The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 353 feature films eligible for the 2024 Academy Awards; of which 207 feature films are eligible for consideration in the Best Picture category, which has additional eligibility requirements beyond those for general entry.
BAFTA unveiled the longlists for all 25 categories including Best Film, Director, Documentary, Film Not in the English Language, the performance categories, and a new Children’s & Family Film category, continuing through to Round Two of voting for the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards.
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.
The European Film Academy Board has chosen the first set of 29 films making the Feature Film Selection 2024 and now eligible to compete for the European Film Awards.
Fantasia International Film Festival’s 28th edition running from July 18th through August 4th, 2024, will open with the World Premiere of Ant Timpson’s Bookworm. Reuniting the New Zealand filmmaker with his Come To Daddy star Elijah Wood (Showtime’s Yellowjackets) – who matches through-the-roof comic chemistry of gifted his young co-star Nell Fisher (Evil Dead Rise) – Bookworm is as entertaining as it is richly cinematic. Mildred (Fisher), a precocious eleven-year-old bookworm, escapes her humdrum existence by immersing herself in novels where literary adventures abound, with a long-dreamed quest to capture proof of a mythological beast known as The Canterbury Panther. When an unusual accident occurs, Mildred’s long absent father Strawn Wise (Wood), a washed-up illusionist, flies to New Zealand to look after a daughter he’s never met. When they agree to go camping despite neither being the outdoorsy type, this ultimate test in family bonding leads the duo on a string of increasingly absurd and treacherous adventures.
The 77th Cannes Film Festival unveiled the Official Poster featuring a scene from the film Rhapsody in August, directed by the great Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, 81 at the time.