The winners of the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards for 2022 were announced at the 75th Annual DGA Awards with Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert winning the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
All Quiet on the Western Front is the big winner of the 2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards winning seven BAFTAs including Best Film, Director for Edward Berger; Film Not in the English Language; Adapted Screenplay; Cinematography; Original Score and Sound.
26.2 To Life directed by Christine Yoo won the Audience Choice Award at 38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival which took place February 8 – February 18, 2023.
Briarcliff Entertainment unveiled the official trailer for Sweetwater starring Everett Osborne as Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, the first African American to sign an NBA contract. Also starring in the film are Cary Elwes, Jeremy Piven, Richard Dreyfuss, and Kevin Pollak.
The 2023 Oxford Film Festival taking place March 1-5, 2023 announced the lineup of 143 films and media projects for the 20th Anniversary annual edition.
Set to world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, here is the first look clip for Perpetrator, Jennifer Reeder’s horror-noir film starring Kiah McKirnan (Mare of Easttown), Christopher Lowell (My Best Friend’s Exorcism, Promising Young Woman), Melanie Liburd (The Idol), Ireon Roach (Candyman [2021]), and Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, Killing of a Sacred Deer)
Magnolia Pictures debuted the official trailer for In Viaggio: The Travels Of Pope Francis a documentary on the international travels of Pope Francis.
Netflix revealed an official trailer for Kill Boksoon, the Korean action film following Boksoon, who leads a double life of an ordinary single mom and a legendary killer at a top-tier killing agency. The film stars The Good Wife actress Jeon Do-yeon to Sul Kyung-gu, Kim Si-A, Esom, and Koo Kyo-hwan.
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Shayda, Noora Niasari’s feature film debut, executive produced by Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films, and winner of the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Mischa Barton (“The O.C.”) stars in Invitation To A Murder, the mystery thriller set in the 1930s and full of twists and turns. This “whodoneit” also stars Chris Browning (Bright, “The Lincoln Lawyer”), Seamus Dever (“Castle”), and Bianca Santos (The DUFF, Ouija).
Open Road Films revealed the official teaser trailer for Kandahar, the thriller film starring Gerard Butler as an undercover CIA operative stuck in hostile territory in Afghanistan. Also starring in the film are Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal, Travis Fimmel, and Elnaaz Norouzi.
Netflix revealed the official trailer for MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, the docuseries delves into mystery of Flight MH370 – in 2014, the plane with 239 people aboard vanished from all radar.