At the 34th European Film Awards, the European Film Academy will honor filmmaker Márta Mészáros with the Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding body of work. She will be an honorary guest at the 34th European Film Awards Ceremony on December 11, 2021 in Berlin.
The Asian Film Awards Academy (AFA Academy) announced that Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train will receive the AFA Academy’s 2020 Highest-Grossing Asian Film Award.
The European Film Academy announced the second and final part of this year’s Feature Film Selection.
The Danish Oscar committee selected a shortlist of three films as possible candidates for Denmark’s official entry for the 2022 International Feature Film category. The three films are ‘Flee’ by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, ‘Margrete – Queen of the North’ by Charlotte Sieling, and ‘The Shadow in My Eye’ by Ole Bornedal.
40 feature films, 15 documentary films have been selected for this year’s European Film Awards Feature and Documentary Film Selection. With more films to be announced for the Feature Film Selection (part 2) in September, 2021 seems to be a record year with high-quality films from all over Europe.
The American Film Institute (AFI) will confer Doctorate of Fine Arts degrees honoris causa upon Emmy® and Tony Award® winner Lily Tomlin and Academy Award®- and Emmy®-nominated actress Angela Bassett.
Nomadland directed by Chloé Zhao was voted the best film of the year 2021 by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI, and will receive the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2021 award at the 69th San Sebastian Festival.
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present Honorary Awards to Samuel L. Jackson, Elaine May and Liv Ullmann, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Danny Glover. The four Oscar® statuettes will be presented at the Academy’s 12th Governors Awards on Saturday, January 15, 2022, in Los Angeles.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC announced the 94th Oscars® ceremony originally scheduled for February 27, 2022 will move to Sunday, March 27, 2022. The show will air live on ABC from the Dolby® Theatre in Hollywood.
Documentary films 76 Days, All In: The Fight for Democracy, Collective, Crip Camp are among 60 entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, public service and multimedia programming nominated for Peabody Awards.
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today that Julie Andrews will be presented with the 48th AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film, at a Gala Tribute on Thursday, November 11, 2021, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. The event was originally scheduled for April 25, 2020 but postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
