Knives Out, Jojo RabbitandMaleficent: Mistress of Evil strode away with the film prizes at the 22nd annual Costume Designers Guild Awards, which were handed out tonight at the Beverly Hilton.
It was ladies’ night at the CDGAs as seven of the eight winners were female. Mayes C. Rubeo and Searchlight’s Jojo…
On 1917, production designer Dennis Gassner faced the monumental challenge of crafting epic World War I sets for a film that would appear as one take.
Based on stories told to director Sam Mendes by his grandfather, the thriller centers on Lance Corporals Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), two…
EXCLUSIVE: Even though it was a late entry this awards season (not coming into the contest until late November and skipping the usually obligatory film festival circuit altogether), 1917 has emerged as a frontrunner heading into the BAFTAs this weekend and the Oscars one week later.
The short season hasn’t seemed to…
With his animated short Memorable, director Bruno Collet aimed to capture dementia, as experienced by an aging painter.
Examining challenges to the artist's marriage, as his dementia advances, Collet's film is unlike many explorations of the aging process, in that it wasn't spurred by personal experience. Instead, it…
Kobe Bryant, who with his daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash Sunday, will be recognized during the 92nd Oscars ceremony which is set for February 9 on ABC.
Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers icon, won an Animated Short Oscar in 2018 for Dear Basketball. The short film, revolving around an…
UPDATED, 1:07 PM: Oscarcast producers Lynette Howell Taylor and Stephanie Allain have revealed the second group of presenters for the 92nd annual Academy Awards. They are Zazie Beetz, Timothée Chalamet, Will Ferrell, Gal Gadot, Mindy Kaling, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Mark Ruffalo, Kelly…
When it comes to awards season, the luncheons take the cake. AFI Awards lunch, usually around the first Friday in January, is always a warm affair where everyone in the room is a winner, and today’s annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon had the same good-feeling vibe as it always does. Each year’s class of nominees gets to…
The nominees for the 92nd Oscars gathered at the Roy Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood on Monday for the annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon. Turnout was strong as usual for the event, which this year opened with a moment of silence for Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others who were killed Sunday in a helicopter…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon on Monday at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood began with a moment of silence for the victims of Sunday’s helicopter crash that killed Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others.
AMPAS president David Rubin…
UPDATED, 1:12 PM: The 2020 Grammy Awards were dominated last night by collaboration performances, tributes to Kobe Bryant and Nipsey Hussle and Billie Eilish triple-threat wins. Yet music's biggest night has become a smaller affair, again.
Now that the final numbers are in, it is clear that the decline of the…
Putting her stamp on an iconic DC villain with Joker, makeup designer Nicki Ledermann's task on the project was to develop a gritty, colorful and compelling look that could be applied to actor Joaquin Phoenix in no time flat.
"Joaquin is not really a person that loves to mingle and be social, and he is also not the…
Director Petra Costa and producer Joanna Natasegara didn't expect their acclaimed documentary The Edge of Democracy to earn an Oscar nomination. But when they tuned in for the announcement, watching from different points on the globe, they were in for a welcome shock.
"We were both screaming and I am not ashamed to…
