The Directors Guild of America have announced the nominations for their 63rd annual awards. The lineup consisted of the expected four - "The Social Network"'s David Fincher, "Inception"'s Christopher Nolan, "Black Swan"'s Darren Aronofsky and "The King's Speech"'s Tom Hooper - with "The Fighter"'s...
Read More »The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), in the Netherlands, has just announced the lineup of films in its Tiger Awards Competition. Fourteen films will compete in the Tiger Awards Competition for directors at the festival with their first or second feature films; twenty-eight will compete...
Read More »After last week's announcements of their "long lists" and their foreign-language film nominees, BAFTA has now set the five finalists for their Rising Star Award.
Read More »Derek Cianfrance's "Blue Valentine" was not so blue in its first weekend of expansion, finding excellent numbers as it went from 4 to 40 theaters. According to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier today, the Michelle Williams-Ryan Gosling relationship drama has clearly piqued an interest from audie...
Read More »The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced the nominees for the 9th Annual VES Awards, which recognize outstanding visual effects artistry in 24 categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games. Christopher Nolan's "Inception" led the film nominees, which were chosen Satur...
Read More »In addition to this morning's announcement of their "long lists", the Orange British Academy Film Awards have announced the nominations in their foreign language film category, eleven days before the remaining categories are announced. The nominees include last year's Oscar winner "The Secret in Th...
Read More »The "Long List" for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2010 has been released this morning. Tom Hooper's "The King's Speech" and Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" led overall mentions with a whopping 15 a piece, including picture, director and screenplay. The films also took a combined nine act...
Read More »Sundance Selects, the theatrical and VOD film label, has partnered up with the Sundance Institute for a second time to bring five films being screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival to approximately 40 million homes nationwide via VOD, as part of the 'Direct from the Sundance Film Festival' init...
Read More »The 1975 documentary "Grey Gardens" will receive the second annual Legacy Award from the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking. Co-directors Albert Maysles, Muffie Meyer and Susan Froemke will receive the award at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image January 18. A taped broadcast of the event...
Read More »The 26th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival will present 30 world premieres and 33 U.S. premieres among the 170 films slated for this year's edition.
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