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Nominations were unveiled Tuesday for the 33rd annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the writers of the year’s most accomplished film and episodic TV series adaptations as well as the works on which they are based. Winners will be announced Saturday, March 13 online, with the annual in-person awards…

The National Board of Review selected Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods as its best film of 2020 on Tuesday, handing the Netflix drama three honors overall in its annual voting of the year’s best in movies. Lee won best director, and the film also took the ensemble award. Chadwick Boseman was posthumously honored with with NBR…

Bluto, the volcanic Samurai Futaba, "Joliet" Jake Blues, the Cheeseburger Man, a spasmodic Joe Cocker—the list of characters John Belushi brought to life in his all-too-brief but remarkable career only hints at his outsized role in American comedy. "This guy was pure visionary," marvels R.J. Cutler, director of the Sho…

EXCLUSIVE: Never Rarely Sometimes Always writer-director Eliza Hittman said she found inspiration for the Focus Features film in 2012, when she read about a woman who died after being denied a life-saving abortion. “I started to wonder where would she have had to go? How far would she have had to travel to save her…

"I'm sick of stories about frustrated couples who rip each other apart and explore their sexuality to escape boredom," says Lisa (Nina Hoss) in My Little Sister. While there is plenty of frustration, and some sex, in Switzerland's International Feature Film Oscar entry, this is not that story. It's the tender tale of…

In his first collaboration with Arnon Manor on the animated short Cops and Robbers, actor Timothy Ware-Hill adapted a spoken word poem he'd written into a stunning eight-minute piece, meditating on rampant displays of police violence within the United States, and the systemic racism behind them. After publishing his…

It was a bit of a wait, thanks to the pandemic, but the Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations for the 2020-21 season finally were announced today, with A24’s First Cow, Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, A24’s Minari, Focus Features’ Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Searchlight’s Nomadland taking the five slots…

EXCLUSIVE: The Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors said Tuesday that The Trial of the Chicago 7 writer-director Aaron Sorkin, The Undoing director Susanne Bier, Black-ish co-star Marsai Martin and executive producer Vin Di Bona will receive awards at the group’s 38th annual Caucus Awards Gala. The virtual…

Actress Jane Fonda will receive the Cecil B. de Mille Award at the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards next month, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced today. "For more than five decades, Jane's breadth of work has been anchored in her unrelenting activism, using her platform to address some of the most…

The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) has revealed its annual Top Ten List as well as winners of its film awards which was topped by Nomadland. In addition, The Chloé Zhao American wanderlust drama was named Best Picture. Also on the list is Pixar’s Soul which was also named Best Animated Feature. "This list of…

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is out with the winners of the 72nd annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards. The trophy ceremony will take place October 10 in partnership with the National Association of Broadcasters as part of its fall NAB Show in Las Vegas. Check out the winners list…

The American Film Institute on Monday unveiled recipients of its annual AFI Awards for TV, its list for shows deemed culturally and artistically representative of 2020’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image. The organization also announced its film awards, and gave an AFI Special Award to the…