Sunday, Mar. 13, 2022

Jane Campion won the marquee feature film honor at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards last night (3/12) for The Power of the Dog (Netflix). She becomes just the third woman to earn the top DGA prize. Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman director to score the kudo for The...

Sunday, Mar. 6, 2022

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” “Drive My Car” and “Summer of Soul” were among the big winners at the 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards Sunday.

The ceremony hosted by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally was held in a tent by the beach in Santa Monica, broadcast on AMC and IFC. It...

Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021

The U.K.’s leading film critics have unveiled the nominations for the 42nd annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, with three films from female filmmakers coming out on top. Leading the field is director Jane Campion’s psychological western The Power of the Dog, which scored nine nominations...

Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021

Motherhood. It's such a rich subject for art to ponder, you'd think we'd have already seen every kind of mother onscreen.

But actually we haven't. Sure, we've seen good moms, bad moms, crazy moms, selfish moms, generous moms, loving moms, cold moms. But what strikes home so vividly in "...

Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021

Zola topped the Film Independent Spirit Awards with seven nominations spanning the Best Feature, Director (Janicza Bravo), Screenplay (Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris), Cinematography (Ari Wegner), Editing (Joi McMillon), Female Lead (Taylour Paige) and Supporting Male (Colman Domingo)...

Monday, Dec. 13, 2021

Robert Mackenzie knows a thing or two about the creation of soundscapes to advance storytelling in film. In 2017 he garnered a Best Sound Mixing Oscar, the Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild Award and the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award (AACTA) for his work on Mel Gibson’s...

Friday, Dec. 3, 2021

The New York Film Critics Circle on Friday named “Drive My Car,” Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s intimate three-hour epic and Haruki Murakami’s short story adaptation, the best film of the year. 

Hamaguchi’s film, about a widowed actor played by Hidetoshi Nishijima, has been widely hailed since its...

Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Elena Ferrante adaptation “The Lost Daughter” won four Gotham Awards including best feature film at the 31st Gotham Awards, the annual New York independent film celebration that serves as a boozy kickoff to Oscar season.

Gyllenhaal won breakthrough director and best...

Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021

For Caitriona Balfe, being afforded the opportunity to join the cast of Belfast was “a gift from the post-lockdown gods.” She described director Kenneth Branagh’s script, based on his childhood, as a beautiful story which gave her the good fortune to act opposite the likes of Jamie...

Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021

The Gotham Film & Media Institute unveiled the nominations for the 31st Annual Gotham Awards, singling out 29 feature films, 16 series, and 32 performances for recognition in twelve award categories. Topping the feature field were The Lost Daughter and Passing with five nominations apiece....

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