Author: Hollyood rep

Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud has won the 2025 Berlinale Golden Bear for Dreams, a queer love story that completes his verbally explicit, but visually chaste Sex, Love, Dreams trilogy. The deceptively ambitious drama follows a teenage girl’s infatuation with her female teacher, told mostly in retrospect, as the teen recounts her memories through a novel she has written about the events. In its review, The Hollywood Reporter called the film “tender, captivating and often very funny,” noting the fact that Haugerud has made “three thematically related but narratively distinct features in a year is remarkable enough; that they are…

There’s a scene at the start of Dreams (Drømmer) in which 17-year-old Johanne, played with churning depths of melancholy introspection by Ella Øverbye, explains to an instructor after a modern dance class why she didn’t try classical ballet: “Because I read somewhere that it’s about outdated gender attitudes and it should be banned.” The droll humor embedded in that sweeping, unironic dismissal — with its wry dig at the rigid codification of 21st century sexual politics and its absolute authority despite only the vaguest recollection of its source — is characteristic of Dag Johan Haugerud’s smart, sensitive queer coming-of-age story.…

“I have to be honest, things, they feel really bad right now,” comedian Amber Ruffin said in her intro monologue at the 16th Annual African American Film Critics Association Awards, which she hosted in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. “Between the rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion, the price of eggs and the price of Cowboy Carter tickets, it’s insane. Ticketmaster needs to be canceled. I don’t trust anything with ‘master’ in the name.” Thus began a series of hilarious quips about the country’s socio-political climate from Ruffin, who’s written for Late Night with Seth Meyers for over a decade…

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,…