Happy Ever Aftrs
Rachel Perkins has been appointed as chair of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (Aftrs) council for a period of three years. She follows previous chairs Russell Howcroft and Debra Richards. Aftrs is Australia’s leading specialist education, training and research institution, supporting excellence in Australian screen and audio storytelling.
“Rachel is one of Australia’s leading storytellers, particularly when it comes to First Nations stories,” said Minister for the Arts, Tony Burke.
A graduate of Aftrs, writer, director and producer, Perkins founded Blackfella Films, which has gone onto become one of Australia’s leading production companies. Its recent documentary series “The Australian Wars” won most outstanding factual or documentary program at the 2023 TV Week Logie Awards, as well as best documentary or factual program and best direction in nonfiction television at the 2024 Aacta awards.
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Indian movie exhibition chain Miraj Cinemas has agreed...
Rachel Perkins has been appointed as chair of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (Aftrs) council for a period of three years. She follows previous chairs Russell Howcroft and Debra Richards. Aftrs is Australia’s leading specialist education, training and research institution, supporting excellence in Australian screen and audio storytelling.
“Rachel is one of Australia’s leading storytellers, particularly when it comes to First Nations stories,” said Minister for the Arts, Tony Burke.
A graduate of Aftrs, writer, director and producer, Perkins founded Blackfella Films, which has gone onto become one of Australia’s leading production companies. Its recent documentary series “The Australian Wars” won most outstanding factual or documentary program at the 2023 TV Week Logie Awards, as well as best documentary or factual program and best direction in nonfiction television at the 2024 Aacta awards.
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Indian movie exhibition chain Miraj Cinemas has agreed...
- 4/11/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (Hkiffs) has unveiled 26 in-development projects for the 22nd Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf), which will become part of the newly expanded Hkiff Industry Project Market.
The lineup features both veteran and rising filmmakers including Koji Fukada, Hong Khaou, Jang Kun-jae, Qiu Jiongjiong, Patiparn Boontarig, Wang Xiaoshuai, Teruhisa Yamamoto, and Zhang Lu. The projects cover comedy, horror, action, romance and family drama, including seven first features, two animations and a string of cross-country collaborations.
Scroll down for full list of projects
“The selection is a testament to the resurgence of diversity and the revitalisation of international collaborations,...
The lineup features both veteran and rising filmmakers including Koji Fukada, Hong Khaou, Jang Kun-jae, Qiu Jiongjiong, Patiparn Boontarig, Wang Xiaoshuai, Teruhisa Yamamoto, and Zhang Lu. The projects cover comedy, horror, action, romance and family drama, including seven first features, two animations and a string of cross-country collaborations.
Scroll down for full list of projects
“The selection is a testament to the resurgence of diversity and the revitalisation of international collaborations,...
- 1/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
More is in store for fans of Disney+’s first Japanese horror-thriller series, Gannibal. The House of Mouse revealed Thursday that the hit Japanese original has been renewed for a second season, dropping a teaser trailer that offers a peek at what’s to come (see it below).
The first season of Gannibal was a pillar title for Disney+’s push into Japanese live-action series production. Following its release in December 2022, it became the streaming service’s most-watched locally produced original series in Japan ever. Gannibal‘s star, Yuya Yagira, also earned a best actor nomination at the Busan International Film Festival’s upcoming Asia Contents Awards & Global Ott Awards.
Starring some of the biggest names in the Japanese screen industry, Gannibal‘s second season will see the return of Yagira as police officer Daigo Agawa; Show Kasamatsu as Keisuke Goto, the head of the Goto family; and Riho Yoshioka as Yuki Agawa,...
The first season of Gannibal was a pillar title for Disney+’s push into Japanese live-action series production. Following its release in December 2022, it became the streaming service’s most-watched locally produced original series in Japan ever. Gannibal‘s star, Yuya Yagira, also earned a best actor nomination at the Busan International Film Festival’s upcoming Asia Contents Awards & Global Ott Awards.
Starring some of the biggest names in the Japanese screen industry, Gannibal‘s second season will see the return of Yagira as police officer Daigo Agawa; Show Kasamatsu as Keisuke Goto, the head of the Goto family; and Riho Yoshioka as Yuki Agawa,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Disney’s Carol Choi has seen it all in the East Asian entertainment business, working for the studio in various roles in China from 2006, then heading up The Walt Disney Company Korea, before being appointed Managing Director of The Walt Disney Company Japan. She currently wears two hats, also serving as EVP Original Content Strategy, across the Asia Pacific region.
Disney moved into Asian local-language content in a big way in 2021, unveiling a bumper slate of Korean, Japanese and Indonesian originals for its Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar streaming platforms, followed by another wave of content announcements late last year. Choi oversees the studio’s long-term collaborations and partnerships with content creators and artists across the region, including a deal struck last year with Korean entertainment giant Hybe, home of the world’s biggest boy band, BTS.
Two shows under that deal are already streaming – concert film BTS: Permission To...
Disney moved into Asian local-language content in a big way in 2021, unveiling a bumper slate of Korean, Japanese and Indonesian originals for its Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar streaming platforms, followed by another wave of content announcements late last year. Choi oversees the studio’s long-term collaborations and partnerships with content creators and artists across the region, including a deal struck last year with Korean entertainment giant Hybe, home of the world’s biggest boy band, BTS.
Two shows under that deal are already streaming – concert film BTS: Permission To...
- 1/18/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
The Japanese horror thriller series Gannibal, which is based on the best-selling manga by Masaaki Ninomiya, is now available to watch on the Hulu streaming service in the United States, and can be found on Disney+ outside of the U.S. To help you decide whether or not this is a show you would like to watch, a new trailer has been unveiled and can be seen in the embed above.
Written by Takamasa Oe, the Gannibal adaptation is set in the fictional Japanese village of Kuge and centers on newly hired local police officer Daigo Agawa. While things start off promisingly for the new arrival, a series of alarming events begin to unfold that will lead Daigo to the horrifying realization that something is deeply wrong with the village and those who live there. Thrown into a hostile environment with suspense around every corner, will the latest police officer...
Written by Takamasa Oe, the Gannibal adaptation is set in the fictional Japanese village of Kuge and centers on newly hired local police officer Daigo Agawa. While things start off promisingly for the new arrival, a series of alarming events begin to unfold that will lead Daigo to the horrifying realization that something is deeply wrong with the village and those who live there. Thrown into a hostile environment with suspense around every corner, will the latest police officer...
- 12/30/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The Disney+ streaming service has announced that they will be releasing the Japanese horror thriller series Gannibal, which is based on the best-selling manga by Masaaki Ninomiya, on December 28th. Along with that announcement comes the unveiling of a trailer, which you can check out in the embed above!
Written by Takamasa Oe, the Gannibal adaptation is set in the fictional Japanese village of Kuge and centers on newly hired local police officer Daigo Agawa. While things start off promisingly for the new arrival, a series of alarming events begin to unfold that will lead Daigo to the horrifying realization that something is deeply wrong with the village and those who live there. Thrown into a hostile environment with suspense around every corner, will the latest police officer to roam the streets of Kuge village be able to bring those responsible to justice before it’s too late?
Yuya Yagira...
Written by Takamasa Oe, the Gannibal adaptation is set in the fictional Japanese village of Kuge and centers on newly hired local police officer Daigo Agawa. While things start off promisingly for the new arrival, a series of alarming events begin to unfold that will lead Daigo to the horrifying realization that something is deeply wrong with the village and those who live there. Thrown into a hostile environment with suspense around every corner, will the latest police officer to roam the streets of Kuge village be able to bring those responsible to justice before it’s too late?
Yuya Yagira...
- 11/30/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Click here to read the full article.
Disney+ has set a release date and released the first trailer for one of its most anticipated upcoming Japanese original series, Gannibal, a psycho-thriller based on the best-selling manga by Masaaki Ninomiya.
Gannibal is adapted for the screen by Takamasa Oe and produced by Teruhisa Yamamoto, both of whom were nominated for Oscars earlier this year for their work on Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Academy Award-winning feature Drive My Car.
The show’s worldwide Disney+ release date — Dec. 28 — was revealed Wednesday at The Walt Disney Co.’s annual content showcase in Singapore. The first trailer for Gannibal was premiered at the event and then released on YouTube (see it below).
Set in Kuge, a fictional Japanese village, Gannibal follows newly hired local police officer Daigo Agawa, played by Japanese star Yuya Yagira (Hokusai, Asakusa Kid). While things start off promisingly for the new arrival,...
Disney+ has set a release date and released the first trailer for one of its most anticipated upcoming Japanese original series, Gannibal, a psycho-thriller based on the best-selling manga by Masaaki Ninomiya.
Gannibal is adapted for the screen by Takamasa Oe and produced by Teruhisa Yamamoto, both of whom were nominated for Oscars earlier this year for their work on Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Academy Award-winning feature Drive My Car.
The show’s worldwide Disney+ release date — Dec. 28 — was revealed Wednesday at The Walt Disney Co.’s annual content showcase in Singapore. The first trailer for Gannibal was premiered at the event and then released on YouTube (see it below).
Set in Kuge, a fictional Japanese village, Gannibal follows newly hired local police officer Daigo Agawa, played by Japanese star Yuya Yagira (Hokusai, Asakusa Kid). While things start off promisingly for the new arrival,...
- 11/30/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
More than 40 of the group are women and 50 come from outside the US.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 397 artists and executives, half of them from outside the US, to join its ranks.
Among the 30 actors invited are recent Oscar winners Troy Kotsur, from Coda, and Ariana DeBose, from West Side Story, along with Caitríona Balfe, Jessie Buckley, Jamie Dornan, Amir Jadidi, Kajol, Vincent Lindon, Hidetoshi Nishijima and Renate Reinsve.
Twenty-one directors were invited, including Pawo Choyning Dorji (Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom), Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard), Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car), Sian Harries...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 397 artists and executives, half of them from outside the US, to join its ranks.
Among the 30 actors invited are recent Oscar winners Troy Kotsur, from Coda, and Ariana DeBose, from West Side Story, along with Caitríona Balfe, Jessie Buckley, Jamie Dornan, Amir Jadidi, Kajol, Vincent Lindon, Hidetoshi Nishijima and Renate Reinsve.
Twenty-one directors were invited, including Pawo Choyning Dorji (Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom), Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard), Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car), Sian Harries...
- 6/28/2022
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
The 94th Annual Academy Awards were presented on Sunday, March 27, during a ceremony that took place at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California, and was hosted by Wanda Sykes, Regina Hall, and Amy Schumer. So who took home the gold? Scroll down for the complete list of winners in all 23 categories, updated throughout the night.
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The Netflix western “The Power of the Dog” entered these awards with a leading 12 nominations, which is also the most nominations any Netflix film has ever received. But was it destined to become the first film from a streaming distributor to take top honors? To achieve that the film had to battle against Apple’s “Coda,” which only had three nominations but won crucial awards from the Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild, and Producers Guild, the last of which uses the same kind of ranked-choice voting as the Oscars.
SEEWanda Sykes: Everything to know about the 2022 Oscars host
The Netflix western “The Power of the Dog” entered these awards with a leading 12 nominations, which is also the most nominations any Netflix film has ever received. But was it destined to become the first film from a streaming distributor to take top honors? To achieve that the film had to battle against Apple’s “Coda,” which only had three nominations but won crucial awards from the Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild, and Producers Guild, the last of which uses the same kind of ranked-choice voting as the Oscars.
- 3/28/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Our forum posters, many of whom are Hollywood insiders hiding behind screen names, were quick to sound off with their 2022 Oscar winner reactions. As they discussed the unfolding ceremony on March 27, they cheered for their favorite films and lamented the fact that others had lost..
Over the past 93 years the Academy Awards have learned that it’s impossible to please everybody, and this year is no exception. Below is just a sampling of the brutally honest comments of our sassy forum posters concerning the 2022 Oscar winners. Take a read and then jump in here if you’re brave enough.
Best Picture
“Belfast” Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers
X – “Coda” Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers
“Don’t Look Up” Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
“Drive My Car” Teruhisa Yamamoto, Producer
“Dune” Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, Producers
“King Richard” Tim White,...
Over the past 93 years the Academy Awards have learned that it’s impossible to please everybody, and this year is no exception. Below is just a sampling of the brutally honest comments of our sassy forum posters concerning the 2022 Oscar winners. Take a read and then jump in here if you’re brave enough.
Best Picture
“Belfast” Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers
X – “Coda” Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers
“Don’t Look Up” Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
“Drive My Car” Teruhisa Yamamoto, Producer
“Dune” Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, Producers
“King Richard” Tim White,...
- 3/28/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.
Oscar ballots are now in the laptops of Academy voters and as you read this someone somewhere among the 9,487 total eligible voters is likely clicking “Send” with their choices in 23 categories for the 94th annual Academy Awards. But the assault from contenders still standing continues, especially knowing the difference between a win or a loss could be decided right up to end on Tuesday at 5 p.m. Pt, with many voters waiting until the last minute. That also means this weekend, with four guild shows still to be heard from, can still make a difference. Or not.
And yes, we are now officially in the final weekend of a seven-month Oscar-campaign season — and if you think it was going to just drift away quietly, think again. Since last weekend’s crucial contests at BAFTA, Critics Choice, and the DGA all gave renewed momentum to front-running The Power of the Dog, heavy advertising continues from Netflix for that film (and their others) apparently leaving nothing to chance.
Netflix dropped a new glossy brochure in with the print trades’ delivery Wednesday morning, but then so did Belfast, for which Focus Features is really turning on the heat in hopes of nabbing its first Best Picture win in their history right in time for the celebration of its 20th anniversary as a specialty distribution survivor among the major studios. Although it picked up some wins at Critics Choice, it only took Best British Film at its hometown BAFTAs, so it needs to generate some renewed momentum, something The Power of the Dog was able to pull off in style over the weekend in picking up those Best Picture and DGA wins.
Campaigning Intensifies And Final Q&As Take Center Court
Netflix also dropped a picture postcard packet tied to its Italian International Feature nominee The Hand of God in with the print trades this week. Great as that Paolo Sorrentino film is, it is looking like a long shot for anything but Japan’s Drive My Car, which not only is a solid front-runner for Int’l Feature, but also is up for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Director.
Like everyone else in also not leaving anything to chance, director Ryusuke Hamaguchi and producer Teruhisa Yamamoto arrived in town Monday direct from the BAFTA bash in London (where they won International Film) for a round of Q&As and other activities on their Oscar whirlwind. Yamamoto actually told me in addition to producing Oscar-nominated movies, he still works for Disney in various capacities. I suggested maybe with this newfound fame he could pitch Disney and their Pixar label on a Japanese sequel to their animated auto franchise. How about Drive My Cars? He laughed but I don’t think he is gonna take me up on the idea.
Since its Oscar nominations triumph, Yamamoto told me Drive My Car, considered an art house movie in Japan, has actually doubled its lifetime gross there. I also asked Hamaguchi if, like last year’s Best Director winner Chloé Zhao, he was planning on joining the Marvel Universe anytime soon. He indicated it would have to be a very unique film for that to happen.
Despite the fact there are only a few days left, that hasn’t stopped the Q&a circuit. Kristin Stewart was at Soho House (where visitors to the parking garage couldn’t miss the expensive electronic billboard for Belfast as you drop off for valet) for a screening and post-conversation I moderated Wednesday night in front of Academy members. I assumed it might be her last in this long Oscar journey, but no: Neon had her heading to San Francisco for a final Q&a Thursday night. Aunjanue Ellis will be among those doing the same thing for King Richard at the London Hotel tonight. The entire Coda cast, director and producers took over the San Vicente Bungalows screening room also on Wednesday for a Q&a. It goes on and on. Nominated movies get four shots at voters post-noms according to the rules, and most are doing just that. I heard Apple increased the Coda campaign budget after its big SAG win February 27. Why not?
Awards Season Calendar: Dates For The Oscars, PGA, WGA, Grammys & More
Will PGA Winner Tell The Tale?
So this weekend the big one to watch will be Saturday night’s Producers Guild awards. Normally that is the first guild to throw its awards show, and was in fact scheduled originally for February 26 (the night before SAG), but due to Covid concerns it was moved to the latest Saturday it could — as a result, for the first time, it will actually be taking place in the middle of final Oscar voting. This is important because the PGA walks in lockstep with AMPAS, has 10 nominees for Best Picture, and uses the same ranked-choice system as the Oscars does for Best Picture only. That means voters must list their choices from 1 being favorite to 10 being least favorite, thus it makes PGA the one group to possibly indicate a similar result could happen with the Academy, where your number 2 or 3 choice just might be as valuable as your first pick. It tends to favor consensus choices for the most generally liked movie or least disliked.
A win for anything other than front-runner The Power of the Dog could potentially upend the Best Picture Oscar race almost at the finish line since there would still be three days of voting left — or, due to its lateness in the game, it could make less of an impact than usual. Netflix is doing everything possible to prevent an upset of course, and they are, pardon the pun, the leading dog at PGA with an impressive three of 10 nominees that also include Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tick, Tick….Boom! (the latter should have been up for Best Picture at the Oscars as well, if you ask me). If there is an upset it could come from any direction including Coda, Belfast, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, West Side Story and Dune. The ranked-choice accounting method makes predicting PGA well, uh, complicated.
The next night brings the Writers Guild awards in a virtual ceremony. Power of the Dog, Belfast, and The Lost Daughter all are top Academy Award writing nominees not eligible for WGA due to the union’s arcane rules prohibiting any movie for eligibility that was not made under the guild’s Mba. This means your top winners making the WGA headlines could well be Coda for Adapted Screenplay and Licorice Pizza for Original, which would actually be the same result as the screenplay categories at last Sunday’s BAFTAs, making it two Sundays in a row and give them last-minute momentum with still two more days of Oscar voting. Crazy, right?
On the other hand, The Power of the Dog could pick up wind at Sunday’s American Society of Cinematographers awards, where Ari Wegner is nominated. She won the corresponding award from Bsc earlier this month so hopes are high, and that could be a nice boost towards making Wegner the first-ever female Oscar winner in the category. Of course, Greig Fraser is also a front-runner at ASC for Dune, which is also expected to pick up top Cinema Audio Society awards on Saturday night. Should be an interesting weekend.
‘Nobody Knows Anything’
Netflix, like the aforementioned Focus, is out to pick up its first Best Picture Oscar with The Power of the Dog which has 12 nominations overall, indicating strength across the board with the Academy. But the streamer has, to use a Western term, been snakebit before, which brings me back to the idea that it isn’t wise, no matter what level of success on any given Sunday (or Saturday), to leave any stone unturned.
In 2019, Neflix’s Roma took the Best Picture prizes from both BAFTA and Critics Choice, as well as the DGA — the same three Power of the Dog won last weekend — only to lose the Best Picture Oscar to Green Book which also won Supporting Actor and Screenplay Oscars and had previously taken the PGA Award. Hmmmmm. Picture? Supporting Actor? Adapted Screenplay? Is that also the recipe for a Coda upset? Sounds like a long shot, particularly with those being its only three nominations, but this is what sends awards consultants for the Pepto Bismol bottle. As William Goldman famously said, “nobody knows anything.”
Final voting for the PGA Awards closed March 8 and for WGA way back on February 16, so whoever turns out to be their winners have been in the can for some time, and with three days of Oscar voting already also in the can when their envelopes are opened this weekend their collective impact this year will be anybody’s guess, no matter what the results.
The French Inspiration For ‘Coda’
“This is very amazing for me because it’s 10 years ago, and it was a very intimate story. I had the idea of the little, little movie when I wrote it, and now, it’s to the Oscars, wow. I don’t understand. I don’t understand why,” French actress-writer-director Victoria Bedos told me over Zoom recently during a conversation about how her idea for the original French film that inspired the American remake of Coda came about.
That 2014 film was called La Famille Belier, and Bedos not only came up with the story and characters that would inspire writer-director Siân Heder’s multi-Oscar-nominated English-language version, she was one of the credited writers for the film, her first movie. She got the idea for it at a very young age upon meeting her father’s assistant, who was a Coda herself (Child of Deaf Adults). She thought at the time that was amazing, and years later met a producer telling him the story, but adding a twist based on her own life in being an aspiring singer, and so she combined the two details when she wrote the script for La Famille Belier.
“For me it is more a metaphor because I have the feeling that my family don’t hear me when I was little. I had the feeling to be different of my family, and that’s why I want to sing it because I thought if I sing it, they will hear me,” she said of the basis for the hearing daughter, played in Coda by Emilia Jones, who was torn by duty to family and her own musical dreams. That is ultimately the combination that sold the distributor on the idea for a feature film. “So, it’s a very personal story because I think it’s the feeling of my adolescence, teenage years.”
Bedos was not involved in the making of Heder’s movie, though she emailed back and forth with the filmmaker in talking about it. “I told her bravo, bravo for your movie because you really invented the story for a second time.”
A major change was in the casting, which in the English-language version included deaf actors (Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur among them) rather than the French film which had hearing actors playing deaf — making the American version far more authentic. “They create perfection for me, just for me, when I saw the movie many months ago, and I was very, very impressed by it because I think it’s close to my feeling, my vision of the story,” Bedos said, noting she loved the French film, that it was good but more in a commercial way. “I am closer to independent American movies like Little Miss Sunshine. My feeling was very personal, more intimate, and Coda for me is more intimate.”
Bedos had zero experience in how to write a screenplay, but she wrote the synopsis and all the bible of the characters, as well as creating the story, the book as it were, and writing the songs, but she needed help to write a script. “I asked a friend of mine, I was very in love with this boy, so I told him, ‘Do you want to go with me to write a movie and to kiss me?’ He didn’t kiss me, but we write the movie. Co-writing,” she laughed.
So what does she think about all that now leading to the Academy Awards? “Yes. It’s incredible. I said to my mother, ‘Mama, Mama, my movie got to the Oscars.’ She is so happy, and she said to me, ‘I knew that. I knew it would.’ And I said, ‘No Mama. Nobody knew that.” She will be doing some color commentary on the Oscars for French television on March 27, commenting on the dresses, she laughed.
Bedos is already prepping her next film which will mark her directorial debut and which she says is another story like Coda, a coming-of-age tale with complications. It actually sounds like a French twist on Yentl. It is about a girl living in a home for old people on healthcare. She’s got complex feelings about her own body and gender, and she is bullied at school. “So she’s going to a party disguised like a man, a boy, and everybody thinks she’s a boy. And she’s the hero of the party. So, after that, she’s going to be a boy, disguised like a boy, and she’s going to have her first love affair with a boy who loves boys,” she said in explaining part of the idea.
It is for the indie production company Lionceau, and is backed by Universal’s international division. With Universal involved, I told her to hold out for those American remake rights — it certainly worked out the first time.
Oscar ballots are now in the laptops of Academy voters and as you read this someone somewhere among the 9,487 total eligible voters is likely clicking “Send” with their choices in 23 categories for the 94th annual Academy Awards. But the assault from contenders still standing continues, especially knowing the difference between a win or a loss could be decided right up to end on Tuesday at 5 p.m. Pt, with many voters waiting until the last minute. That also means this weekend, with four guild shows still to be heard from, can still make a difference. Or not.
And yes, we are now officially in the final weekend of a seven-month Oscar-campaign season — and if you think it was going to just drift away quietly, think again. Since last weekend’s crucial contests at BAFTA, Critics Choice, and the DGA all gave renewed momentum to front-running The Power of the Dog, heavy advertising continues from Netflix for that film (and their others) apparently leaving nothing to chance.
Netflix dropped a new glossy brochure in with the print trades’ delivery Wednesday morning, but then so did Belfast, for which Focus Features is really turning on the heat in hopes of nabbing its first Best Picture win in their history right in time for the celebration of its 20th anniversary as a specialty distribution survivor among the major studios. Although it picked up some wins at Critics Choice, it only took Best British Film at its hometown BAFTAs, so it needs to generate some renewed momentum, something The Power of the Dog was able to pull off in style over the weekend in picking up those Best Picture and DGA wins.
Campaigning Intensifies And Final Q&As Take Center Court
Netflix also dropped a picture postcard packet tied to its Italian International Feature nominee The Hand of God in with the print trades this week. Great as that Paolo Sorrentino film is, it is looking like a long shot for anything but Japan’s Drive My Car, which not only is a solid front-runner for Int’l Feature, but also is up for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Director.
Like everyone else in also not leaving anything to chance, director Ryusuke Hamaguchi and producer Teruhisa Yamamoto arrived in town Monday direct from the BAFTA bash in London (where they won International Film) for a round of Q&As and other activities on their Oscar whirlwind. Yamamoto actually told me in addition to producing Oscar-nominated movies, he still works for Disney in various capacities. I suggested maybe with this newfound fame he could pitch Disney and their Pixar label on a Japanese sequel to their animated auto franchise. How about Drive My Cars? He laughed but I don’t think he is gonna take me up on the idea.
Since its Oscar nominations triumph, Yamamoto told me Drive My Car, considered an art house movie in Japan, has actually doubled its lifetime gross there. I also asked Hamaguchi if, like last year’s Best Director winner Chloé Zhao, he was planning on joining the Marvel Universe anytime soon. He indicated it would have to be a very unique film for that to happen.
Despite the fact there are only a few days left, that hasn’t stopped the Q&a circuit. Kristin Stewart was at Soho House (where visitors to the parking garage couldn’t miss the expensive electronic billboard for Belfast as you drop off for valet) for a screening and post-conversation I moderated Wednesday night in front of Academy members. I assumed it might be her last in this long Oscar journey, but no: Neon had her heading to San Francisco for a final Q&a Thursday night. Aunjanue Ellis will be among those doing the same thing for King Richard at the London Hotel tonight. The entire Coda cast, director and producers took over the San Vicente Bungalows screening room also on Wednesday for a Q&a. It goes on and on. Nominated movies get four shots at voters post-noms according to the rules, and most are doing just that. I heard Apple increased the Coda campaign budget after its big SAG win February 27. Why not?
Awards Season Calendar: Dates For The Oscars, PGA, WGA, Grammys & More
Will PGA Winner Tell The Tale?
So this weekend the big one to watch will be Saturday night’s Producers Guild awards. Normally that is the first guild to throw its awards show, and was in fact scheduled originally for February 26 (the night before SAG), but due to Covid concerns it was moved to the latest Saturday it could — as a result, for the first time, it will actually be taking place in the middle of final Oscar voting. This is important because the PGA walks in lockstep with AMPAS, has 10 nominees for Best Picture, and uses the same ranked-choice system as the Oscars does for Best Picture only. That means voters must list their choices from 1 being favorite to 10 being least favorite, thus it makes PGA the one group to possibly indicate a similar result could happen with the Academy, where your number 2 or 3 choice just might be as valuable as your first pick. It tends to favor consensus choices for the most generally liked movie or least disliked.
A win for anything other than front-runner The Power of the Dog could potentially upend the Best Picture Oscar race almost at the finish line since there would still be three days of voting left — or, due to its lateness in the game, it could make less of an impact than usual. Netflix is doing everything possible to prevent an upset of course, and they are, pardon the pun, the leading dog at PGA with an impressive three of 10 nominees that also include Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tick, Tick….Boom! (the latter should have been up for Best Picture at the Oscars as well, if you ask me). If there is an upset it could come from any direction including Coda, Belfast, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, West Side Story and Dune. The ranked-choice accounting method makes predicting PGA well, uh, complicated.
The next night brings the Writers Guild awards in a virtual ceremony. Power of the Dog, Belfast, and The Lost Daughter all are top Academy Award writing nominees not eligible for WGA due to the union’s arcane rules prohibiting any movie for eligibility that was not made under the guild’s Mba. This means your top winners making the WGA headlines could well be Coda for Adapted Screenplay and Licorice Pizza for Original, which would actually be the same result as the screenplay categories at last Sunday’s BAFTAs, making it two Sundays in a row and give them last-minute momentum with still two more days of Oscar voting. Crazy, right?
On the other hand, The Power of the Dog could pick up wind at Sunday’s American Society of Cinematographers awards, where Ari Wegner is nominated. She won the corresponding award from Bsc earlier this month so hopes are high, and that could be a nice boost towards making Wegner the first-ever female Oscar winner in the category. Of course, Greig Fraser is also a front-runner at ASC for Dune, which is also expected to pick up top Cinema Audio Society awards on Saturday night. Should be an interesting weekend.
‘Nobody Knows Anything’
Netflix, like the aforementioned Focus, is out to pick up its first Best Picture Oscar with The Power of the Dog which has 12 nominations overall, indicating strength across the board with the Academy. But the streamer has, to use a Western term, been snakebit before, which brings me back to the idea that it isn’t wise, no matter what level of success on any given Sunday (or Saturday), to leave any stone unturned.
In 2019, Neflix’s Roma took the Best Picture prizes from both BAFTA and Critics Choice, as well as the DGA — the same three Power of the Dog won last weekend — only to lose the Best Picture Oscar to Green Book which also won Supporting Actor and Screenplay Oscars and had previously taken the PGA Award. Hmmmmm. Picture? Supporting Actor? Adapted Screenplay? Is that also the recipe for a Coda upset? Sounds like a long shot, particularly with those being its only three nominations, but this is what sends awards consultants for the Pepto Bismol bottle. As William Goldman famously said, “nobody knows anything.”
Final voting for the PGA Awards closed March 8 and for WGA way back on February 16, so whoever turns out to be their winners have been in the can for some time, and with three days of Oscar voting already also in the can when their envelopes are opened this weekend their collective impact this year will be anybody’s guess, no matter what the results.
The French Inspiration For ‘Coda’
“This is very amazing for me because it’s 10 years ago, and it was a very intimate story. I had the idea of the little, little movie when I wrote it, and now, it’s to the Oscars, wow. I don’t understand. I don’t understand why,” French actress-writer-director Victoria Bedos told me over Zoom recently during a conversation about how her idea for the original French film that inspired the American remake of Coda came about.
That 2014 film was called La Famille Belier, and Bedos not only came up with the story and characters that would inspire writer-director Siân Heder’s multi-Oscar-nominated English-language version, she was one of the credited writers for the film, her first movie. She got the idea for it at a very young age upon meeting her father’s assistant, who was a Coda herself (Child of Deaf Adults). She thought at the time that was amazing, and years later met a producer telling him the story, but adding a twist based on her own life in being an aspiring singer, and so she combined the two details when she wrote the script for La Famille Belier.
“For me it is more a metaphor because I have the feeling that my family don’t hear me when I was little. I had the feeling to be different of my family, and that’s why I want to sing it because I thought if I sing it, they will hear me,” she said of the basis for the hearing daughter, played in Coda by Emilia Jones, who was torn by duty to family and her own musical dreams. That is ultimately the combination that sold the distributor on the idea for a feature film. “So, it’s a very personal story because I think it’s the feeling of my adolescence, teenage years.”
Bedos was not involved in the making of Heder’s movie, though she emailed back and forth with the filmmaker in talking about it. “I told her bravo, bravo for your movie because you really invented the story for a second time.”
A major change was in the casting, which in the English-language version included deaf actors (Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur among them) rather than the French film which had hearing actors playing deaf — making the American version far more authentic. “They create perfection for me, just for me, when I saw the movie many months ago, and I was very, very impressed by it because I think it’s close to my feeling, my vision of the story,” Bedos said, noting she loved the French film, that it was good but more in a commercial way. “I am closer to independent American movies like Little Miss Sunshine. My feeling was very personal, more intimate, and Coda for me is more intimate.”
Bedos had zero experience in how to write a screenplay, but she wrote the synopsis and all the bible of the characters, as well as creating the story, the book as it were, and writing the songs, but she needed help to write a script. “I asked a friend of mine, I was very in love with this boy, so I told him, ‘Do you want to go with me to write a movie and to kiss me?’ He didn’t kiss me, but we write the movie. Co-writing,” she laughed.
So what does she think about all that now leading to the Academy Awards? “Yes. It’s incredible. I said to my mother, ‘Mama, Mama, my movie got to the Oscars.’ She is so happy, and she said to me, ‘I knew that. I knew it would.’ And I said, ‘No Mama. Nobody knew that.” She will be doing some color commentary on the Oscars for French television on March 27, commenting on the dresses, she laughed.
Bedos is already prepping her next film which will mark her directorial debut and which she says is another story like Coda, a coming-of-age tale with complications. It actually sounds like a French twist on Yentl. It is about a girl living in a home for old people on healthcare. She’s got complex feelings about her own body and gender, and she is bullied at school. “So she’s going to a party disguised like a man, a boy, and everybody thinks she’s a boy. And she’s the hero of the party. So, after that, she’s going to be a boy, disguised like a boy, and she’s going to have her first love affair with a boy who loves boys,” she said in explaining part of the idea.
It is for the indie production company Lionceau, and is backed by Universal’s international division. With Universal involved, I told her to hold out for those American remake rights — it certainly worked out the first time.
- 3/18/2022
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Power of the Dog” won Best Picture at the 20th Annual Gold Derby Film Awards on March 16, the day before the start of Oscar voting. The Western won three other trophies, too: both Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Jane Campion and Best Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee. “Dune” was the big winner, with six victories in the creative categories. Scroll down for our complete results, and watch the video above to see our complete awards ceremony featuring acceptance speeches from most of the winners.
Almost 2,700 Gold Derby readers voted for the winners in 22 categories, and they were clearly impressed by the technical and artistic prowess of Denis Villeneuve‘s adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s sci-fi novel. “Dune” claimed Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects.
Our voters spread the wealth elsewhere with each of the 11 other categories going to a different movie,...
Almost 2,700 Gold Derby readers voted for the winners in 22 categories, and they were clearly impressed by the technical and artistic prowess of Denis Villeneuve‘s adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s sci-fi novel. “Dune” claimed Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects.
Our voters spread the wealth elsewhere with each of the 11 other categories going to a different movie,...
- 3/16/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery, Chris Beachum, Denton Davidson, Marcus James Dixon, Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
The 75th Ee British Academy Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Film Awards took place Sunday March 13. Over 7,000 voting members submitted their ballots, voting from nominees that looked a bit more like those for the Oscars than in some years past. The entire winners list has now been revealed.
The awards ceremony is airing as of 3:00pm Et Sunday on a one-hour delay for U.S. viewers on Britbox, can you still tune in. And a note on the streamer says it will replay in full there at 7:00pm Et.
“Dune” scored the most BAFTA nominations with 11, followed by “The Power of the Dog” with eight, and “Belfast” with six. “West Side Story,” “No Time to Die,” and “Licorice Pizza” followed with five each.
Once the awards were presented Sunday, “The Power of the Dog” emerged winner of Best Film and Best Director for Jane Campion.
“Dune” scored the...
The awards ceremony is airing as of 3:00pm Et Sunday on a one-hour delay for U.S. viewers on Britbox, can you still tune in. And a note on the streamer says it will replay in full there at 7:00pm Et.
“Dune” scored the most BAFTA nominations with 11, followed by “The Power of the Dog” with eight, and “Belfast” with six. “West Side Story,” “No Time to Die,” and “Licorice Pizza” followed with five each.
Once the awards were presented Sunday, “The Power of the Dog” emerged winner of Best Film and Best Director for Jane Campion.
“Dune” scored the...
- 3/13/2022
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Updated with winners list: Netflix’s The Power of the Dog was named the Best Film on Sunday at the Ee British Academy Film Awards. The victory in BAFTA’s marquee category, along with a win by Jane Campion as Best Director, helped cement the Western as a front-runner in the race for the Oscar.
The in-person ceremony at Royal Albert Hall in London and hosted by Rebel Wilson saw Warner Bros’ Dune dominated in the crafts categories, finishing with a leading five trophies: for Production Design, Special Visual Effects, Cinematography, Sound and Original Score. No other film had more that two wins.
Dune, thought, lost out to Dog in the Best Film race that also included Focus Features’ Belfast, which won the Outstanding British Film award tonight; Licorice Pizza, which took the Original Screenplay prize for Paul Thomas Anderson; and Netflix’s satire Don’t Look Up.
“Everyone has the right to be seen,...
The in-person ceremony at Royal Albert Hall in London and hosted by Rebel Wilson saw Warner Bros’ Dune dominated in the crafts categories, finishing with a leading five trophies: for Production Design, Special Visual Effects, Cinematography, Sound and Original Score. No other film had more that two wins.
Dune, thought, lost out to Dog in the Best Film race that also included Focus Features’ Belfast, which won the Outstanding British Film award tonight; Licorice Pizza, which took the Original Screenplay prize for Paul Thomas Anderson; and Netflix’s satire Don’t Look Up.
“Everyone has the right to be seen,...
- 3/13/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
‘The Power Of The Dog’ wins best film and best director.
Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog won best film and best director at the 2022 Bafta Film Awards, whilst Dune picked up the most awards overall.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The Power Of The Dog, which was backed by Netflix and developed with and backed by BBC Film, earned two awards from eight nominations and saw Campion win her first Bafta, following a nomination for The Piano back in 1994.
Dune won five Baftas: for Hans Zimmer’s original score; Greig Fraser’s cinematography; plus production design,...
Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog won best film and best director at the 2022 Bafta Film Awards, whilst Dune picked up the most awards overall.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The Power Of The Dog, which was backed by Netflix and developed with and backed by BBC Film, earned two awards from eight nominations and saw Campion win her first Bafta, following a nomination for The Piano back in 1994.
Dune won five Baftas: for Hans Zimmer’s original score; Greig Fraser’s cinematography; plus production design,...
- 3/13/2022
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Dune leads the way with 11 nominations, followed by The Power Of The Dog on eight and Belfast on six.
The 2022 Bafta Film Awards show is taking place today (March 13) from London’s Royal Albert Hall.
The show started at 17:00 UK time, finishing at approximately 19:30, and will be broadcast with a time delay on BBC One starting at 19:00, finishing at 21:00. Rebel Wilson is hosting for the first time.
The ceremony returns as a full physical event, following last year’s edition which was mostly virtual.
Screen will be posting all the winners on this page as they...
The 2022 Bafta Film Awards show is taking place today (March 13) from London’s Royal Albert Hall.
The show started at 17:00 UK time, finishing at approximately 19:30, and will be broadcast with a time delay on BBC One starting at 19:00, finishing at 21:00. Rebel Wilson is hosting for the first time.
The ceremony returns as a full physical event, following last year’s edition which was mostly virtual.
Screen will be posting all the winners on this page as they...
- 3/13/2022
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
To complement Japanese director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s grieving, soft-spun vision for “Drive My Car,” which has received four Oscar noms including director and best picture, the choice of composer to create a melodramatic and delicate score was crucial.
Enter Eiko Ishibashi, an experimental Japanese multi-instrumentalist whose 2018 “The Dream My Bones Dream” was a turning point in an already decade-long career of scores for theater and short films.
Ishibashi’s 2018 album of haunting soundscapes and its electro-acoustic mix of noise, oddball pop, improvisational jazz and minimalist, modern classical music made her a cinematic force equal to Hamaguchi. The more textural and sweeping aspects of Ishibashi’s bittersweet melodies were an elegant match for Hamaguchi’s vision.
“It was a very unique experience for me to be able to create music with relative freedom and enjoyment,” says Ishibashi of her cinematic compositional scope.
After being known for crafting blunt, short films since...
Enter Eiko Ishibashi, an experimental Japanese multi-instrumentalist whose 2018 “The Dream My Bones Dream” was a turning point in an already decade-long career of scores for theater and short films.
Ishibashi’s 2018 album of haunting soundscapes and its electro-acoustic mix of noise, oddball pop, improvisational jazz and minimalist, modern classical music made her a cinematic force equal to Hamaguchi. The more textural and sweeping aspects of Ishibashi’s bittersweet melodies were an elegant match for Hamaguchi’s vision.
“It was a very unique experience for me to be able to create music with relative freedom and enjoyment,” says Ishibashi of her cinematic compositional scope.
After being known for crafting blunt, short films since...
- 3/11/2022
- by A.D. Amorosi
- Variety Film + TV
The hustle and bustle of awards season is nearing an end, with Oscar voting getting underway on March 17. So naturally, every contender is looking to gain an advantage, and the BAFTA and Critics Choice ceremonies, which take place March 13, provide that opportunity.
At Cca, Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” and Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” lead the tally with 11 nominations apiece, including best picture. Still, with a group of more than 500 North America-based broadcast journalists and writers doing the voting, we shouldn’t expect either to triumph unequivocally.
Read more: Variety’s Awards Circuit Predictions Hub
At BAFTA, “Belfast’s” six-nom tally isn’t as robust as Focus Features would have liked, but prospects look strong for the film to pick up wins for original screenplay, outstanding British film and possibly supporting actor Ciarán Hinds, who is a legend across the pond. However, the momentum for “Coda” has been palpable...
At Cca, Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” and Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” lead the tally with 11 nominations apiece, including best picture. Still, with a group of more than 500 North America-based broadcast journalists and writers doing the voting, we shouldn’t expect either to triumph unequivocally.
Read more: Variety’s Awards Circuit Predictions Hub
At BAFTA, “Belfast’s” six-nom tally isn’t as robust as Focus Features would have liked, but prospects look strong for the film to pick up wins for original screenplay, outstanding British film and possibly supporting actor Ciarán Hinds, who is a legend across the pond. However, the momentum for “Coda” has been palpable...
- 3/10/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The Academy Awards’ decision to hand out eight categories in the hour before the Oscar telecast begins, and then edit those presentations into the live show, has met with a storm of criticism — coming from Oscar watchers, Hollywood guilds that represent the categories in question and even Academy members.
But on Sunday, the Film Independent Spirit Awards did the same thing by handing out its editing, cinematography and international-feature awards during commercial breaks, and then slipping edited versions of the winners’ speeches into the final segment of the telecast on IFC. And maybe because the group didn’t talk about what it was doing ahead of time, there was no real criticism of the move, which the Spirit Awards had also done in the past.
(The only sign of dissatisfaction was when the audience booed as music started to drown out remarks from “Drive My Car” producer Teruhisa Yamamoto, winner of the international film award,...
But on Sunday, the Film Independent Spirit Awards did the same thing by handing out its editing, cinematography and international-feature awards during commercial breaks, and then slipping edited versions of the winners’ speeches into the final segment of the telecast on IFC. And maybe because the group didn’t talk about what it was doing ahead of time, there was no real criticism of the move, which the Spirit Awards had also done in the past.
(The only sign of dissatisfaction was when the audience booed as music started to drown out remarks from “Drive My Car” producer Teruhisa Yamamoto, winner of the international film award,...
- 3/7/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
For winners at the Film Independent Spirit Awards Sunday, the mood was one of community-oriented gratitude. The show, like so many other celebrations of cinematic excellence, is often defined by speeches filled with breathless lists of thank-yous. But that took on a different flavor this year: Sunday marked the first time the show has been staged in person in two years, and it comes as Hollywood has been in a tizzy over the Academy’s decision to omit eight categories from the live broadcast when the Oscars air next month, in favor of editing in pre-taped segments for short-film and below-the-line categories like sound and editing.
Among those who used their time during the live broadcast of the Spirit Awards on IFC to champion their often-under-appreciated collaborators was Ruth Negga, who won the award for best supporting female for her role in “Passing.” Zooming into the ceremony remotely, she said...
Among those who used their time during the live broadcast of the Spirit Awards on IFC to champion their often-under-appreciated collaborators was Ruth Negga, who won the award for best supporting female for her role in “Passing.” Zooming into the ceremony remotely, she said...
- 3/7/2022
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
It’s that time again. Oscars noms!
The 2022 Oscar nominations are currently underway and we’ll be updating this post with all of the nominees as they come in. Will The Power of the Dog run riot this year, or will Denis Villenueve’s massive adaptation of Dune rule. Or will Don’t Look Up surprise us? Let’s find out.
Soctt Davis and Linda Marric are currently watching the nominations come in live – watch along with them for all the fun of the fair.
Here is the complete list of nominations for the 2022 Oscars.
Actor In A Leading Role Nominees Javier Bardem Being the Ricardos Benedict Cumberbatch The Power of the Dog Andrew Garfield tick, tick…Boom! Will Smith King Richard Denzel Washington The Tragedy of Macbeth Actor In A Supporting Role Nominees CIARÁN Hinds Belfast Troy Kotsur Coda Jesse Plemons The Power of the Dog J.K. Simmons Being...
The 2022 Oscar nominations are currently underway and we’ll be updating this post with all of the nominees as they come in. Will The Power of the Dog run riot this year, or will Denis Villenueve’s massive adaptation of Dune rule. Or will Don’t Look Up surprise us? Let’s find out.
Soctt Davis and Linda Marric are currently watching the nominations come in live – watch along with them for all the fun of the fair.
Here is the complete list of nominations for the 2022 Oscars.
Actor In A Leading Role Nominees Javier Bardem Being the Ricardos Benedict Cumberbatch The Power of the Dog Andrew Garfield tick, tick…Boom! Will Smith King Richard Denzel Washington The Tragedy of Macbeth Actor In A Supporting Role Nominees CIARÁN Hinds Belfast Troy Kotsur Coda Jesse Plemons The Power of the Dog J.K. Simmons Being...
- 2/8/2022
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The 2022 Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday, February 8 live from Los Angeles. Emmy winner Leslie Jordan and Emmy nominee Tracee Ellis Ross hosted the nomination ceremony, reading off nominees in all 23 categories. The announcement was live-streamed online via the Oscars website, accessible at both Oscar.com and Oscars.org. In addition to the academy’s main site, the nominations streamed live online via Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. The 94th Academy Awards air live on ABC on March 27 with the ceremony set to kick off from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood at 5:00 p.m. Pt/ 8:00 p.m. Et.
Scroll down to see the full list of nominations in all 23 competitive categories at the 94th Academy Awards.
Best Picture
“Belfast” Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers
“Coda” Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers
“Don’t Look Up” Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
“Drive My Car” Teruhisa Yamamoto,...
Scroll down to see the full list of nominations in all 23 competitive categories at the 94th Academy Awards.
Best Picture
“Belfast” Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers
“Coda” Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers
“Don’t Look Up” Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
“Drive My Car” Teruhisa Yamamoto,...
- 2/8/2022
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
The Ee British Academy Film (BAFTA) Awards today announced the nominations for the 2022 awards.
Unsurprisingly, Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi thriller ‘Dune,’ earned 11 nominations, most of which fall under the technical sections. Jane Campion’s Netflix western ‘The Power of the Dog’ racked up eight nominations, while Kenneth Branagh’s personal coming-of-age drama ‘Belfast’received six. ‘No Time to Die,’ picked up five nods, alongside Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1970s-set ‘Licorice Pizza’ and Steven Spielberg’s musical reboot ‘West Side Story.’
The nominations in full are;
2022 BAFTA Film Award nominees are below:
Best Film
“Belfast”
“Don’t Look Up”
“Dune”
“Licorice Pizza”
“The Power of the Dog”
Outstanding British Film
“After Love”
“Ali & Ava”
“Belfast”
“Boiling Point”
“Cyrano”
“Everybody’s Talking About Jamie”
“House of Gucci”
“Last Night in Soho”
“No Time to Die”
“Passing”
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
“After Love” – Aleem Khan (Writer/Director...
Unsurprisingly, Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi thriller ‘Dune,’ earned 11 nominations, most of which fall under the technical sections. Jane Campion’s Netflix western ‘The Power of the Dog’ racked up eight nominations, while Kenneth Branagh’s personal coming-of-age drama ‘Belfast’received six. ‘No Time to Die,’ picked up five nods, alongside Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1970s-set ‘Licorice Pizza’ and Steven Spielberg’s musical reboot ‘West Side Story.’
The nominations in full are;
2022 BAFTA Film Award nominees are below:
Best Film
“Belfast”
“Don’t Look Up”
“Dune”
“Licorice Pizza”
“The Power of the Dog”
Outstanding British Film
“After Love”
“Ali & Ava”
“Belfast”
“Boiling Point”
“Cyrano”
“Everybody’s Talking About Jamie”
“House of Gucci”
“Last Night in Soho”
“No Time to Die”
“Passing”
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
“After Love” – Aleem Khan (Writer/Director...
- 2/3/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced its official 2022 nominees, marking the event’s 75th anniversary. This year’s nominations were broadcast live from BAFTA 195 Piccadilly in central London on Thursday, February 3. Film Awards red carpet hosts Aj Odudu and Tom Allen listed all the noms.
This year, the most nominated films are “Dune” with 11 nods; “The Power of the Dog” with eight; “Belfast” with six; and “Licorice Pizza,” “West Side Story,” and “No Time to Die” all with five nominations each.
There are also the highest number of women nominated, ever.
The BAFTAs are set to take place on Sunday, March 13 at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall. Sponsored by Ee, the Awards will be broadcast exclusively on BBC One, BBC One HD and BBC iPlayer that evening, and will be preceded by live red carpet coverage on BAFTA’s social channels.
Over 7,000 members voted for this year’s nominations.
This year, the most nominated films are “Dune” with 11 nods; “The Power of the Dog” with eight; “Belfast” with six; and “Licorice Pizza,” “West Side Story,” and “No Time to Die” all with five nominations each.
There are also the highest number of women nominated, ever.
The BAFTAs are set to take place on Sunday, March 13 at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall. Sponsored by Ee, the Awards will be broadcast exclusively on BBC One, BBC One HD and BBC iPlayer that evening, and will be preceded by live red carpet coverage on BAFTA’s social channels.
Over 7,000 members voted for this year’s nominations.
- 2/3/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Nominations for the 2022 BAFTA Film Awards have been unveiled. Scroll down for the full list.
Leading the way this year is Dune with 11 nominations, followed by The Power Of The Dog on eight and Belfast on six.
Licorice Pizza, No Time to Die and West Side Story all have five, while four nominations apiece went to After Love, Boiling Point, Cyrano, Don’t Look Up, Passing and King Richard.
In total, 48 feature films are up for prizes this year.
Diversity remains in the spotlight for the Brit Awards org. Following a 2020 when BAFTA drew criticism for having an all-male directing field and no non-white acting nominees, sweeping changes to the voting procedures put in place since have again produced a more diverse field. More on that in our analysis piece, which you can read here.
Winners will be announced at the 2022 BAFTA Film Awards ceremony, hosted by Rebel Wilson, on...
Leading the way this year is Dune with 11 nominations, followed by The Power Of The Dog on eight and Belfast on six.
Licorice Pizza, No Time to Die and West Side Story all have five, while four nominations apiece went to After Love, Boiling Point, Cyrano, Don’t Look Up, Passing and King Richard.
In total, 48 feature films are up for prizes this year.
Diversity remains in the spotlight for the Brit Awards org. Following a 2020 when BAFTA drew criticism for having an all-male directing field and no non-white acting nominees, sweeping changes to the voting procedures put in place since have again produced a more diverse field. More on that in our analysis piece, which you can read here.
Winners will be announced at the 2022 BAFTA Film Awards ceremony, hosted by Rebel Wilson, on...
- 2/3/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Six nominations for ‘Belfast’; three titles on five.
Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster Dune led the Bafta Film Awards nominations from Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, with the nominations announced today.
Dune received 11 nominations, including in best film, adapted screenplay, original score, and all eight technical categories.
Scroll down for the full list of nominations
The Power of the Dog scored eight nominations, including in best film, three times in the acting categories – and a best director nomination for Campion, who was the first woman to be nominated for the best director Bafta for The Piano in 1994.
Belfast...
Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster Dune led the Bafta Film Awards nominations from Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, with the nominations announced today.
Dune received 11 nominations, including in best film, adapted screenplay, original score, and all eight technical categories.
Scroll down for the full list of nominations
The Power of the Dog scored eight nominations, including in best film, three times in the acting categories – and a best director nomination for Campion, who was the first woman to be nominated for the best director Bafta for The Piano in 1994.
Belfast...
- 2/3/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
“Dune” is the most nominated film at our landmark 20th annual Gold Derby Film Awards honoring the best achievements of 2021. The adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s sci-fi novel has 11 bids including Best Picture and Best Director (Denis Villeneuve). Watch the announcement video above. Scroll down for our complete list of nominations in all 22 categories, and vote for the winners right now in our predictions center. You can register for a free account here if you’re not a Gold Derby member already. You have until Sunday, February 27, to get your votes in.
Almost 2,600 of our registered users voted for nominations using preferential ballots, which meant that passionate support was the key to success. The sci-fi epic “Dune” received bids for Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay, but the lion’s share of its recognition came in craft categories that recognize the film’s abundant technical achievements: Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design,...
Almost 2,600 of our registered users voted for nominations using preferential ballots, which meant that passionate support was the key to success. The sci-fi epic “Dune” received bids for Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay, but the lion’s share of its recognition came in craft categories that recognize the film’s abundant technical achievements: Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design,...
- 1/27/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery, Chris Beachum, Marcus James Dixon, Joyce Eng, Christopher Rosen, Paul Sheehan and Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car triumphed this eve at the 14th Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The movie scooped best film, which Japanese filmmaker Hamaguchi shared with producer Teruhisa Yamamoto, and best screenplay, which the director shared with Oe Takamasa. Scroll down for the full list of winners on the night.
Further winners included Asghar Farhadi, who took Best Director for A Hero, and Hogir Hirori’s Sabaya, which win Best Documentary Feature Film.
Two Jury Grand Prizes were awarded this year, one to Abdullah Mohammad Saad, director of Rehana, and Leah Purcell for The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson.
Best Performance by an Actor was awarded to Georgian actor Merab Ninidze for Alexey German Jr’s House Arrest, while Best Performance by an Actress went to Azmeri Haque Badhon for Rehana. Nguyễn Vinh Phúc won achievement in cinematography for Taste.
This was Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s...
Further winners included Asghar Farhadi, who took Best Director for A Hero, and Hogir Hirori’s Sabaya, which win Best Documentary Feature Film.
Two Jury Grand Prizes were awarded this year, one to Abdullah Mohammad Saad, director of Rehana, and Leah Purcell for The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson.
Best Performance by an Actor was awarded to Georgian actor Merab Ninidze for Alexey German Jr’s House Arrest, while Best Performance by an Actress went to Azmeri Haque Badhon for Rehana. Nguyễn Vinh Phúc won achievement in cinematography for Taste.
This was Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s...
- 11/11/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Leah Purcell is the first Australian to be awarded the Jury Grand Prize at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) after being recognised for The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson.
A total of ten films from 11 countries triumphed at the 14th Apsa Ceremony tonight, which was presented from Hota (Home of the Arts) on the Gold Coast.
A re-imagining of the Henry Lawson short story, The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson follows a woman and her stubborn determination to protect her family from the harshness of life in the 1893 Snowy Mountains.
Purcell wrote directed, starred in, and co-produced the project, which was adapted from her stageplay of the same name.
The Apsa international jury said the final product represented “not only an artist’s total dedication to her craft but also a spirited act of courage and tenacity”.
“The Drover’s Wife is a film that quickly...
A total of ten films from 11 countries triumphed at the 14th Apsa Ceremony tonight, which was presented from Hota (Home of the Arts) on the Gold Coast.
A re-imagining of the Henry Lawson short story, The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson follows a woman and her stubborn determination to protect her family from the harshness of life in the 1893 Snowy Mountains.
Purcell wrote directed, starred in, and co-produced the project, which was adapted from her stageplay of the same name.
The Apsa international jury said the final product represented “not only an artist’s total dedication to her craft but also a spirited act of courage and tenacity”.
“The Drover’s Wife is a film that quickly...
- 11/11/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Ahead of a ceremony on November 29, this year’s Gotham Awards nominations have been unveiled, featuring some of the year’s finest cinema. Among the nominations are some personal favorites here at The Film Stage, including Drive My Car, Faya Dayi, The Worst Person in the World (a film that still doesn’t have an actual 2021 U.S. release date), Test Pattern, and El Planeta.
This year, the Gothams made a switch to have all performance categories be gender neutral, with those categories have been restructured into Outstanding Leading and Supporting Performance categories for feature films, joining the already existing Breakthrough Performer category.
Check out the film nominations for the Gotham Awards below.
Best Feature
The Green Knight
David Lowery, director; Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, David Lowery, Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page, producers (A24)
The Lost Daughter
Maggie Gyllenhaal, director; Osnat Handelsman Keren, Talia Kleinhendler, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Charles Dorfman,...
This year, the Gothams made a switch to have all performance categories be gender neutral, with those categories have been restructured into Outstanding Leading and Supporting Performance categories for feature films, joining the already existing Breakthrough Performer category.
Check out the film nominations for the Gotham Awards below.
Best Feature
The Green Knight
David Lowery, director; Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, David Lowery, Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page, producers (A24)
The Lost Daughter
Maggie Gyllenhaal, director; Osnat Handelsman Keren, Talia Kleinhendler, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Charles Dorfman,...
- 10/21/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
“The Green Knight,” “The Lost Daughter,” “Passing,” “Pig” and “Test Pattern” will compete for best feature film at the 31st annual Gotham Awards. The event is key stop in the awards season marathon, particularly for lower-budgeted indie fare that is looking to elbow into the Oscars race.
At the Gothams, “Passing,” a black-and-white drama that examines racism and colorist, and “The Lost Daughter,” a searing look at motherhood, led the pack with five nominations apiece. Close behind was “Coda,” a tender look at a teenager who is the only hearing member of a deaf family, earned three nominations including one of breakthrough performer for its star Emilia Jones. “Red Rocket,” the story of a washed-up porn star who returns to his hometown, also nabbed three nominations.
Nominees for the best documentary prize include “Ascension,” “Faya Dayi,” “Flee,” “President,” and “Summer Of Soul.” Best international feature is a race between “Azor,...
At the Gothams, “Passing,” a black-and-white drama that examines racism and colorist, and “The Lost Daughter,” a searing look at motherhood, led the pack with five nominations apiece. Close behind was “Coda,” a tender look at a teenager who is the only hearing member of a deaf family, earned three nominations including one of breakthrough performer for its star Emilia Jones. “Red Rocket,” the story of a washed-up porn star who returns to his hometown, also nabbed three nominations.
Nominees for the best documentary prize include “Ascension,” “Faya Dayi,” “Flee,” “President,” and “Summer Of Soul.” Best international feature is a race between “Azor,...
- 10/21/2021
- by Brent Lang and Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Essie Davis and Leah Purcell will battle it out in the best performance by an actress category at next month’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards, while Nitram lead Caleb Landry Jones and Australian/Afghan film When Pomegranates Howl are also among the nominees.
Films from Japan and the Islamic Republic of Iran lead the field for this year’s awards with six nominations each. Two films, both winners at Cannes this year, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car and Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero (Ghahreman), have garnered the most nominations, with both films up for the same four categories – Best Feature Film, Achievement in Directing, Best Screenplay and Best Performance by an Actor.
Purcell gets the nod for The Drovers Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, for which she was also director and writer, with Davis recognised for her role in Gaysorn Thavat’s debut feature The Justice of Bunny King.
Films from Japan and the Islamic Republic of Iran lead the field for this year’s awards with six nominations each. Two films, both winners at Cannes this year, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car and Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero (Ghahreman), have garnered the most nominations, with both films up for the same four categories – Best Feature Film, Achievement in Directing, Best Screenplay and Best Performance by an Actor.
Purcell gets the nod for The Drovers Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, for which she was also director and writer, with Davis recognised for her role in Gaysorn Thavat’s debut feature The Justice of Bunny King.
- 10/13/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: The Match Factory has boarded international rights to Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s (Asako I & II) anticipated Haruki Murakami short story adaptation Drive My Car.
The film, currently in final post-production, centres on stage actor and director Yusuke Kafuku, played by Hidetoshi Nishijima (Dolls). Two years after the sudden death of his playwright wife, he is asked to direct Uncle Vanja at a theater festival in Hiroshima, where a mostly silent young woman (Toko Miura) is appointed to chauffeur him in his red Saab 900. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions are unveiled.
Writer-director Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II played in Cannes Competition in 2018 and he recently won the Best Director Silver Bear award for Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy at this year’s Berlinale. He also co-wrote Venice 2020 winner Wife Of A Spy.
Drive My Car has been tipped for inclusion at this year’s Cannes Film Festival,...
The film, currently in final post-production, centres on stage actor and director Yusuke Kafuku, played by Hidetoshi Nishijima (Dolls). Two years after the sudden death of his playwright wife, he is asked to direct Uncle Vanja at a theater festival in Hiroshima, where a mostly silent young woman (Toko Miura) is appointed to chauffeur him in his red Saab 900. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions are unveiled.
Writer-director Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II played in Cannes Competition in 2018 and he recently won the Best Director Silver Bear award for Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy at this year’s Berlinale. He also co-wrote Venice 2020 winner Wife Of A Spy.
Drive My Car has been tipped for inclusion at this year’s Cannes Film Festival,...
- 6/1/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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