Asia Pacific Screen Awards: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Evil Does Not Exist’ Leads Nominations & First Round Winners Announced

Liza Foreman Spotlighting diversity in the international television market, eight projects took home awards at Mipcom’s Diversify TV Awards. Presented at the Cannes Palais des Festivals’ Grand Auditorium, the winners were selected from 165 countries submitted by 27 countries for the 7th edition of the event. BBC Studios documentary “Inside Our Autistic Minds” won in the representation of disability, non-scripted category.

The Hulu series The 1619 Project and the Showtime feature Nothing Lasts Forever scored a leading three nominations apiece today as the Cinema Eye Honors announced its first round of contenders for the prestigious documentary-focused awards.

Ellise Shafer The MTV Europe Music Awards, which were set to be held in Paris on Nov. 5, are no longer going forward this year “out of an abundance of caution.” A statement from a Paramount spokesperson reads, “Given the volatility of world events, we have decided not to move forward with the 2023 MTV EMAs out of an abundance of caution for the thousands of employees, crew members, artists, fans and partners who travel from all corners of the world to bring the show to life.” The statement continues, “The MTV EMAs are an annual celebration of global music.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The inaugural edition of the Cinema at Sea – Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival will be held next month (Nov. 23-29) on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

BTS‘ Jungkook and Jimin, SEVENTEEN, (G)I-DLE, IVE, BLACKPINK‘s Jisoo, Big Bang‘s Taeyang and TXT, all of whom received four nominations across the various categories. Acts such as NewJeans, NCT Dream and more also received multiple nominations.Meanwhile, the first round of voting for the Worldwide Fans’ Choice category today (October 19) at 5pm KST.

Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and The Asian American Foundation on Wednesday unveiled the results of their collaborative study “Red Light, Green Light: Overcoming Roadblocks to Asian American Creative Executive Success in the Entertainment Industry.”

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic There aren’t a lot of precedents in pop music for the pairing of Billie Eilish and Finneas, when it comes to brother-and-sister performing or songwriting duos. But in the world of music for films, it might not be too soon to start considering a comparison with a very famous married duo: Alan and Marilyn Bergman, the long-reigning king and queen of movie theme songs.

Thania Garcia The 2023 Latin Grammy Awards are taking place on Nov. 16 live from Sevilla, Spain with performances from breakthrough artists Maria Becerra, Bizarrap and Feid, along with singer-songwriters Kany García, Carin León, Christian Nodal, Rauw Alejandro and Alejandro Sanz.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Dynamic Singaporean producer Jeremy Chua is to receive the FIAPF Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asia Pacific Cinema, at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) on Nov. 3 on Australia’s Gold Coast.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Netflix’s “American Symphony,” which follows Grammy and Oscar winner Jon Batiste as he prepares for his performance at Carnegie Hall, leads the 2023 Critics Choice Documentary Award nominations with six, including best documentary feature and directing for Matthew Heineman. PBS’ “20 Days in Mariupol,” Magnolia Pictures’ “Kokomo City” and Apple Original Films’ “Still: A Michael J.

Ellise Shafer Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Evil Does Not Exist” was named the best film in the official competition at this year’s BFI London Film Festival Awards. “Paradise Is Burning” by Mika Gustafson received the Sutherland Award in the first feature competition, while Lina Soualem’s “Bye Bye Tiberias” took home the Grierson Award in the documentary competition and “The Archive: Queer Nigerians” directed by Simisolaoluwa Akande won the short film competition. The jury presidents for this year’s awards included Amat Escalante (official competition), Raine Allen-Miller (first feature competition), Rubika Shah (documentary competition) and Charlotte Regan (short film competition).

Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi has clinched the best film award in the main official competition of the 67th London Film Festival with his latest feature, Evil Does Not Exist. 

Reba McEntire has (unserious) beef with Taylor Swift.

EXCLUSIVE: The Asian American Foundation and the Sundance Institute on Thursday unveiled the AAPI filmmakers set for the second edition of their program, the “Sundance Institute | The Asian American Foundation Fellowship and Collab Scholarship.”

Gwyneth Paltrow wants to clear something up!

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer The South by Southwest Music Festival has announced its initial lineup for its 38th annual event, descending on Austin, Texas from March 11-16. Organizers have revealed the first slate of 149 musicians set to perform during the festival, including Lo Moon (from Los Angeles), Cumgirl8 (New York), Omar S (Detroit), Rawayana (Caracas), Dry Cleaning (London), Hinds (Madrid) and Red Axes (Tel Aviv).

Gigi Hadid is speaking out against the horrific attacks taking place in Israel by Hamas terrorists.

An SNP minister has insisted the party does not take its support for granted after it suffered a heavy defeat to Labour at the Rutherglen by-election.

There’s new casting information about Pacific Rim!

Phew! Lady GaGa will NOT be forced to give a half million bucks to one of the people who helped abduct her beloved dogs — and nearly kill her dog walker!