The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Jeffrey Wright is the recipient of the Career Achievement Award, for his performance in Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024. The event will be sponsored by Entertainment Tonight and IHG Hotels & Resorts. Photo:...

The Gotham Awards were held the other night, and the results were very Film Twitter-friendly. By that, I mean, no straight white men were awarded. In a lineup of names for Lead Performance, they have stuffed them all into a category together, almost as a dare. They're daring voters to pick the straight white guy (if there is one), which...

Darren Harou Rae's Nisei feels personal from the very first frame. The injustices brought on to Japanese-Americans during World War II should still shock and appall the entire country, but this short takes it a step further by honing in on how this tangled history affects one Japanese family. It is a film about identity, forgiveness, and how second generation...

"Everything seems to have stacked up in your favor," an officer tells an excited pilot in Iain Softley's heartwarming short film, The Shepherd. Looking across the North Sea, all you can see is water and sky. The dark blue horizon almost melts with the stars, and the Christmas Eve setting makes for a hauntingly beautiful and lonely image. As we...

Tonight are the Gotham Awards. They have the opportunity to platform only two or three winners. Their choice to go "gender neutral" is probably the dumbest thing (like a Christopher Guest self-parody by this point) I've seen an awards body do in genuflecting their virtue. That means two winners are whittled down to one in lead and supporting categories. YAWN....

ThePalm Springs International Film Awardshas announced that Greta Gerwig is the recipient of the Director of the Year Award for her critically acclaimed, record-breaking Barbie. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024. The event will be sponsored by Entertainment Tonight and IHG Hotels...

Michael Franco’s Memory begins with a group of addicts sitting in the round discussing their efforts to stay sober and sane. It’s shot in a way that doesn’t feel like a movie at all. The moment is more like standing just outside their circle of chairs and wondering if you’re supposed to be there. It’s that intimate. It’s almost a...

The Wake will keep you on the edge of your seat. What starts as a carefully drawn family drama plunges into a heart-racing thriller in a matter of minutes. On the surface, it is the story of two brothers taking what doesn't belong to them, but it also shows that gun violence knows no bounds. Director Luis Gerard's film is...

Megan McLachlan highlights 5 TV and film documentaries that capture the spectrum of cults. With cults on the rise, so are cult documentaries. But how we define "cults" can differ from person to person, including the veneration of dolls, saunas, soul mates, and purpose. The following documentaries and docuseries are some of the most compelling ones to take on the...

I drove six days to spend Thanksgiving with my daughter and her new family. By that, I mean her boyfriend's family. There are many of them all living in the Ohio area. While at dinner, the patriarch of the family, who calls himself a "history buff" and a "movie buff," talked about the Oscars. "What happened!?" he said. "Why are...

Don't worry, I'm not going to do what I usually do this time of year: single people out by name on this site. It's too cringey, of course. Thanksgiving is always a good time of year to thank the staff here at Awards Daily who keep this site running smoothly. We have quite a team of writers on both the...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company. Regardless of your thoughts about the corporation today, there is simply no denying the studio produced some of the greatest films in American cinema history. And Disney wants you to remember that. Constantly. That's been readily apparent from the company revisiting its animated greats with live-action remakes. There's no...