The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced shortlists in 10 categories for the 96th Academy Awards®: Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound and Visual Effects.
Stand-up comedian and actor Jo Koy will host the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards, airing live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, at 8 PM, ET/5 PM, PT.
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.
ID returns with a surprising new followup to The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, the popular documentary series that delves into the mystery of whether Natalia Barnett is an exploited Ukrainian child with dwarfism or a dangerous adult masquerading as a child.
Sony Pictures Classics will release Noora Niasari’s feature film debut Shayda in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on March 1, 2024, before expanding nationwide in the following weeks.
Altered Innocence will release The People’s Joker, Vera Drew’s queer coming-of-age superhero world parody that reimagines the Joker’s origin.
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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.
A24 debuted the official trailer for Love Lies Bleeding, the romantic thriller film starring Kristen Stewart as a gym employee who falls for Katy O’Brian, a bisexual bodybuilder.
MGM debuted a new official trailer for American Fiction, the award-winning satire drama film starring Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a frustrated author and professor of English literature who jokingly writes an outlandishly stereotypical “Black” book out of spite, only for the book to be published and receive widespread fame and acclaim. It is based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett.
Greenwich Entertainment shared the official trailer for Inshallah a Boy (Inshallah Walad), the Arabic thriller selected as Jordan’s official submission for Best International Film at the 96th Academy Awards. Mouna Hawa stars as Nawal, a widow who pretends to be pregnant with a son in order to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan’s patriarchal inheritance laws.
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.