‘The Whaler Boy’ Wins Venice Days Award, as ‘Ghosts’ Tops Critics’ Week

One of Hollywood's most private couples has reportedly become parents. Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara recently welcomed their first son together, naming him River.

Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara have become parents to a baby boy.The fiercely private couple hit headlines in May (2020) amid rumors suggesting the stars were expecting their first child, and on Sunday (September 27, 2020), it was revealed they had quietly welcomed a son in August and named him after the Joker star’s late brother, River Phoenix.Russian director Victor Kossakovsky announced the happy news during a question and answer session at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland, as he

Actors Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara are officially proud parents. According to People, the Her costars have welcomed a baby boy together.

The 2020 Good Design Awards have been announced, with TransHub  included among the recipients of the prestigious Good Design Awards Gold Accolade.TransHub is an initiative that was developed as an important resource for the trans and gender diverse community to access support and information and was formulated by ACON in response to it’s landmark document, ‘A Blueprint to Improve the Health and Wellbeing of the Trans and Gender Diverse Community in NSW’.From the TransHub website: “TransHub

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Pathé's Venice-bowing comedy-drama The Duke for a range of territories worldwide, including the U.S. The distributor also picked up the film —starring Oscar winners Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren —for Latin America, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe (excluding Poland, the Czech Republic and the former Yugoslavia), Russia/CIS, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, South Africa, India and Southeast Asia (excluding Japan and China).

Apple TV+ has won its first Emmy Award, taking home a trophy during Sunday evening's broadcast. The award was handed down to The Morning Show star Billy Crudup for supporting actor in a drama series.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerA visibly shaken Julia Garner secured an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a drama series at tonight’s remote ceremony for her role in the Netflix drama, Ozark, marking her second consecutive win for her scene-stealing performance as Ruth Langmore.After overcoming her shock, Garner expressed her gratitude to her fellow nominees Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Thandie Newton, Samira Wiley, Fiona Shaw, Helena Bonham Carter, and Sarah Snook.

It’s still very early, but it’s impossible not to take notice of what Chloe Zhao’s film Nomadland is doing right now. The fall film festival season has launched other movies, like Regina King’s One Night in Miami…, but none like Nomadland.

Ludwig Göransson has won an Emmy Award for his work on the score to Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian.Göransson, who has worked with Childish Gambino on ‘This is America’, has previously earned acclaim for his work on the Black Panther score. In 2019, he won the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for Black Panther, along with an Oscar for Best Original Score for the same film.Last night (September 19), Göransson earned an award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series

Coatbridge actress has asked Lewis Capaldi to take her out on a date after she scooped an award at the only film festival that took place this year. Anna Russell-Martin, 21, plays the lead role in the independent short film The Shift, which is set in a Glasgow supermarket.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentVenice’s Special Jury Prize-winning “Dear Comrades!,” a Russian historical drama directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, has been sold by Films Boutique to Southern Europe.“Dear Comrades!” was acquired for Italy by Paolo Del Brocco at Rai Cinema and for Spain by the Barcelona-based distributor Vercine.The film, which sheds light on the Novocherkassk massacre, was produced, co-written (with Elena Kiseleva) and directed by Konchalovsky, a revered and now veteran

VENICE, Italy -- Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a recession-era road trip drama starring Frances McDormand, won the Golden Lion for best film Saturday at a slimmed-down Venice Film Festival, which was held against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.Zhao and McDormand appeared by video from the United States to accept the award, given virus-related travel restrictions made reaching the Lido in the Italian lagoon city difficult if not impossible for many Hollywood filmmakers and actors.“Thank you

Frances McDormand and Chloe Zhao are two names you’ll probably be hearing throughout the upcoming awards season!

Vanessa Kirby holds her trophy while accepting the Best Actress award during the closing ceremony of the 2020 Venice Film Festival on Saturday (September 12) in Venice, Italy.

Also Read: Fall Film Festivals Struggle for Relevance in the Year of CoronavirusAhmad Bahrami’s “The Wasteland” won the award as the best film in the festival’s Orizzonti section, while Ana Rocha de Sousa’s “Listen” won the Orizzonti jury prize and the award as the best first film at the festival.In the more than 70 years the Venice Film Festival has been in existence, the winner of its top award has only gone on to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture six times — but three of those took

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLebanese director Ely Dhager’s “Harvest” (see interview here), a drama about a young woman contending with identity issues on returning to Beirut after a long stint abroad, is the standout title in this year’s Final Cut in Venice workshop – part of the Venice Film Festival – which provides post-production support and partnership opportunities to films from Africa and the Arab world.This debut feature by Dhager – whose short “Waves ‘98” was awarded the

Taking Soviet films from the past as its model, Russian veteran Andrei Konchalovsky’s Dear Comrades! (Dorogie Tovarischi!) pinpoints a moment inhistory when people’s unquestioning belief in the high-minded principles of the Communist party wavered as evidence to the contrary mounted and personally impacted their lives. Although at first sight this dramatization of a 1962 strike at a factory in the U.S.S.R.