Denis Villeneuve will receive the Visionary Award for Dune: Part Two at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Film Awards will take place on January 3, 2025, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running January 2-13, 2025.
Following its 7 Golden Globe nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Adrien Brody, Brady Corbet’s historical epic The Brutalist unveiled its new trailer ahead of its release this December. The film follows a visionary Hungarian-Jewish architect and his family as he moves to America to rebuild his life after escaping post-war Europe.
Selected as Italy’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards, Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio is a period drama set in a remote Italian mountain village in 1944. The film tells the story of a family whose lives are altered by the arrival of a soldier who has deserted the war.
Keke Palmer, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Giancarlo Esposito have been named the recipients of the 7th American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Honors, celebrating, recognizing excellence in the motion picture and television industry.
The 3rd New York edition of Dances With Films (DWF) wrapped with its awards ceremony, where Kristen Hansen’s Sonny Boy received the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature and Mikaela Shwer’s The Kids Are Not Alright won for Best Documentary Feature.
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival, taking place from January 23–February 2, 2025, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, unveiled the lineup of 87 feature films and six episodic projects.
Anora was named best picture of the year by the Michigan Movie Critics Guild, and Mikey Madison won the best actress award along with the award for breakthrough performance. The film also received the best screenplay award.
Sing Sing was named Best Picture of the year by the San Diego Film Critics Society, along with Best Actor for Colman Domingo, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Craig Bentley, Greg Kwedar.
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced the 2025 Documentary Motion Picture nominees for the 36th Annual Producers Guild Awards.
From Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson, the directors of 2019’s Peanut Butter Falcon, Los Frikis is a coming-of-age drama set in 1990s Cuba. Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of teenagers who injected themselves with HIV to escape the country’s economic crisis by entering government-run sanatoriums.
Oscar winning filmmaker Ang Lee will be honored with the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Lifetime Achievement Award at the 77th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 8, 2025.
Fabula, a dark comedy from award-winning Dutch filmmaker Michiel ten Horn will open the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) taking place from January 30 — February 9, 2025. The festival will close with This City Is a Battlefield, the historical epic film from Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya.