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Though the sound branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences merged the best sound editing and best sound mixing Oscars into one category for best sound in 2020 (Sound of Metal was the first combined winner in 2021), there are still two organizations that honor sound work separately, both of which are hosting their awards ceremonies this weekend. The Motion Picture Sound Editors and Cinema Audio Society represent sound editors and sound mixers, respectively. For years, the awards that they present — both their nominations and their winners — were studied for possible clues about what to expect…

The SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills was filled with pride and tears of joy on Monday night as the American Black Film Festival recognized five actors for their contributions to cinema at the 2025 ABFF Honors. Captain America: Brave New World star Anthony Mackie commenced the awards presentation portion of the ceremony — hosted by comedian Zainab Johnson — by recalling words of wisdom his Marvel film co-star Giancarlo Esposito — known for early roles in Spike Lee’s School Daze and Do the Right Thing and most recently Breaking Bad, Kaleidoscope and The Gentlemen — imparted to him when he…

Tim Burton gives you free rein to enter his world and create; you judge whether he’s enjoying it by the look on his face,” says Oscar-winning British hair and makeup designer Christine Blundell, who collaborated with Burton for the first time on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Among the film’s accolades are three nominations (best special makeup effects, best period and/or character makeup and best period and/or character hair styling) at the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards and a nom in the fantasy feature film category at the Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Awards. We talked to Blundell, now…

Take That took over the BAFTA Film Awards stage in London on Sunday with a rendition of their hit song “Greatest Day,” featured in Sean Baker‘s awards season darling Anora. The famed boy band performed in its current lineup of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen, but Robbie Williams and Jason Orange didn’t join them for the performance on the biggest night in British film. The clearly excited audience at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in the British capital showered the band with much applause, loud cheers and many screams. The BAFTA ceremony organizers knew what they were…

In many ways, writer-director Jing Yi’s graceful and ephemeral drama, The Botanist (Zhi Wu Xue Jia), plays out like your typical coming-of-age movie. It’s about a lonely kid, raised by his grandmother in a small town, who falls in love with a neighboring girl. But as folks begin to move away to the big city, the kid may find himself left behind. What sets Jing’s feature debut apart from many other examples of the genre is its unique location, as well as an obsession with nature that’s underscored by its title. Set in a stunning faraway valley in northern China…

John Magaro is the kind of actor you discover, like a personal secret. Maybe he first caught your eye in The Big Short, as the geeky stand out among a pack of slick, self-interested traders; grabbed you as Yael Stone’s dreamy prison pen pal in Orange Is the New Black love story, or won you over as Arthur, in Celine Song’s Past Lives, as the husband on the outside looking in as his wife Nora (Greta Lee) reunites and rekindles with her childhood friend from Korea. I first spotted him playing a New Jersey drummer desperate to make it big in David Chase’s Not Fade Away (2012),…

“For me, it never gets old.” Elton John may have armfuls of awards and accolades — he even secured EGOT status by winning an Emmy in January 2024 — but he insists that he’s never jaded when it comes to the Academy Awards. The living legend, who already owns two best original song Oscars, snagged another nomination in the category for his work with Brandi Carlile, Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt on “Never Too Late.” “It’s always an extreme honor to be nominated in the final five songs,” John told The Hollywood Reporter during a THR Presents Q&A, powered by Vision Media,…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Up for two Academy Award nominations for best picture and best adapted screenplay, Nickel Boys is based on Colson Whitehead‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a joyous, but tragic, friendship. Director RaMell Ross‘ Oscar-nominated film is now streaming at home through premium video-on-demand platforms. You can buy the movie on digital video in 4K Ultra HD for $19.99 at Prime Video, Apple TV and elsewhere. At a Glance: How to Watch Nickel Boys Online Below, watch the official trailer…

Kristen Wiig and Bill Murray are set to star in a new comedy, Epiphany, from Max Barbakow (Palm Springs, Brothers). Rocket Science confirmed on Tuesday that Wiig and Murray will also serve as executive producers alongside Jillian Apfelbaum and Margot Hand, with a script by Mitch Glazer (The Recruit, Scrooged). CAA Media Finance and Range Media Partners represent domestic rights, while Rocket Science will handle international and is introducing the hot project at the European Film Market in Berlin this week. A plot synopsis reads: “When her massive fortune evaporates overnight, heiress and fashionista Favorite Ives (Wiig) has two weeks…

Paris-based Haut et Court and London-based Good Chaos, two of the founding members of the Fremantle-backed indie production collective The Creatives, have secured the film rights to Paris-Hollywood, the debut novel by French film critic Cécile Mury. The novel, set for publication by Flammarion in April 2025, follows a romance between a French journalist and an English-speaking movie star. The novel was presented at last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, where translation rights were sold in six territories. Haut et Court and Good Chaos outmaneuvered several French and European producers to secure the film adaptation rights. The companies say the feature…