‘Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie’ Sweeps 8th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards With 5 Wins

Chelsea Handler has been set to return as host of the Critics Choice Awards, which are gearing up for their 29th edition Sunday, January 14, 2024.

Ellise Shafer Chelsea Handler is set to return as the host of this year’s Critics Choice Awards, which will air live on the CW on Jan. 14. This marks Handler’s second consecutive year hosting the ceremony, which celebrates the best in film and television.

Naman Ramachandran Hollywood veteran Michael Douglas was in an expansive mood while delivering a masterclass at the recently concluded International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa, where he also accepted a lifetime achievement award. Douglas was in conversation with producer Shailendra Singh, with whom he explored a sequel to “Romancing the Stone” called “Chasing the Monsoon” 17 years ago. The pair are now looking at another film.

Netflix’s Wham! documentary and the George Michael co-directed George Michael: Freedom, which is the ultimate second part of a whopping double-header that I urge you to do over the Christmas period. And now, you can add another to the list; George Michael: Portrait of A Legend which is available on special collectors’ edition Blu-ray and DVD with a smashing a host of extras and a 44-page booklet.I’ve not seen this one as yet but I’ve heard good things.

The American Society of Cinematographers has announced the honorees for its 38th Annual Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Gala on March 3, 2024. They are: Don Burgess, ASC; Steven Fierberg, ASC and Amy Vincent, ASC.

“There’s something really special about Mario games,” says composer Brian Tyler. As a lifelong fan of the Mario series, Tyler was excited to bring the music from all of those worlds into a new animated universe for The Super Mario Bros. Movie. “I realized by hearing the music outside of the game, it immediately takes you back in a way that’s different from movies,” he says. “With movies, you typically see them once or twice, whereas when you add together the playtime of any game you like, you’re in that universe for days.”

Michael Matheson takes thousands of pounds a year from a second luxury holiday home he rents out to holidaymakers for £875 a week.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The husband and wife team of Otsuka Ryuji and Huang Ji, who worked with a minimalist crew and mostly non-professional actors, gave a round of thanks to Asian leading auteurs for inspiring them, and then hugged each other on stage for winning the Taipei Golden Horse Film Awards best narrative feature prize with their pregnancy drama “Stonewalling.” The numerical winner on Saturday night was “Old Fox,” which earned the best director award for Hsiao Ya-chuan, as well as the best supporting actor, makeup and costume, and best film score prizes. The nominations, announced in October, saw “Snow in Midsummer” collect nine nominations and Taiwan‘s Oscar contender “Marry My Dead Body” head the field with eight.

Ethan Shanfeld Bill Hader became a mainstay on “Saturday Night Live‘s” “Weekend Update” segment with his flamboyant, Ed Hardy-wearing character Stefon, who is always in the know about the city’s hottest nightclubs. Seth Meyers, who anchored “Weekend Update” from 2006 to 2014 and played the straight man opposite Stefon, revealed new details about a “Stefon” movie that never got made. “There was a moment in time where the idea of a ‘Stefon’ script was being discussed,” Meyers said in a Nov.

Robin Williams was known to be a talent in improvisation and Mrs. Doubtfire director Chris Columbus is opening up about working with the late actor.

Lea Glob’s documentary Apolonia, Apolonia earned a leading four nominations today as the IDA Documentary Awards revealed its nominees for the 39th edition of the prestigious event.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor Michael Fassbender is a two-time Academy Award nominee who trained at the Drama Centre London before touring with the Oxford Stage Company; he’s performed Chekov and Shakespeare and worked a veritable who’s who of greatest living directors. Rookie actor Kaimana had never even considered trying to be an actor, noting she avoided school plays “like the plague.” Yet the two form a winning pair in “Next Goal Wins,” the funny, touching, uplifting new film from “Jojo Rabbit” filmmaker Taika Waititi, hitting theaters Nov.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor The Cinema Eye Honors for achievement in nonfiction and documentary films and series has announced nominees for the 17th awards ceremony. “Kokomo City” from D. Smith led the nominees with six.

Friends actor donated a generous amount of money to his Parkinson’s charity.The actor, who is best known for starring in the Back To The Future franchise films, revealed in a new interview that Perry once gave a hefty sum at a benefit event for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.Fox, who founded the charity in 2000, two years after announcing that he’d already been dealing with the disease for several years, told Entertainment Tonight about the star’s kindness – and how the actor made the donation quietly.“I hope this isn’t indiscreet, but when the [Friends cast] first made their big sale and were made millionaires for the rest of their lives, he wrote a big fat check to the foundation,” Fox said.“We were really early on and trying to find our feet, and it was such a vote of confidence.”“And it wasn’t accompanied by any self-aggrandising or anything,” Fox added.

Jaden Thompson The Critics Choice Association has announced that Edward James Olmos, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Ken Jeong are among the honorees for the upcoming Celebration of Cinema and Television: Honoring Black, Latino and AAPI Achievements. The event will be held at the Fairmont Century Plaza on Dec.

Entertainment Tonight during the annual “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To Cure Parkinson’s” gala, a benefit hosted by the Michael J. Fox Foundation.“He was a hockey player, a good hockey player, and we played hockey together,” the “Back to the Future” star added. According to Fox, Perry once gave his foundation, which began in 2000 and specializes in research into Parkinson’s disease, a gracious donation.

Six months in, the strikes are over. Ten days out, the holidays begin. As for the movies—unfortunately, the most exciting part of the year is already behind us.

With its intimate portrayal of the world’s most famous family, The Crown has been compulsive viewing across the globe since Claire Foy’s young Princess Elizabeth wed Matt Smith’s caddish Prince Philip in season one. Now, the final instalment is about to broadcast, a year after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Imelda Staunton reprises her role as the late Queen and reveals the monarch’s death last year had an impact on everyone on the show.

Caroline Brew editor “American Valor: A Salute to Our Heroes,” the American Veterans Center’s annual Veterans Day broadcast special, will return to television this year on Nov. 11 to pay tribute to service men and women from World War II to present day. Emmy-nominated actor and U.S.

Michael J. Fox‘s is talking about his many health problems, including ones not generally known by the public. In a recent Town & Country interview, he revealed the astonishing story of a limb he almost lost.