Awards
Creative Arts Emmys, Night One: Winners List
The 2024 Creative Arts Emmys has handed out its first night of awards. The annual two-day event, which takes place the weekend before the Primetime Emmys, is currently in the middle of handing out 99 awards to mostly below-the-line categories. Awards announced on Saturday include honors for variety programming, nonfiction and reality. Saturday’s big winners included […]
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Creative Arts Emmys: Angela Bassett Gets First Win After Nine Nominations
Angela Bassett is a first-time Emmy Award winner after taking home the award for best narrator at the 2024 Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday. The actress was nominated for her work on National Geographic‘s Queens. “It feels good; really, really good,” Bassett said in her acceptance speech. “Thank you to National Geographic, Wild Star Film, […]
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Venice Film Festival Awards: Pedro Almodóvar Wins Golden Lion for ‘The Room Next Door’
The 2024 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony has wrapped up after a sweltering week and a half on the Lido. The prestigious Golden Lion award for best film went to Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door. The Spaniard’s first-ever English-language feature received a whopping 17-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the festival. Almodóvar said […]
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Toronto: ‘Unstoppable’ and ‘We Live in Time’ Both Very Moving, But Face Uphill Awards Climbs
The Toronto International Film Festival reserves its opening weekend for world premieres — as in, films that did not previously screen at Sundance, Cannes, Venice or Telluride. Unfortunately for the fest, it seems like most of this season’s movies with serious awards prospects opted not to wait. Cases-in-point: two films that debuted in prime slots on […]
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Oscar Predictions via Feinberg Forecast: Scott’s First Read of the 2024-2025 Race
A note from Scott: As hard as it is to believe, another awards season is upon us! It unofficially launched, as always, with the Venice and Telluride film festivals over Labor Day weekend. I was on the ground at the latter, where I saw and analyzed a bunch of films; interviewed the folks behind three of […]
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Rodrigo Prieto to Receive Distinguished Filmmaker Award From International Cinematographers Guild
Killers of the Flower Moon and The Irishman cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto will be honored with the Distinguished Filmmaker Award at the 26th annual Emerging Cinematographer Awards (ECA), the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG) announced on Wednesday. Cinematographer M. David Mullen will also be awarded the ASC Mentor Award. Prieto has been nominated for four Academy Awards […]
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Santa Barbara Film Fest: Will Ferrell Tapped for Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film
Will Ferrell, the actor, writer, producer and comedy legend, has been tapped by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival to receive its 17th annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film, the fest announced on Wednesday morning. Ferrell, who is currently promoting Josh Greenbaum’s Will & Harper — a Netflix documentary about a road trip taken […]
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Oldenburg Film Festival to Honor German Director Dominik Graf
The Oldenburg International Film Festival, often dubbed Germany’s Sundance, will this year pay tribute to one of the country’s most revered filmmakers, Dominik Graf, with a special retrospective. The 31st edition of the festival, running from Sept. 11 to 15, will spotlight Graf’s prolific career, as one of Germany’s few masters in genre filmmaking. Graf, […]
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The Awards Pundits: Feinberg and Keegan on Telluride’s Rocky Mountain Highs and Lows
In keeping with annual tradition, The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor (awards) Scott Feinberg and senior editor (film) Rebecca Keegan huddled at the end of this year’s Telluride Film Festival to discuss their Labor Day weekend in the Rockies. (Please note: THR will now be posting a written back-and-forth of this sort every month under the […]
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Telluride: ‘September 5’ Stuns Attendees, Is Fest’s Hottest Sales Title and Could Be a Top Awards Contender
Many Telluride Film Festival attendees prioritized, in the first days of this year’s fest, screenings of high-profile titles that already have distributors. But by Monday, more of them — us — were able to branch out a little bit and catch up on lesser-known titles that don’t yet have a backer. One such film, the fest’s […]
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Telluride: Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Karla Sofía Gascón on ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Breaking Barriers and Yearning to Be Seen Differently (Exclusive)
On Sunday, for the first time since the Telluride Film Festival’s North American premiere of Jacques Audiard’s one-of-a-kind musical Emilia Pérez on Friday, the three principal stars of the top-tier Oscar contender — Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Selena Gomez — sat down for an extensive group interview about their lives, their careers and the […]
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Telluride: Angelina Jolie and Pablo Larraín on Reactions to ‘Maria,’ Singing Opera and Celebrity
On Sunday, less than 24 hours after the Telluride Film Festival’s North American premiere of Maria, a drama about the rollercoaster life of the legendary opera singer Maria Callas, The Hollywood Reporter sat down with its star, Angelina Jolie, and director, Pablo Larraín, for a wide-ranging conversation. Jolie said of playing Callas, in a performance for […]
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