Oscar Flashback: Jaws and the Summer of ’75
Amazon Prime’s description for Jaws is as follows, “a local sheriff hunts down a shark.” Jaws could even be described more as an experience than a movie. It is, however, exactly the kind of movie that should be nominated for Best Picture - it captured the public's imagination and it stood the test of time. The film that won...
Palm Springs Shortfest: Jury Award Winner ‘Act of God’ is a Lesson in Resilience and Kindness
There is not enough representation for disabled performers and creatives, and it's refreshing to see an honest and entertaining short film that gives the spotlight to both. In Spencer Cook and Parker Smith's award-winning short film, Act of God, one man's journey for more independence leads to unforeseen events. It just won the U.S. Short at the Palm Springs Shortfest,...
Palm Springs Shortfest: ‘Rustling’ Is a Defiant Cry for Tenderness
Some young men have an instinct to hunt and gravitate towards more traditionally masculine activities, but what about those whose inclination is to care or nurture? In Tom Furniss' carefully plotted short, Rustling, one boy vows to protect a baby lamb in an environment where the animal is instantly in danger. The film opens with a newly dead lamb being...
Netflix Debuts First Trailer for ‘Athena’
French filmmaker, Romain Gavras, teams up with filmmaker and writer, Ladj Ly, for Netflix's upcoming drama, Athena. Ly's last film, Les Misérables (not the story about the stolen bread) landed an Oscar nomination for Best International Feature Film in 2019. The film will debut in September. Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have...
TIFF Announces ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ As a World Premiere Screening
TIFF is thrilled to announce that Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will have its world premiere at the 47th edition of the Festival. Knives Out had its world premiere at TIFF in 2019. In the follow-up to 2019's Knives Out, Detective Benoit Blanc (played by Daniel Craig) travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a...
Alec Baldwin Interviews Woody Allen on Instagram
Some days, like today, I feel like we're at the end of a once-great empire. That's if you read Twitter - where there is nonstop hysteria, mostly over Trump. There is no escaping it. In general, though, we're living through a time of extreme hedonism, consumption and wealth colliding with extreme puritanical judgment and public witch hunts. To defy this...
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It May Only Be July, But Jarrod Carmichael Is The Entertainer Of The Year
Shortly after its founding way back in 1990, Entertainment Weekly magazine established an annual award for the entertainer of the year. Sometimes the recipient would be a musician or filmmaker who delivered a single piece of work that captivated the world of show business, but often the winner would be someone who had done multiple projects of high artistic merit,...
‘The Book of Queer’ Creator Eric Cervini On The Subversive Joy of Telling Our Own History
Just because June is over, it doesn't mean we stop commemorating Pride. It's actually more important to not contain our celebration to one singular month, and we must stay vigilant and vocal as much as we can. Discovery+'s The Book of Queer is a vibrant, hilarious, and course-correcting docuseries when it comes to queer history, and it teaches about our...
‘Only Murders’ Continues Its Streak as Television’s Silliest Locked Room Mystery as It Deepens the History of the Arconia
How do you return after such a successful, buzzy first season? Only Murders in the Building co-creators John Hoffman and Steve Martin set the bar mighty high for themselves after the comedy-mystery became a word-of-mouth sensation, and audiences are wondering how they will outdo themselves as our beloved trio return with another case to be solved within the walls of...
It’s Time To Vote for the 7th Annual Awards Daily TV Cooler Awards!
The Television Academy ended Phase 1 voting today (Monday, June 27, at 10pm PT) for the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards. We'll find out who the 2022 Emmy nominees are on Tuesday, July 12. Now, it's OUR turn... Awards Daily TV does a huge amount of analysis, prediction, advocacy, and interviews every year. Yet, we like to recognize series we love...
Another Podcast Favorite: If We Had an Emmy Ballot…
With the Television Academy's Phase 1 voting window closed, the Water Cooler Podcast gang takes a breather and has their say on what they would nominate for the 2022 Emmy Awards. They looked at this exactly as the Television Academy would. By closely reviewing the ballots for Program and Performer, Joey, Megan, and Clarence all made their (sometimes difficult) choices...
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2023 Oscar TRACKER
Best Picture
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Actor
Austin Butler, Elvis
Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick
Best Actress Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Supporting ActorTom Hanks, Elvis
Best Supporting Actress
Best Director Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Joseph Kosinsky, Top Gun: Maverick
Original Screenplay
Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Adapted Screenplay
Cinematography Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best EditingElvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Production Design Elvis
Sound Mixing + EditingElvis
Top Gun: Maverick
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Costumes
Elvis
Visual EffectsTop Gun: Maverick
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Original Score
Original Song Top Gun: Maverick
Makeup and Hair Elvis
Animated Feature
Documentary Feature
International Feature
Live Action Short
Documentary Short
Animated Short
Featured
Best Actor: The Boys of Summer
I'm only going to say this once — well, okay, maybe I'll say it more than once. There is a...
Emily Mortimer On How Love and Pain Live Parallel for her Delicious Directorial Debut for ‘The Pursuit of Love’
Everyone falls in love. Some of us fall harder than others, and some of us fall in love over and...
The Nantucket Film Festival: Day Five
Day five would wrap things up for me on the ground at the Nantucket Film Festival. It's been an exciting...
2022 Palm Springs International ShortFest Announces Festival Winners
PALM SPRINGS, CA (June 26, 2022) - The 2022 Palm Springs International ShortFest announced its Festival juried and audience award...
Best Picture Is All Shook Up with Baz Lurhmann’s Love Letter to Elvis
This year, we will revisit two American icons whose lives are infamous tragedies, Andrew Dominik's Marilyn Monroe in Blonde and...
The Nantucket Film Festival: Day Four
Day four at Nantucket would prove to be the best day of the festival. Aside from some great films, the...
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