In celebration of the music festival’s 20th anniversary, YouTube Originals is partnering with Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for a feature-length documentary “Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert” set to premiere March 31.
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Watch Teaser Trailer for ‘Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert’ – Music Fest Documentary from YouTube Originals
Bassnectar Live at Coachella
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BOOKSMART, CITIZEN K, PARASITE Among 2020 Writers Guild Awards Screenplay Nominations
Lisa Kudrow stars as Charmaine and Will Forte as Doug in Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut, BOOKSMART, an Annapurna Pictures release. Credit: Francois Duhamel / Annapurna Pictures Writers Guild (Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE)) announced nominations for outstanding achievement in screenwriting during 2019. Films nominated for Original Screenplay include Booksmart, Knives Out, Marriage Story, and Parasite. Films nominated for Documentary Screenplay include Citizen K, Foster, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People, and The Kingmaker.
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Golden Globe Winners 2020 – Awkwafina and PARASITE Make History
Awkwafina accepts the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for her role in “The Farewell” at the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA on Sunday, January 5, 2020. Awkwafina made history at the 2020 Golden Globes on Sunday, becoming the first woman of Asian descent to win Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for her performance in “The Farewell.”
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Film Independent Announces Winners of Filmmaker Grants at Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch
2020 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS FILMMAKER GRANT WINNERS. (L to R) Kelly Reichardt, Mollye Asher, Rashaad Ernesto Green and Nadia Shihab Film Independent announced the winners of its four filmmaker grants at the annual Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch hosted by director and Project Involve Fellow Jon M. Chu (In the Heights, Crazy Rich Asians) and actor and Spirit Award nominee Alfre Woodard (Clemency). Winners for the remaining categories will be revealed at the 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, February 8. The awards ceremony will be broadcast live exclusively on IFC at 5:00 pm ET / 2:00 pm PT.
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2019 AFI Awards – AFI Fetes Best Films of 2019 (PHOTOS)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 03: (L-R) Actor Sian Clifford, actor Laura Dern, and actor-producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge attend the 20th Annual AFI Awards at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on January 03, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for AFI) The American Film Institute (AFI) celebrated the 2019 AFI Awards honorees at an invite-only luncheon in Beverly Hills. Unique in its celebration of the film and television arts’ collaborative nature, AFI Awards – now in its 20th year – is the only national program that honors creative teams as a whole.
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PARASITE, BULL, APOLLO 11 Among Winners of Houston Film Critics 13th Annual Movie Awards
Bull directed by Annie Silverstein Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite swept the top honors at the Houston Film Critics Society‘s 13th Annual Movie Awards, winning Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film, along with Best Director for Bong Joon-ho.
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Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2020 Announces Lineup
A Bump Along the Way directed by Shelly Love The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced the lineup of over 200 movies including 47 world premieres and 71 U.S. premieres, for its 35th edition, which will take place from January 15 to 25, 2020. Kicking off the festival is opening night film – the U.S. premiere of Shelly Love’s A Bump Along the Way, a female-led, feel-good comedy drama set in Derry, Northern Ireland, about a middle-aged woman whose unexpected pregnancy after a one-night stand acts as the catalyst for her to finally take control of her life.
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PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Leads Nominations for GALECA LGBTQ Critics’ 11th Dorian Awards
Portrait of a Lady On Fire (PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU) Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Parasite led the film nominations for GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ 11th Dorian Awards given for the best in film and television of 2019. Portrait of a Lady on Fire and was nominated for Film of the Year, Foreign Language Film of the Year and LGBT Film of the Year.
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Watch New Trailer for ADVOCATE – Oscar Shortlisted Documentary on Controversial Israeli Lawyer Lea Tsemel
Advocate by Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe Bellaiche Film Movement released a new trailer for the award winning documentary Advocate, a powerful portrait of the controversial Israeli defense attorney Lea Tsemel, directed by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche. The documentary opened in theaters on Friday, January 3, 2020 in New York at Quad Cinema and Los Angeles at Laemmle Royal.
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National Society of Film Critics Picks PARASITE as Best Picture of 2019
PARASITE (GISAENGCHUNG) The National Society of Film Critics voted the South Korean film PARASITE as Best Picture of the Year 2019. Parasite also won for Best Screenplay for Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won. The Society, which is made up of 60 of the country’s most prominent movie critics, held its 54th annual awards voting meeting as guests of the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, using a weighted ballot system.
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Watch Trailer for A WHITE, WHITE DAY – Award Winning Icelandic Film Starring Ingvar Sigurdsson
The new trailer was released for the Icelandic film A White, White Day (Hvítur Hvítur Dagur), the second feature from Hlynur Palmason (Winter Brothers). A White, White Day starring Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Ingi Hilmarsson and Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir premiered in 2020 Cannes Critics Week (La Semaine de la Critique of Festival de Cannes) where Ingvar Sigurdsson won Best Actor. Film Movement will release Palmason’s A White, White Day in select theaters on February 28th, 2020.
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PARASITE, Adam Driver, JOJO RABBIT Win Australian Academy International Awards
GISAENGCHUNG (Parasite) directed by BONG Joon-Ho The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) announced the winners of the 9th AACTA International Awards – winning the Award for Best Film was the South Korean black comedy thriller PARASITE, written and directed by Bong Joon Ho who accepted the Australian Academy’s highest Award. The film also received the AACTA Award for Best Asian Film at the AACTA Awards in Sydney last month.