Category: Award Season
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Tina Fey, Pete Docter & Bailey Salwey AFI Audi Scholarship winner, SOUL
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: AFI AWARDS celebrates SOUL with brand new content featuring actress Tina Fey and director Pete Docter. Fey accepts the AFI AWARDS honor on behalf of the creative ensemble and introduces the film to the AFI Movie Club audience, while Docter takes the audience “Behind the Scene” and talks about the influence of jazz…
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Film Threat Award This! reveals 2021 Indie Film Noms
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: Indie film champion, Film Threat, led by founder and filmmaker Chris Gore, and in conjunction with their partner Magical Threads, are thrilled to announce the Award This! 2021 nominees. Award This! nominees were selected from the nearly 2,000 indie films reviewed on Film Threat in 2020. Award This! returning for its third year will take place at a…
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25th Satellite Awards go big for NOMADLAND, Borat 2
By Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent The International Press Academy’s 25th Annual Satellite Awards wins are out, and NOMADLAND pulled into the drive-in’s with a Motion Picture, Drama topper, plus Best Director for Chloé Zhao, and Best Actress for Frances McDormand. Sacha Baron Cohen won for Motion Picture, Comedy, Best Actor for BORAT: SUBEQUENT MOVIEFILM,…
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Amanda Seyfried’s Marion Davies nabs storied Montecito Award at SBIFF
Curated by Screenmancer Staff Amanda Seyfried will receive the Montecito Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Seyfried will be honored on Friday, April 9th and will be recognized for her impressive career and performance in David Fincher’s MANK from Netflix, for which she recently received Golden Globe and Critic’s Choice nominations.…
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AFI Movie Club lauds MINARI’s Alan S. Kim, Lee Isaac Chung
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: AFI AWARDS celebrates MINARI with brand new content featuring one of the stars and the writer/director of the film. Alan S. Kim, who made his film debut in MINARI, accepts the AFI AWARDS honor on behalf of the creative ensemble and introduces the film to the AFI Movie Club audience. Writer/director Lee…
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WGA Awards 2021 tip TV, New Media, News noms for now
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA/NEW YORK, NY: Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in television, new media, news, radio/audio, and promotional writing during 2020. (Film and other categories will be named at a later date.) Winners will be honored at…
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Golden Globes hit the gas with MANK in the tank leading the noms
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent There’s a scene in MANK from Netflix where the reading of a love letter turns into a rollover accident for Herman J. Mankiewicz, so with the Hollywood Foreign Press putting this movie in the lead of Golden Globes Nominees with six possible wins? Let’s hope that scenario in the…
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Every Promising Young Woman Should See Carey Mulligan’s Movie of Same Name
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Updated: AOC, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is the US Congressional representative from the 14th district in New York who just revealed she is a “survivor of sexual assault,” and this is where we are in the zeitgeist right now. Disclosures like this are no longer career-wrecking shamers, but a kind…
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Promising Nominees Line Up for 25th Satellite Awards Feb. 15
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent With Award Season 2021 quashed by the Pandemic and forced to go virtual for the first time in Hollywood’s long history, the 25th Annual Satellite Award kicked off the season with a promising field of nominees this year. After the insider buzz about Carey Mulligan’s rough ride through trade reviews, the International Press…
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Film Fest 919 lines up awards contenders Feb. 8 thru March
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent ‘Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina’ is actually a line from the 1947 Al Jolson song, but it’s also applicable to the uncanny Award Season picks of Randi Emerman and Carol Marshall, co-founders of Film Fest 919 in North Carolina. Their running joke is: “FF919 is founded and…
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AFI Awards 2020 Honorees: All Good, No Surprises
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent On Jan. 25, AFI announced the recipients of the 2020 AFI Awards, and stated that “AFI’s global Movie Club program will showcase the official selections beginning in February.” During the rise of COVID-19 last year, these moments of movie exploration by AFI Movie Club gave viewers insight and a…
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Filmmaker Jon Alston talks AUGUSTUS, entry for Best Live Action Short
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent “I am America’s original sin…” and a patriot, opens Director Jon Alston’s AUGUSTUS, spoken by the titular character. With this brief introduction, here is Alston in his own words on making the short for consideration in the current Award Season. But first, a quick synopsis of the 15 minute…
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