Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim Make Late Entry Into Awards Race With STX Films’ ‘The Mauritanian’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Ana de Armas was having a moment last year, when she really broke out in a big way thanks to her incredible performance in “Knives Out.” But at what point do we stop calling it a “moment” and call it what it really is—an ascension.

t’s a collaboration that was decades in the making.  George C. Wolfe, who has helped bring the words of everyone from Tony Kushner to Nora Ephron to life in acclaimed productions, says it was in the mid-1990s when playwright August Wilson first raised the prospect of working with him.“He said, ‘I want you to direct one of my plays,’” Wolfe recalls.

Mass Effect title is in the works and Bioware has dropped the first trailer for the game.The developer released a first glimpse at the next chapter in the Mass Effect series as the closing announcement for The Game Awards.

Clayton Davis Tahar Rahim turned the heads of cinephiles more than a decade ago in Jacques Audiard’s “A Prophet,” which was Oscar-nominated for best foreign language film in 2010.

Dave McNary Film ReporterThe Independent Filmmaker Project has selected ​Steve Mc​ ​Queen​ and Ryan Murphy as recipients of tributes at the Gotham Awards ceremony, which will be held Jan. 11.McQueen, who won the Academy Award for best picture for “12 Years a Slave,” will receive the Director’s Tribute.

Steven Gerrard 's side sitting pretty at the top of the Premiership, having conceded just four league goals. And they can stretch their lead to 14 points, at least for a few hours, with their title rivals not playing until this afternoon.Rangers will be without key man Ryan Jack but have otherwise a full squad to choose from as they look to turn the screw on Celtic and Neil Lennon.

A conspiracy is about to be unearthed.

Alberto Lattuada, the Italian filmmaker who generously supplied Federico Fellini’s first director’s credit for 1950’s “Variety Lights,” once claimed that he “invented Fellini.” His peer, Massimo Mida, disputed this, noting that if anyone invented il Maestro, it was legendary Italian auteur Roberto Rossellini. Respectfully, they’re both wrong.

Also Read: Jodie Foster to Direct True Story About Theft of the Mona Lisa“The Mauritanian” is based on a true story and a memoir by the real Ould Slahi called “Guantanamo Diary,” which wound up on the New York Times Best Sellers list and documented the man’s fight for survival against all odds.Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”) directs this political and legal thriller that also stars Zachary Levi, Saamer Usmani and Shailene Woodley.M.B.

In one of the strangest years in film history, it stands to reason that awards season would be a complete unknown. What films will make it in time? Which late-entries will surprise us? And what the hell are the ceremonies going to actually look like? Well, we really don’t have many answers, but we do know that STXFilms is hoping “The Mauritanian” is part of the conversation.

Gary Barlow and Steps are locking horns for this week’s UK Number 1 album.

Delilah Belle Hamlin is on a Thanksgiving-week holiday in Tulum, Mexico with her boyfriend Eyal Booker and we have tons of photos of them together!

Lianne La Havas, Nines and Aitch have been announced as the leading nominations at this year’s MOBO Awards.This year’s event will be held online on December 9 on YouTube from 7pm GMT while the main broadcast will go out on BBC One at 10.45pm GMT.Nines is up for five nominations including Best Male Act, Album Of The Year and Video Of The Year for ‘Clout’.Lianne La Havas, Mahalia and Tiana Major9 have also clocked up three nominations each including Best Female Act and Best R&B/Soul Act.Elsewhere,

Aberdeen have the strength in depth to deliver without a band of big names. The Dons were missing eight players for Sunday’s 4-0 defeat to Rangers with Niall McGinn, Jonny Hayes, Dylan McGeouch, Scott Wright and Marley Watkins out through injury.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterMoMA, New York City’s premier modern art museum, announced the lineup for its annual contenders showcase.Like many live and in-person events scheduled for 2020, this year’s confab is going digital. The showcase of the year’s best in cinema will run on MoMA’s new virtual cinema platform from Dec.