‘Mank,’ Tenet,’ ‘Promising Young Woman’ Land Nominations From Art Directors Guild

And then there were eight. The Best Picture nominees have been widdled down to a chosen few and from a layman’s perspective, it might appear that the race to take Oscar’s most prestigious prize is surprisingly wide open.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

LOS ANGELES -- If Laraine Newman recounted only her experiences as an original “Saturday Night Live” player — a storied ensemble that included Gilda Radner and John Belushi — she’d have plenty of memoir material.But she has other adventures to share in “May You Live in Interesting Times,” from the quirky — she studied mime in Paris with Marcel Marceau— to the questionable, including a teenage encounter with musician Johnny Winter.Wherever Newman’s newly released audiobook memoir takes us, it’s

Promising Young Woman begins with a sleight of hand. We watch Cassie (Carey Mulligan) taken home by a 'nice guy' who wanted to make sure she was safe after spotting her slumped and alone in a club.

For her turn as Cassie —a brilliant former medical studentconfronting the traumas of her past — in Emerald Fennell's directorial debutPromising Young Woman,Carey Mulligan has earned her second Oscar nomination and her first in over a decade. The 35-year-old actress was last nominated in 2010 forAn Education.

Clayton Davis The Oscars have unveiled the 2021 nominations, and it was a historic group that closes the chapter of one of the hardest years for cinema.After a year in which the Academy announced its divisive inclusion and representation standards, members stepped up to the plate, recognizing the most people of color in the acting categories in history with nine nods.

Five Oscar nominations this morning for Promising Young Woman place Emerald Fennell’s searing and darkly comic drama about a woman avenging her friend after a sexual assault into confirmed frontrunner status for this year’s Academy Awards.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe Set Decorators Society of America (SDSA) has announced the first-ever SDSA Awards celebrating excellence in the art of set decoration for film.“Promising Young Woman,” “Mank,” “Tenet” “Wonder Woman 1984” and “News of the World” are among the films to receive nominations.The Decor and Design categories highlight feature-length films of the 2020 season.Final round for voting opens March 19. Voting closes ten days later on March 29.

At the 25th annual Art Directors Guild Awards, production designer Stuart Wurtzel will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award, the guild announced today.

Annnd … action! The Directors Guild of America is out with the nominations for its 73rd annual DGA Awards for theatrical feature film and first-time feature. The guild, which unveiled its TV, commercials and documentary nominees on Monday, will announce this year’s winners during an April 10 virtual event.

There are four major bellwethers for the Academy Awards. The SAG Awards, the PGA Awards, the DGA Awards, and, increasingly, the BAFTA Awards.

The nominations for the 2021 Producers Guild Awards were announced today and something we noticed was that Margot Robbie was left off the list, despite her movie Promising Young Woman receiving a nomination.

Haley Bosselman editor“Promising Young Woman” swept the evening at the Hollywood Critics Association Awards.

If there is one industry union that has taste, style, and, yes, a sense of humor, it’s the Costume Designers Guild.

23rd Costume Designers Guild Awards are here!The awards show, which is taking place on April 13, 2021 amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, celebrates excellence in film, television and short-form costume design.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorAs soon as Makeup Head Angie Wells received Emerald Fennell’s script for “Promising Young Woman,” she had notes to make.

Todd Gilchrist Using historical recreation, comedy and the tropes of horror, many of the most impactful movies of 2020 dramatized important cultural conversations — some that audiences began examining long ago, and others they may still be reluctant to broach at all.Social commentary has become an additive, even essential element in the resonance of a contemporary narratives, even those set in the past or masked by the mechanics and conventions of a particular genre, simultaneously challenging

While the teams behind projects like Nomadland, Borat and The Crown have much to celebrate following multiple wins at the 2021 Golden Globes, for other multiple nominees, the evening was a disappointment. David Fincher's passion project Mank, about the screenwriter of Citizen Kane, went into the show with a leading six film nominations but failed to win a single award.

If it’s February it’s time for guild nominations! Wait, isn’t February when the winners are announced? Well, not in this pandemic timeline. This morning the Art Directors Guild revealed their nominees for the 2021 ADG Awards and there were few surprises as the artists behind “Birds of Prey,” “Mank,” “The Mandalorian,” “The Crown” and “The Queen’s Gambit” were all recognized.