Mideast/North African Films Jostle for Oscar Shortlist Attention

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EXCLUSIVE: Jayro Bustamante’s blended-genre La Llorona has had a wild two weeks, with a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and a berth on the Oscar shortlist for Best International Feature. It also has found a fan in Jane Fonda. The legendary actress recently hosted a virtual screening of the movie, and we have an exclusive clip above.

Unlike many of the other Oscar categories that shortlist their potential nominees at 15 contenders, the Makeup and Hairstyling branch only selects 10 films. Somewhat odd considering almost every narrative feature features a working member of their branch, but so be it.

Jon Burlingame The shortlists for the Academy Awards’ two music categories are out, and while there are few surprises among  the 375-member music branch’s 15 choices for best original score, there’s a remarkable shift in the original song category: Nearly half of the 15 songs on that list emerged from narrative films or documentaries whose casts or subjects were predominantly Black.Most of these songs had already been tagged as leading contenders, even though it was hardly a certainty they’d

Stephen Colbert enlisted the help of Tom Hanks and Sam Elliott for a very special Super Bowl ad Sunday.

The Berlin Film Festival has announced the first group of films for its 71st edition, unveiling the official lineups for its Retrospective and Generation sections on Monday.

It’s safe to say few people outside Boone, North Carolina, had heard of Foggy Pine Books before last night, but that changed once Stephen Colbert, Tom Hanks and Sam Elliott pitched in to give the pandemic-hit local bookstore a Super Bowl-sized boost.

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Guy Lodge Film CriticFor the past two years, the Oscar race for international feature hasn’t been a race at all. With Mexico’s “Roma” and South Korea’s “Parasite” heavyweight contenders for best picture, the lower-profile award became a done deal.

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