Awards Daily News Round Up

• Listen to Sasha convince Devin Faraci and Amy Nicholson that Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is worthy of inclusion in their canon of the greatest films of all time.

https://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2015/08/my-pitch-for-the-hurt-locker-on-faraci-and-nicholsons-the-canon/

• Sasha wrote a response to Quentin Tarantino’s Vulture interview where he seemed to represent the feelings of many men in the industry who have little interest in movies by and about about women. The question stirred up a lot of passionate feelings in the discussion that followed, including a visit to Awards Daily from Tarantino himself where he took the opportunity to clarify his position.

https://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2015/08/quentin-tarantino-helps-explain-why-movies-about-and-directed-why-so-many-are-disintered-in-stories-about-and-by-women/

• Maggie Smith entered the Best Actress race with The Van.

https://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2015/08/maggie-smith-joins-the-best-actress-race-with-lady-in-the-van/

• The trailer and poster for Youth were finally released.

https://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2015/08/paolo-sorrentinos-youth-with-michael-cain-and-harvey-keitel-trailer-and-poster/

• 2014’s Best Actress winner Cate Blanchett is already receiving a lot of praise and Oscar buzz for Carol, and the lovefest continues as the BFI announced plans to honor Blanchett with their highest honor, the Fellowship Award.

https://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2015/08/cate-blanchett-to-be-honored-at-with-fellowship-at-london-film-festival/

• The recipients of this year’s AMPAS Governors Awards were announced

https://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2015/08/governors-award-receipients-announced/

• In her followup to Unbroken, Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea is set to premiere at the AFI Fest:

https://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2015/08/angelina-jolie-and-brad-pitts-by-the-sea-to-open-afi-fest/

• New character posters for Macbeth have been released:

• Minions became the third highest grossing animated film of all time behind Disney’s Frozen and Toy Story as it surpassed the $1 billion mark in worldwide box office.

• The number one film this week, for the second week in a row, is Straight Outta Compton. It’s box office gross to date $118 million and it’s on track to remain at the top spot again this weekend.