‘1917,’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ and ‘Parasite’ Lead Golden Reel Awards for Sound Editing

“Look at me,” Taika Waititi exclaimed during an early afternoon interview at the Toronto Film Festival last fall, “it’s like asking you to play Adolf Hitler.”

By Denise Petski

The Oscars are just a few days away, which means it's officially time to reflect on all the and channel your inner movie critic to decide who you'd chose to win if you were an Academy member. For your consideration, just spoke with tree actress about how being a mother inspired her performance in Jojo Rabbit.

The Marriage Story actress spoke to People about being able to effortlessly portray a mother on screen as she is a mother in her real life. The actress who has a daughter named Rose Dorothy Dauriac, said that being a mother in real life helped her invaluably as she could easily relation to being a protective mother, who wants to make sure that the child is safe and happy.

Jessica Simpson nearly played an iconic movie role.

The Chinese box office is gearing up for a starkly unsexy Valentine’s Day, with “Jojo Rabbit” and a local title formally pulling out of the mid-February line-up, while unconfirmed reports suggest that others – including “Little Women” – will soon pull the plug, amidst strict measures to prevent the spread of deadly coronavirus.

Moments ago, the 2020 Writers Guild Awards began. Interestingly, the show kicked off by announcing both of the big Film prizes, Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay.

The business of real estate is notoriously cutthroat — but luckily, Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles is like a family.

Taika Waititi owes a lot of this awards season to his mother, Robin Cohen. She’s the one who first told him that he should think about adapting Christine Leunens’ novel “Caging Skies” for the big screen.

At the Jan. 3 AFI Awards, Mel Brooks interrupted his speech about the American Film Institute’s women directors program to praise Taika Waititi for Searchlight’s “Jojo Rabbit.” However, he joked, the filmmaker “did not ask my permission to use Hitler!”

By Matt Grobar

Last night, the Costume Designers Guild had their say in the Oscar race. The 22nd annual CDG Awards were held and with only two of the five Academy Award nominees in the running here, all eyes were on this group to see if that might tell us anything. Well, that might just have happened, but not necessarily in the way that we were expecting. Did the race zig instead of zag? Read on for more to find out…

The Costume Designers Guild handed out its trophies for the 22nd annual CDG Awards with “Jojo Rabbit” and “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” receiving top honors among the costumers.

This year’s crop of WGA-nominated adapted and original screenplays appears on the surface to be a grim lot. There’s war (“1917,” “Jojo Rabbit”), insidious homewreckers (“Parasite”), a Civil War-era coming-of age (“Little Women”) and an arch murder investigation (“Knives Out”), to name just a few of the nominated scripts.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

A couple of small surprises went down last night at the 70th Annual ACE Eddie Awards. The editing Guild is a noteworthy one because of how Best Film Editing ties into Best Pictures at the Academy Awards, so plenty of eyes were on this one last night. Interestingly, neither of the presumed favorites at ACE Eddie emerged victorious, perhaps setting the stage for an Oscar update. Read on for more below, including the full list of winners.

“Parasite” and “Jojo Rabbit” have won the top feature film trophies at the 70th Annual ACE Eddie Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Think Amazon has had its fill of heroic, ex-military protagonists pulled from popular book series? You don't know Jack.