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Editor’s note: This interview was originally published on May 16 during the Cannes Film Festival. It is being rerun now to coincide with the film’s domestic release and interviews were carried out prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike. EXCLUSIVE: In 2016, the hottest book in Hollywood hadn't even been…

UPDATED with latest: The 2023 Emmys are going to be in 2024, and with voting for the TV honors ending Monday night, it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like as the film-awards conversation starts to pick up again. The Primetime Emmys…

The former executive VP of impact and inclusion for the Movie Academy says she was “the recipient of a steady flux of micro- and macro-aggressions” while trying to improve the org’s representation, inclusion, and equity efforts. Related Stories …

As actors continue to struggle in negotiations with the entertainment companies, it's probably worth noting a point that doesn't get advertised much. That is, performers—living, breathing human beings who appear on movie screens—are far less influential than they were just a few short years ago at…

Stephen Gerard Kelly and Garry Keane’s documentary In The Shadow of Beirut has been submitted as Ireland’s entry for the 2024 Oscar International Feature Film race. The film, which is executive produced by Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Siobhan Sinnerton of HiddenLight Productions, was selected…

The indie drama City of Wind, marking the feature directorial debut of Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, has been set as Mongolia’s International Feature Oscar entry for 2024. The news comes following its recent world premiere in the Orizzonti Competition of the Venice Film Festival, where actor Tergel…

The writers have settled. Actors and companies return to the table this week. The awards season is saved (almost, we hope). This could finally be it. Do we dare even say it? The year of The Great Oscar Comeback. Everyone with a stake in the Academy Awards has watched with chagrin as the Oscar…

Neon CEO Tom Quinn has addressed the debate around the new theatrical standards for Best Picture eligibility announced by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over the summer. Talking on a panel on box office strategies at the Zurich summit on Saturday (watch the panel above), the distributor…

Mexico has selected the Berlin competition title Tótem, the latest film from Lila Avilés, as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars. The family drama is Avilés's second film after the award-winning feature debut The Chambermaid, which debuted in Toronto in 2018…

Kenya has selected Daudi Anguka's drama Mvera to represent it for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. The English and Swahili-language film takes its name from its heroine Mvera, which is the Swahili word for blessing. She embarks on crusade against corrupt leadership in…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Museum said today that they will gift a replacement of Hattie McDaniel's 1939 Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Gone with the Wind to the Howard University Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts. The school will host a…

Denmark has submitted Nikolaj Arcel's The Promised Land as its candidate for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. The epic historic drama stars Mads Mikkelsen as the real-life Ludvig von Kahlen, a former soldier who tries to make his fortune by taming the then wild and lawless…