‘Shadows,’ ‘Winnipeg,’ “Sheba” Among Nominations For Eurimages Award at Cartoon Movie (EXCLUSIVE)

While the COVID-19 pandemic isn't in the mood to be put down just yet, cinemas are slowly and steadily trying to trudge through the shores with releases every week.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentFresh off the success of HBO Max release “It’s a Sin,” which built on the achievement of 2019’s “Years and Years,” Welsh writer-showrunner-producer Russell T. Davies is set to receive the 2021 Canneseries Excellence Award.The plaudit will be presented to Davies on March 23 during an online conversation hosted by Canneseries, the Cannes International Series Festival, French pay TV giant Canal Plus and online news site Konbini.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Karen Robinson, Joe Regalbuto, Kathleen Chalfant, Maxwell Whittington-Cooper and Abubakr Ali have been confirmed as cast members of The CW’s untitled millennial nun dramedy pilot, directed by Tessa Blake and written by Claire Rothrock and Ryann Weir.Described by Blake as a “subversive comedy,” the untitled pilot stars Caitlin Kinnunen (“The Prom”) and Bella Ortiz (“American Carnage”).

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook is officially in the running for an Academy Award.The social giant’s Oculus virtual-reality group, together with EA’s Respawn Entertainment, co-produced “Colette,” a documentary short created as part of VR video game “Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond.” On Monday, the film received an Oscar nomination for documentary short subject.The 24-minute film from director Anthony Giacchino and producer Alice Doyard follows former French Resistance member Colette

On Monday morning, French playwright Florian Zeller’s first feature film, The Father, collected six Oscar nominations. And it seems there will be more where that came from. Speaking via Zoom after nominations were announced, Zeller revealed to Deadline that he’s currently finishing up an adaptation of the newest of his plays: The Son—and he knows exactly who he wants to cast, too.

Oscars history after she picked up a nod for Best Actress today (March 15).The actress received her fourth nomination for playing the lead role in Netflix‘s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at a ceremony earlier alongside Andra Day, Vanessa Kirby, Frances McDormand and Carey Mulligan.She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2017 for Fences, after being nominated in that category in 2009 for her work in Doubt.

Best Actor predictions included Riz Ahmed for Sound of Metal, Anthony Hopkins for The Father and Tahar Rahim The Mauritanian for Best Actor; and Judas and the Black Messiah's Daniel Kaluuya, and Sacha Baron Cohen for The Trial of the Chicago 7 for supporting actor. Meanwhile, Best Actress nominees include Mank's Amanda Seyfried, Pieces of a Woman's Vanessa Kirby, Nomadland's Frances McDormand, The Father's Olivia Colman, and Andra Day for The United States vs.

One Night in Miami, Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always, and Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman. Best Actor nominations include Chadwick Boseman, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun, Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins, while Best Actress nominees include Carey Mulligan, Vanessa Kirby, Viola Davis, Frances McDormand and Andra Day.

EXCLUSIVE: As this week’s animation event Cartoon Movie rolls on (virtually), sales outfit New Europe has picked up rights to the upcoming family animation YUKU And The Himalayan Flower.

Also Read: How 'Nomadland' Cinematographer Survived a Scorpion Bite and 'The Crud' to Shoot Oscar FavoriteIn the Spotlight category, which singles out cinematographers from films that largely had film-festival or overseas distribution, the nominees were the Sundance entry “Swallow,” the French film “Two of Us” and the Russian “Dear Comrades!”Documentary nominations went to “The Truffle Hunters,” “Gunda” and “Notturno,” three docs whose directors also served as cinematographers.

Academy Awards, announced nominees Tuesday. In the more than seven decades of the awards, only nine times before had a female filmmaker been nominated for best director.

Emilio Mayorga Sébastien Onomo, producer of 2018 Annecy Crystal winner “Funan,” has teamed with Romanian animator Anca Damian to co-produce her new project “Starseed.” Damian’s first feature, “Crulic,” similarly topped Annecy, in 2011.

EXCLUSIVE: LA-based sales firm Film Bridge International has sold shark survival pic The Requin to Reset Collective (Australia/New Zealand), YouPlanet (Spain), Mediawan (France), Monolith (Poland), Purple Plan (SE Asia), Blitz Film Group (Ex-Yugo), and Blue Lantern (Vietnam).

Spain brings an extraordinary gamut of movie titles to Berlin. Some highlights:“All the Moons,” (Igor Legarreta)A France-Spain co-production, “All the Moons” tracks two vampires in the northern Spain during the last Carlist war.

Christopher Vourlias Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales continues its pre-sales of “The Peasants,” the hotly anticipated follow-up from Oscar-nominated “Loving Vincent” director Dorota Kobiela, selling rights for Germany and Austria to Koch Media.As reported earlier, New Europe brokered a deal with The Jokers for distribution in France of the buzzy animated feature.“The Peasants” is produced by BreakThru Films’ Sean Bobbitt and Hugh Welchman, who also co-wrote the script, using

Buyers across Europe and Latin America have boarded the upcoming Norwegian disaster film The North Sea, from director John Andreas Andersen.

EXCLUSIVE: Eros STX and Amazon Prime Video have closed a multi-year first window output deal in the Nordics effective immediately.

Oscar buzz — . Chloé Zhao's new film stars Frances McDormand as «Fern,» who sets out in her van after her small town is destroyed by economic crisis, meeting real-life nomads — most of whom are not played by actors — along the way. On Feb. 28,   won Best Picture — Drama at the Golden Globes and Zhao won Best Director, the second woman ever to win the award, after Barbra Streisand in 1984.

First-time nominee Andra Day won the Golden Globe award tonight for her first major acting role as legendary blues artist and civil rights icon Billie Holiday in The United States vs. Billie Holiday.