In order to qualify a documentary short film for Academy Awards consideration, it has to meet one of the following broad criteria: Theatrical exhibition in Los...
Short fiction films (segregated into live action and animated categories) have three potential routes to an Oscar nomination: Screen theatrically in Los Angeles Win a qualifying...
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced that Ethan Hawke and Amy Adams will be presented with Actor and...
Via AMPAS Four individuals and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. The Academy Nicholl Fellowships...
Via AMPAS Casting director and producer David Rubin will produce the 8th Annual Governors Awards for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy President...
As a film award nerd it’s easy to get caught up in awards season, often forgetting the bigger picture and honing in on the Oscars. However,...
I Written by Rehna “People go to see films that have a buzz around them,” said Meryl Streep. We all listened intently, our fingers poised to...
via AMPAS Actors Joel Edgerton, Lucy Liu, Daisy Ridley and Parker Sawyers will be presenters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 43rd Student...
In one of the more unsurprising events at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, Damien Chazelle celebrated a standing ovation following the screening of his much anticipated Oscar...
Via AMPAS Eleven individual screenwriters and one writing team have been shortlisted for the 2016Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. The Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee will meet...
The early part of awards season is a demonstration in how fad-driven we are. Every time a new film trailer lands it instantly becomes an Oscar...
The Toronto International Film Festival is truly underway, and already some of this year’s most anticipated Oscar contenders have screened. One of them was Amma Asante’s A...
by Rehna 1. Venice in August is unlike London in August. In London there are thunderstorms. Venice is hot, hot, gloriously, unbearably, fantastically, sweat pouring down...
Prior to the grand opening of TIFF 2016, we were able to pin down its Artistic Director Cameron Bailey, albeit via email (he’s a busy man),...
Via AMPAS The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night (August 30) to present Honorary Awards to actor...
Written by Robert Segedy Fun Fact: over 80% of the animal species on Earth are insects. That is a lot of insects, bro. Back in the...
Written by Robert Segedy What is it about prison films that holds our attention so heartily? Is it the environment of cruelty, the enclosed spaces filled...
ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that they have expanded their agreement for eight more years, in which the Network...