
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has won the top award for Best Feature at the 35th edition of The Gothams held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has won the top award for Best Feature at the 35th edition of The Gothams held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

Harry Lighton’s debut feature Pillion wins four awards, including Best British Independent Film at the 2025 British Independent Film Awards. The film stars Harry Melling as a timid gay man and Alexander Skarsgård as a biker gang leader, who initiates him into a submissive relationship.
Andre Gaines’ The Dutchman brings to life a modern reinvention of the explosive 1964 play by Amiri Baraka. The film stars André Holland as Clay, a successful yet troubled Black businessman, alongside Kate Mara as Lula, the enigmatic stranger whose appearance upends his world.

The 33rd Annual African Diaspora International Film Festival returns to New York City from November 28 to December 14, 2025, with a lineup of over 70 films about people of color from Peru to Zimbabwe, from the USA to Belgium, and from New Zealand to Jamaica.

Petra Costa’s Apocalypse in the Tropics leads the nominees for the 41st IDA Documentary Awards with 4 nominations for Best Feature Documentary, Best Director, Best Production and Best Writing.

Ryan White’s Come See Me in the Good Light leads the feature film nominations for the 19th Cinema Eye Honors with six nominations including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, Direction and Unforgettable Honors for Gibson and Falley.

Chloé Zhao’s deeply period drama Hamnet was chosen as the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the 69th BFI London Film Festival which closed on Sunday with the UK Premiere of Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero.

Alice Rohrwacher will be honored with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award at the 38th European Film Awards for “her unusual and inspiring body of work.”

Calgary Underground Film Festival revealed the program of 15 features and 14 shorts for the 13th edition of CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival taking place November 19-23, 2025.

Actors Beau Bridges and Delroy Lindo, screenwriter Austin Kolodney, stunt pro Heidi Moneymaker, costume designer Deborah L. Scott along with music editor Adam Smalley have been named the honorees of the 2025 Leonard Maltin Industry Tribute Awards Gala at the Coronado Island Film Festival.

AFI FEST 2025 revealed the winners of the Grand Jury Prize winners for Live Action Short, Documentary Short and Animated Short, now eligible for consideration in the 2026 Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short, Best Documentary Short and Best Animated Short.