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Backstage at the 91st Academy Awards
Where to begin this year? What an honor, as always to be back in the press room, backstage, deep inside...
A Last Bid for A Star Is Born
At last week’s Santa Barbara Film Festival Paul Schrader praised Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born calling her “a...
Predictions Friday: Final Oscar Voting Ends in One Week
This is the most fertile time for final Oscar voting, for surges and for smears. It's like how Trump talked...
The State of the Race: New Hollywood, Old Hollywood, and the Future of the Best Picture Race
Three Households Three households, both alike in dignity, (In fair Hollywood, where we lay our scene), From ancient studio system...
Alfonso Cuarón, Bo Burnham, Tim Wardle: 71st Annual Directors Guild Award Winners
FILM FEATURE FILM • Alfonso Cuarón, "Roma" DOCUMENTARY FEATURE • TIM WARDLE for "Three Identical Strangers" FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM •...
Tonight’s DGA Could Signal Roma’s First Big Consensus Win
Roma did not win the Producers Guild when it was nominated — Green Book did. Ten nominees on a preferential...
Predictions Friday: Will Spike Lee Make DGA History?
The DGA will announce its winners tomorrow night. While it seems like no one else can win but Alfonso Cuaron...
Best Director: Can the DGA Indicate a Best Picture Win? Plus Contest!
If more voters knew that Spike Lee could be the first black director ever to win the DGA or the...
The Art of the Scene – Yorgos Lanthimos on The Favourite
For this installment of The Art Of The Scene, director Yorgos Lanthimos talks about the witty opening to his film...
Best Director: The Master Class and the Up and Comers
The influence of Paul Schrader and Spike Lee on American film is immeasurable. Can you imagine American cinema without Taxi...
RIP Penny Marshall — A Directing Pioneer for Women
Penny Marshall was one of the few women who helped break through barriers in place for decades. She, along with...
Rob Marshall Talks Mary Poppins Return and Why The Time Is Right To Revisit Our Favorite British Nanny
Rob Marshall met with us in a Beverly Hills Hotel early in the day to discuss his new film Mary...
Review: Mary Poppins Returns and There’s Nowhere To Go But Up
Rob Marshall discovered Mary Poppins as a child. He was 5 years old the year it premiered. It was the...
Barry Jenkins On Writing If Beale Street Could Talk and the Scene That Meant the Most to Him
Talking to Barry Jenkins is something I wish could last to for ages. What's interesting is learning that his follow...
Spike Lee On Agent Orange, BlacKkKlansman and That Striking Ending
Make no mistake about it, Spike Lee is a master. It's no exaggeration to say that his films have started...
Christian Bale Delivers Finest Performance to Date as Dick Cheney in Adam McKay’s Vice
Vice screened tonight for the SAG nominating committee and looks to do what The Big Short did last year, at...
Steve McQueen Discusses Widows And How He Steeped The Film In Reality
Back in the 1980s, Lynda LaPlante's Widows first aired on UK TV. It was a series that was ahead of...
Glorious New Trailer for Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma
What a film this is. It is, like Cuaron's work in general, unique, daring, beautiful, painful and brilliant. Roma is...
Joel Edgerton Discusses Adapting Boy Erased
Joel Edgerton was at the Middleburg Film Festival introducing a sold-out screening of his film Boy Erased. After the film,...
Predictions Friday: You’d Think that People Would Have Had Enough of Silly Love Songs
Love stories are more popular with the Academy than people might think. Although it always seems like there has to...
Cannes Dispatch – Pain and Glory / Little Joe
There are filmmakers who are so good the minute you start watching their work, you know, you just know, that...
Interview: Kemal Harris On Creating The Presidential Wardrobe for Claire Underwood
Jazz Tangcay talks to costume designer Kemal Harris on creating the Presidential look of Claire Underwood in House of Cards....
Cannes Dispatch – Rocketman / The Climb
It was a party at the ginormous Grand Théâtre Lumière this morning as Bennie and the Jets, Tiny Dancer, The...
The State of the Race — Radical Date Change, Who Benefits, How It Shifts the Oscar Race
The Academy decided to push up the Oscars next year to February 9, a few weeks before its previous date...
Cannes Dispatch – Atlantics / And Then We Danced
Something I really enjoy about watching movies at festivals is that, especially in the case of lower-profile films, you often...
Lizzo Will Perform At The 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards
MTV announces performers for the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards. Lizzo will take the stage to perform at the...
Timothy Simons On Politics, Jonah Ryan, and Saying Goodbye to ‘Veep’
Awards Daily talks to Timothy Simons, star of HBO's classic political comedy Veep, on the latest Emmy edition of the...
Joey King Discusses What Makes Gypsy Rose’s Case Truly Unique, Why ‘The Act’ Broke Records
Megan McLachlan chats with actress Joey King of The Act on Hulu about why she was scared to take on...
Booksmart: The Friendship Is Rock Solid and So Is the Buzz
Every so often a film screens at a festival and we begin to hear, “Best film of the year,” “All...
Cannes Dispatch – Deerskin / Les Misérables
Following last night’s all-star zombie-fest, the highly regarded Cannes sidebar Director’s Fortnight opened this morning with another off-kilter comedy that...