Director, producer and screenwriter Martin Scorsese will be given the Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. He will be honored at an award ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 20, 2024.
Paul Giamatti will receive the Icon Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for his performance in The Holdovers. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024.
The European premiere of M. Raihan Halim’s La Luna will close the upcoming 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2024. The film playfully pits religious orthodoxy against liberal values when a traditional Malaysian village is shaken up by the arrival of an upscale lingerie store.
Jeffrey Wright, star of American Fiction, and Rustin, will receive the Montecito Award at the 39th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Wright will receive the award on Thursday, February 15th, 2024 at an in-person conversation about his career leading up to this year’s performance in American Fiction, written and directed by Cord Jefferson.
Billie Eilish and brother Finneas O’Connell will receive the Chairman’s Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for their critically acclaimed song “What Was I Made For?” from Greta Gerwig’s acclaimed, record-breaking film Barbie. The song has been nominated for five GRAMMY® Awards and received Best Original Song Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards nominations. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024. ts.
Academy Award–nominated actress Kristen Stewart will be honored with the Visionary Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival’s fundraiser Opening Night Gala: Celebrating 40 Years .
Barbie director Greta Gerwig will preside over the feature film Competition Jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, which takes place May 14 – 25 2024.
Sundance Film Festival unveiled the short films for 2024 screening in eight curated programs; along with a Special 40th Edition Celebration Screenings and Events.
Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o will be the President of the International Jury of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.
Atikamekw Suns (Soleils Atikamekw) directed by Chloé Leriche won the top prize, the Borsos Award for Best Canadian Feature at the 2023 Whistler Film Festival (WFF). The film also won Best Director of a Borsos Competition Film along with the EDA Award for Best Female Directed Feature for Chloé Leriche, and Best Performance in a Borsos Competition Film for the Ensemble cast
Animation First, the only U.S. festival dedicated to showcasing Francophone animation celebrates the seventh edition, expands this year from a three-day to a six-day festival, running from Tuesday, January 23 through Sunday, January 28, 2024 in New York City..
Dances With Films wrapped its 2nd New York edition with the award ceremony with Justin Chan’s Grounded winning the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature and Hoag Kepner’s Torched – The Story of Austin Torch winning for Best Documentary Feature. Vardan Tozija’s M received DWF’s coveted and rarely awarded Programmers’ Choice Award.