Bradley Cooper will receive the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award at the 39th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival for his critically acclaimed portrayal of Leonard Bernstein in Maestro from Netflix. Cooper will be honored on Thursday, February 8, 2024.
Jeffrey Wright will receive the Career Achievement Award, for his performance in Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024.
Directed by Wynette Yao, the documentary District of Second Chances chronicles three men who were sentenced in their youth to life in prison and now have the chance to plead for release, thanks to forward-looking “Second Chance” legislation in Washington, D.C.
David Vincent Smith’s directorial debut, He Ain’t Heavy, a drama inspired by true events, bagged an impressive four awards out of seven nominations at the 2023 WA Screen Culture Awards (WASCAs). Noteworthy recognitions include Innovation in Narrative Feature Film (budget over $1m), Outstanding Achievements in Cinematography or Visualisation (Lewis Potts), Performance (Sam Corlett), and Production Design (Emma Fletcher).
Rome Independent Film Festival (RIIF) announced the winners of the XXII edition of the RIFF Awards with the Award for Best Italian Feature Film going to Ciurè by Giampiero Pumo. The film won “because it is constructed with delicacy and courage. Because Pumo is very good in the dual role of director and protagonist. Because it is an independent film that has the tone of a refined product. A film that talks about two worlds distant from each other that despite this meet and clash, giving life to a fairy tale in reverse”. Ciuré also won the “Mario Mieli” Special Prize for the best LGBTQIA+ project.
Director Nicholas Gyeney (Beta Test, Ultra Low) and producer Kelsey Aho of Genie Productions will world premiere their latest feature film, the mind-bending thriller The Activated Man as the Closing Night Film of Dances with Films NYC on December 3rd at the Regal Union Square in Manhattan.
The 32nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) which ran from November 9 to 19, 2023 awarded four accomplished filmmakers for their contributions to the world of cinema and announced the winners of the juried competition and audience-choice awards.
Jonathan Ogilvie’s post-punk coming-of-age comedy Head South will open the 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Thursday 25 January 2024, with the festival running until Sunday 4 February.
Emmy winner and three-time Academy Award® – nominee Mark Ruffalo will be honored with the American Riviera Award at the 39th Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph will receive the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for her 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.
Michael Sarrow’s Smile As You Kill won Best Narrative Feature and Lana Pavic’s Opera Selecta took the prize for Best Documentary Feature at the San Pedro International Film Festival (SPIFF) 2023 Fall Edition
Cillian Murphy will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor, at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for his performance as physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024.