Kim Kardashian is producing and featuring in a documentary series about Elizabeth Taylor for the BBC.
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Oscar documentary branch voters can’t be accused of parochialism. They ventured far and wide to select their shortlist of feature documentaries for 2023, tapping films from countries as varied as a U.N. roll call: Ukraine, Uganda, Poland, Denmark, Tunisia, Canada and the United States.
To Kill a Tiger, one of the 15 finalists, unfolds in a village in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Nisha Pahuja, who was born in India and raised in Canada, directed the film about a humble couple who fight for justice after their 13-year-old daughter is sexually assaulted by three men. Before the shortlist was announced, Pahuja wondered whether doc branch members would embrace her documentary. “It’s a Canadian film, but it’s an Indian story,” she said, “and it’s subtitled.”
Pahuja needn’t have worried. Neither subtitles nor remote settings deter today’s documentary branch, whose membership is far less insular than it used to be. Beginning around 2017, the branch added hundreds of filmmakers, many from abroad, under an initiative spearheaded by Roger Ross Williams, then on the Academy’s board of governors representing the nonfiction wing. “We invited an unprecedented number of international members,” Williams recalls. “And now we’re the most international branch of the Academy.”
Along with To Kill a Tiger, shortlisted films with an international dimension include two focusing on the war in Ukraine: 20 Days in Mariupol, directed by Ukrainian journalist and filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov, documents Russia’s brutal assault on civilians in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in the early days of its invasion; In the Rearview, from Polish filmmaker Maciek Hamela, consists of scenes shot inside a minivan transporting Ukrainian civilians to safety
Kim Kardashian is producing and featuring in a documentary series about Elizabeth Taylor for the BBC.
Calista Flockhart is addressing rumors that she suffered from anorexia during her time starring in the legal comedy drama series, Ally McBeal.
legal drama “Ally McBeal.”The wafer-thin actress, now 59, scooped both a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for her lead role in the smash-hit series, but was dogged by reports she was battling anorexia. “I loved working on ‘Ally McBeal,’ and it just made it sour,” Flockhart told the New York Times in an interview on Friday. “I was very sleep-deprived and I was depressed about it,” she added.
“Ally McBeal” alum, 59, recently teased that a reboot of her hit ‘90s legal drama could be in the cards.“I think there are some people talking about a reboot, but I don’t know much about it,” she told Entertainment Tonight at the New York City premiere of “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” on Tuesday.She added that she “would be game to revive the show.” “Sure, I’m always game.”Talk about a possible reboot was reignited after the “Ally McBeal” cast reunited at the Emmy Awards earlier this month.The series aired on Fox from 1997 until 2002 and also starred Greg Germann, Jane Krakowski, Gil Bellows, Lucy Liu, Peter MacNicol and Courtney Thorne-Smith.The show followed lawyer Ally McBeal (Flockhart) as she worked in the Boston law firm Cage and Fish.At the Emmy Awards ceremony, Germann, 65, MacNicol, 69, Bellows, 56, and Flockhart (who was in attendance with husband Harrison Ford) reunited on stage.She first appeared at the podium solo, with the show’s theme song, “Searchin’ My Soul” by Vonda Shepard playing in the background.The three men then came out dancing and joined her.
Naman Ramachandran Revered Indian actor and filmmaker Aparna Sen is the subject of Suman Ghosh‘s documentary “Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen,” which has its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam‘s Cinema Regained strand. Sen came to notice as an actor with the “Samapti” segment in Oscar winner Satyajit Ray’s “Three Daughters” (1961). She acted in several more films by Ray and also worked with Indian cinema greats Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha and Rituparno Ghosh.
The nominations for the 96th Oscars revealed Tuesday included a diverse mix of Best Picture contenders, from box office blockbusters and festival favorites to sweeping streamer epics and indie darlings.
Christopher Reeve’s children are telling his story and remembering his legacy. The actor, who played the beloved character Superman in 1978 with three sequels, left a mark on the entertainment industry and is known for his resilience and advocacy for spinal cord injury research and treatment after a horse-riding accident in 1995 left him paralyzed from the neck down.Christopher made his first appearance after the accident at the Academy Awards on March 25, 1996.
The Academy has confirmed to Deadline that this is the first time two international foreign-language movies have been nominated for Best Picture in the same year and the first time that two foreign-language movies have received five Oscar nominations apiece in the same year.
In an Oscar stunner, two films considered a lock for nominations failed to be recognized Tuesday morning in the Best Documentary Feature category: American Symphony and Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie.
The nominations for the 2024 Oscars are finally here, and we have the full list for you to see!
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Skywalkers: A Love Story” lends new meaning to the words “high anxiety.” It’s a documentary set in the world of rooftoopers, the new generation of daredevils who scale the tallest buildings they can find, climbing to the tips of skyscrapers and posting top-of-the-world footage of themselves on social media. Directed by Jeff Zimbalist (a former rooftopper himself), the film is brilliantly edited, and it’s full of amazing, terrifying, transfixing verité shots of figures walking on girders, sprawling on ledges, and scaling the spindly, often curved spires that shoot out of the tops of buildings, consisting up close of ladders in the form of precarious slats.
The move in recent years to make the Oscars a truly global event in terms of the membership drive by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has paid off particularly well this year: Eligible voters from a record 93 countries submitting ballots in the Academy Awards’ nominating round, which ended Tuesday at 5 p.m. PT.
FX has set a March 29 premiere date for Spermworld, a documentary feature on the unregulated online marketplace for sperm, produced by The New York Times and Edgeline Films.
Alister Jack has confirmed the UK Government is seeking legal costs from the Scottish Government over its botched gender reform legal challenge.
Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart are heading out after the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards!
Four original Ally McBeal cast members, star Calista Flockhart as well as Greg Germann, Peter MacNicol and Gil Bellows, reunited Monday night during the Emmy broadcast on Fox more than 26 years after the debut of the legal dramedy, which aired on the network for five seasons, from September 1997 to May 2002.
Harrison Ford was honored at the Critics Choice Awards with the Career Achievement Award and delivered a heartfelt speech.
EXCLUSIVE: Grasshopper Film and streaming platform DOCUMENTARY+ have acquired North American rights to the Oscar-shortlisted feature Apolonia, Apolonia, a deal announced as the nomination voting window opens for the 96th Academy Awards.
Manchester United are reported to have offered Facundo Pellistri an exit as part of a swap deal this month.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has promoted Teni Melidonian to the newly created role of Chief Oscars Officer and MaryJane Partlow to Executive Vice President, Awards Production and Special Events. Melidonian will report directly to Bill Kramer, Academy CEO while Partlow will report to Melidonian. In her new role, Melidonian will lead strategy, talent relations, special events and production teams for all awards programs and events.