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Dorian Film Awards: ‘All of Us Strangers’ Tops Nominations
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced the nominees of the 15th Dorian Film Awards, and Searchlight’s All of Us Strangers leads the nominations with nine. The Andrew Haigh-written and -directed drama earned nods for film of the year, LGBTQ film of the year and genre film of the year, with Haigh also landing […]
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‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Poor Things’ Lead Oscar Nominations
Oppenheimer and Poor Things lead the pack of the 2024 Oscars nominees, with both features earning 13 and 11 nominations apiece, respectively, including best picture. The Universal biopic about the father of the A-bomb earned 13 nods for Christopher Nolan (for best director and adapted screenplay), lead actor Cillian Murphy, supporting performers Emily Blunt and […]
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Peabody Awards Reveal Date for 2024 Ceremony, New Board Members
The Peabody Awards are looking to (finally) host their first in-person Los Angeles awards ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on June 9. The organization announced a planned move to Los Angeles (from New York) for its annual awards in early 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic and last year’s writers strike have prevented the organization […]
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PGA Awards: Gail Berman Tapped for Norman Lear Achievement Honor
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced Wednesday that producer Gail Berman will be honored with this year’s Norman Lear Achievement Award. The Norman Lear Award recognizes a producer or producing team for their extraordinary body of work in television. Past honorees include Mindy Kaling, Greg Berlanti, Marta Kauffman, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Ryan Murphy, Shonda Rhimes, […]
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AARP Movies for Grownups Awards: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Named Best Picture
Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon was named best picture at the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, the winners of which were unveiled on Wednesday. Robert De Niro also won best supporting actor for his role in Martin Scorsese’s true-crime epic, which tells the story of the systemic assassinations of the Osage people in 1920s […]
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How ‘Oppenheimer’ Production and Costume Designers Brought Christopher Nolan’s Vision to the Screen
Production designer Ruth De Jong and costume designer Ellen Mirojnick have worked on projects helmed by incredible filmmakers. De Jong earned an Emmy nomination for David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return and worked as the production designer on Jordan Peele’s Us and Nope. Mirojnick, meanwhile, earned an Emmy for Behind the Candelabra — one of her six […]
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Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on Why She Had to Be Uncomfortable for Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’
When King Richard Oscar nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor first learned that director Ava DuVernay was working on a film inspired by Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents — which would feature the award-winning journalist front and center as the protagonist — the actress sprang into action. Having previously earned an Emmy nom for another […]
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Emmy Awards: ‘The Bear,’ ‘Beef’ and ‘Succession’ Among Top Winners
The 2023 Emmy Awards finally arrived after months of delay, and TV’s biggest night finally celebrated the seasons that aired from June 2022 to May 2023 — with FX/Hulu’s The Bear, Netflix’s Beef and HBO’s Succession leading the winners. Each of those shows won the top series prize in their respective categories: The Bear for […]
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African American Film Critics Awards: ‘American Fiction,’ ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Origin’ Top Winners
The African American Film Critics Association on Monday announced the winners of the 15th annual AAFCA Awards as well as the organization’s picks for the 10 best films of the year. Neon’s Origin, Amazon Studios’ American Fiction and Warner Bros.’ The Color Purple all won multiple honors, with American Fiction and The Color Purple leading […]
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‘American Symphony’ Director Matthew Heineman, Subject Jon Batiste Say There Were Many “Question Marks” While Making the Film
When director Matthew Heineman and musician Jon Batiste began their second collaboration after The First Wave — a harrowing documentary in which Heineman embedded himself in a New York hospital during the early days of the COVID pandemic, and for which Batiste provided the score — the project was much less fraught than its predecessor. […]
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Taraji P. Henson on the Power of Poet Nikki Giovanni: “She Gave Me a Voice”
In late 2023, Taraji P. Henson created headlines for her outspoken candor on the press tour for The Color Purple. In various conversations supporting the Warner Bros. film — a musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, previously adapted for film in 1985 by director Steven Spielberg — Henson has tearfully relayed her frustrations […]
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AFI Awards: Hollywood’s Biggest Names Assemble to Celebrate the Best of Film and TV – Without Competition
Ahead of a busy weekend on the awards circuit — which will see star-studded audiences at Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards and Monday’s long-awaited Emmy Awards — some of the biggest names in Hollywood gathered on Friday to celebrate the American Film Institute’s picks for the top 10 films and television shows of 2023. A-list names […]
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