Producers Guild Names Contenders for Best Film of the Year
Awards season may have come into clearer focus with the announcement of nominations from the Producer’s Guild, but it’s still a wide open race. One thing is clear – female-dominated films like Wonder Woman, I, Tonya, The Post, Lady Bird and Molly’s Game are making their mark in this #MeToo and #TimesUp era. Seven of the 11 nominees are produced by women and two honorees — Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird and Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman — are...
Writers Guild Reveals Nominations of Best Screenplays of the Year
Many organizations give out awards for writing, but members of the Writers Guild of America are inarguably the true experts when it comes to judging the quality of a screenplay. The WGA released its list of nominees for its top film honors today, many of which will likely land on the ballot for the Academy Awards as well. For many of the contenders, like Jordan Peele, Greta Gerwig, Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon it’s their first...
Women in Film Celebrates the 46 Female Oscar Nominees
This may have been the year of #OscarsSoMale, but let’s not lose sight of the actual numbers. Women in Film didn’t. In what has become a highly anticipated awards season tradition, the organization feted the 46 femmes that received Academy Award nominations. Last year’s best actress winner Brie Larson and WIF president Cathy Schulman hosted Women in Film’s 10th annual pre-Oscar cocktail party at West Hollywood’s...
Awards Season’s Most Acclaimed Filmmakers Reveal Their Challenges
For going on two decades, it is an event that has become an anticipated awards season tradition, shining a spotlight not only on the creators of the most acclaimed films of the year but also upon the cultural and societal landscape of which they become part and parcel. Last year’s Beyond Words panel discussion with the Writers Guild Award-nominated screenwriters was set smack dab in the middle of the raging #OscarsSoWhite controversy....
‘Arrival,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘O.J.’ Top ACE Eddie Awards, Abrams Honored
It would be difficult to find a group of professionals that is more supportive of each other than the members of the American Cinema Editors. So it was no surprise that the mood in the room was ebullient as they gathered for the 67th annual ACE Eddie Awards presented in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton on January 27. 67 years ago, it was noted off the bat by ACE President Stephen Rivkin, Ronald Reagan, then starring in...
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