans
- TAR
Adapted Screenplay:
- Women Talking
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- The Whale
- Living
- Bones & All
Cinematography:
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Babylon
- The Fabelmans
- Empire of Light
- The Batman
Production Design:
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Babylon
- The Fablemans
- Elvis
- Amsterdam
Costume Design
- Babylon
- The Fabelmans
- Elvis
- Amsterdam
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hair and Make-up
- The Whale
- Elvis
- The Batman
- Babylon
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Original Score:
- The Fabelmans
- Babylon
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Women Talking
- Empire of Light
Sound:
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Babylon
- Elvis
- The Fabelmans
Film Editing:
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Babylon
- The Fabelmans
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Elvis
VFX:
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- The Batman
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Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ wins Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award
4 votes -
Brendan Fraser's comeback is complete following an emotional standing ovation for his new film The Whale
6 votes -
Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ scores lengthy TIFF standing ovation, director insists he’s not retiring
2 votes