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The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) has unveiled the winners of its 10th AACTA International Awards with Carey Mulligan-starrer Promising Young Woman taking the Best Film prize. The black comedy thriller is produced by Australia's multi-AACTA International Award winner Margot Robbie and her…

The awards-season swath for Netflix’s most watched limited series The Queen’s Gambit began its long trail Sunday, fresh out of the Golden Globes, easily slam-dunking a Best Limited Series win and Best Actress in a Limited Series win for Anya Taylor-Joy as orphan-turned-genius chess player Beth Harmon. Typically Oscar…

Netflix had a storming night at the Golden Globes with The Crown and The Queen's Gambit helping the streamer translate its record nominations haul into TV wins. Netflix won six of the 11 television awards on offer, with Amazon and Apple winning one apiece to see the streamers dominate with 73% of the wins in the…

The Queen's Gambit won the board with its Golden Globes prize. The Netflix chess drama beat Normal People, Small Axe, The Undoing and Unorthodox to win the Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. Exec producer William Horberg read out a laundry list of people to thank…

It was “checkmate” for Anya Taylor-Joy at the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards as the Queen’s Gambit star secured her first career win. During Sunday’s awards ceremony, hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the Peaky Blinders and New Mutants star took home the best actress in a limited series, anthology series or motion…

The Paley Center for Media on Tuesday announced the full lineup of programming for the all-virtual PaleyFest LA 2021. This year’s selections include freshman entries such as ABC's Big Sky, HBO's Lovecraft Country, Netflix's The Queen's Gambit, Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso and CBS's Evil as well as more venerable titles such…

From the moment she put down Walter Tevis’ book The Queen’s Gambit, Anya Taylor-Joy knew how she would portray chess genius Beth Harmon, who blazes a trail and explodes glass ceilings during the Cold War-era 1960s as a femme champion in the testosterone-dominated game-peg playing world. “I said to myself, ‘If we were…

The globe-trotting chess adventures of Beth Harmon still aren’t likely to continue despite Netflix’s most-watched limited series (at 62M worldwide) earning not only two Golden Globe nominations today but an Adapted Long Form WGA nomination for Scott Frank’s scripts. “It’s wonderful to know that people loved the show…

Nominations were unveiled Tuesday for the 33rd annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the writers of the year’s most accomplished film and episodic TV series adaptations as well as the works on which they are based. Winners will be announced Saturday, March 13 online, with the annual in-person awards…

"It's extraordinary, but it's particularly extraordinary because we all made this as our passion project," says The Queen's Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy of the huge reaction to the Netflix limited series. "We were all so invested in it, but you know you pitch that this is a show about a teenage drug addict and you…

The Crown, whose latest season offers a provocative look at the meeting and matrimony of Prince Charles and Lady Diana in the 1980s, dominated Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart for the week of November 16. The show’s 40 available episodes racked up almost 3.4 billion minutes of viewing, the best Nielsen showing of any…

Netflix’s seven-episode wonder The Queen’s Gambit finished No. 1 for a third straight week on the Nielsen U.S. streaming chart. The chess drama, which launched October 23, racked up just shy of 1.4 billion total minutes of viewing during the week of November 9-15. (See full rankings below.) It is the first title to…