Actor-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas and singer, songwriter and actor Nick Jonas announced the 93rd Oscars® nominations today.
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QUO VADIS, AIDA? and CUBAN DANCER Win Top Awards at Miami Film Festival 2021
Quo Vadis, Aida?, directed by Jasmila Žbanić The Balkan war drama Quo Vadis, Aida?, directed by Jasmila Žbanić, representing Bosnia and Herzegovina’s official submission shortlisted for this year’s Academy Awards earned the top prize, the $25,000 Knight MARIMBAS Award at the 2021 Miami Film Festival.
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‘Nomadland’ Wins Top Iowa Film Critics 2020 Honors
NOMADLAND The Iowa Film Critics Association named Nomadland the Best Film of 2020, and awarded Best Director to Chloé Zhao, Best Actress to Frances McDormand and Best Score to Ludovico Einaudi.
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‘Promising Young Woman’ Wins Top Nevada Film Critics Awards
Promising Young Woman The Nevada Film Critics Society announced its 2020 award winners for achievement in film with top honors for Best Film going to the revenge thriller Promising Young Woman. The film won a total of four awards including Best Actress: Carey Mulligan and Best Director and Best Originally Screenplay: Emerald Fennell.
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SXSW Film Festival Announces 2021 Lineup, Closes with Charli XCX’s ‘Alone Together’
Alone Together directed by Bradley Bell, Pablo Jones-Soler SXSW Film Festival announced the full program for the 28th edition of the festival which this year will take place online. The festival will open with Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil with Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free as Centerpiece Film and Alone Together, a documentary on popstar Charli XCX, in quarantine will World Premiere as the Closing Night Film.
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Jill Li’s Golden Horse Award-Winning Documentary LOST COURSE Sets March Release Date
LOST COURSE directed by Jill Li. Credit: Courtesy of the dGenerate Collection at Icarus Films. When corrupt officials illegally sell villagers’ land in China, the villagers rise up in an unprecedented experiment in democracy in first-time documentarian Jill Li’s Lost Course — Winner, Best Documentary Golden Horse Awards 2020, and Official Selections of International Documentary Festival Amsterdam and Hong Kong Asian Film Festival.
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TYGER TYGER Trailer, Pandemic Fantasy-Thriller Stars Dylan Sprouse
Tyger Tyger, starring Dylan Sprouse Gravitas Ventures released the trailer for Kerry Mondragon’s stylized indie drama Tyger Tyger, starring Dylan Sprouse, set to be released in select theaters, drive-ins, digital/VOD on February 26, 2021.
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‘The Father’ ‘Nomadland’ and ‘Promising Young Woman’ Among Nominees for 78th Golden Globe Awards
The Father directed by Florian Zeller The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced the nominees for the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Indie films receiving multiple nominations include The Father, Nomadland, and Promising Young Woman received 4 nominations, and One Night In Miami… received 3 nominations
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‘Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten’ PBS Documentary Examines the Tulsa Race Massacre 100 Years Later
“Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten” Washington Post reporter DeNeen Brown confers with community activists observing the second mass grave excavation at Tulsa’s Oaklawn Cemetery. October 19, 2020. One of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history occurred 100 years ago, May 31-June 1, 1921. Known as the Tulsa Race Massacre, a mob of white residents set fire to “Black Wall Street” – hundreds of Black-owned businesses and homes in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma – killing an estimated 100-300 Black residents and leaving an estimated 10,000 Black residents homeless.
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‘Promising Young Woman’ ‘One Night in Miami’ ‘Nomadland’ Lead Nominations for 4th Hollywood Critics Awards
Promising Young Woman Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman topped the list of nominees for the 4th Annual Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards with a total of nine nominations. The film, which received rave reviews after its premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Female Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best First Feature, Best Cast Ensemble, Best Hair & Makeup, and Best Film Editing.
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FAUCI Trailer – First Look at National Geographic Documentary on Dr. Anthony Fauci
“Fauci” Dr. Anthony Fauci during an interview at the NIH in Bethesda, MD. (National Geographic/Visko Hatfield) National Geographic Documentary Films announced today a new feature documentary about the nation’s top infectious disease expert and dedicated public servant, Dr. Anthony Fauci, M.D., from Emmy winners John Hoffman (“The Weight of the Nation,” “Sleepless in America”) and Janet Tobias (“Unseen Enemy”) and Academy Award winner Dan Cogan (“Icarus”), and two-time Academy Award nominee Liz Garbus (“What Happened, Miss Simone?,” “The Farm: Angola, USA”).
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Miami Film Festival 2021 Reveals International Feature Film Oscar Submissions on Lineup
A State of Madness (Mis 500 Locos) Miami Film Festival announced its shortlist of International Feature Film submissions that will screen during its flagship ten-day fest, to be held from March 5-14, 2021. The 38th annual Festival will be a hybrid event, with both virtual and in-theater presentations.