UK’s Association Of Motion Picture Sound Criticizes Decision To Not Broadcast Best Sound Oscar Live

LONDON -- Sci-fi epic “Dune” won five prizes and brooding Western “The Power of the Dog” was named best picture as the British Academy Film Awards returned Sunday with a live, black-tie ceremony after a pandemic-curtailed event in 2021.New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion was named best director for “The Power of the Dog,” becoming only the third woman to win the prize in the awards’ seven-decade history.Lead acting trophies went to Hollywood star Will Smith and British performer Joanna Scanlan, as an event that has worked to overcome a historic lack of diversity recognized a wide range of talents — including its first deaf acting winner in Troy Kotsur for “CODA.”Last year’s awards ceremony was largely conducted online, with only the hosts and presenters appearing in person.

Patti Smith, Gogol Bordello, The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, Suzanne Vega and more in attendance.Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz, who was born in Ukraine, co-hosted the benefit at NYC’s City Winery, to raise funds for financial and humanitarian relief in the country. In total, $130,000 was raised, with proceeds going to Come Back Alive, a foundation that provides support to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and Care.org.Among the funds raised, there was a $50,000 donation by Yoko Ono and Sean Ono Lennon to Doctors Without Borders.

as the British Academy Film Awards returned Sunday with a live, black-tie ceremony after a pandemic-curtailed event in 2021.Jane Campion was named best director for “The Power of the Dog,” only the third woman to win the prize in the awards’ 75-year history.Lead acting trophies went to Hollywood star Will Smith and British performer Joanna Scanlan, as an event that has worked to overcome a historic lack of diversity recognized a wide range of talents — including the first deaf acting winner in Troy Kotsur for “CODA.”Last year’s awards ceremony was largely conducted online, with only the hosts and presenters appearing in person.

Sandi Toksvig has urged the British government to change its visa system so more Ukrainian refugees can be welcomed into the UK.DONATE NOW: What can you do to help Ukraine?The Extraordinary Escapes star was joined by a host of UK comedians in a video message posted on social media on Friday, in which they called for Ukrainian people who have fled their war-torn country following Russia's invasion to be welcomed into the UK "with open arms".Since Russia's invasion, 22,000 Ukrainians have applied for UK visas, but just over 1,000 have been issued. I am ready to house a Ukrainian family, as are many British people.

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Lorena Medina, Joey Essex’s ex-girlfriend who met the TOWIE star on Celebrity Ex on the Beach in 2019, since she dumped him after he was pictured leaving Rita Ora’s flat the morning after a night out two years ago.Since then, the model and reality star has launched a surprising new career as a singer and recently released a very interesting new song about ‘fakes’. But rather than branding her ex a fake, Lorena sings about keeping a fake profile to spy on an ex who she still holds a torch for in her single Perfil Falso.

Stuart Miller In Hollywood, it’s easier to sell a movie if you can say, “It’s like a new take on ___” and fill in the blank with a box office hit. But the films that get nominated for director are usually the result of a singular vision, one that’s hard to pin down and categorize.Still, just as many Americans love doing DNA searches for their own family, we can trace the genre roots of this year’s director nominees.“Belfast,” Kenneth BranaghAn acclaimed British director, who earned his first Oscar nomination for a picture filled with action sequences and memorable quotes, earns another for an intimate autobiographical story about a childhood in which encroaching violence casts a shadow.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has greenlit a UK crime thriller adaptation of Si Spencer’s mind-bending graphic novel Bodies, Deadline can reveal, about four detectives in four different London eras who find themselves investigating the same murder.

In an upset, the deaf family drama “CODA” took top honors at an unpredictable and history-making 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards that also saw wins for the leads of “Squid Game," the cast of “Ted Lasso” and Will Smith.The ceremony, held Sunday at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, and broadcast on both TNT and TBS, was notably border-breaking, with historic wins for deaf actors, Korean stars and some of Hollywood's biggest names. It culminated with “CODA," Sian Heder's heartwarming Apple TV+ coming-of-age film featuring a trio of deaf actors in Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant, along with newcomer Emilia Jones, winning best ensemble.

Wilson Chapman editorThe winners of the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced on Sunday, Feb. 27. Held this year at the Santa Monica Barker Hangar, the ceremony broadcast live on TNT and TBS at 8 p.m.

EXCLUSIVE: Sky and Peacock are behind a drama based on the notorious 1988 Lockerbie disaster from Academy Award-nominated writers Jim Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridan, Deadline can reveal.

Prince Harry will soon be back in court.

Madonna has had one of the most successful music careers of all time. Fact.

Iron Maiden will release an ultra-limited pressing of the record on a commemorative white cassette.The tape is due out on March 18 via Parlophone in the UK, and March 25 via BMG in the US. Depending on where you’re based, the tape will land either a few days shy of, or a few days past,  the album’s actual birthday – it first hit UK shelves on March 22, 1982.UK pre-orders are available now from Iron Maiden’s webstore.

The Fall veteran Brix Smith has revealed plans to release a solo album called ‘Valley Of The Dolls’, as well as sharing details of an all-female live supergroup featuring members of My Bloody Valentine.The punk legend, known for her work with The Fall as well as her own band The Extricated among others, was speaking at the AIF Festival Congress 2022 in Bristol earlier this week to discuss her work as as President of The F-List For Music – a not-for-profit organisation set up to help female musicians gain greater representation and professional opportunities in the UK music industry.Towards the end of her talk, Smith shared information about an upcoming record made with Killing Joke bassist and esteemed producer Youth.“Nobody knows about this in public, so hello – get ready,” she began. “During lockdown I was put together by a manager to write.

Mitski’s new album ‘Laurel Hell’ was the biggest-selling record in America in its first week of release, new figures have confirmed.The record, which was released on February 4, is currently at Number Five on the Billboard 200 chart, behind albums by Gunna, Yo Gotti and Morgan Wallen, as well as the Encanto soundtrack.Although it didn’t hit the top spot on the chart, ‘Laurel Hell’ did score the highest pure sales numbers of the week, Billboard has confirmed. Of 36,000 album-equivalent units, 24,000 were sales – as opposed to units made up by streaming figures or purchases of individual tracks.Of that number, 17,000 sales were on vinyl – giving Mitski the biggest sales week for vinyl since Adele’s ’30’ sold 35,000 copies in seven days last year.In the UK, ‘Laurel Hell’ reached Number Six on the Official UK Albums Chart and Number Three on the Official UK Independent Albums Chart.In a four-star review of the album, NME said: “With each record, Mitski’s sound has grown bigger and grander […] Much like ‘Be The Cowboy’ stand-out ‘Nobody’, ‘Laurel Hell’ often pairs darkness with strobing lights (see: ‘Should’ve Been Me’ and ‘Love Me More’).