Category: Awards
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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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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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Delroy Lindo of DA 5 BLOODS lands SBIFF’s American Riviera Award
Curated by Screenmancer Staff SANTA BARBARA, CA: Delroy Lindo is set to receive the illustrious American Riviera Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Lindo will be honored on Thursday, April 8th and will be recognized for his many attributes to the art of film over the years, and most recently, his work…
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Sacha Baron Cohen: SBIFF’s Outstanding Performer in April
Curated by Screenmancer Staff SANTA BARBARA, CA: Sacha Baron Cohen will receive the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Baron Cohen will be honored on Wednesday, April 7 for his critically acclaimed work in both Aaron Sorkin’s THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 from Netflix and BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM from Amazon Studios. …
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Award Season’s first salvo is Gary Oldman’s Oscar-worthy MANK
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent “Times are changing, Mr. Mankiewicz,” says GOT’s Charles Dance as William Randolph Hearst in the Gary Oldman starrer MANK, but have they really changed? Hearst is TPTB or the powers that be, paying half the salary of CITIZEN KANE screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz without his knowledge. And that’s the…
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Will PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN lift Carey Mulligan to gold this year?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent She’s won BAFTA awards and other industry accolades, but hasn’t gone beyond Oscar Nominee yet; so will 2021 ring in the gold for Carey Mulligan for PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN? With a special 48-hour at home rental period on Jan. 15, the Focus Features film has already generated noise in an odd…
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Russo Bros pick Screenwriter Marina Kato to score $25,000 grant from AFI & AGBO
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: The American Film Institute (AFI), in partnership with AGBO, has announced Marina Kato (Screenwriting, AFI Class of 2019) as this year’s recipient of the AGBO/AFI Conservatory Development Grant. “Marina spotlights injustice and inequality through a remarkable lens that brings both beauty and joy to her examinations of the struggles…
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Director Betsy Kalin on the Future of LA in VISION 2030 with EMMY Nom & It’s a Microcosm
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent For a while now we’ve been thrilled to follow filmmaker Betsy Kalin and her remarkable camera’s eye. Kalin, who we found through the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) years ago when Carol Marshall and staffers set up these great indie filmmaker roundtables, previously filmed an East LA exploration, that you can find…
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Armory Films & Motor Content Rev Up Screenplay Spring with SCRIPT2COMIC Prize Run
Curated by Screenmancer Staff from S2C LOS ANGELES, CA: Production companies Motor Content (“Knightfall,” The Founder) and Armory Films (Mudbound, The Peanut Butter Falcon) announced today their newly minted Script2Comic contest, in association with Scout Comics, CGC® Certified Guaranty Company and Comic Impressions. This inaugural contest will offer the Grand Prize Winner the chance to see their screenplay, teleplay,…
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Oscars2020 Take Flack, But Hey It’s Once Upon A Hollywood, Get Over It
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent LOS ANGELES, CA: So JOKER’s Joaquin Phoenix, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor Brad Pitt from ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD took some serious incoming Social Media ire after Sunday’s 92nd Academy Awards telecast, for what? Being less political than many other past Oscar broadcasts. Remember DEAD MAN…
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Indie Spirit’s Best Adam Sandler Zings Oscar Snub, Feather-weight Leads, But Rocks Win List
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Yes, this 35th Independent Spirit Awards show had a star speech that will last through the ages – or at least be talked about at the Oscars tonight. It was comedy’s mostly respectable curmudgeon Adam Sandler that lit up the gala with his own uncut acceptance for Best Lead…
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Oscar 2020 Where to Watch Live List, GMA Tickets, and More
by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA (Oscar Weekend 2020): While we will cover the Oscars live during the show here on Feb. 9, 2020, if you want to go to a watch party, try to get tickets for GMA’s 2 am afterparty on set – here is a quick round-up of glittery go-to’s for this year’s…
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Brad Pitt Admits Turning Down THE MATRIX, But Maltin Master’s Life Has Been Surreal
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent SANTA BARBARA, CA (1/23/2020): Brad Pitt continued his victory lap around the Awards Circuit with the Maltin Modern Master Award from the 35th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) presented by UGG last night. The festival pulled out the big guns with Leonard Maltin conducting the sold-out tribute…
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Laura Dern Follows Big SAG Win with Glittery Cinema Vanguard
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent SANTA BARBARA,CA (1/22/2020): It was the kind of Dream Weekend most actors will never experience; after SAG Awards on Friday night, by Tuesday, Laura Dern was picking up a glitzy tribute prize in Santa Barbara for life achievement. And there’s something so very ‘Laura Dern’ in the way Laura Dern…
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PARASITE’S COMPOSER JUNG JAEIL CONDUCTS HOLLYWOOD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Curated by Screenmancer Staff from NEON & Friends Los Angeles, CA: NEON is proud to present Bong Joon Ho’s six-time Oscar nominated film, PARASITE, to audiences in a one of a kind experience on Sunday, January 26th at The Theater at the Ace Hotel. PARASITE’s composer, Jung Jaeil will conduct the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra as they…
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