Riz Ahmed

Streaming from an empty banquet hall and with acceptance speeches made from living rooms, the 30th Gotham Awards gave a very strange Oscar season a virtual start Monday in a largely digital ceremony that crowned Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” the best film of 2020.
As the first prominent award...

What should deafness sound like on film? For his debut feature " Sound of Metal," filmmaker Darius Marder wanted to create a sound experience that audiences had never heard before.
The idea was to simulate the journey of his lead character, Ruben, a punk metal drummer with sudden severe...