Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year’s movie awards races.
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After two truncated years of pandemic-related disruptions, film festivals around the world returned with full-flowing in-person events this year.
Berlin kicked things off with Carla Simon’s Catalonia-set drama Alcarràs scooping the Golden Bear. The top prizes at Venice, San Sebastian, Sundance, London, and Locarno were also all scooped by women filmmakers.
Over in Cannes, Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund joined the esteemed group of filmmakers to win the Palme d’Or twice with his satire of the super-rich Triangle Of Sadness. Other two-time winners include Francis Ford Coppola, Ken Loach, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. In celebration, Östlund led a series of celebratory primal screams on the Croisette.
Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg made his first-ever appearance at the Toronto Film Festival in September, where he debuted The Fablemans, his semi-autobiographical family drama. The pic went on to nab TIFF’s coveted People’s Choice award.
Accepting the award, Spielberg said: “This is the most personal film I’ve ever made, and the warm reception from everyone in Toronto made my first visit to TIFF so intimate and personal for me and my entire Fabelman family. Thank you to Cameron Bailey and the incredible staff at TIFF; thank you to Universal Pictures; and a very special thank you to all the movie fans in Toronto who have made this past weekend one I’ll never forget.”
Click on the photo at the top of this post to scroll through our gallery of this year’s festival winners. Here’s to a 2023 packed with even more exciting film festival wins.
Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year’s movie awards races.
Paul Dano The Fabelmans star reveals the emotional connections he made in portraying a version of Steven Spielberg’s father
The Screen Actor’s Guild had their year-end say at sunrise and a few hours later, the Directors Guild of America revealed their own nominees for the 2023 DGA Awards. For the most prestigious honor, Theatrical Feature Film, the nominees are Todd Field (“TAR”), Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick”), Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All At Once”), Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) and Steven Spielberg (“The Fablemans”).
The Directors Guild of America has nominated Tár‘s Todd Field, Top Gun: Maverick‘s Joseph Kosinski, Everything Everywhere All at Once‘s Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, The Banshees of Inisherin‘s Martin McDonagh and The Fabelmans’ Steven Spielberg for the top feature film prize at its 75th annual DGA Awards.
For the last three years, the winner of the International Oscar has pretty much been a given: First came Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, then Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, and then Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car — all anointed by Cannes and eased to the finish line after prominent festival play in the usual cosmopolitan areas.
The 73rd Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 16, 2023, with the world premiere of She Came to Me, by Rebecca Miller.
When Ke Huy Quan won his first Golden Globe on Tuesday night for his supporting turn in A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, he started off by paying tribute to his first boss — the director who cast him in the iconic role of Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival unveiled its 2023 lineup today, featuring 250 feature films set to screen across 10 days, with highlights including Isabella Carbonell’s thriller Dogborn, starring Swedish rap star Silvana Imam, and Hlynur Pálmason’s well-received period piece Godland. Other stand-out titles include Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, which pops up in the International Competition, and Mia Engberg’s latest Hypernoon in the Documentary Competition.
Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year’s movie awards races.
Every film is personal, said Steven Spielberg, “but The Fabelmans was like moving back in with my parents and my sisters. I would walk into the house that [production designer] Rick Carter designed, exactly the spitting image of the house I grew up in in Phoenix, Arizona. Everything in my bedroom from those years wound up on the set. They say you can’t go home again. That’s wrong, I went home every single day.”
The Banshees of Inisherin stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson have been tapped to receive the Cinema Vanguard Award at the 38th annual Santa Barbara Film Festival.
Oscar winner Ariana DeBose reunited with her West Side Story director Steven Spielberg at the National Board of Review 2023 Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in Manhattan on Sunday.The North Carolina native - turning 32 on January 25 - was wearing an elegant black velvet pantsuit over a cleavage-baring silky camisole and matching heels selected by styling duo Zadrian Smith + Sarah Edmiston.Ariana's suit featured sparkly embellishment on the lapels and she accessorized the entire chic look with leafy stud earrings and an Omega wristwatch. Hello again! Oscar winner Ariana DeBose reunited with her West Side Story director Steven Spielberg at the National Board of Review 2023 Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in Manhattan on SundayHairstylist Takisha Sturdivant-Drew coiffed DeBose's natural pixie cut and make-up artist Andréa Tiller brought out her features with shimmery eye shadow and a pink pout.The Westworld actress beamed with delight while embracing the legendary 76-year-old filmmaker at the industry event.Ariana was most likely there to serve presenting duties when Steven accepted the NBR's best director trophy for his critically-acclaimed autobiographical flop, The Fabelmans.At one point, Spielberg and DeBose were joined on the grey carpet by his second wife Kate Capshaw, whom he's been married to for an impressive 31 years.
Steven Spielberg was inspired by his own life for The Fabelmans and the casting of the film was personal.
Sally Fields has revealed how a friend attempted to set her up with Steven Spielberg 50 years ago. The actress, 76, revealed how they nearly went on a date while introducing Spielberg, 76, as he received the Vanguard Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival for his film The Fabelmans. 'My newly acquired business manager wanted me to meet one of his clients and wanted me to go to Universal for a supposed 'meeting' because he thought the two of us would really hit it off,' the Oscar winner explained, according to People. Fix up: Sally Field revealed that a friend once tried to fix her up with Steven Spielberg. 'My newly acquired business manager wanted me to meet one of his clients... because he thought the two of us would really hit it off,' she explainedThe pair did, but not the way the matchmaker had hoped. 'And though we never actually went on a date together, my beloved Steven Spielberg has never left my life.
In Palm Springs they do it all a little differently. At least that is the impression you might have gotten if you attended last night’s 34th Annual International Film Awards gala which kicked off the Desert Film Festival, back in action for the first time since January of 2020, just weeks before Covid would shut everything down. However the bejeweled and upper crust of Palm Springs society were gathered again at the massive Palm Springs Convention Center to celebrate a select group of stars who not so coincidentally all happen to be among the most buzzed of Oscar contenders. With a red carpet that doesn’t stop at the front doors, but actually continues all the way through the huge lobby and then into the actual ballroom itself, this event was, and by the looks of it, a must stop on the way to the Dolby in March.
Sally Field was stylish as she walked the red carpet at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Thursday at the Palm Springs Convention Center.The 76-year-old actress donned a black leather biker jacket over a black turtleneck top with an azalea pink silk taffeta ball skirt by Carolina Herrera.The Pasadena, California native wore her dark locks down with dark framed glasses and a black bag. The latest: Sally Field, 76, was stylish as she walked the red carpet at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Thursday at the Palm Springs Convention CenterThe Oscar-wining actress was seen posing with posing with colleagues such as legendary director Steven Spielberg, 76, actor Brian Tyree Henry, 40, and Taxi star Judd Hirsch, 87, at the launch of the film festival in the Southern California desert community.Field, famed for films such as Forrest Gump, Steel Magnolias, Mrs.
Ruben Östlund has partnered with the Göteborg Film Festival to host an interactive cinematic event where he will direct how audiences view a film during a screening of his Palme d’Or winner, Triangle of Sadness.
Individuals confronting the might of powerful institutions. That thematic focus unites much of the work of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras.
Steven Spielberg said he 'truly regrets' the 'decimation of the shark population' following the success of his 1975 film Jaws.He joined Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs to discuss his successful directing career, including his latest project — a semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans.Spielberg, 75, is known for Hollywood blockbusters including ET, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park. Shark bait: Steven Spielberg said he regrets the 'decimation of the shark population' after his 1975 blockbuster film Jaws came out; seen last week in Hollywood Big regret: The film followed a man-eating great white shark that attacked a seaside town in AmericaThe 1975 Oscar-winning thriller told the story of a man-eating great white shark that attacks a US seaside town, which prompted a rise in sports fishing across America.Asked by Laverne how he felt about having real sharks circling his desert island, he said: 'That's one of the things I still fear.
Steven Spielberg said he 'truly regrets' the 'decimation of the shark population' following the success of his 1975 film Jaws.He joined Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs to discuss his successful directing career, including his latest project — a semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans.Spielberg, 75, is known for Hollywood blockbusters including ET, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park. Shark bait: Steven Spielberg said he regrets the 'decimation of the shark population' after his 1975 blockbuster film Jaws came out; seen last week in Hollywood Big regret: The film followed a man-eating great white shark that attacked a seaside town in AmericaThe 1975 Oscar-winning thriller told the story of a man-eating great white shark that attacks a US seaside town, which prompted a rise in sports fishing across America.Asked by Laverne how he felt about having real sharks circling his desert island, he said: 'That's one of the things I still fear.