Oscar News
Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Among SXSW’s 2024 Audience Award Winners
Austin, Texas – March 18, 2024 – The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the Audience Award winners for the 31st SXSW Film & TV Festival today. The Audience Awards follow the previously announced 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival Jury Awards. Audience Award Winners were certified by Maxwell Locke & Ritter LLP. SXSW Film & TV Festival presented 118 features including 91 World Premieres, 4 International Premieres, 6 North American Premieres, 4 U.S. Premieres, 13 Texas Premieres + 80 Short Films including 19 Music Videos. The TV program included 7 TV Premieres, 5 TV...
For Your Consideration...Fox Searchlight
FYC: Ellen Burstyn in ‘Pieces of a Woman’
This is a very personal plea to the voting members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. To...
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Your Most Anticipated Movies of 2024
Our annual poll here at Awards Daily. Phase 1 involves assembling a master list based on input from all you savvy readers. We already have 133 titles -- building out from the first 90 suggested by Ferdinand and Christophe. (and a dozen or so from me) When you guys suggest additions, it would make things easier for me if you name the director in parentheses. Thanks! Don't be shy about recommending movies featuring white guys with white problems directed by white Americans -- anything is possible! After a couple of days, when we run out of...
Civil War – “Least Woke Since American Sniper”
I was dreading Alex Garland's Civil War, I'm not gonna lie. I was dreading it because the collective fear on the Left about their imaginary villains on the Right makes me nervous every day. I'm not scared of the Right because I have spent time getting to know them. I have seen things from their point of view. I have humanized them, yes, even Donald Trump. I am having a hard time remembering what it used to be like to be traumatized and afraid all the time, like Stephen King, Barbra Streisand, Stephen Colbert, etc. It's...
Reframe: Scarface
Scarface, Brian De Palma’s nearly three-hour reach for epic-level greatness is seldom talked about as an actual film anymore. The movie (and particularly Al Pacino’s no-holds barred performance as gangster Tony Montana) have drifted so far into iconography that the quality of the film itself has become secondary to its legend. And it’s one hell of a legend at this point. De Palma’s remake of Howard Hawks’ 1932 accepted classic starring Paul Muni has been adopted by hip-hop stars (see Scarface of the Geto Boys, Nas, Jay-Z, Biggy, the list is endless) and scores of athletes...
Second Edition of Sony Future Filmmaker Awards 2024 Closes to Great Success and Announces Jury Panel
PRESS RELEASE – MARCH 14, 2024 — Creo is delighted to reveal the panel of judges for the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards 2024. The competition for the sophomore edition of the major annual program for short films and filmmakers, which closed earlier this month, provides a gateway for the development of cinematic talent from across the globe. Following a celebrated launch edition in 2023, this year the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards competition ran from June 15, 2023 to February 15, 2024, receiving more than double the number of entries from the previous year. The Awards were established to elevate original...
What It Was Like in the Room: Oscars 2024
Awards Daily's Megan McLachlan recaps what it was like to be in the Dolby Theatre for the 2024 Oscars. The 2024 Oscars have been put to bed, but if you're like me, you're still reeling from all the surprises (Emma Stone!), performances (I've had "I'm Just Ken" stuck in my head all week), and controversies (wait, Messi wasn't actually clapping?). I was excited to be in the room for this year's Oscars and what a year to be there. After all, it was the year of Barbenheimer, but it was also the year two international films...
Variety to Honor Molly Ringwald with the Creative Vanguard Award at Miami Film Festival
Variety will honor Molly Ringwald with the Variety Creative Vanguard Award at the Miami Film Festival on Saturday, April 6. The award will be for her outstanding career achievements, earning acclaim from critics and audiences alike. Ringwald will participate in a Q&A about her extensive work in film and TV with Variety Senior Awards Editor Clayton Davis. "It's important to remember that before Molly Ringwald was the iconic young star of John Hughes' teen angst-driven comedies such as ‘Sixteen Candles,’ ‘Pretty in Pink’ and ‘The Breakfast Club,’ she first starred in Paul Mazursky's contemporary update of...
Oscars 2024 – Closing It Out with One Last Podcast
We got together for one last podcast to close out the season. This time it's me, Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Mark Johnson and special guest Marshall Flores. We confront the mistakes we made, the things we got right and how the Academy has changed. Have a listen! // https://youtu.be/VhWqpvGq6b4?si=2TzEg4yUCESEwyVN
2024 Oscar Ratings – A Small Lift
The Oscar ratings rose from last year, or as The Hollywood Reporter says, a 'post-pandemic high.' Let's add it to the chart to see how it looks: The Hollywood Reporter says: The Jimmy Kimmel-hosted telecast on ABC averaged 19.5 million viewers, according to time zone-adjusted fast national ratings from Nielsen. That’s a 4 percent increase from a year ago. The 96th Academy Awards scored the biggest audience for any awards show since 2020, when that year’s Oscars — held a month before the U.S. went into lockdown in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic —...
Interviews
Abe Sylvia On Celebrating the Diverse Superpowers of the Cast of the Sublime ‘Palm Royale’
Abe Sylvia's Palm Royale is about to be your next obsession. With an illustrious cast (more on that later), unapologetic...
James Ivory: The Oscar Legends Interview
The cinematic creative collaboration of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (along with composer Richard...
‘The Greatest Love Story Never Told’ Director Jason Bergh On Whether to Watch His Doc or ‘This Is Me. . .Now’ First
Awards Daily talks to director Jason Bergh about his documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, which follows the making...
Director Nenad Cicin-Sain on ‘Kiss The Future’: A Film About Surviving the Siege of Sarajevo Through Music and Art (With an Assist From U2)
With Kiss The Future director Nenad Cicin-Sain has made one of the most moving films of the year, and it’s...
Director Tal Kantor On Connecting Intergenerational Trauma with ‘Letter to a Pig’
Hearing someone recount a profound experience can have an unexpected effect on you. A person's vulnerability and honesty can feel...
How Varda’s Docs Inspired S. Leo Chiang to Make ‘Island in Between’ Even More Personal
There is a curious restlessness all throughout S. Leo Chiang's Oscar-nominated documentary short, Island in Between. It stayed very fresh...
Contenders
AwardsDaily’s Big Bad Predictions Chart is Up
Thanks to Marshall Flores for slogging through all of these Predictions. As you know, it's a work in progress. Some...
Oscars 2024: Highly Anticipated Preferential Ballot Experiment (Video)
We always look forward to Ryan Casselman's preferential ballot experiment every year and at long last, it has arrived! It...
2024 Oscars – Why Oppenheimer, Why Now
The weekend's wins for Oppenheimer are astonishing for the modern era of Best Picture winners. Usually, intimate character dramas go...
2024 Oscar Predictions – What the Big Guilds This Weekend Might Tell Us
Oscar ballots have been turned in so nothing that happens over the weekend will move the needle, but it will...
Oscar Posters By Olly Gibbs
Olly Gibbs has released a fresh batch of Oscar character posters for the 96th Academy Awards. Thanks to First Showing...
Oscars 2024: Just How Many Oscars Will Oppenheimer Win?
Heading into last weekend, we didn't know for certain just how broad Oppenheimer's support is within the industry. We've been...