AWARDS CHATTER

The 2016 nominations for the Satellite Awards have been announced this morning. Leading in Film are La La Land, Manchester By The Sea and Moonlight. In the TV category, Game of Thrones and The People V OJ Simpson lead. Tom Ford and the…

There's a buzz around town. Molly Shannon and Oscar. Shannon is best known for eliciting laughs from audiences, not tears. However, in a departure from comedy, Molly teamed up with SNL writer Chris Kelly to play Joanne in this year's Other…

Nocturnal Animals, Tom Ford's second film, stars Amy Adams as Susan, a gallery owner who is sent a manuscript by her ex-husband Tony, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. The book her ex written is dedicated to Susan. She reads about a man who takes…

The Academy has just released the list of 145 documentary features submitted for Oscar consideration. Here in alphabetical order, they are: The Abolitionists Abortion: Stories Women Tell All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and…

The poster for Denzel Washington's highly anticipated adaptation of August Wilson's Fences has arrived. Simple and beautiful. Denzel. Viola. Fences. Christmas Day. If you still haven't seen the trailer, here's a reminder:…

Bleecker Street has launched its FYC campaign for Eye In The Sky. In this AwardsDaily exclusive, here is a look at the digital booklet: Academy Award winner Helen Mirren graces the front of the booklet, and as you flick through you…

Moonlight opened this weekend to impressive results. The A24 film directed by Barry Jenkins grossed over $402,075 playing on just four screens. Its average per screen was $103,685. The drama based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play about a…

I hope I got your interest with Day #1. Now the challenge is to maintain your interest with #2, the ‘difficult sophomore album’ article. We’re gonna steer a little off the beaten Oscar track today, although if there were any justice in the…

Holy cow, I almost choked on my coffee as I looked at these covers.  You never see non-whites on the cover of Vanity Fair, never ever.  In the second term with our first African American president, a film that looks like it might become --…

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the…

Since the Oscar race that started with Argo in Telluride is now finishing with Argo in Hollywood I have really no choice but to quote Bob Dylan -- "You just kinda wasted my precious time but don’t think twice, it’s all right." All of…

All the films up for Best Picture are formidable challengers in their own right. But only one of these has a secret weapon: a charming, handsome actor-director most people have known for years. The public knows his suave celebrity…