Angelina Jolie Shines in New Trailer for Maria
Best Picture Watch: The Trailer Drops for September 5
Don’t Let Internet Drama Turn You Against Wicked
Best Picture 2025: The Highly Anticipated Trailer for The Brutalist
2025 Oscar Predictions: To Demi or Not to Demi
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Angelina Jolie Shines in New Trailer for Maria
Netflix has dropped the first full trailer for Maria: Directed by Pablo Larraín and starring Academy Award®-winner Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, MARIA reimagines the legendary diva in her final days as she reckons with her identity and life. MARIA, in select theaters November and on Netflix December 11 in the US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7_ze9palm0 And some stills from the film courtesy of Netflix:
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Best Picture Watch: The Trailer Drops for September 5
The film that Scott Feinberg has been bearish on this season is September 5. It's the same story covered in Steven Spielberg's film Munich only covered from the point of view of the journalists covering the story. People who write in magazines tend to like stories about journalists. Oscar voters can sometimes like them too. Given that this year's Oscar slate is as weak as it was in 2020, there is a good chance that a solid thriller like...
2025 Oscars – Best Director: The Substance Should Be Nominated
Coralie Fargeat has made one of the best-directed films of the year with The Substance. She's easily one of the best female directors working today, but even without the gender stipulation. There are others that I would put in this category" Greta Gerwig, Emerald Fennell, Jennifer Kent, Ava DuVernay, Jane Campion, Chloe Zhao, and Sofia Coppola are among the best women behind the camera. I'm sure there are others not on the tip of my tongue but those are...
Don’t Let Internet Drama Turn You Against Wicked
It's a publicity nightmare for Universal that there was a petty dust-up on social media revolving around a harmless fan edit for the Wicked poster. Here is a Tik Tok user describing the story: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m2L3Ur1__0I Erivo is now being raked over the coals on YouTube. I'm not saying they're wrong. It seems silly to have taken a fan edit so seriously when you have a movie coming out that's expected to make lots of money. It also seems like...
Best Picture 2025: The Highly Anticipated Trailer for The Brutalist
Brady Corbet's The Brutalist has been like a secret you pass around, or a ghost in the machine. We heard a lot about it but there were no images, no trailer. Finally, a trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Wek49_n-8 Well, it's more like a teaser. It is still an enigma wrapped in a mystery. But I am rooting for the movie and for Brady Corbet who has taken a big bite. My hope is that he isn't sucked into the Hollywood machine and...
NextGen Oscarwatcher – Best Screenplay
Though not nearly as debated as the acting or best picture race, the screenplay categories are undoubtedly important above-the-line categories to be aware of for the entirety of the season. Not only have these two offered up “consolation prizes” for the writers/directors of films that might not win Best Picture, but as some people say, Screenplay is King, and whatever prevails here has a decent shot of going a long way in other important races. Original Screenplay Though it...
Oscars 2025: Gladiator II Wows Crowd at Special Screening in LA – “Sensational Epic Blockbuster”
The big names were in attendance last night at the Special Screening for Gladiator II. They were so confident in the movie they allowed for instant reactions on Twitter. That's always a good sign. The reactions were, more or less, what I thought they'd be - they loved it, but they were hesitant to start proclaiming it an "Oscar movie." GOOD. No one said Top Gun Maverick was an Oscar movie, either. WE MADE IT INTO ONE by changing...
2025 Oscar Predictions: To Demi or Not to Demi
This is not exactly the most exciting Oscar year on record. I think it might be maybe the most "thin" since 2020. We still have a ways to go, but with major wipe-outs like Horizon, Furiosa, Joker Folie a Deux, our slate will look more like the Spirit Awards. Then again, there are some "big" Oscar movies, like Gladiator II, which has a tastemaker screening in Los Angeles tonight with the cast, along with Ridley Scott. They usually do...
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Emmy-Nominated Writers Sam Means and Meredith Scardino on ‘Home Alone’ Doorknobs and the Puppet We Never Met in the ‘Girls5eva’ Episode ‘Orlando’
Awards Daily talks to Girls5eva writer Sam Means and writer/showrunner Meredith Scardino about their Emmy-nominated episode "Orlando." Girls5eva writers Sam...
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All We Imagine as Light
The Piano Lesson
Inside Out 2
Best Actor Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Daniel Craig, Queer
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Paul Mescal, Gladiator II
John David Washington, The Piano Lesson
Peter Sarsgaard, September 5
Best Actress Mikey Madison, Anora
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
Angelina Jolie, Maria
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Perez
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Demi Moore, The Substance
Lupita Nyong'o, A Quiet Place Day One
Kate Winslet, Lee
Zendaya, Challengers
Jodie Comer, The Bikeriders
Anya Taylor-Joy, Furiosa
June Squibb, Thelma
Best Supporting Actor Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II
Stanley Tucci, Conclave
Samuel L. Jackson, The Piano Lesson
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
John Magaro, September 5
Paul Raci, Sing Sing
Best Supporting Actress Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Nickel Boys
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Rachel Sennott, Saturday Night
Best Director Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Edward Berger, Conclave
Denis Villeneuve, Dune 2
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Tim Fehlbaum, September 5
Ridley Scott, Gladiator II
Jason Reitman, Saturday Night
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Payal Kapadia. All We Imagine as Light
Greg Kwedar, Sing Sing
Luca Guadagnino, Challengers
George Miller, Furiosa
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The Piano Lesson
The Life of Chuck
Nickel Boys
Dune 2
Inside Out 2
Furiosa Original Screenplay The Brutalist
A Real Pain
Anora
Saturday Night
Sing Sing
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Emilia Perez
The Substance
Challengers Cinematography The Brutalist
Dune 2
Gladiator II
Conclave
Furiosa
Best Editing Conclave
Anora
The Brutalist
Gladiator II
Saturday Night
Nickel Boys
Dune 2 Production Design The Brutalist
Dune 2
Saturday Night
Gladiator II
Conclave
Furiosa
Sound Mixing + Editing Dune 2
Saturday Night
Gladiator II
Twisters
Furiosa
Costumes The Brutalist
Dune 2
Gladiator II
Conclave
Furiosa
Visual Effects Twisters
Gladiator II
A Quiet Place: Day One
Deadpool & Wolverine
Alien: Romulus
Furiosa
Dune 2
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Original Score Challengers
Conclave
Dune 2
Emilia Perez
The Piano Lesson
Inside Out 2
The Wild Robot
Original Song
Makeup and Hair Furiosa
Maria
Gladiator II
The Piano Lesson
Conclave
Dune Part 2
Animated Feature Inside Out 2
Flow
Wild Robot
If
Despicable Me 4
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Emmy-Nominated Writers Sam Means and Meredith Scardino on ‘Home Alone’ Doorknobs and the Puppet We Never Met in the ‘Girls5eva’ Episode ‘Orlando’
Awards Daily talks to Girls5eva writer Sam Means and writer/showrunner Meredith Scardino about their Emmy-nominated episode "Orlando." Girls5eva writers Sam...
Double Emmy-Nominee Jonathan Pryce On Embracing Grandfatherly Roles in ‘The Crown,’ ‘Slow Horses’
Actor Jonathan Pryce received two nomination at the 2024 Emmy Awards. His bid for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series...
Laura Dern & Jayme Lemons On the Undeniable Hope Beneath the Comedy of ‘Palm Royale’
Palm Royale has an inescapable charm, but there are so many issues bubbling beneath the surface. Come for the incredible...
Director John McDermott on the Story of How Electric Lady Studios was Created in his Documentary ‘Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision’
Grammy nominated Director John McDermott is a proud Jimi Hendrix completist. When we met on Zoom, John’s background was three...
Costume Designer Carol Case On Adding Dashes of Humor In the Darkness of ‘Fargo’
Noah Hawley's Fargo tore through this year's Primetime Emmy nominations with a snarky vengeance. Racking up an impressive 15 nominations,...
Safowa Bright Bitzelberger On Costuming the Rise of The Cocaine Godmother for Netflix’s ‘Griselda’
When I finally sat down to catch up with Netflix's wildly popular limited series Griselda, I was amped to chart...