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.
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Hamnet and ‘Black is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story’ Win Audience Awards at BFI London Film Festival
Hamnet (Agata Grzybowska/Focus Feature)
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Alice Rohrwacher to Receive European Achievement in World Cinema Award at European Film Awards
Alice Rohrwacher (Brigitte Lacombe) 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.”
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Tom Stern’s ‘Butthole Surfers’ Headlines 13th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival Lineup
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt by Tom Stern 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.
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Delroy Lindo, Beau Bridges Among Honorees at Coronado Island Film Festival’s Leonard Maltin Industry Tribute Awards
Delroy Lindo in Sinners (Warner Bros.) 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.
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‘One Battle After Another’ Leads Nominations for 35th Gothams Film Awards
Leonard DiCaprio in One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) One Battle After Another leads with a record six nominations for the 35th edition of The Gothams, with nods for Best Feature, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson, Breakthrough Performer for Chase Infiniti, and Outstanding Supporting Performance for Teyana Taylor and Benicio Del Toro.
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AFI FEST 2025 Reveals Winners of Oscar Eligible Short Film Awards
Majonezë directed by Giulia Grandinetti 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.
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Regina Hall to Receive Spotlight Award for ‘One Battle After Another’ at SCAD Savannah Film Festival
Regina Hall in One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) Regina Hall will be honored at the 2025 SCAD Savannah Film Festival with the Spotlight Award for her performance in One Battle After Another, the new action comedy from writer/director/producer Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Lila McLaughlin’s ‘Don’t Let Them Out’ Wins Best Film at 21st La Femme International Film Festival
Don’t Let Them Out by Lila McLaughlin La Femme International Film Festival honored the best and brightest work of female actors, writers, producers and directors at the Sunday night award show for its 21st edition, with the top prize of Best Feature Film going to Lila McLaughlin’s Don’t Let Them Out.
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Lucrecia Martel’s ‘Landmarks’ Wins Best Film Award at 69th BFI London Film Festival
Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra) by Lucrecia Martel Lucrecia Martel’s documentary Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra) has won the Best Film Award at the 69th BFI London Film Festival.
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SFFILM Reveals 11th Doc Stories Film Festival Lineup
TOP ROW, L TO R: Cover-Up, photo courtesy of The New York Times/Redux. A LIFE ILLUMINATED, photo courtesy of Sandbox Films.
BOTTOM ROW L TO R: Director Laura Poitras, photo by Jan Stürmann. Director Mark Obenhaus, photo courtesy of Mark Obenhaus. Director Tasha Van Zandt, photo courtesy of Tasha Van Zandt.SFFILM unveiled the lineup of ten features and 12 short films for the 11th Doc Stories film festival taking place at the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco, November 6–9, 2025.
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European Film Awards 2026 Reveals Feature, Documentary and Animated Feature on Shortlist
Young Mothers (Jeunes Mères) by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne (Christine Plenus) The European Film Academy revealed the 67 feature-length films shortlisted and eligible for a nomination for the 38th European Film Awards.
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‘Caterpillar’ Trailer – Liza Mandelup’s Followup to ‘Jawline’ Revisits Obsession with Physical Beauty
Good Deed Entertainment debuted the official trailer for Caterpillar, award-winning director Liza Mandelup’s follow-up to her critically-acclaimed documentary film Jawline.