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Oscars 2022 Winners List

The Academy Awards celebrated a return to gathering together in-person at the Dolby Theatre with three hosts to emcee the awards: Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, and Regina Hall. CODA went home with the Best Picture prize and two other trophies, eclipsing season-long frontrunner The Power of the Dog. Jane Campion, who is the first woman…

Oscar Predictions : We Picked Our 6 Major Categories!

It’s almost time for the 94th annual Academy Awards, so our writers Abe Friedtanzer, Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi, Karen Butler, Karen Benardello, Matthew Schuchman, Nobuhiro Hosoki are making picks in 6 major categories. Here’s Our List of Choices! Abe Friedtanzer  Best Picture: CODA Best Director: Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) Best Actor in a…

BAFTA Awards 2022: Full list of Winners!

The 75th British Academy of Film Awards were presented Sunday. London’s Royal Albert Hall held an in-person event after going virtual in 2021 due to the pandemic. With Oscar front-runner The Power of the Dog hanging on to win the big two prizes of the night—best picture and director Jane Campion—Dune cleaned up some of the categories…

Third Agatha Christie Movie in Development by Kenneth Branagh and 20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios has already greenlit a sequel to the Agatha Christie screen adaptation, Death on the Nile, which was just released in theaters last month. Despite the current follow-up being plagued with controversy over several cast members’ persona lives and only earning just over $10 million over its budget at the global box office,…

Oscar Nominees Announced – ‘The Power of the Dog’ Leads, ‘Drive My Car’ Makes the Cut in Best Picture

Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were announced this morning by actors Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross in twenty-three categories. The overall nominations leader is The Power of the Dog with 12 bids, including four acting nominations. Next up was Dune with ten bids, though it missed an expected mention for director Denis Villeneuve,…

Exclusive Video Interview: Cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos on Shooting ‘Belfast’ and Working with Kenneth Branagh

Haris Zambarloukos is no stranger to collaborating with Kenneth Branagh. The two first worked together on Sleuth in 2007, and have joined forces for other projects including Thor, Murder on the Orient Express, and the upcoming sequel Death on the Nile. He’s gaining widespread recognition for one of the leading awards contenders this season, Branagh’s…

The Top 10 Best Films Of 2021

It’s New Year’s Eve, it’s time to look back at the past year in cinema and select the top 10 best films of 2021. We picked our favorites, so check out to see what we selected. To pay homage to filmmakers and actors, we don’t dare to rank them. Abe Friedtanzer  ・CODA ・Malcolm and Marie…

Golden Globe Nominations Announced

Nominees for the 79th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning. There was some doubt that the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association would hand out its prizes again this year after multiple reports about the lack of diversity among the organization’s members and luxury trips for members paid for by projects that ended up…

An Exclusive Interview with a Lead Actor Jude Hill on “Belfast”

Synopsis : BELFAST is a movie straight from Branagh’s own experience. A nine-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly turned upside down. His stable and loving community and everything he thought he understood about life is changed forever but joy, laughter, music and the formative magic of the…

Film Review – Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ is a Personal and Poignant Portrayal of His Youth

Can one film serve to truly represent a place? There are many films with titles that reference a city, state, or country. Most often, their contents are not a comprehensive history of that piece of geography but rather a specific moment in time or merely the setting for a story that might as well have…

Toronto International Film Festival : Q&A with Director Kenneth Branagh on His Latest Film, “Belfast”, Shakespeare Works, and Agatha Christie Films

Q: We’re going to be talking about the making of “Belfast”. Because it’s such a personal story, we want to connect it to your whole journey as a storyteller. One thing that resonates really strongly about the film is the tight-knit sense of community within and among families in Belfast. Was that your experience growing…