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Editors note: Karen Kramer, the widow of filmmaker Stanley Kramer, wrote this as Focus Features’ Loving was chosen to receive the Producers Guild’s Stanley Kramer Award in recognition of a film that raises public awareness of important social issues. The movie chronicles the real-life story of Richard and Mildred…

Loving hair stylist Kenneth Walker boasts an accomplished resume, working closely with Denzel Washington from Ricochet to American Gangster. But in speaking with Walker about Jeff Nichols' latest, depicting the beautiful and historic love story between Richard and Mildred Loving, it's clear that his connection to the…

The edgy denizens of the indie film business, having survived a year of daunting disappointments, are now ready for their moment in the sun. Theaters featuring specialty films are packed once again and media attention is focused on once-ignored indie filmmakers. At Globes and Oscar time, a star like Matt Damon…

EXCLUSIVE: In a surprising development that could affect for Original and Adapted Screenplay Oscar races, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has confirmed that A24’s Moonlight and Focus Features’ Loving — both of which were being campaigned for Original Screenplay and determined to be originals by the…

The Producers Guild of America said today that Focus Features’ Loving will receive its 2017 Stanley Kramer Award, an honor bestowed for raising public awareness of important social issues. The film, written and directed by Jeff Nichols and starring Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, chronicles the real-life story of…

Although most moviegoers, particularly Americans, may not have even heard of Ruth Negga before her new film Loving debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May, they have certainly heard of this supremely talented actress now. Her stunning but subtle performance in the Jeff Nichols film about a 1950s interracial…

Usually when you are saying you are just trying to make a “truthful, quiet” movie, studio marketers will run the other way. But Jeff Nichols, writer-director of Focus Features’ Loving, came to the DGA theater earlier this month for the all-day The Contenders Presented By Deadline to tell a packed audience of Oscar and…

Jeff Nichols has spent the last several months struggling to explain his attraction to his latest project, Loving, the first story he has brought to film that wasn't his own invention. "But this morning I woke up with the epiphany of how to talk about it," he smiles, on a sofa at The London in West Hollywood in…

The case of Richard and Mildred Loving, who were sent to prison in 1958 for the simple sin of being married, and their subsequent effort to keep their marriage alive despite every obstacle thrown in their way by the state of Virginia, has now finally been turned into a feature film. It comes nearly 50 years after…

Focus Features' Loving by Jeff Nichols easily topped the weekend's Specialty Box Office with a robust $169K gross in several theaters, making the Oscar hopeful starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton the fifth best opener of 2016 in terms of per theater average. Loving, which opened this week's Virginia Film Festival…

Editors Note: This Jeff Nichols interview originally appeared May 15, just ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Loving. The dialogue seemed worth another look as the film opens this weekend to a wide audience as it continues its awards-season jaunt. There are few indie directors today ploughing their furrow…

Focus Features brought with it four films to Deadline’s the Contenders event today at the DGA Theatre, including animated feature Kubo and the Two Strings. Director-producer Travis Knight discussed the challenges of making “something that is a small-scale movie and make it feel like a large epic.” The pic took five…