SFFILM announced the four winners of 2020 SFFILM Documentary Film Fund grants totaling $80,000, which support feature-length documentaries in post-production. Giovanni Buccomino’s After a Revolution (working title), Clarke Lyons and Gabe Dinsmoor’s Squeegee, Farah Kassem’s We Are Inside, and Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s Writing with Fire were each awarded funding that will help push each project towards completion.
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and Parasite lead the nominations for the the 24th Annual Online Film & Television Association (OFTA) Film awards with 14 each including for Best Picture. Other Best Picture nominees include 1917, Little Women, The Farewell, Ford v Ferrari, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, and Marriage Story.
Emmy-winning and Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated actor, director and producer Rob Reiner will receive the prestigious “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the Sedona International Film Festival for his work in front of and behind the camera and his commitment to the art of independent filmmaking. Reiner, who rose to fame as Mike “Meathead” Stivic on All in the Family, has been at the helm of award-winners including When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride and LBJ.
The nominations were announced for the 92nd Oscars® with indie films American Factory, For Sama, and the short film St. Louis Superman, among the films receiving nominations.
American Factory won the top awards at the 2020 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking, taking the award for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking’ and ‘Outstanding Achievement in Direction’ for directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert.
The Directors Guild of America announced the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2019.
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.
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.
Marriage Story, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Apollo 11, and Monos, are among the films nominated by the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) for the awards for best films of 2019.
Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women leads the nominations for the Chicago Indie Critics fourth annual film awards with eight nominations. The Irishman, Marriage Story, 1917, and Parasite followed with seven nominations.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced shortlists in consideration for the 92nd Academy Awards® in nine categories: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film and Visual Effects.
Noah Baumbach’s divorce drama Marriage Story leads all films in the Vancouver Film Critics Circle’s international section with five nominations including Best Picture.