At the Zurich Film Festival, the European Film Academy has announced this year's nominations for the European Discovery Award, an award presented as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film. All co-productions, the nominees are Scandar C...
Read More »In two of the final announcements of official submissions to the Academy Awards' Foreign Language Film category, both Italy and Spain have announced their selections.
Read More »The final nominee has been announced for the 2009 European Film Awards. Valéry Rosier's "Bonne Nuit" (Good Night) was named at the Drama Shorts Film Festival in Greece. The short film initiative is organised by the European Film Academy in co-operation with a series of film festivals throughout Eur...
Read More »Director Kathryn Bigelow, actors Natalie Portman and Stanley Tucci, and producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner have been announced as recipients of tributes at the upcoming Gotham Independent Film Awards. All of the honorees for the awards - put on by Independent Film Project (IFP) - are involved wit...
Read More »Two weeks ago, indieWIRE published an article speculating what the Venice-Telluride-Toronto trifecta of film festivals might tell us about the fast approaching 2009 awards season. And as it turns out, we were mostly right. But what's unfortunate about that is what an unexciting two weeks it made for...
Read More »Telefilm Canada has announced that Xavier Dolan's "I Killed My Mother" (J’ai tué ma mère) has been submitted for nomination as Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd annual Academy Awards. It was selected among 18 eligible films from a committee comprised of 24 voting members representing major film...
Read More »New York City, September 21, 2009 -- If the annual Oscar race is a twenty six week marathon that begins on Labor Day weekend, we've just passed the two mile marker and there's another twenty four to go. Its a long race that leaves many people quite worn out by Oscar night, but at this early stage th...
Read More »Four months after the Academy Awards did the same, the Producers Guild of America has announced that the nominations for its "Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures" award will be expanded from five to ten films.
Read More »Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" has taken top honors at the Toronto International Film Festival, becoming the first film in history to win audience awards at both Toronto and Sundance.
Read More »The kick-off of the Venice Film Festival tomorrow marks the annual turning point for the fall awards season. Over the next 19 or so days, Venice, Telluride this weekend and Toronto next week will offer both industry, and in Toronto's case the public, a glance at dozens of films that may or may not ...
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