Pamela Anderson will be recognized for her starring role in Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl with the Marquee Award at the 2024 SCAD Savannah Film Festival. Anderson will receive the award before the film’s Southeast premiere and she will join Coppola for a Q&A. The 2024 SCAD Savannah Film Festival kicked off on October 26 and runs through November 2.
Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson snagged the audience award for Best U.S. Narrative, and Music by John Williams directed by Laurent Bouzereauat won for Best U.S. Documentary at the 2024 Newport Beach Film Festival.
Whistler Film Festival (WFF) unveiled the lineup of 12 Canadian feature films in its Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature.
Ralph Fiennes will receive the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award at the 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival for his performance as Cardinal Lawrence in Conclave.
Calgary Underground Film Festival has revealed the 16 features and nine shorts selected for the 12th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival taking place from November 20-24, 2024 at Globe Cinema.
Emilia Pérez’s director Jacques Audiard and cast – Karla Sofia Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Edgar Ramírez will receive the Vanguard Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Vanguard Award is a group honor distinguishing a film’s cast and director in recognition of their collective work on an exceptional film project. The Film Awards will take place on January 3, 2025, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running January 2-13, 2025.
Color Book directed by David Fortune won the award for Narrative Feature and Desert Angel directed by Vincent DeLuca won for Documentary Feature at the 31st Austin Film Festival and Writers Conference in Austin, Texas.
AFI FEST 2024 announced the Grand Jury Award short film winners and Special Mentions. The Grand Jury Award winners for Live Action Short, Documentary Short and Animated Short will be eligible for the 2024 Best Live Action Short, Best Documentary Short and Best Animated Short Academy Awards.
Los Frikis directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz won Best Narrative Feature and The World According to Allee Willis directed by Alexis Manya Spraic won Best Documentary Feature at the 22nd Tallgrass Film Festival.
The Edward Berger drama Conclave alongside other acclaimed titles Sam Yates’ feature debut, Magpie, Steve McQueens’ WWII drama Blitz, A Real Pain directed by Jesse Eisenberg, Ash Avildsen directed Queen of the Ring, and Nickel Boys directed by RaMell Ross, are the finalists for the Best Feature Film Award at the 15th Twin Cities Film Festival (TCFF).
The 2024 Audience Choice Awards, and Juried Competition Award winners were presented at the conclusion of the 19th annual Oscar-qualifying Tasveer Film Festival in Seattle, Washington.
Bob Trevino Likes It directed by Tracie Laymon took both the Best Narrative Feature award and the Audience Choice Award, Narrative at the 22nd New Hampshire Film Festival (NHFF). The film stars Barbie Ferreira as a young woman who searches for her estranged father, Bob Trevino, online and forms a bond with a different man of the same name played by John Leguizamo.