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EXCLUSIVE: Gael García Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries, Cassandro) will be honored with the inaugural Premio Vida y Legado (Life and Legacy Award) at the annual Día de Muertos celebration to be held on November 1 at the Hollywood Forever Cemetary in Los Angeles. Now in its third year, the event is a…

EXCLUSIVE: Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. rights to Bhutan's official selection for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards, The Monk and the Gun, a spiritual fable written, directed, and co-produced by the Oscar-nominated director of…

The Oscars have their team in place and it is a mix of past and present in terms of production teams, but AMPAS is clearly sticking with putting experienced live television professionals in charge. Raj Kapoor, who has worked on the Oscars for the past…

Matthew Heineman’s documentary profiling Grammy and Oscar winning musician Jon Batiste and the medical struggles for his wife that have marked trying times in their marriage leads the pack of nominees for the 8th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards with…

Air has been set for a special honor at next month’s Gotham Awards. The film, which tells the story of the creation of the Air Jordan brand, will receive the Gotham Visionary Icon & Creator Tribute. The newly created award recognizes director Ben Affleck’s film as well as the real-life collaborators…

Italy has submitted Matteo Garrone's Io Capitano as its candidate for Best International Film at the 96th Academy Awards. The timely drama follows the hardships of two Senegalese teenagers as they try to make it to Europe via the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean Sea. Related…

Dissident Iranian film professionals are calling on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to consider an alternative film to represent Iran in 2024 Oscars’ Best International Feature Film category rather than the one submitted this week as the country's official entry. Related…

UPDATED with juror names and winner of 2023 Points North Pitch. EARLIER: A first-time filmmaker has claimed the top prize at the 19th Annual Camden Film Festival in Maine, one of the country's foremost all-documentary festivals. Director Yousef Srouji earned the Harrell Award for Three…

Morocco has submitted Asmae El Moudir's The Mother of All Lies as its candidate for Best International Film at the 96th Academy Awards. The hybrid documentary, inspired by bread riots in El Moudir's home city of Casablanca in 1981, world premiered at Cannes this year. Related…

Comedian Leslie Jones, a close friend of Chris Rock, claims that the impact of the slap heard ’round the world affected not only him, but his family. Jones told People that beyond the “humiliating” action of Will Smith against Rock, the incident, “really affected him. People need to understand his…

Brazil has selected Kleber Mendonça Filho's documentary Pictures of Ghosts as its entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. Mixing archive and contemporary footage, the deeply personal work revisits the director’s hometown of Recife through the cinemas he once…

EXCLUSIVE: With the Venice Film Festival opening tonight, all eyes are on Italy to give us some early clues as to what some of the most anticipated movies of the season will be delivering in terms of their awards potential. Certainly one of the more eagerly…