The Waco Indie Film Festival announced the award winners for the 8th edition of the film festival (It’s first as Waco Indie following 7 years as the Deep in the Heart FF) and H. Nelson Tracey’s Breakup Season won Best Narrative Feature and Be Judkins’ The Cigarette Surfboard won Best Documentary Feature. Breakup Season’s Chandler Riggs also took home Best Performance, and Vivian Kerr won Best Director for her film Scrap.
Oppenheimer dominated the 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards winning seven BAFTAs including Best Film; Director for Christopher Nolan; Leading Actor for Cillian Murphy; Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.; Cinematography; Editing, and Original Score.
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest was named Film of the Year at the 44th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards along with prizes for director and the mix of music and sound.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the three hundred twenty-one feature films eligible for the 2023 Academy Awards®. There are 265 feature films eligible for consideration in the Best Picture category, which has additional eligibility requirements beyond those for general entry.
BAFTA revealed the long list of films advancing to the nominating stage of voting. This is the initial longlisting round.
Killers of the Flower Moon took the top National Board of Review (NBR) 2023 awards winning Best Film; Martin Scorsese for Best Director; and Lily Gladstone for Best Actress.
Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers starring Andrew Scott walked away with the award for Best British Independent Film at the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA). Haigh also won the awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Two winners were announced for Best Supporting Performance with Paul Mescal winning one of those awards for his role in the film. In total, All of Us Strangers won 7 awards including the previously announced craft awards Best Cinematography for Jamie D. Ramsay, Best Editing for Jonathan Alberts and Best Music Supervision for Connie Farr.
Indie Memphis Film Festival unveiled its 2023 slate set to open with Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. The festival runs October 24th through 29th in-person [and virtually] in historic Memphis, TN.
The 25th Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) set to take place June 14-18, 2023, revealed its lineup of narrative, documentary, and short films and honorees.
Rooftop Films announced the lineup for its 27th annual Summer Series set to kick off on Thursday, May 25th at Green-Wood Cemetery with This is What We Mean by Short Films, showcasing some of the best new short films of the year.
Sundance Film Festival: London 2023, taking place from 6 to 9 July, will showcase a lineup of 11 feature films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The festival will close with the UK premiere of You Hurt My Feelings, from filmmaker Nicole Holofcener (Lovely & Amazing, Enough Said). The Brooklyn-set comedy-drama stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep, Seinfeld) and Tobias Menzies (The Crown) as a couple whose marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears his honest reaction to her latest book
Nantucket Film Festival unveiled the first selection of films for the 28th annual edition, which will run from June 21-26, 2023 at the Dreamland Theater, the ‘Sconset Casino, and the White Heron Theatre.