As the nominations come fast and furious now, the Screen Actors Guild’s SAG Awards along with the American Cinema Editors’ ACE Eddies further clarified the race for Oscar this morning, particularly from a standpoint of having the major guilds weigh in — meaning it is now peer groups rather than critics who are having…
American Cinema Editors has spliced together its nominations for the 70th annual ACE Eddie Awards, which recognize outstanding editing in 11 categories of film, television and documentaries. The honorary society will dole out its hardware during the January 17 ceremony at the Beverly Hilton.
Final balloting opens…
The 2019 International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) closed yesterday (December 4) with an awards ceremony that saw Kirill Mikhanovsky's English/Russian-language comedy Give Me Liberty named best film in the international competition. A jury presided over by Chinese filmmaker Peter Chan Ho-sun awarded its best…
UPDATE, writethru with Bong Joon-ho reaction: The Golden Globesnominations for Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language include three Oscar frontrunners, and two movies that are not eligible for the Academy Awards' newly-named International Feature race. Among the Globes contenders, it is no surprise to see Bong…
The era of Netflix dominance may have just begun in earnest, as the streamer handily leads all comers in film nominations for the 25th annual Critics Choice Association’s (formerly the Broadcast Film Critics Association) Critics’ Choice Awards nominations, announced Sunday morning. It also had an impressive showing in…
Two high-profile entries vying for Best International Feature Oscar nods were the jewels of Neon's slate covered at The Contenders New York event at the DGA Theater.
Alejandro Landes' war dramaMonos, Colombia's official entry for the 92nd Oscars, looks at a group of teenage terrorists (known as the Monos), commanded…
Netflix’s Martin Scorsese mob drama The Irishman, which already has picked up Best Picture wins from critics groups, is one of the 10 films named to the American Film Institute’s AFI Motion Pictures of the Year list.
The diverse group for 2019 includes ranges from indies like Lulu Wang’s A24 pic The Farewell to a…
Change is afoot in the Oscars' foreign-language race this year, and not only because the title of the category was switched to Best International Feature Film. For the first time, all eligible Academy members will be able to vote for the final five nominees. They will choose from a shortlist that has been upped to 10…
It is pretty remarkable to realize no South Korean film has ever been nominated for an Academy Award, either in the International category (formerly Foreign Film) or any other. That is about to change in a very big way as that country’s top filmmaker Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite is not only a front runner in the Best…
Bong Joon-ho's Korean dark comedy Parasite scooped the best film prize at the 2019 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs), which were held today in Brisbane, Australia. Scroll down for the full list.
The award was accepted onstage by the film's producer Jang Young-Hwan. The film also took the Palme d'Or at Cannes back in…
Despite pumping out some of the most riveting cinema in the world, South Korea has long flailed at the domestic box office. Until now, with NEON’s release of Bong Joon-ho’s Cannes Film Festival Palme D’or winner Parasite, which soared past $11.278M this weekend, with many distribution sources projecting the pic’s…
