Debra Granik likes to take her time. Since her first, award-winning short, Snake Feed, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998, the 55-year-old director has made just three features and a doc in the intervening 20 years. Indeed, in the gap between her latest movie and the last, Winter's Bone, Granik has seen…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated Winter’s Bone star Jennifer Lawrence is in talks to star in Savages, the Oliver Stone-directed adaptation of the bestselling novel by Don Winslow. Shooting will begin in June. The book is a Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid-style love triangle between two best friend pot growers and O, the…

SATURDAY PM/SUNDAY AM: The big news this weekend wasn’t just seeing whether domestic grosses were depressed on the post-blizzard East Coast (they weren’t), but also which movies received Oscar bumps given that the Academy Award nominations were announced this past Tuesday (all of them still in theaters). Some like The…

Has The King's Speech, fresh off that Producers Guild win and now leading with 12 Oscar nominations, just gone to the front of the class? My guess is this one could be a squeaker. Presumed Academy Awards co-frontrunner and critics favorite The Social Network trailed with only 8 nominations but they were the right…

83rd Annual Academy Award Nominations…

83RD AWARDS Feature Films With 2 Or More Nominations (No Short Films or Documentary Short Subjects.) The King’s Speech – The Weinstein Company 12 True Grit – Paramount 10 Inception – Warner Bros 8 The Social Network – Sony Pictures Releasing 8 The Fighter – Paramount 7 127 Hours – Fox Searchlight 6 Black Swan – Fox…

BEVERLY HILLS: Beverly Hills, CA (January 25, 2011) – Nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced today (Tuesday, January 25) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and 2009 Oscar® winner Mo’Nique. Sherak and Mo’Nique, who won an Academy Award® for her supporting performance in…

The Chicago Film Critics Association has released its nominations, covering many of the usual suspects who’ve lined other awards lists. Here is the list of nominees: BEST PICTURE Black Swan Inception The King's Speech The Social Network Winter's Bone BEST DIRECTOR Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan David Fincher, The Social…

Analyzing today's 26th Annual Independent Spirit Award nominations, I would say Winter's Bone, the film that led with the most nods, is also the one to beat, particularly after its triumphs at Monday night's Gotham Awards where it took the Best Ensemble and Best Feature awards. It is the kind of movie that personifies…

Pete Hammond: Indie Spirit Nominations Could Predict Oscar LOS ANGELES (November 30, 2010) – Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced nominations this morning for the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards.  Eva Mendes and Jeremy Renner…

The winners for the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards were announced tonight. The awards organized by the Independent Feature Project already announced the recipients of their honorary awards handed out this evening, including filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, actors Hilary Swank and Robert Duvall, and Focus…

LOS ANGELES, CA – Following up on last month’s announcement of the Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue initiative, Sundance Institute announced today the ten films selected to participate in the inaugural year of this cultural exchange program. The first Film Forward slate includes five American and five…