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The Oscar nominations may have been revealed, but thre are still guild award nominations to announce. This morning, the American CInema Editors revealed the nominees for the 74th Annual Eddie Awards celebrating the best in film and television editing.

Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Favourite“) is easily one of the most exciting filmmakers on the planet, and thankfully, we won’t have to wait too long for his follow-up to “Poor Things.” Searchlight Pictures, who previously distributed Lanthimos’ last two movies, has dropped a first-look trailer for “Kind of Kindness,” which will be released on June 21. The impressive cast assembled around Oscar-winner Emma Stone in Lanthimos’ next film “Kind of Kindness” includes Jesse Plemons (“Civil War,” “Killers of The Flower Moon”), Willem Dafoe (“Poor Things,” “The Lighthouse”), Margaret Qualley (“Drive-Away Dolls”), Hong Chau (“The Whale,” “The Menu”), Joe Alwyn (“The Favourite”), Mamoudou Athie (“Elemental,” “Jurassic World: Dominion”), and Hunter Schafer (“Cuckoo,” “Euphoria”).

After a long awards season, thankfully without much of an Oscar villain to speak of, the 96th Academy Awards were held last night, and Academy trophies were bestowed on all the winners. Those victories obviously came with a fleet of emotional and earnest acceptance speeches (see below).

Before the 96th Academy Awards 14 women had won the Best Actress Oscar more than once. That list has now expanded by one after Emma Stone won her second trophy in the category for Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.” She previously won in 2017 for “La La Land.” READ MORE: Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos are ready for you to experience the fantastical world of “Poor Things” [Interview] As Bella Baxter, Stone portrays a young woman coming to terms with misogyny in a fantastical version of late 1800s Europe.

The box office may still be doing its best to return to its pre-pandemic heights, but there continue to be encouraging signs all around. The latest is Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” crossing $100 million at the global box office.

The race for the Costume Design Academy Award is still up in the air, but no matter what happens, Holly Waddington and Jacqueline Duran will always have their 2024 Costume Designer Awards wins. The pair took Excellence in Period Film for “Poor Things” and Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film for “Barbie,” respectively.

The 2024 Oscars season has taken a final turn around the awards season race track. This morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid announced the nominees for the 76th Academy Awards, and, as expected, Christopher Nolan‘s “Oppenheimer” led all films with 13 nominations, including a coveted Best Picture nom.

Nominations for the 96th Oscars are being revealed today, Tuesday, January 23, in a live presentation hosted by Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid beginning at 5:30 a.m. PT/8:30 a.m.

In hindsight, it might not seem like it, but the 2024 Oscar season has been highly competitive on many fronts. First carried by the directors during the WGA and SAG strikes, the race got a November boost when the latter came to an end and the actors were free to promote to their heart’s content.

Awards Season finally has some twists and turns to contend with before the Oscar nominations are revealed on Tuesday. Today, the 2024 BATA Awards nominations were revealed and snubs and surprises were almost everywhere.

The BAFTA nominations are in less than 24 hours and the Oscar nominations are in less than a week, but there are still other adjacent awards season nominations to unveil. This morning, The USC Libraries revealed the honorees for the 2024 USC Scripter Awards rewarding the best in adapted screenplays for television and film.

First came SAG, then came the DGA, and now, the Producers Guild of America has revealed their year-end honors. The nominees for the 35th annual PGA Awards featured many familiar titles across film and television.

The American Society of Cinematographers revealed the nominees for the 2024 ASC Awards, a precursor to the Oscar for Cinematography, and the results were somewhat as expected. Emphasis on “somewhat.” In the Theatrical Feature Film category, Matthew Libatique (“Maestro”), Robbie Ryan (“Poor Things”), Hoyte van Hoytema (“Oppeneheimer”), and Rodrigo Prieto (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) all earned nominations.

The Art Directors Guild revealed the nominees for the 28th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards also known as the ADG Awards this morning and there were, for better or worse, few surprises. On the film side, potential Oscar nominees “Asteroid City,” “Barbie,” “Poor Things” and “Oppenheimer” all earned nominations in the three ADG film categories.

In recent years, the line between TV and film has really blurred. No longer is TV storytelling seen as “less than.” Often, the very best acting, writing, and directing is seen in episodes of TV.

Are you finished with hair and make-up? Well, it’s time to get into costume before you head to set. No surprise then that the Costume Designers Guild revealed their nominees for the 26th CDGA Awards the day after their peers in the Make-Up and Hairstyling guild.

Robert Eggers, in only three feature films, has proven himself to be one of the most unique filmmakers working today. So, it’s always interesting to see what a creative person like Eggers would think about the past year’s crop of films.

We’ve been lucky to interview Willem Dafoe several times over the years. The 68-year-old actor, whose resume should put him on the shortlist for an honorary Oscar at this point, has always been, at worst, politely pleasant, but he’s never suffered fools.

Much to The Academy’s leadership and ABC’s delight, it’s looking to be a very “Barbie” Oscars. Greta Gerwig‘s blockbuster leads all films with five mentions on the category shortlists revealed by AMPAS today.

Emma Stone and filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos are on a roll, so much so they could be one of the next great actor/director partnerships like Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio or perhaps a more appropriate analogy, George Cukor and Katharine Hepburn (who did eight films between 1932 and 1952). READ MORE: Yorgos Lanthimos Retitles His Upcoming Film ‘AND’ To ‘Kinds Of Kindness’ The duo, who are currently promoting their third film together, the fabulous demented Frankenstein-esque tale of self-actualization, “Poor Things,” have actually made three films together.

The Critics’ Choice Association announced their 2024 nominations this morning and “Barbie” took the wheel. Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster earned 18 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Margot Robbie), Best Supporting Actress (America Ferrera), and three Best Song nominations.

The New York Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review may have anointed Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” the top film of 2023, but the Best Coast, er, West Coast has a different view. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association selected Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” as their Best Film of 2023.

When you conduct an interview via Zoom these days, you often have no idea when you’ll actually speak to your interview subjects. Click a link, and you might be popped into a virtual conference room immediately, or you might find yourself wondering if someone forgot you were on the schedule.

Costume Designer Holly Waddington has made her way to America to celebrate her work for Yorgos Lanthimos’ celebrated “Poor Things.” And on this particular night, that means the opening of an exhibit of the film’s costumes at the Fashion Institute of Design And Merchandising Museum in downtown Los Angeles. Waddington’s credits include period films such as “Lady Macbeth” and “The Great,” but she describes this particular project as a “very extreme experience.” READ MORE: “Poor Things” Review: Yorgos Lanthimos’ deliciously funny and fantastic epic is one of the year’s very best [Venice] “It was a lot of coming up with things.

December is overridden with terrific and exciting films that are worth adding to your likely growing “to watch” list. As end-of-year “best of” lists continue to roll in, along with critics’ awards already naming the year’s strongest contenders, it’s easy to lose certain titles to the shuffle.

On a wing and a prayer, The Gotham Awards took a chance the SAG-AFTRA Strike would end by the time the November 27th ceremony was scheduled. Their faith paid off.

After winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Yorgos Lanthimos‘ “Poor Things” may be the most anticipated movie still to come in 2023. But it’s not just nabbing Venice’s top prize: “Poor Things” received unanimous praise from the Lido, with many critics already proclaiming it the year’s (or even decade’s) best film.

If you want to win Best Picture, you usually need a screenplay win to do it. Over the last 20 years, 14 Best Picture winners also won Original or Adapted Screenplay.

There’s nothing like New York in the Fall— crisper air, pumpkin spice lattes, Cityside Pumpkin patch, the leaves changing in Central Park, and the New York Film Festival. What could be better? The 61st annual New York Film Festival kicks off in a few days, and there is a lot to look forward to.

There’s nothing like New York in the Fall— crisper air, pumpkin spice lattes, Cityside Pumpkin patch, the leaves changing in Central Park, and the New York Film Festival. What could be better? The 61st annual New York Film Festival kicks off in a few days, and there is a lot to look forward to.

And just like that, we’re back. Yes, award season is in full swing, and as for much of this decade, we’ve got a crisis on our hands.

It’s interesting how the Venice Film Festival has gone from one of the festivals of the fall festival season to arguably the best film festival in the world now, even overshadowing Cannes in recent years thanks to the fact that Netflix now avoids the Croisette for the most part because of France’s theatrical laws and save their Oscar contenders for the Lido. Venice has had an amazing run, arguably since 2017 when Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape Of Water” won the top prize and then went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture, which has happened one more time since with “Nomadland” and several key Oscar contenders since).

After a disappointing 2022 edition, the Telluride Film Festival had a major comeback for its 50th Anniversary. Sure, there were only a few actors on hand (including one who was rumored as not supposed to be there), but there was hardly a bad film on the screening slate and a number of world premieres that will dominate critic’s year-end top 10 lists.

A parent’s desire to trap their offspring in perpetual childhood is not a foreign concept to Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, whose 2009 psychological drama “Dogtooth” chronicled the dysfunctional routine of a wealthy businessman, his meek wife, and their severely infantilized adult children.

There are plenty of intriguing titles vying for the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival. But Yorgos Lanthimos‘ “Poor Things,” the director’s first film since 2018’s “The Favorite,” may be the most intriguing of all.

As the Venice Film Festival kicks off this week, so too does it begin the Fall film festival circuit.  Telluride also starts this weekend, then onto TIFF, NYFF, and the BFI London Film Festival. And Variety has the scoop on the full line-up for London this October, which features several major films that premiered at Cannes and other fests earlier this year.