Yorgos Lanthimos‘ “The Favourite” scored 10 Oscar nominations in 2019, including bids for Best Picture and Best Director for Lanthimos and a Best Actress win for Olivia Colman. Stone and Lanthimos reunite this year for “Poor Things,” which could be set to have an even better year at the Oscars than their previous film did.
“Poor Things,” from Searchlight Pictures, follows Emma Stone as Bella, who is brought back to life by Willem Dafoe‘s doctor. Bella then goes on a journey of self-discovery, aided and hindered alike by the likes of Mark Ruffalo‘s caddish lawyer and Ramy Youssef‘s hopeful suitor. The movie, which releases in US theaters on December 8, has received exquisite reviews and a near-perfect score of 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. As a result, we are predicting “Poor Things” to have a rich year at the upcoming Academy Awards. Here’s a full list of the categories we think...
“Poor Things,” from Searchlight Pictures, follows Emma Stone as Bella, who is brought back to life by Willem Dafoe‘s doctor. Bella then goes on a journey of self-discovery, aided and hindered alike by the likes of Mark Ruffalo‘s caddish lawyer and Ramy Youssef‘s hopeful suitor. The movie, which releases in US theaters on December 8, has received exquisite reviews and a near-perfect score of 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. As a result, we are predicting “Poor Things” to have a rich year at the upcoming Academy Awards. Here’s a full list of the categories we think...
- 10/26/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the most idiosyncratic filmmakers currently working and he put that enigmatic style to effective use once again with his new movie “Poor Things.” This Searchlight Pictures release, due out on Dec. 8, follows Emma Stone as a reanimated woman who goes on a journey of self-discovery. Willem Dafoe is the doctor who brings her back to life while Mark Ruffalo delivers a hilarious turn as a caddish lawyer who falls for her. The film has earned rave reviews so far, with a near-perfect 99% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The site’s critical consensus reads: “Wildly imaginative and exhilaratingly over the top, ‘Poor Things’ is a bizarre, brilliant tour de force for director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone.”
Many critics are calling the film his best work to date. Nick Schager (The Daily Beast) observed: “‘Poor Things’ is a work about distortion, assemblage, and invention, and thus...
Many critics are calling the film his best work to date. Nick Schager (The Daily Beast) observed: “‘Poor Things’ is a work about distortion, assemblage, and invention, and thus...
- 10/18/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
At the 2018 Oscars, Frances McDormand, who’d just won her second Best Actress Academy Award for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” asked all the female nominees to stand. Ten women will always be nominated by the academy: five for Best Actress and another five for Best Supporting Actress. Besides these other nine women, how many others were on their feet in the Dolby Theater?
Forty-seven women other than actresses were nominated for those 90th Academy Awards. Of these, only four won Oscars. By comparison, 151 men other than actors were nominated and 32 took home statuettes. Of the 20 non-gender specific categories, women were contenders in 17 of them; they were shut out of Original Score (5 men), Sound Editing (9 men) and Visual Effects (20 men).
At last year’s Academy Awards, 53 women other than actresses were nominated as were 159 men. Women make up 25% of the nominees in the non-gender specific categories compared to 23.73% in 2018. Thirteen...
Forty-seven women other than actresses were nominated for those 90th Academy Awards. Of these, only four won Oscars. By comparison, 151 men other than actors were nominated and 32 took home statuettes. Of the 20 non-gender specific categories, women were contenders in 17 of them; they were shut out of Original Score (5 men), Sound Editing (9 men) and Visual Effects (20 men).
At last year’s Academy Awards, 53 women other than actresses were nominated as were 159 men. Women make up 25% of the nominees in the non-gender specific categories compared to 23.73% in 2018. Thirteen...
- 1/1/2020
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
The Traitor director Marco Bellocchio on Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese: “Unlike the great tradition of American Mafia movies and their use of imagery, here all characters are true characters and events that actually happened that we then manipulated or re-elaborated.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor (Il Traditore), co-written with Valia Santella, Ludovica Rampoldi, Francesco Piccolo, and Francesco La Licata, produced by Simone Gattoni and Giuseppe Caschetto, and starring Pierfrancesco Favino as Tommaso Buscetta, received four European Film Award nominations. Best Film, Best Director (won by Yorgos Lanthimos), Best Screenwriter (won by Céline Sciamma for Portrait Of A Lady On Fire), and Best Actor (won by Antonio Banderas in Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain And Glory).
Alba Rohrwacher (in Dormant Beauty) on Marco Bellocchio: “I can say he is one of my masters. He taught me a lot.”
Before The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher retrospective...
Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor (Il Traditore), co-written with Valia Santella, Ludovica Rampoldi, Francesco Piccolo, and Francesco La Licata, produced by Simone Gattoni and Giuseppe Caschetto, and starring Pierfrancesco Favino as Tommaso Buscetta, received four European Film Award nominations. Best Film, Best Director (won by Yorgos Lanthimos), Best Screenwriter (won by Céline Sciamma for Portrait Of A Lady On Fire), and Best Actor (won by Antonio Banderas in Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain And Glory).
Alba Rohrwacher (in Dormant Beauty) on Marco Bellocchio: “I can say he is one of my masters. He taught me a lot.”
Before The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher retrospective...
- 12/9/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The European Film Academy has unveiled its nominations for the 32nd European Film Awards with the ceremony to be held December 7 in Berlin. Among the titles to figure in the races, three are tied with four mentions each including Roman Polanski’s An Officer And A Spy, Pedro Almodovar’s Pain And Glory and Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor. The latter two are also the Oscar representatives from their respective Spain and Italy and give Sony Pictures Classics a combined eight nods at the EFAs.
While Polanski remains a controversial figure, there has been a divide between U.S. and Euro perspectives in the #MeToo era. His Dreyfus Affair drama, An Officer And A Spy, which also has Efa nominations for Director, Actor and Screenwriter, was one of the most contested titles at the Venice Film Festival where it debuted earlier this year. It went on to win the Grand Jury Prize there.
While Polanski remains a controversial figure, there has been a divide between U.S. and Euro perspectives in the #MeToo era. His Dreyfus Affair drama, An Officer And A Spy, which also has Efa nominations for Director, Actor and Screenwriter, was one of the most contested titles at the Venice Film Festival where it debuted earlier this year. It went on to win the Grand Jury Prize there.
- 11/9/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
This year’s top ten was selected by Screen International’s team of critics.
The nominees for Screen International’s 2019 Best British Film of the Year award have been revealed.
The winner will be voted for by Screen International readers (see below) and will be announced at this year’s Screen Awards ceremony held on November 28 at The Ballroom Southbank in London. Voting closes on October 31. This year’s other Screen Awards nominees have been announced here.
The award launched last year, with Dan Kokotajlo’s Apostasy winning the first edition.
This year’s top 10 was selected by Screen International...
The nominees for Screen International’s 2019 Best British Film of the Year award have been revealed.
The winner will be voted for by Screen International readers (see below) and will be announced at this year’s Screen Awards ceremony held on November 28 at The Ballroom Southbank in London. Voting closes on October 31. This year’s other Screen Awards nominees have been announced here.
The award launched last year, with Dan Kokotajlo’s Apostasy winning the first edition.
This year’s top 10 was selected by Screen International...
- 10/11/2019
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
At this year’s Academy Awards, 15 women won while 36 men (some multiple times) made their way to the stage of the Dolby Theater (these figures include the two men and two women are always guaranteed to win the acting awards). That marks a big increase from last year when the gender gap saw just 6 women winners versus 34 men. Scroll down to see the names of the 13 women who won at the 2019 Oscars besides actresses Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”) and Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”).
This year, 53 women other than actresses were nominated at the 91st Academy Awards. With 159 men in contention, this meant that women make up 25% of the nominees in the non-gender specific categories (there will always be 10 women and 10 men nominated for the acting awards). At last year’s Oscars women represented 23.73% of the nominees in the 20 non-gender specific categories. Forty-seven women numbered among the contenders in those 17 races.
This year, 53 women other than actresses were nominated at the 91st Academy Awards. With 159 men in contention, this meant that women make up 25% of the nominees in the non-gender specific categories (there will always be 10 women and 10 men nominated for the acting awards). At last year’s Oscars women represented 23.73% of the nominees in the 20 non-gender specific categories. Forty-seven women numbered among the contenders in those 17 races.
- 2/25/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Over the past year, beginning in February with Black Panther and ending in December with Vice, I did video reviews of all of what eventually became the eight nominees for Best Picture at the 91st annual Academy Awards.
Check them all out and see which one you think will take the Oscars’ big prize Sunday night.
Black Panther
Disney/A Marvel Studios Production
Kevin Feige, Producer
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Hammond’s Takeaway: A dazzling film that not only thrills at every turn but has real social value and importance. (Full review here.)
BlacKkKlansman
Focus Features/A QC Entertainment/Blumhouse Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Production
Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Hammond’s Takeaway: Spike Lee is back with his most urgent, entertaining and pertinent film since Inside Man hit theaters a dozen years ago. (Full review here.
Check them all out and see which one you think will take the Oscars’ big prize Sunday night.
Black Panther
Disney/A Marvel Studios Production
Kevin Feige, Producer
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Hammond’s Takeaway: A dazzling film that not only thrills at every turn but has real social value and importance. (Full review here.)
BlacKkKlansman
Focus Features/A QC Entertainment/Blumhouse Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Production
Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Hammond’s Takeaway: Spike Lee is back with his most urgent, entertaining and pertinent film since Inside Man hit theaters a dozen years ago. (Full review here.
- 2/23/2019
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Favourite” came out on top in one way at the 17th Annual Gold Derby Film Awards, while “Roma” was the big winner in another. “The Favourite” received the most awards when thousands of Gold Derby users picked the winners, but it was “Roma” that came away with Best Picture. Watch us announce all 22 categories in the webcast above, and scroll down for the complete list of nominees and winners.
“The Favourite” had a field-leading 12 nominations at these awards, and it came away with five victories: Best Actress (Olivia Colman), Best Original Screenplay, Best Ensemble, Best Costume Design and Best Production Design. Colman’s wins for Best Actress and Best Ensemble are her first victories from Gold Derby, but she was already a three-time contender for her work on TV. We nominated her for her leading role in “Broadchurch” (2014) and for supporting turns in “The Night Manager” (2016) and “Fleabag” (2017).
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“The Favourite” had a field-leading 12 nominations at these awards, and it came away with five victories: Best Actress (Olivia Colman), Best Original Screenplay, Best Ensemble, Best Costume Design and Best Production Design. Colman’s wins for Best Actress and Best Ensemble are her first victories from Gold Derby, but she was already a three-time contender for her work on TV. We nominated her for her leading role in “Broadchurch” (2014) and for supporting turns in “The Night Manager” (2016) and “Fleabag” (2017).
Sign...
- 2/20/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery, Chris Beachum, Marcus James Dixon, Joyce Eng, Paul Sheehan and Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
As Oscar balloting comes to an end, here’s another installment in our annual series of interviews with Academy voters from different branches for their candid thoughts on what got picked, overlooked, and overvalued this year.
Best motion picture of the year
“Black Panther” Kevin Feige, Producer
“BlacKkKlansman” Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers
“Bohemian Rhapsody” Graham King, Producer
“The Favourite” Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, Producers
“Green Book” Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers
“Roma” Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón, Producers
“A Star Is Born” Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, Producers
“Vice” Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
You have to think about the preferential ballot; otherwise you are not giving the number one the best possibility. I love “Roma.” But I am concerned it...
Best motion picture of the year
“Black Panther” Kevin Feige, Producer
“BlacKkKlansman” Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers
“Bohemian Rhapsody” Graham King, Producer
“The Favourite” Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, Producers
“Green Book” Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers
“Roma” Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón, Producers
“A Star Is Born” Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, Producers
“Vice” Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
You have to think about the preferential ballot; otherwise you are not giving the number one the best possibility. I love “Roma.” But I am concerned it...
- 2/20/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
As Oscar balloting comes to an end, here’s another installment in our annual series of interviews with Academy voters from different branches for their candid thoughts on what got picked, overlooked, and overvalued this year.
Best motion picture of the year
“Black Panther” Kevin Feige, Producer
“BlacKkKlansman” Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers
“Bohemian Rhapsody” Graham King, Producer
“The Favourite” Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, Producers
“Green Book” Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers
“Roma” Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón, Producers
“A Star Is Born” Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, Producers
“Vice” Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
You have to think about the preferential ballot; otherwise you are not giving the number one the best possibility. I love “Roma.” But I am concerned it...
Best motion picture of the year
“Black Panther” Kevin Feige, Producer
“BlacKkKlansman” Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers
“Bohemian Rhapsody” Graham King, Producer
“The Favourite” Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, Producers
“Green Book” Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers
“Roma” Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón, Producers
“A Star Is Born” Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, Producers
“Vice” Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
You have to think about the preferential ballot; otherwise you are not giving the number one the best possibility. I love “Roma.” But I am concerned it...
- 2/20/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Roma wins best film and best director, The Favourite wins seven awards including best actress for Olivia Colman.
Roma took home best film at the 2019 Baftas, as well as best foreign film, best director and best cinematography.
The Favourite won the most awards in total, seven, including best actress for Olivia Colman.
The ceremony took place on Feb 10 at the Royal Albert Hall and was hosted by Joanna Lumley for a second time.
The full list of winners Best Film BLACKkKLANSMAN Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele The Favourite Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday Green Book Jim Burke,...
Roma took home best film at the 2019 Baftas, as well as best foreign film, best director and best cinematography.
The Favourite won the most awards in total, seven, including best actress for Olivia Colman.
The ceremony took place on Feb 10 at the Royal Albert Hall and was hosted by Joanna Lumley for a second time.
The full list of winners Best Film BLACKkKLANSMAN Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele The Favourite Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday Green Book Jim Burke,...
- 2/11/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Fiona Crombie.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite won seven prizes at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ awards in London on Sunday, including original screenplay for Tony McNamara and Deborah Davis and production design for Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton.
So the momentum builds for all four, who have been nominated in their respective categories at the Academy Awards.
Crombie’s work on The Favourite had already been recognised as it was named best period film at the Art Directors Guild’s Excellence in Production Design Awards in Los Angeles.
In the past five years, the winner of the Adg’s period film category went on to win the Oscar in production design three times: The Great Gatsby (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2025) and The Shape of Water (2018), which also won best picture.
Alfonso Cuarón’s Netflix film Roma took home the BAFTA Awards for best film, director, cinematography and...
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite won seven prizes at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ awards in London on Sunday, including original screenplay for Tony McNamara and Deborah Davis and production design for Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton.
So the momentum builds for all four, who have been nominated in their respective categories at the Academy Awards.
Crombie’s work on The Favourite had already been recognised as it was named best period film at the Art Directors Guild’s Excellence in Production Design Awards in Los Angeles.
In the past five years, the winner of the Adg’s period film category went on to win the Oscar in production design three times: The Great Gatsby (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2025) and The Shape of Water (2018), which also won best picture.
Alfonso Cuarón’s Netflix film Roma took home the BAFTA Awards for best film, director, cinematography and...
- 2/10/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The 2019 BAFTA Award winners have been announced!
The most nominated film of the event, The Favourite, was predictably the night’s big winner, netting seven wins including leading actress for Olivia Colman, supporting actress for Rachel Weisz and outstanding British film. Netflix’s Roma beat out The Favourite for best film as well as best director for Alfonso Cuaron.
Elsewhere, Rami Malek won in the leading actor category for his performance as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, while Green Book‘s Mahershala Ali was recognized as the best supporting actor. Both are considered front-runners at the upcoming 91st Academy Awards,...
The most nominated film of the event, The Favourite, was predictably the night’s big winner, netting seven wins including leading actress for Olivia Colman, supporting actress for Rachel Weisz and outstanding British film. Netflix’s Roma beat out The Favourite for best film as well as best director for Alfonso Cuaron.
Elsewhere, Rami Malek won in the leading actor category for his performance as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, while Green Book‘s Mahershala Ali was recognized as the best supporting actor. Both are considered front-runners at the upcoming 91st Academy Awards,...
- 2/10/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Moments ago, we saw one of the final dominos in the precursor season tumble. Yes, the 72nd British Academy Film Awards were held, with the winners staking their claim to potential Oscar glory. BAFTA has long held major sway with the Academy Awards, so what voters in the former do, members of the latter keep in mind. That should again be the case this year, though there weren’t a whole lot of surprises to be found. BAFTA voters embraced the things we expected them to, for better or worse. Now, it’s just a matter of figuring out if they’re on the money or not, which is what I’ll be doing next… BAFTA gave the most awards to The Favourite, with seven in total, including Olivia Colman in Best Actress, Rachel Weisz in Best Supporting Actress, and the duo of Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara in Best Original Screenplay.
- 2/10/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Alfonso Cuarón’s Netflix film Roma won the Best Film at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday. Fox Searchlight’s The Favourite, which led all nominees going in with 12, won a leading seven trophies as the two films with the most Oscar nominations this year duked it out on at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Cuarón’s black-and-white Spanish-language memory play score four noms overall — Best Film, Director and Cinematography and Best Film Not in the English Language — but those categories came later in the evening.
The rest of the show was mostly The Favourite‘s playground, where the Brit-originated pic with its Brit subject matter won Outstanding British Film, acting trophies for lead Olivia Colman and co-star Rachel Wiesz, as well as Original Screenplay, Costume Design, Production Design and Make Up & Hair.
Also picking up Oscar momentum Sunday was Rami Malek, who...
Cuarón’s black-and-white Spanish-language memory play score four noms overall — Best Film, Director and Cinematography and Best Film Not in the English Language — but those categories came later in the evening.
The rest of the show was mostly The Favourite‘s playground, where the Brit-originated pic with its Brit subject matter won Outstanding British Film, acting trophies for lead Olivia Colman and co-star Rachel Wiesz, as well as Original Screenplay, Costume Design, Production Design and Make Up & Hair.
Also picking up Oscar momentum Sunday was Rami Malek, who...
- 2/10/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2019 Bafta Awards are taking place tonight at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
The 2019 Bafta Awards are taking place tonight (10 Feb) at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Screen will be posting all the winners on this page and on Twitter as they are announced.
The ceremony starts at 18:45 UK time and finishes at approximately 21:30, with Joanna Lumley hosting for a second time.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ historical drama The Favourite leads the way with 12 nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born follow on seven. Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, with Cold War and Green Book on four each.
The 2019 Bafta Awards are taking place tonight (10 Feb) at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Screen will be posting all the winners on this page and on Twitter as they are announced.
The ceremony starts at 18:45 UK time and finishes at approximately 21:30, with Joanna Lumley hosting for a second time.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ historical drama The Favourite leads the way with 12 nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born follow on seven. Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, with Cold War and Green Book on four each.
- 2/10/2019
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
The Favourite is one of the leading Oscar contenders this year, and it's not hard to see why. The historical comedy, which is based on a true story and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, stars Emma Stone as Abigail, a new servant who arrives to the 18th century kingdom ruled over by an increasingly frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), and soon upsets the control the Queen's loyal confidant, Lady Sara (Rachel Weisz), has spent years attaining.
"They are all flawed and hilarious, but very complicated people," Stone says in our exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from the film, above. "It's, you know, what life is like."
In addition to commentary from Stone, producer Ceci Dempsey also makes a pretty cool observation about the dynamic between the three leading ladies. "You know, you constantly see men behaving badly, but you rarely get an opportunity to see women behaving very badly," she says. "I think they are incredibly vivid.
"They are all flawed and hilarious, but very complicated people," Stone says in our exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from the film, above. "It's, you know, what life is like."
In addition to commentary from Stone, producer Ceci Dempsey also makes a pretty cool observation about the dynamic between the three leading ladies. "You know, you constantly see men behaving badly, but you rarely get an opportunity to see women behaving very badly," she says. "I think they are incredibly vivid.
- 2/9/2019
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Front Row Left to Right:
Graham King, Jason Ruder, Vincent Lambe, Rodney Rothman, Nuria González Blanco, Anthony Rossomando, Gabriela Rodríguez, Christopher Miller, Diane Quon, Brandon Proctor, Eric Roth, Raymond Mansfield, Mary Zophres, Sean McKittrick, Viggo Mortensen, Marianne Farley, Lee Magiday, Ceci Dempsey and Greg Cannom.
Second Row Left to Right:
Bobby Pontillas, Darren Mahon, Patrick J. Don Vito, Marie-Helene Panisset, Dan Deleeuw, John Casali, John Warhurst, Peter Devlin, Louise Bagnall, Jeffrey Friedman, Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Nicolas Britell, Talal Derki, Tristan Myles, Ethan Van der Ryn, Evan Hayes, Will Fetters, Gordon Sim, Skye Fitzgerald, Barbara Enriquez, Su Kim, Charles B. Wessler, Kathy Lucas.
Third Row Left to Right:
Adam McKay, Yuichiro Saito, Melissa Berton, Willem Dafoe, Diane Warren , Craig Henighan, Jeff Whitty, Barry Alexander Brown, Rich Moore, Mahershala Ali, Marc Shaiman, Bob Persichetti, Benjamin A. Burtt, David Rabinowitz, Jose Antonio Garcia, Mark Ronson, Patricia Dehaney, Dede Gardner, John Walker , Marshall Curry, Bing Liu,...
Graham King, Jason Ruder, Vincent Lambe, Rodney Rothman, Nuria González Blanco, Anthony Rossomando, Gabriela Rodríguez, Christopher Miller, Diane Quon, Brandon Proctor, Eric Roth, Raymond Mansfield, Mary Zophres, Sean McKittrick, Viggo Mortensen, Marianne Farley, Lee Magiday, Ceci Dempsey and Greg Cannom.
Second Row Left to Right:
Bobby Pontillas, Darren Mahon, Patrick J. Don Vito, Marie-Helene Panisset, Dan Deleeuw, John Casali, John Warhurst, Peter Devlin, Louise Bagnall, Jeffrey Friedman, Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Nicolas Britell, Talal Derki, Tristan Myles, Ethan Van der Ryn, Evan Hayes, Will Fetters, Gordon Sim, Skye Fitzgerald, Barbara Enriquez, Su Kim, Charles B. Wessler, Kathy Lucas.
Third Row Left to Right:
Adam McKay, Yuichiro Saito, Melissa Berton, Willem Dafoe, Diane Warren , Craig Henighan, Jeff Whitty, Barry Alexander Brown, Rich Moore, Mahershala Ali, Marc Shaiman, Bob Persichetti, Benjamin A. Burtt, David Rabinowitz, Jose Antonio Garcia, Mark Ronson, Patricia Dehaney, Dede Gardner, John Walker , Marshall Curry, Bing Liu,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Producers of some of the biggest films of last year gathered together for this week’s installment of “Close Up with the Hollywood Reporter.” The roundtable includes Oscar-nominated producers Ceci Dempsey (“The Favourite”), Bill Gerber (“A Star is Born”), Gabriela Rodriguez (“Roma”), and Kevin Feige (“Black Panther”), in addition to Nina Jacobson (“Ben is Back” and “Crazy Rich Asians”) and writer/director/producer Paul Greengrass (“22 July”).
Continue reading Producer’s Roundtable Includes Kevin Feige, Nina Jacobson, Paul Greengrass & More Discussing Diversity On Screen at The Playlist.
Continue reading Producer’s Roundtable Includes Kevin Feige, Nina Jacobson, Paul Greengrass & More Discussing Diversity On Screen at The Playlist.
- 2/5/2019
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
If last year’s Oscar race revolved around genre-bending movies (stick with me on this), this year’s contest has a decidedly international flavor.
Alfonso Cuaron used his clout after winning two Oscars for “Gravity” to make “Roma,” a deeply personal story about his childhood maid in Mexico City. He figured the movie, shot in black and white using Spanish and the Mixtec language, might be so small in scale that few people would see it. Instead, the Netflix release scored 10 Oscar nominations, a tie for the most this year. It is the streamer’s first movie to get a best picture nomination and newcomer Yalitza Aparicio became the first indigenous Mexican woman to receive an Oscar nomination for her performance. Cuaron alone received four noms.
From the start with “Roma,” he has touted audience hunger for diversity in cinema. Academy voters seemingly backed up that claim.
Fellow top nom-getter...
Alfonso Cuaron used his clout after winning two Oscars for “Gravity” to make “Roma,” a deeply personal story about his childhood maid in Mexico City. He figured the movie, shot in black and white using Spanish and the Mixtec language, might be so small in scale that few people would see it. Instead, the Netflix release scored 10 Oscar nominations, a tie for the most this year. It is the streamer’s first movie to get a best picture nomination and newcomer Yalitza Aparicio became the first indigenous Mexican woman to receive an Oscar nomination for her performance. Cuaron alone received four noms.
From the start with “Roma,” he has touted audience hunger for diversity in cinema. Academy voters seemingly backed up that claim.
Fellow top nom-getter...
- 2/4/2019
- by Diane Garrett
- Variety Film + TV
Under executive director Roger Durling, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (taking place January 30 – February 9) has flourished by riding the awards season wave via starry onstage interviews with Oscar contenders. Every year, screenwriters, directors and producers promote their causes on panels, and the likes of Viggo Mortensen, Rami Malek, Yalitza Aparicio, Glenn Close, Sam Elliott, and Richard E. Grant will submit to in-depth tributes from the likes of Leonard Maltin and Pete Hammond, among others.
On the festival’s first weekend, I will have the pleasure of a wide-ranging conversation with Best Actress Oscar-nominee Melissa McCarthy, star of “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
And I will also moderate the annual “It Starts with the Script” panel on Saturday, including Will Fetters (“A Star Is Born”), Lauren Greenfield (“Generation Wealth”), Kevin Willmott (“BlacKkKlansman”), Paul Schrader (“First Reformed”), Brian Currie (“Green Book”), Barry Jenkins (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), and Tony McNamara...
On the festival’s first weekend, I will have the pleasure of a wide-ranging conversation with Best Actress Oscar-nominee Melissa McCarthy, star of “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
And I will also moderate the annual “It Starts with the Script” panel on Saturday, including Will Fetters (“A Star Is Born”), Lauren Greenfield (“Generation Wealth”), Kevin Willmott (“BlacKkKlansman”), Paul Schrader (“First Reformed”), Brian Currie (“Green Book”), Barry Jenkins (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), and Tony McNamara...
- 2/1/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Under executive director Roger Durling, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (taking place January 30 – February 9) has flourished by riding the awards season wave via starry onstage interviews with Oscar contenders. Every year, screenwriters, directors and producers promote their causes on panels, and the likes of Viggo Mortensen, Rami Malek, Yalitza Aparicio, Glenn Close, Sam Elliott, and Richard E. Grant will submit to in-depth tributes from the likes of Leonard Maltin and Pete Hammond, among others.
On the festival’s first weekend, I will have the pleasure of a wide-ranging conversation with Best Actress Oscar-nominee Melissa McCarthy, star of “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
And I will also moderate the annual “It Starts with the Script” panel on Saturday, including Will Fetters (“A Star Is Born”), Lauren Greenfield (“Generation Wealth”), Kevin Willmott (“BlacKkKlansman”), Paul Schrader (“First Reformed”), Brian Currie (“Green Book”), Barry Jenkins (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), and Tony McNamara...
On the festival’s first weekend, I will have the pleasure of a wide-ranging conversation with Best Actress Oscar-nominee Melissa McCarthy, star of “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
And I will also moderate the annual “It Starts with the Script” panel on Saturday, including Will Fetters (“A Star Is Born”), Lauren Greenfield (“Generation Wealth”), Kevin Willmott (“BlacKkKlansman”), Paul Schrader (“First Reformed”), Brian Currie (“Green Book”), Barry Jenkins (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), and Tony McNamara...
- 2/1/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
“The Favourite” was the favorite film of more than 2,500 users who voted for the 17th Annual Gold Derby Film Awards nominations. It scored 12 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director (Yorgos Lanthimos), Best Actress (Olivia Colman), Best Supporting Actress (Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz) and Best Ensemble. Scroll down to see the complete list of contenders in all 22 categories, watch our complete video announcement above, and vote for the winners right here and now.
The royal British comedy isn’t alone in the double digits. “A Star is Born” is close behind with 11 nominations, five of which go to Bradley Cooper as a producer, writer, director, lead actor, and a member of the ensemble cast. Cooper previously won Gold Derby Awards as a member of the ensemble casts of “Silver Linings Playbook” (2012) and “American Hustle” (2013), but he has yet to win individual plaudits.
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The royal British comedy isn’t alone in the double digits. “A Star is Born” is close behind with 11 nominations, five of which go to Bradley Cooper as a producer, writer, director, lead actor, and a member of the ensemble cast. Cooper previously won Gold Derby Awards as a member of the ensemble casts of “Silver Linings Playbook” (2012) and “American Hustle” (2013), but he has yet to win individual plaudits.
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- 1/30/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery, Chris Beachum, Marcus James Dixon, Joyce Eng, Paul Sheehan and Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
‘The Favourite’ Producers On The Film’s 10 Oscar Nominations & The Changing Climate For Female Leads
While Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite is nominated in 10 categories and up front in the Oscar race (matching Roma), there was a time, a long time actually, when it could not get financing. Partly due to its then-unfashionable period genre, but mostly because of its female-led story, its lack of major male roles and its lesbian love story, the film was serially sidelined.
Producer Ceci Dempsey is only too familiar with The Favourite’s long road to Oscar nomination.
“It’s been a process, I have to say,” she laughs. And she’s not kidding, given the 20 years it’s been since writer Deborah Davis showed Dempsey her first draft. Davis’ tale of Queen Anne and her love triangle with two female courtiers jumped off the page, but for Dempsey it was always just great storytelling, not necessarily about the characters’ gender or sexuality.
“Apart from anything else, who doesn’t love a great story?...
Producer Ceci Dempsey is only too familiar with The Favourite’s long road to Oscar nomination.
“It’s been a process, I have to say,” she laughs. And she’s not kidding, given the 20 years it’s been since writer Deborah Davis showed Dempsey her first draft. Davis’ tale of Queen Anne and her love triangle with two female courtiers jumped off the page, but for Dempsey it was always just great storytelling, not necessarily about the characters’ gender or sexuality.
“Apart from anything else, who doesn’t love a great story?...
- 1/22/2019
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
91st Academy Award ceremony to take place on February 24.
The Favourite’s producers from Element Films were wide-eyed and jet-lagged, while Minding The Gap documentary director Bing Liu has been bed-ridden with the flu. Yet all that was put to one side when they learned of their Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning (22).
Willem Dafoe said he was “over the moon” for his recognition as Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate, and Roma star Yalitza Aparicio thanked the Academy for helping ”those of us who feel invisible be seen.”
The nominees for the 91st Academy Award share their reactions below.
The Favourite’s producers from Element Films were wide-eyed and jet-lagged, while Minding The Gap documentary director Bing Liu has been bed-ridden with the flu. Yet all that was put to one side when they learned of their Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning (22).
Willem Dafoe said he was “over the moon” for his recognition as Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate, and Roma star Yalitza Aparicio thanked the Academy for helping ”those of us who feel invisible be seen.”
The nominees for the 91st Academy Award share their reactions below.
- 1/22/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Women accounted for 27.5 percent of all the Oscar nominees in 2019, a slight uptick from last year’s record-setting year, in which only 26.8 percent of the nominations went to women.
Of the 225 individuals nominated this year in the 24 competitive categories, 62 women were named, based on a tally from TheWrap. That’s compared to just 57 of 213 individual nominees in 2018 (26.8 percent), and 48 of 211 in 2017 (22.7 percent).
According to TheWrap’s analysis, individuals like Lady Gaga, costume designer Sandy Powell and writer-director-producer Alfonso Cuarón were counted for each of their nominations.
The gains came primarily in below-the-line categories like Documentary Feature, Makeup and Hairstyling, Animated short, Live-Action Short and Sound Editing. In fact, eight of the 15 individuals nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category were women, compared to just four last year.
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Of the 225 individuals nominated this year in the 24 competitive categories, 62 women were named, based on a tally from TheWrap. That’s compared to just 57 of 213 individual nominees in 2018 (26.8 percent), and 48 of 211 in 2017 (22.7 percent).
According to TheWrap’s analysis, individuals like Lady Gaga, costume designer Sandy Powell and writer-director-producer Alfonso Cuarón were counted for each of their nominations.
The gains came primarily in below-the-line categories like Documentary Feature, Makeup and Hairstyling, Animated short, Live-Action Short and Sound Editing. In fact, eight of the 15 individuals nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category were women, compared to just four last year.
Also Read: Inside the Oscar Nominations: 'A Star Is Born' Loses Ground as 'Roma,' 'BlacKkKlansman,' 'The Favourite' Surge...
- 1/22/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
At last year’s Oscars women represented 23.73% of the nominees in the 20 non-gender specific categories. Forty-seven women numbered among the contenders in 17 races. They were shut out of Original Score (5 men), Sound Editing (9 men) and Visual Effects (20 men). By comparison, 151 men other than actors were nominated. Four women won Oscars as did 32 men.
This year, 53 women other than actresses are nominated at the 91st Academy Awards. With 159 men in contention, this means that women make up 25% of the nominees in the non-gender specific categories. This uptick came despite women being shut out of five races this year.
Besides score (5 men again) and visual effects (20 men again), women are not represented in Best Director (5 men), Cinematography (5 men) and Film Editing (5 men).
This year, one category — Costume Design — is guaranteed to have a woman win as they make up the entire slate. Women outnumber men in three categories — Makeup and Hairstyling, Documentary...
This year, 53 women other than actresses are nominated at the 91st Academy Awards. With 159 men in contention, this means that women make up 25% of the nominees in the non-gender specific categories. This uptick came despite women being shut out of five races this year.
Besides score (5 men again) and visual effects (20 men again), women are not represented in Best Director (5 men), Cinematography (5 men) and Film Editing (5 men).
This year, one category — Costume Design — is guaranteed to have a woman win as they make up the entire slate. Women outnumber men in three categories — Makeup and Hairstyling, Documentary...
- 1/22/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
The Favourite leads the UK charge with 10 nominations.
The Favourite will be flying the flag for the UK and Ireland at the 2019 Oscars, with its 10 nominations tying it top with Roma.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ film, a co-production between Ceci Dempsey at London-based Scarlet Films and Ed Guiney and Lee Magiday at Dublin and London-based Element Pictures, features in several major categories including best film. In that race it is up against Bohemian Rhapsody, a UK-us co-production, which sees UK-born and Los Angeles-based producer Graham King nominated for the fourth time.
Greek-born, UK-based Lanthimos is nominated for best director, along with the UK-based Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski,...
The Favourite will be flying the flag for the UK and Ireland at the 2019 Oscars, with its 10 nominations tying it top with Roma.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ film, a co-production between Ceci Dempsey at London-based Scarlet Films and Ed Guiney and Lee Magiday at Dublin and London-based Element Pictures, features in several major categories including best film. In that race it is up against Bohemian Rhapsody, a UK-us co-production, which sees UK-born and Los Angeles-based producer Graham King nominated for the fourth time.
Greek-born, UK-based Lanthimos is nominated for best director, along with the UK-based Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski,...
- 1/22/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Updated with full list, more details: The 91st Oscar nominations were announced this morning in a presentation by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with Alfonso Cuarón’s memory movie Roma from Oscar newcomer Netflix and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite from perennial frontrunner Fox Searchlight leading the way 10 nominations apiece.
Warner Bros’ A Star Is Born and Annapurna Pictures’ Vice followed with eight noms, and join Roma and The Favourite in a diverse Best Picture race that has been shaping up all awards season. The other noms include Focus Features’ BlacKkKlansman from Spike Lee, Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody from 20th Century Fox, Universal’s Green Book and, in a first for a movie based on a comic book, Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther broke through on the list. It scored seven noms overall, though not for director Ryan Coogler.
Fox Searchlight (15 total noms) and Netflix also led the...
Warner Bros’ A Star Is Born and Annapurna Pictures’ Vice followed with eight noms, and join Roma and The Favourite in a diverse Best Picture race that has been shaping up all awards season. The other noms include Focus Features’ BlacKkKlansman from Spike Lee, Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody from 20th Century Fox, Universal’s Green Book and, in a first for a movie based on a comic book, Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther broke through on the list. It scored seven noms overall, though not for director Ryan Coogler.
Fox Searchlight (15 total noms) and Netflix also led the...
- 1/22/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
A few hours ago, the Producers Guild of America threw a bit of a monkey-wrench into the awards season works. Giving out their Producers Guild Awards, the top prize went to Green Book, shooting that controversial film to the front of the Oscar race. The PGA voters always catapult their winners towards Best Picture at the Academy Awards, so it was expected that this would occur here too. Well, it probably has, just with a movie that wasn’t the presumptive top tier with producers. Guess that wasn’t the case, so we need to re-evaluate things a bit. I’ll try to make sense of it all below! PGA went with Peter Farrelly’s Green Book over what seemed like more likely choice in Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born and Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma. Green Book wasn’t even necessarily considered next in line, as an upset...
- 1/20/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
“Green Book” has won the top prize at the Producers Guild of America Awards, meaning we have an official Best Picture frontrunner. Often seen as an Oscar bellwether, the PGA Awards’ top winner has matched up with that of the Academy 20 times since the Guild started giving out awards — including last year, when “The Shape of Water” won both.
Avail yourself of the full list below, with winners in bold.
Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
“Black Panther” (Producer: Kevin Feige)
“BlacKkKlansman”
“Bohemian Rhapsody” (Producer: Graham King)
“Crazy Rich Asians”
“The Favourite”
“Green Book”
“A Quiet Place”
“Roma”
“A Star Is Born”
“Vice”
Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures
“The Dawn Wall”
“Free Solo”
“Hal”
“Into the Okavango” (Producer: Neil Gelinas)
“Rbg”
“Three Identical Strangers”
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch”
“Incredibles 2”
“Isle of Dogs...
Avail yourself of the full list below, with winners in bold.
Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
“Black Panther” (Producer: Kevin Feige)
“BlacKkKlansman”
“Bohemian Rhapsody” (Producer: Graham King)
“Crazy Rich Asians”
“The Favourite”
“Green Book”
“A Quiet Place”
“Roma”
“A Star Is Born”
“Vice”
Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures
“The Dawn Wall”
“Free Solo”
“Hal”
“Into the Okavango” (Producer: Neil Gelinas)
“Rbg”
“Three Identical Strangers”
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch”
“Incredibles 2”
“Isle of Dogs...
- 1/20/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Green Book walked away with the marquee prize at the 30th annual Producers Guild Awards, which were handed out Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse followed up its Golden Globes win and beat out a tough field to snare the statuette for Animated Feature, and the Mister Rogers pic Won’t You Be My Neighbor? laced up the Documentary Feature prize, also topping a solid field..
On the TV side, the final season of FX’s The Americans won the drama series awards, following up its Globes win two weeks ago. Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel continued its remarkable awards run, up its Emmy and Golden Globes triumph with its second consecutive Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy at the PGAs. Its creator-ep Amy Sherman-Palladino was among tonight’s career award recipients – the Norman Lear Award for Achievement in Television.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse followed up its Golden Globes win and beat out a tough field to snare the statuette for Animated Feature, and the Mister Rogers pic Won’t You Be My Neighbor? laced up the Documentary Feature prize, also topping a solid field..
On the TV side, the final season of FX’s The Americans won the drama series awards, following up its Globes win two weeks ago. Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel continued its remarkable awards run, up its Emmy and Golden Globes triumph with its second consecutive Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy at the PGAs. Its creator-ep Amy Sherman-Palladino was among tonight’s career award recipients – the Norman Lear Award for Achievement in Television.
- 1/20/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Last year’s Producers Guild Awards told us which movie — “The Shape of Water” — would win the Oscar for Best Picture weeks before the Academy Awards. In fact 20 of the previous winners of this important prize have then gone on to Best Picture victories.
For the 30th annual PGA ceremony slated for Saturday evening, January 19, at the Beverly Hilton, we already know that the top choice will be at the very least a major front-runner for this year’s Oscar. Could it be a blockbuster like “A Star Is Born,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” or “Black Panther”? Or maybe a critical favorite such as “Roma,” “Green Book” or “The Favourite”?
Seepga Awards predictions: ‘A Star Is Born’ will be reborn with a Best Picture win
We’ll have the actual champs indicated below with an ** immediately after they are announced. Here is the full list of nominations for the 2019 PGA Awards in...
For the 30th annual PGA ceremony slated for Saturday evening, January 19, at the Beverly Hilton, we already know that the top choice will be at the very least a major front-runner for this year’s Oscar. Could it be a blockbuster like “A Star Is Born,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” or “Black Panther”? Or maybe a critical favorite such as “Roma,” “Green Book” or “The Favourite”?
Seepga Awards predictions: ‘A Star Is Born’ will be reborn with a Best Picture win
We’ll have the actual champs indicated below with an ** immediately after they are announced. Here is the full list of nominations for the 2019 PGA Awards in...
- 1/20/2019
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
“Bohemian Rhapsody” producer Graham King provided insight into some of the events surrounding the Golden Globe-winning film Saturday at the Producers Guild Awards Nominees Breakfast, including director Bryan Singer’s departure from the film partway through production.
“It’s an unfortunate situation, with like 16, 17 days to go and Bryan Singer just had some issues, his mother was very sick, and he’s the kind of guy that he needs to have 100% focus,” King explained at the Skirball Cultural Center. “He just said, I want to hiatus the film, and deal with what he had going on in his life. And the studio wanted to finish the film. And of course, my job is to protect the film at any cost and that’s what I was there to do.”
Fox terminated Singer under the “pay or play” provision of his contract, sources indicated at the time, due to his repeated failures to show up on the set...
“It’s an unfortunate situation, with like 16, 17 days to go and Bryan Singer just had some issues, his mother was very sick, and he’s the kind of guy that he needs to have 100% focus,” King explained at the Skirball Cultural Center. “He just said, I want to hiatus the film, and deal with what he had going on in his life. And the studio wanted to finish the film. And of course, my job is to protect the film at any cost and that’s what I was there to do.”
Fox terminated Singer under the “pay or play” provision of his contract, sources indicated at the time, due to his repeated failures to show up on the set...
- 1/19/2019
- by Erin Nyren and Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The Producers Guild of America hands out its awards on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019. That is three days before the academy announces the nominations for the Oscars. While the PGA ceremony is not televised, it is an important stop on the road to the Oscars.
The PGA Awards has an enviable track record at presaging the eventual Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards. The guild and the academy have agreed on 20 of the most recent 29 Best Picture champs, including last year’s double winner. “The Shape of Water.”
Since both groups expanded the Best Picture category, the PGA has predicted 70 of the 81 of the Best Picture nominees over the past nine years. Last year the guild went seven for nine in previewing the Oscars line-up: “Call Me by Your Name,” “Dunkirk,” “Get Out,” “Lady Bird,” “The Post,” “The Shape of Water” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” The other four guild nominees were “The Big Sick,...
The PGA Awards has an enviable track record at presaging the eventual Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards. The guild and the academy have agreed on 20 of the most recent 29 Best Picture champs, including last year’s double winner. “The Shape of Water.”
Since both groups expanded the Best Picture category, the PGA has predicted 70 of the 81 of the Best Picture nominees over the past nine years. Last year the guild went seven for nine in previewing the Oscars line-up: “Call Me by Your Name,” “Dunkirk,” “Get Out,” “Lady Bird,” “The Post,” “The Shape of Water” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” The other four guild nominees were “The Big Sick,...
- 1/19/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
A visionary director who had written or co-written each of his films since starting out in 1995, Yorgos Lanthimos changed tack with his latest effort, The Favourite, collaborating with screenwriters Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, for his first period piece. While the auteur is famously uncompromising in his work, both writers spoke to Deadline recently, revealing just how inclusive and collaborative Lanthimos is. Working at the director’s side over the course of many years—and even taking in his rehearsal process on the Fox Searchlight tragicomedy—each received an executive producer credit on the film, a testament in itself to how involving and rich Lanthimos’ process is.
Examining a period in Britain seldom mined in the past through cinema, The Favourite hits a unique middle ground between history and fiction, with its writers standing in for these opposite ends of the spectrum. Set in the court of Queen Anne, in the early 18th century,...
Examining a period in Britain seldom mined in the past through cinema, The Favourite hits a unique middle ground between history and fiction, with its writers standing in for these opposite ends of the spectrum. Set in the court of Queen Anne, in the early 18th century,...
- 1/13/2019
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Call it a pink wave if you must. But there’s no denying that a bunch of feminist-leaning movies are vying for Hollywood’s biggest trophies this awards season.
From animated superhero mom Elastigirl, leaving her husband and kids behind to fight crime in “Incredibles 2,” to a flame-haired Saoirse Ronan leading troops into battle in “Mary Queen of Scots,” a gender-bending Rachel Weisz in “The Favourite” and a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg finding her legal voice in “On the Basis of Sex,” female characters are assuming traditionally male roles on the big screen while contemporary counterparts battle for parity in Hollywood and beyond under the Time’s Up movement.
Even Nicole Kidman’s hollow-eyed detective flips the script on Hollywood gender norms in “Destroyer,” which unravels her troubled past and violent actions rather than those of yet another complicated man.
Although the underlying feminist politics in these movies — intentional...
From animated superhero mom Elastigirl, leaving her husband and kids behind to fight crime in “Incredibles 2,” to a flame-haired Saoirse Ronan leading troops into battle in “Mary Queen of Scots,” a gender-bending Rachel Weisz in “The Favourite” and a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg finding her legal voice in “On the Basis of Sex,” female characters are assuming traditionally male roles on the big screen while contemporary counterparts battle for parity in Hollywood and beyond under the Time’s Up movement.
Even Nicole Kidman’s hollow-eyed detective flips the script on Hollywood gender norms in “Destroyer,” which unravels her troubled past and violent actions rather than those of yet another complicated man.
Although the underlying feminist politics in these movies — intentional...
- 1/10/2019
- by Diane Garrett
- Variety Film + TV
In the wee hours of the night (or early in the morning if you live across the pond), the nominations for the 72nd annual BAFTA Awards were announced. The British Academy, which chimes in each year before Oscar makes its announcement, put forth their nominees while Academy members now have their ballots in hand. As such, this is worth paying attention to. They split things up fairly evenly today, backing one movie in particular, but given plenty of others over a half dozen citations. Still, there were major snubs, which we’ll get to below. BAFTA certainly didn’t follow previously blazed trail this awards season, that’s for sure. Leading the way by a healthy margin was Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, which racked up an even dozen nominations, well ahead of any other film. Next in line was the quartet of Bryan Singer’s Bohemian Rhapsody, Damien Chazelle’s First Man,...
- 1/9/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Update, writethru: BAFTA has revealed its nominations for this year’s Ee British Academy Film Awards with Fox Searchlight’s The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos leading the list of contenders at 12. Also making strong showings are Netflix’s Roma, Warner Bros’ A Star Is Born, Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Universal’s First Man with seven nominations each. See below for the full roster.
Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma notably is also up here for Best Film Not In The English Language, Director, Cinematography, Editing and Original Screenplay, all of which could repeat at the Oscars.
Along with Roma and The Favourite, the Best Film category includes A Star Is Born, BlackKklansman (the latter from Focus with five nominations total) and Universal’s Green Book (eOne in the UK) which has a total four nods. Bohemian Rhapsody is in Oustanding British Film, but First Man made neither cut despite its big nods haul.
Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma notably is also up here for Best Film Not In The English Language, Director, Cinematography, Editing and Original Screenplay, all of which could repeat at the Oscars.
Along with Roma and The Favourite, the Best Film category includes A Star Is Born, BlackKklansman (the latter from Focus with five nominations total) and Universal’s Green Book (eOne in the UK) which has a total four nods. Bohemian Rhapsody is in Oustanding British Film, but First Man made neither cut despite its big nods haul.
- 1/9/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite,” Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” and Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” are among the top films of 2018 as selected by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), which announced its nominations on Wednesday morning in London.
Those films will compete with “Green Book” and “BlacKkKlansman” in the Best Film category at the Ee British Academy Film Awards, which will take place on Feb. 10 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
“The Favourite” easily led all films in nominations with 12, five more than runners-up “Roma,” “A Star Is Born,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “First Man,” which each received seven. “Vice” received six nominations, “BlacKkKlansman” five, and “Green Book” and “Cold War” four each.
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Golden Globe winner “Bohemian Rhapsody” was not nominated in the top BAFTA category, but...
Those films will compete with “Green Book” and “BlacKkKlansman” in the Best Film category at the Ee British Academy Film Awards, which will take place on Feb. 10 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
“The Favourite” easily led all films in nominations with 12, five more than runners-up “Roma,” “A Star Is Born,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “First Man,” which each received seven. “Vice” received six nominations, “BlacKkKlansman” five, and “Green Book” and “Cold War” four each.
Also Read: Stars Were Born at the Golden Globes - But They Sure Weren't the Ones We Expected
Golden Globe winner “Bohemian Rhapsody” was not nominated in the top BAFTA category, but...
- 1/9/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
“The Favourite” has scored 12 nominations at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ movie awards, far outpacing the rest of the pack.
Behind it came “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “First Man,” “Roma” and “A Star Is Born” with seven BAFTA nominations apiece. “Vice” garnered six noms, “BlacKkKlansman” five, and “Cold War” and “Green Book” four each. Earning three nominations each were “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Mary Queen of Scots” and “Stan & Ollie.”
All three main actresses in “The Favourite” – Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone – were recognized with noms, which were unveiled Wednesday. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga landed best actor and actress nods for “A Star Is Born,” and Cooper was one of the five nominees – all men – for best director.
“Roma” continued its awards-season run, landing nominations for both best film and best film in a foreign language, as well as a director nomination for Alfonso Cuaron.
Behind it came “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “First Man,” “Roma” and “A Star Is Born” with seven BAFTA nominations apiece. “Vice” garnered six noms, “BlacKkKlansman” five, and “Cold War” and “Green Book” four each. Earning three nominations each were “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Mary Queen of Scots” and “Stan & Ollie.”
All three main actresses in “The Favourite” – Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone – were recognized with noms, which were unveiled Wednesday. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga landed best actor and actress nods for “A Star Is Born,” and Cooper was one of the five nominees – all men – for best director.
“Roma” continued its awards-season run, landing nominations for both best film and best film in a foreign language, as well as a director nomination for Alfonso Cuaron.
- 1/9/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
The Favourite leads the way with 12 nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born follow on nine.
The nominations for the 2019 British Academy Film Awards were revealed today (Jan 9) at London’s Princess Anne Theatre.
The Favourite leads the way with 12 nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born follow on seven. Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, with Cold War and Green Book on four each.
The Bafta ceremony will take place on Feb 10 at London’s Royal Albert Hall and will be broadcast on BBC One. Joanna Lumley will once again host the event.
The nominations for the 2019 British Academy Film Awards were revealed today (Jan 9) at London’s Princess Anne Theatre.
The Favourite leads the way with 12 nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born follow on seven. Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, with Cold War and Green Book on four each.
The Bafta ceremony will take place on Feb 10 at London’s Royal Albert Hall and will be broadcast on BBC One. Joanna Lumley will once again host the event.
- 1/9/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Yesterday afternoon, the Producers Guild of America revealed their awards nominees. The PGA nominations mark a huge moment in the precursor season, as this Guild more accurately represents what could be the Academy Award nominees in Best Picture than anywhere else. Scoring with PGA, combined with other precursor citations, is the safest way to become an Oscar nominee. This year, they announce as the race for Best Picture seems as wide open as any previously. Well, now we know which films they favored, shining some light on to which titles are sitting in the best spots. Let us dive in, shall we? PGA didn’t really go with any surprises here, opting for most of the popular contenders for Oscar glory. Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite, Green Book, A Quiet Place, Roma, and A Star Is Born were all expected to get nominated, and they did. Crazy Rich Asians...
- 1/5/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Left to right: Noah Jupe plays Marcus Abbott, John Krasinski plays Lee Abbott, Emily Blunt plays Evelyn Abbott and Millicent Simmonds plays Regan Abbott in A Quiet Place, from Paramount Pictures.
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today motion picture and television nominations for the 30th Annual Producers Guild Awards presented by Cadillac. All 2019 Producers Guild Awards winners will be announced on Saturday, January 19, 2019 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
At this month’s event, the Producers Guild will also present special honors to Toby Emmerich (Milestone Award), Kevin Feige (David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures), Amy Sherman-Palladino (Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television), Kenya Barris (Visionary Award), and Jane Fonda (Stanley Kramer Award).
The 2019 Producers Guild Awards Co-Chairs are Donald De Line and Amy Pascal. Cadillac is the Presenting Sponsor of the event, Delta Air Lines is the sponsor of the Visionary Award,...
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today motion picture and television nominations for the 30th Annual Producers Guild Awards presented by Cadillac. All 2019 Producers Guild Awards winners will be announced on Saturday, January 19, 2019 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
At this month’s event, the Producers Guild will also present special honors to Toby Emmerich (Milestone Award), Kevin Feige (David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures), Amy Sherman-Palladino (Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television), Kenya Barris (Visionary Award), and Jane Fonda (Stanley Kramer Award).
The 2019 Producers Guild Awards Co-Chairs are Donald De Line and Amy Pascal. Cadillac is the Presenting Sponsor of the event, Delta Air Lines is the sponsor of the Visionary Award,...
- 1/4/2019
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Americans, The Handmaid’s Tale up for outstanding episodic drama.
The Producers Guild Of America (PGA) has announced its theatrical and television nominations in Los Angeles (4).
The Favourite, Roma and Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians are in contention for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures alongside Green Book, BlacKkKlansman, and Bohemian Rhapsody, A Quiet Place, A Star Is Born, and Vice.
The PGA winners will be announced at the Producers Guild Awards ceremony on January 19 in Los Angeles.
Full list of theatrical nominees and select television nominees appears below. All producers listed below title.
The Producers Guild Of America (PGA) has announced its theatrical and television nominations in Los Angeles (4).
The Favourite, Roma and Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians are in contention for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures alongside Green Book, BlacKkKlansman, and Bohemian Rhapsody, A Quiet Place, A Star Is Born, and Vice.
The PGA winners will be announced at the Producers Guild Awards ceremony on January 19 in Los Angeles.
Full list of theatrical nominees and select television nominees appears below. All producers listed below title.
- 1/4/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Now we know what the most popular movies are vying for Oscars this year: The Producers Guild of America’s motion picture and television nominations went mainstream. Winners will be revealed at the 30th Annual Producers Guild Awards, to be held January 19 at the Beverly Hilton.
Many of these films will wind up on the the final list of Oscar nominations to be revealed on January 22; the eventual winners are here as well. That does not mean that “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “A Quiet Place,” or “Crazy Rich Asians” will land Best Picture nominations, but it is a sign of strength and popularity. Oscar voters tend to take degree of difficulty in production into consideration, and may lean into big box office hits this year.
(Left off the PGA list are long-shot Best Picture contenders “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” and “First Man.”)
The 2019 PGA motion picture nominations are...
Many of these films will wind up on the the final list of Oscar nominations to be revealed on January 22; the eventual winners are here as well. That does not mean that “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “A Quiet Place,” or “Crazy Rich Asians” will land Best Picture nominations, but it is a sign of strength and popularity. Oscar voters tend to take degree of difficulty in production into consideration, and may lean into big box office hits this year.
(Left off the PGA list are long-shot Best Picture contenders “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” and “First Man.”)
The 2019 PGA motion picture nominations are...
- 1/4/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
“BlacKkKlansman,” “Black Panther,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” “The Favourite,” “Green Book,” “A Quiet Place,” “Roma,” “A Star Is Born,” and “Vice” have been nominated for the Producers Guild’s Darryl F. Zanuck Award as the top feature film of 2018.
Awards contenders “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” “Eighth Grade,” “First Man,” “First Reformed,” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” were overlooked in the Zanuck nominations.
Nominees for animated films are “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch,” “Incredibles 2,” “Isle of Dogs,” “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”
The PGA also announced Friday nominees in nine television categories. In the drama series category, nominees included the final season of “The Americans,” “Better Call Saul,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Ozark” and “This Is Us.” The first season of “The Handmaid’s Tale” won the category last year.
Comedy series nominees were “Atlanta,” “Barry,” “Glow,” “The Good Place” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,...
Awards contenders “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” “Eighth Grade,” “First Man,” “First Reformed,” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” were overlooked in the Zanuck nominations.
Nominees for animated films are “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch,” “Incredibles 2,” “Isle of Dogs,” “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”
The PGA also announced Friday nominees in nine television categories. In the drama series category, nominees included the final season of “The Americans,” “Better Call Saul,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Ozark” and “This Is Us.” The first season of “The Handmaid’s Tale” won the category last year.
Comedy series nominees were “Atlanta,” “Barry,” “Glow,” “The Good Place” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,...
- 1/4/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The Producers Guild has unveiled nominations for its 30th annual PGA Awards, listing nominees for the year’s best-produced works in motion pictures, television and short-form categories. The awards will be presented January 19 at the Beverly Hilton.
The 10-strong film list encapsulates the diverse range of films that have been making their way through awards season this year, spanning superheroes (Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther), romantic comedy (Warner Bros’ Crazy Rich Asians), musical drama (20th Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Warners’ A Star Is Born) and genre thriller (Paramount’s A Quiet Place).
Others making the cut in the category, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, which was won by eventual Oscar Best Picture The Shape of Water last year: Focus Features’ BlacKkKlansman, Fox Searchlight’s The Favourite, Netflix’s Roma (Alfonso Cuarón’s drama is a rare foreign-language selection from this guild...
The 10-strong film list encapsulates the diverse range of films that have been making their way through awards season this year, spanning superheroes (Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther), romantic comedy (Warner Bros’ Crazy Rich Asians), musical drama (20th Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Warners’ A Star Is Born) and genre thriller (Paramount’s A Quiet Place).
Others making the cut in the category, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, which was won by eventual Oscar Best Picture The Shape of Water last year: Focus Features’ BlacKkKlansman, Fox Searchlight’s The Favourite, Netflix’s Roma (Alfonso Cuarón’s drama is a rare foreign-language selection from this guild...
- 1/4/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar frontrunners “A Star Is Born,” “Roma,” “Black Panther,” “Green Book” and “The Favourite” have all been nominated as the best-produced films of 2018 by the Producers Guild of America, which announced its annual Producers Guild Awards nods on Friday morning.
Other nominees were “BlacKkKlansman,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” “A Quiet Place,” “Vice” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Conspicuously missing from the list were such presumed awards contenders as “First Man,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Widows” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
In the animated-feature category, the nominees were “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch,” “The Incredibles 2,” “Isle of Dogs,” “Ralph Breaks the Internet” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”
Also Read: Palm Springs Is Narnia and 4 Other Things We Learned From the 30th Film Awards Gala
Television nominations went to the drama series “The Americans,” “Better Call Saul,” “The Handmaid’s Take,” “Ozark” and “This Is Us,” and the comedy series “Atlanta,...
Other nominees were “BlacKkKlansman,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” “A Quiet Place,” “Vice” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Conspicuously missing from the list were such presumed awards contenders as “First Man,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Widows” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
In the animated-feature category, the nominees were “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch,” “The Incredibles 2,” “Isle of Dogs,” “Ralph Breaks the Internet” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”
Also Read: Palm Springs Is Narnia and 4 Other Things We Learned From the 30th Film Awards Gala
Television nominations went to the drama series “The Americans,” “Better Call Saul,” “The Handmaid’s Take,” “Ozark” and “This Is Us,” and the comedy series “Atlanta,...
- 1/4/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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