Wicked won Best Feature and The Brutalist nabbed Best Director for Brady Corbet, at the 2024 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA).
Memoir of a Snail (2024)
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Wicked, ‘The Brutalist’ ‘Colman Domingo’ Among Winners of Washington DC Area Film Critics (WAFCA) Awards
Colman Domingo in Sing Sing (credit: Dominic Leon, A24)
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Emilia Pérez Leads 82nd Golden Globe Awards Nominations
Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Emilia Pérez leads the nominations for the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards with 10 nominations including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Non-English Language. Also recognized are Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Karla Sofía Gascón; Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture for Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña; Best Director and Best Screenplay Motion Picture for Jacques Audiard; Best Original Score – Motion Picture, NS Best Original Song – Motion Picture for “el Mal” and “Ii Camino”
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Robbie Williams’ Better Man’ Tops with Record 16 Nominations for Australia’s 2025 AACTA Awards
Jonno Davies as “Robbie Williams” in Better Man from Paramount Pictures. (courtesy AACTA) Better Man, the Robbie Williams-inspired biopic drama received a record-breaking 16 nominations in the film categories for Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) 2025 AACTA Awards.
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Academy Reveals Animated, Documentary and International Feature Films Eligible for 97th Academy Awards
Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams in director Morgan Neville’s Piece by Piece. (Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film and International Feature Film categories for the 97th Academy Awards.
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‘The Piano Lesson’ ‘Music by John Williams’ ‘Mistura’ Among Winners of 25th Newport Beach Film Festival Jury and Audience Awards
The Piano Lesson (David Lee/Netflix) Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson snagged the audience award for Best U.S. Narrative, and Music by John Williams directed by Laurent Bouzereauat won for Best U.S. Documentary at the 2024 Newport Beach Film Festival.
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Movies Released on Friday October 25, From Vatican Thriller ‘Conclave’ to Berlinale-Winning Documentary ‘Dahomey’
Arriving in US theaters this weekend on Friday, October 25th is a diverse lineup of films from award-contenders to a superhero popcorn flick. Oscar-winning director of All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger, returns this week with the Ralph Fiennes-starred thriller Conclave. Adam Elliot’s clay stop-motion animation Memoir of a Snail, exploring grief in a unique way. Mati Diop’s Dahomey, a documentary on stolen African artifacts won the top prize of Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. Alonso Ruizpalacios’ La Cocina shows the nightmare of working in a fine-dining restaurant as an immigrant, starring Oscar-nominated actress Rooney Mara. For the lighthearted films, modern-day Beauty and the Beast, Your Monster, starring Melissa Barrera, and Stavros Halkias-led comedy Let’s Start a Cult are also coming to the big screen. Daisey Ridley-led neo-noir, Magpie, brings suspense to the theaters, and for fans of superhero movies, Venom: The Last Dance closes the Venom trilogy movies.
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‘Memoir of a Snail’, ‘On Falling’ ‘Mother Vera’ Win at 68th BFI London Film Festival
(courtesy LFF) Memoir of a Snail, Oscar-winning director Adam Elliot’s stopmotion tale of separated twins in 1970s Australia is the winner of the Best Film Award in Official Competition at the 68th BFI London Film Festival.
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27th SCAD Savannah Film Festival Unveils Full Lineup – ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Anora’ and More
The Brutalist directed by Brady Corbet (A24) The 27th SCAD Savannah Film Festival taking place from October 26 to November 2 will screen 162 films, including 123 narrative feature films, 31 documentary feature films, and 69 shorts, with 10 world premieres and six U.S. premieres.
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‘Anora’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ Headline 37th Virginia Film Festival Lineup
Anora directed by Sean Baker (Neon) The 37th edition of the Virginia Film Festival running from October 30 to November 3, 2024 in Charlottesville, Virginia, announced this year’s lineup of films including Oscar buzzed films Anora, Bird, Blitz, Emilia Pérez, The Fire Inside, The Last Showgirl, Memoir of a Snail, Nightbitch, Pavements, The Piano Lesson, A Real Pain, and The Room Next Door
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11th Miami Film Festival GEMS Unveils Lineup, Opens with ‘The Room Next Door’
The Room Next Door (El-Deseo | Iglesias Mas) The 11th Miami Film Festival GEMS set to take place from October 30 to November 3, 2024, will feature 30 films from over 15 countries, kicking off with The Room Next Door, including three Centerpiece screenings of Emilia Pérez, Maria, and The Brutalist, and wrapping up with A Real Pain.
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68th BFI London Film Festival Unveils Lineup – Anora, The Apprentice, Conclave and More
Anora directed by Sean Baker (courtesy BFI LFF) The 68th BFI London Film Festival (LFF), taking place over twelve days from October 9 – 20, 2024, announced the full program line-up of Galas, Special Presentations and Official Competition titles.
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‘Memoir of a Snail’ – Sarah Snook is a Snail-Collecting Misfit in Adam Elliot’s Heartwarming Animated Film | Trailer
Memoir of a Snail. (screenshot/IFC Films) Oscar-winning claytography animation filmmaker Adam Elliot returns with a new film, ‘Memoir of a Snail‘. The film stars Sarah Snook as the voice of Grace, a young girl in 1970’s Australia befriending an eccentric older woman after having trouble with accepting her mother’s death.