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EXCLUSIVE: Ricky Gervais has been pressed into service once again to host the 77th annual Golden Globes next year. While the Oscars and the Emmys went hostless this year, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's NBC broadcast shindig is putting a blast from the past front and center with the After Life creator…

After collaborating with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on 2016 animated comedy Sausage Party, Conrad Vernon got a chance to pitch his unique take on The Addams Family, a classic property which he had a strong personal affinity for, ever since childhood. Reteaming with director Greg Tiernan on the project, Vernon knew…

Following his collaboration with Jordan Peele on the Oscar-winning Get Out, supervising sound editor Trevor Gates reteamed with the director on Us, an altogether different kind of horror film, centered on terrifying doppelgängers of Peele's invention. Following the Wilsons—a family whose vacation in Santa Cruz goes…

At the beginning of the Netflix documentary Tell Me Who I Am a British man takes a seat in front of the camera and calmly describes a mystery. "I don't know who I am," he says evenly. "Not just the story of who I am, but really who I am. The real me." For Alex Lewis these words are not an exaggeration or metaphorical…

Sudabeh Mortezai’s Joy, Austria’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar this year, has been disqualified from the category after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences determined the film did not meet eligibility requirements of a submitted film being predominately in a foreign language. The…

Nominees for the seventh annual MUAHS Guild Awards were unveiled on Monday by they Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild, with Paramount’s Rocketman and Lionsgate’s Bombshell scoring the most noms among movies and FX’s American Horror Story: 1984 and Fosse/Verdon, HBO’s Chernobyl and Nickelodeon’s All That leading…

The people have spoken…and they have made their choices. The People’s Choice Awards were handed out tonight on E! and Avengers: Endgame took the award for the Movie of 2019 as well as Action Movie of the year. Netflix’s sci-fi series Stranger Things took home the honor of The Show of 2019 and won Drama Show of the…

The trophies for the fourth annual Critics' Choice Documentary Awards were handed out on Sunday with Neon’s Apollo 11 taking Best Documentary Feature. The ceremony took place at BRIC in Brooklyn. Neon was the top winner of the night with the space docu, winning five awards. Their docu The Biggest Little Farm walked…

Charlize Theron became the 33rd recipient, and 7th woman, and first South African to get the American Cinematheque Award on Friday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Created in 1986 as a sort of antidote to the AFI Life Achievement Award it is meant to honor someone in the middle of their career,  not the end as so…

The European Film Academy has unveiled its nominations for the 32nd European Film Awards with the ceremony to be held December 7 in Berlin. Among the titles to figure in the races, three are tied with four mentions each including Roman Polanski’s An Officer And A Spy, Pedro Almodovar’s Pain And Glory and Marco…

Everything is connected when it comes to nature, in the view of filmmaker Nicolas Brown. His documentary film, The Serengeti Rules, depicts a handful of scientists whose breakthrough discoveries about everything from urchins to otters all turned out to be interrelated in the larger scheme of things. Similarly, the…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. If you want your movie to be eligible for the Oscars or WGA awards, you have only one week to comply. All forms are due in November 15 for both organizations, and they are serious. In fact AMPAS minces no words according to their official release on…