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450 of Hollywood’s Jewish Community Denounce Jonathan Glazer’s Speech at the Oscars

450 of Hollywood’s Jewish Community Denounce Jonathan Glazer’s Speech at the Oscars

This is certainly not something you see every day in Hollywood. Actual courage. It hardly ever happens that people put their names on the line to stand up for what they believe in. They aren't revoking Glazer's Oscar or anything like that. He isn't being "canceled." Glazer's speech angered many people, not just showbiz people either. Videos and social media posts cropped up on...

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Nomadland | For Your Consideration

Nomadland | For Your Consideration

Chloé Zhao - Writer, Director, Editor There are only two filmmakers in history who were nominated for writing, directing and editing their feature films: David Lean and Chloé Zhao. There have been co-editors who were nominated for directing and writing. Even that is a short list: Michel Hazanavicious, the Coen Brothers and Alfonso Cuaron, who is the only director to win for editing and directing.  Chloé Zhao as the sole nominee for editing is quite an extraordinary thing,...

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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 Spotlight World Premieres, and...

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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 suggestions, I'll turn our...

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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 all a blur. The...

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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 as a source of...

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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 and diverse voices with...

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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 rose to Best Picture...

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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 Shakespeare's ‘Tempest,’ said Steve...

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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 — drew 23.64 million viewers....

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‘Predict the 96th Academy Awards’ Contest Winner

Despite the 96th Oscars largely going for Oppenheimer as expected, there were still a few surprises and upsets to keep us would-be predictors honest. Let's see how our contest shook out. Four people achieved the incredibly stellar top score of 22/23: Dave L Jose Mari Maracaya Zachary Mroz Zoey Slot After the first tiebreaker, Zachary Mroz is the overall contest winner! Please contact us to claim your prize. Congratulations to Zachary as well as our runners-up! And that wraps up the 2023-2024 Oscar season. Thank you for your participation in this year's gauntlet of contests, readers and friends. We'll see...

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Oscars 2024: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the 96th Academy Awards

The Academy should take a bow this morning for bringing back the Oscars, restoring them to their former glory in every way possible, from Jimmy Kimmel's (mostly) decent job hosting, to the dance numbers -- especially the showstopper, I'm Just Ken -- to the quick pace of the entire night. The big broadcast will likely see a major ratings bounce, I predict. This year, the movie that won was actually a movie that millions of people saw. That means, if history is any indication, lots of people will have tuned in to see how their favorites fared. The Good Oppenheimer...

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2024 Academy Awards: Oppenheimer Wins 7 Oscars! Christopher Nolan, Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy Prevail!

Best Picture “Oppenheimer” Best Director Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer” Best Actress Emma Stone, “Poor Things” Best Actor Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer” Best Supporting Actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers” Best Supporting Actor Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer” Best Adapted Screenplay “American Fiction” – Cord Jefferson Best Original Screenplay “Anatomy of a Fall” – Justine Triet, Arthur Harari Best Cinematography “Oppenheimer” – Hoyte van Hoytema Best Film Editing “Oppenheimer” Best Original Score “Oppenheimer” Best International Feature Film “The Zone of Interest” (United Kingdom) Best Animated Feature Film “The Boy and the Heron Best Documentary Feature Film “20 Days in Mariupol” Best Production Design “Poor...

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TV Reviews: Springing Into a New Crop of Emmy-Contending Television

This week at the Water Cooler, we're springing (we love a pun) into the final gasp of the 2024 Emmy season. Late February / early March typically emerges as the prime window to launch television series. It allows voting members of the Television Academy to absorb newer series and keep them fresh in their minds ahead of voting in June. Believe it or not, there's a science to launching Emmy contenders -- and high-profile winners typically don't launch in May. So, this week, we look at the latest crop of contenders including FX's Shogun, Apple TV's Manhunt and Palm Royale,...

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Astra TV Awards Accepting Submissions for 2024 Ceremony

With the Oscars behind us, the focus shifts to television as the glorious never-ending cycle of awards season rolls on. The Astra TV Awards, hosted by the Hollywood Creative Alliance, has opened submissions for their 2024 awards ceremony. The program has added new categories, including Best Anime Series, Best Children’s or Family Program, and Best Voice-Over Performance. Additionally, The limited series for broadcast, cable, and streaming will now be merged into one category. This change also applies to the TV Movie category. The corresponding acting, directing, and writing categories will also merge to reflect broadcast, streaming, and cable series. The...

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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 1960s color palette (the production design and costumes--my god!), and deliciously nimble writing and direction, Palm Royale takes the story of a social climber, but gives it a prickly and funny edge. It's a soap opera with real pathos and confident storytelling, and I can't help but believe that it will be the talk of the season. I knew Palm Royale was right up my alley within the first five minutes. As Kristen Wiig's Maxine introduces us to the crème...

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