Writer and director Travon Free, who won the 2021 Oscar for Best Live-Action Short with “Two Distant Strangers”, makes an in-studio appearance on Tuesday’s “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”.
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Leo Barraclough International Features EditorThe producers of this year’s International Feature Film Oscar winner “Another Round” and Berlin Silver Bear winner “Natural Light” have been selected for European Film Promotion’s Producers on the Move program, which promotes promising producers and fosters international co-productions. The 20 participants for the program, which runs online from May 17-21, will be presenting their latest projects in speed meetings and during roundtable sessions.
Writer and director Travon Free, who won the 2021 Oscar for Best Live-Action Short with “Two Distant Strangers”, makes an in-studio appearance on Tuesday’s “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”.
EXCLUSIVE: CAA has landed Oscar-winning blockbuster composer Hans Zimmer as a client in the areas of touring, producing, scoring, speaking engagements, podcasts and content creation.
Oscar winning Free Solo directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have joined the commercial roster of Stept Studios for US representation.
Clayton Davis If there’s a Hollywood equivalent to a cinematic President’s Day, it has to be the birthday of Katharine Hepburn, who was born on May 12, 1907. The legendary actress, who passed away in June 2003, was a revered figure in the City of Stars and set a standard for every actor or actress who wants respect from their peers.
It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything from Academy Award winner Tom McCarthy, the director of “Spotlight,” and his dramatic thriller, “Stillwater” which was seemingly shot a long time ago, but delayed by the pandemic. Starring Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin and Camille Cottin, “Stilwater” centers on a father who travels from Oklahoma to France to help his daughter who has been arrested for murder.
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century which became – of course - a 2021 Oscar winning film starring Frances McDormand. “It was a little scary to hand over material I'd spent many, many years working on with people I’d come to care about,” she says, “But for me, looking at Chloé Zhao’s past work, I just thought, she's a phenomenal chef.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSpecialist sales agency Good Move Media has picked up international rights to “Ancient Soul,” which had its world premiere in March at the Berlin Film Festival.The film, aka “Mbah Jhiwo,” is a Spanish-produced docu-drama about life in the Sulphur mines of Java, Indonesia.
Moonstruck - was "at peace" after suffering ill health, her brother wrote in a statement. "After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her [husband] Louis," brother Apollo wrote on Facebook.
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Olympia Dukakis, who performed in over 60 films, and in 50 television series, has left for her heavenly abode on May 1, 2021. The actress passed away at the age of 89 in New York City.
New York City on Saturday morning. Her cause of death has not been revealed.
Olympia Dukakis has passed away at the age of 89. News of the Oscar winner’s passing was confirmed by her brother Apollo Dukakis, 85, via Facebook on Saturday, May 1. “My beloved sister, Olympia Dukakis, passed away this morning in New York City,” he wrote in his post. “After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her Louis,” the fellow actor wrote, including as gorgeous headshot of the Moonstruck actress. Learn more about Olympia here.
MAPLEWOOD, N.J. -- Olympia Dukakis, the veteran stage and screen actress whose flair for maternal roles helped her win an Oscar as Cher’s mother in the romantic comedy “Moonstruck,” has died.
Carmel Dagan Staff WriterOlympia Dukakis, a character actress best known for her Oscar-winning supporting turn in Norman Jewison’s “Moonstruck” and for her role as the wealthy widow in “Steel Magnolias,” has died. She was 89.Dukakis’ brother, Apollo Dukakis, confirmed her death in a Facebook post, writing: “My beloved sister, Olympia Dukakis, passed away this morning in New York City.
Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1988 for Moonstruck, has died at the age of 89. She had been in ill health for some time.
Olympia Dukakis has sadly passed away.
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Everyone connected with Thomas Vinterberg's Oscar-winning dramedy Another Round has a drinking story. For Emil Goll, lead singer of Scarlet Pleasure — the band behind the song "What a Life," which plays over the film's final, climactic dancing scene — it was his first time being full-out wasted with fellow band member Joachim Dencker, or as the Danes call it, "druk," the movie's original title.
Endeavor Content, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Brad Weston's Makeready have picked up the English-language remake rights to Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round (Druk), the Danish dramedy that won the Oscar for best international film on Sunday night, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Endeavor and Makeready are set to finance the movie remake that potentially could star DiCaprio.