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Ava DuVernay’s ’14th’ Leads 11th Critics Choice Documentary Awards Nominations (CCDA)

The Critics Choice Association(CCA) has announced the nominees for the 11th annualCritics Choice Documentary Awards (CCDA), where 14th leads the pack with six nominations, including Best ...
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‘Gugu’s World,’ ‘La Bola Negra’ Top Atlanta’s 39th Out On Film Festival Jury and Audience Awards

Atlanta’s 39th annual Out On Film Festival has announced its 2026 Audience, Jury and Screenplay Award winners, capping an 11-day celebration of LGBTQ+ cinema under this year’s theme, “The World ...
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‘Tenzing,’ ‘Elsinore’ Win 49th Mill Valley Film Festival Audience Awards

Today, the 49th Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF49) announced the winners of its Audience Awards after officially wrapping on Sunday, October 11, where true stories and biopics reigned, as Jennifer ...
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Awards Watch Podcast Ep. 366: Recapping NYFF64, Reviewing ‘The Social Reckoning’ and Updated Acting Oscar Predictions

On episode 366 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade, Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson and Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello break down their highlights from the 2026 New York ...
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Interview: Rosalind Eleazar on the Blurry Lines Between Life and Art in ‘Misty Green’

Stories about Hollywood are as old as the film industry itself, yet filmmakers have never stopped finding new ways to probe the dichotomies and complications populating Tinseltown. Enter Chris ...
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‘The Pitt,’ ‘Horsegirls,’ ‘All Her Fault’ Among Inaugural Easterseals Disability Arts & Culture Awards Winners (The DARCYS)

The inaugural Easterseals Disability Arts & Culture Awards (The DARCYS) celebrated its first-ever competitive class of winners Saturday, marking a historic new chapter for an awards program ...
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‘Cold War’ Actress Joanna Kulig Boards ‘The Tuners’ Short Film as Executive Producer (Exclusive)

European Film Award-winning actress and singer Joanna Kulig (Cold War, Ida, Fatherland, The Eddy) has boarded The Tuners as executive producer, marking her first executive producer credit.
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NYFF 2026 Reviews: ‘Godzilla Minus Zero,’ ‘Behemoth!,’ ‘A Statement’

The prestigious New York Film Festival marks its 64th edition this year, bringing together the best films of the year so far that have been collected from previous domestic and international ...
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‘Artificial’ Review: Andrew Garfield is Diabolical in Luca Guadagnino’s Spiky Silicon Valley Satire [B+] NYFF

On October 5th, the day Luca Guadagnino’s new film Artificial was set to premiere at the New York Film Festival, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (dis)graced the cover of Vanity Fair. Photographed by Annie ...
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Devotion to the Emotion: James Gray on the Operatic Influences for ‘Paper Tiger’ and His New York State of Mind [Interview]

For over thirty years, James Gray has pried open the heart of the American Dream and the people who live and die by it. His ninth feature, Paper Tiger, is his most direct confrontation of the rot ...
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‘I Love LA,’ ‘Heated Rivalry,’ ‘Pluribus’ Among Casting Society’s 42nd Artios Awards Nominations for Television

Casting Society (CSA) today announced the television, theater, commercials, short film and short form series nominees for the 42nd Artios Awards, which honor the contribution of casting ...
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On the Shelf: ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ ‘An American Werewolf in London,’ ‘Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later’ on 4K, ‘Welcome II the Terrordome’ from Criterion ...

October is the start of the horror movie season, the time where physical media lovers pull their favorite scary movies off the shelf and rewatch even bloody, gory, frightening moment over and over ...