AARP The Magazine unveiled the official nominees for their annual Movies For Grownups (MFG) Awards, lead by Conclave with 6 nominations including Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups, Best Director for Edward Berger, Best Actor for Ralph Fiennes, Best Supporting Actress for Isabella Rossellini, Best Supporting Actor for Stanley Tucci, and Best Screenwriter for Peter Straughan.
Better Man directed by Michael Gracey will open the 36th Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) taking place from January 2-13, 2025. The film is based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams.
Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt’s comedy on the west Belfast hip-hop trio, topped the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) 2024 craft awards winning four honors, including Best Casting for Carla Stronge, Best Editing for Julian Ulrichs and Chris Gill, Best Original Music for Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante and Best Music Supervision for Gary Welch and Jeanette Rehnstrom.
Stone Mountain, Yalla Parkour, The Falling Sky, and Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse took the Grand Jury Prizes in the juried U.S. Competition, International Competition, Kaleidoscope and Metropolis at the 2024 DOC NYC film festival. Slumlord Millionaire was voted Audience Award Winner.
Timothée Chalamet will be honored with the prestigious Arlington Artist of the Year Award at the 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF).
Co-directed by Crystal Moselle (The Wolfpack, That One Day) and rapper/filmmaker Derrick B. Harden in his directorial debut, The Black Sea is a comedy/drama film telling the story of a man from Brooklyn who gets stuck in a small town on the Black Sea, where he’s the only black person in the town.
The Malaysian crime/drama film Abang Adik directed by Jin Ong won the Snow Leopard Award for Best Film at the 10th Asian World Film Festival (AWFF). The film also won the Snow Leopard Best Actor Award for Wu Kang-ren.
Salli by Lien Chien Hung won the Feature Film Award – Best International Feature Film at the 23rd RIFF – Rome Independent Film Festival. The drama follows a 38-year-old Taiwanese chicken farmer who doesn’t speak English and develops a online romantic relationship with a French man. Despite everyone calling it a romance scam, she wants to prove that love indeed exists.
Sundance Institute will honor Michelle Satter, Founding Senior Director of Artist Programs at Sundance Institute at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s gala fundraiser, Celebrating Sundance Institute Presented by Google TV.
Glintz Zilbalodis’ animated awards contender Flow, about animals seeking a new home, leads the lineup of films opening in U.S. theaters on November 22, alongside a slate of compelling documentaries. Lucy Lawless makes her directorial debut with Never Look Away, chronicling the life of CNN war camerawoman Margaret Moth. Porcelain War tells the story of a Ukrainian family who stayed behind to defend their home during the war. Raoul Peck pays tribute to South African photographer Ernest Cole in Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, while Steve Pink’s The Last Republican explores the journey of Adam Kinzinger, a Republican Congressman who publicly condemned Donald Trump after January 6th.
Filmmakers Ricki Stern (HBO’s “Here to Climb” and “My So-Called High School Rank”) and Jesse Sweet (“Killer Robots,” “The Murders Before the Marathon”) examine the U.S. Parole System through the stories of three incarcerated men pursuing release in the documentary “Nature of the Crime.”
From executive producers Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, comes the documentary series Polo, an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the fast-paced and glamorous world of Polo.