Is The 2021 International Feature Film Shortlist a Step Forward For an Embattled Oscar Category?

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeHBO dominates this year’s Producers Guild Awards nominations in outstanding sports program, landing four out of the five nods. That’s one of three categories revealed on Friday by the Producers Guild of America, which announced nominations in the television specialty fields.Also spotlighted were outstanding children’s special and short form program categories.

Chinese New Year movies continued to drive the global and international box office this weekend, after their astonishing Covid-era debuts last frame. Leaders last session, Detective Chinatown 3 and Hi Mom, both crossed the RMB 4B mark locally, with each at an estimated RMB 4.02B ($621M) cume through Sunday. This is after just 10 days of play for each film, and boosts both up the all-time charts

Rocks, a film supported and acted by a group of young, diverse women from London, has picked up five prizes at the British Independent Film Awards.The film – which handpicked its cast of unknown female leads from secondary schools around London – won best British independent film at last night’s (February 18) virtual awards ceremony, and one of its stars, Kosar Ali, was named both best supporting actress and most promising newcomer.D’Angelou Osei Kissiedu, who was just seven when he played

John Legend, H.E.R., Janelle Monae, Leslie Odom, Jr., and Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell? Yes, the shortlist for the 2021 Original Song Academy Award is full of surprises. But, happily, few snubs this time around.

283 films were submitted for the Academy Award’s Documentary Feature Oscar and now just 15 remain. AMPAS revealed the shortlist for both the Documentary Feature and Documentary Short with the former category featuring few upsets.

Just 36 films were eligible for the Original Score Academy Award this year for a variety of reasons. That means your chances of landing on the shortlist were not so bad at almost 50/50.

The shortlist for the Oscars’ Best International Feature Film is long on expected contenders, from Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round to Andrei Konchalovsky’s Dear Comrades! The Academy’s expanded 15-strong list unveiled Tuesday has essentially made for few snubs while also noting a group of films from far and wide that highlight the power of cinema in all its forms and provenance.

Entertainment One is laying off 10% of its staff in the film and TV divisions, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap.The Hasbro-owned mini major employs 1,200 people worldwide.

EXCLUSIVE: Some breaking news. We’ve just heard from eOne staff that there will be a ten percent cut in the film and TV headcount at the Hasbro-owned mini-major.

Fiverr is poking some fun at former President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani!

Indeed aired an inspiring commercial during the 2021 Super Bowl that featured a new cover of Andra Day‘s hit song “Rise Up.”

Jason Alexander is the subject of a hilarious 2021 Super Bowl Commercial for Tide and you can watch it right here!

John Travolta still has the moves!

Frito-Lay has an epic commercial for the Super Bowl this year!

Swedish sports drama Tigers, the story of teenage soccer star Martin Bengtsson, was named the Dragon Award winner for Best Nordic Film at the 2021 Göteborg Film Festival, Scandinavia’s top film event. The festival was held virtually this year because of the pandemic.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Tarzan and Arab Nasser’s Gaza Mon Amour, Palestine’s official submission for Best International Feature at the 93rd Academy Awards. The film will be released later this year.

Welcome to Part Two of our annual look at which films have a good shot of landing on the Oscars’ Best International Feature Film shortlist. Voting for the shortlist is currently underway with the expanded roster of 15 titles to be unveiled next week. In a year unlike any other, there is reliably excellent work and another embarrassment of riches among the 93 films submitted from countries all around the world.

Voting for the shortlist in the International Feature Film Oscar race is currently underway with the expanded roster of 15 titles to be unveiled next week. In a year unlike any other, there is reliably excellent work and another embarrassment of riches among the 93 films submitted from countries all around the world.

Friday, March 19, with a Vicar of Dibley special on the line-up. The date was revealed in a special launch video, which you can watch above, featuring celebrities including Dame Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch, Joe Sugg, Roman Kemp and Katherine Ryan.