Aftersun, Charlotte Wells’ directorial debut centered on a daughter’s memorable childhood holiday with her father won the award for Best British Independent Film at the 25th British Independent Film Awards (BIFA). Charlotte Wells also won for Best Director, The Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director and Best Screenplay.
Austin Butler will he honored with the Breakthrough Performance Award for his performance in Elvis at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 5, 2023 , with the festival running through January 16, 2023.
Coyote directed by Katherine Jerkovic took the Borsos Award for Best Canadian Feature and Jorge Martinez Colorado, star of the film, received this year’s Best Performance in a Borsos Competition Film Award at the 22nd edition of Whistler Film Festival (WFF). The jury stated that Coyote is “a masterfully rendered film, both tragic and hopeful, about unconditional love and sacrifice. A film that holds you in poetic stillness and takes you on a genuine familial journey that resonates with you long after the film is over.”
Funny and heart-warming comedy-drama How To Please A Woman scooped four awards (out of six nominations) at the 2022 WA Screen Culture Awards – including Innovation in Narrative Feature Film with a budget over $1m; Outstanding Achievement in Editing – Merlin Eden; Outstanding Achievement in Performance – Hayley McElhinney; and Outstanding Achievement in Writing – Renee Webster.
Alice Orr-Ewing, Joe Doyle, Eveline Hall, Peter Mensah, Joe Anderson, James Faulkner, and Brian Caspe star in the sci-fi/horror film The Devil Conspiracy. Directed by Nathan Frankowski, the film opens in theaters on January 13, 2023.
New York Film Critics Circle named Tár, the drama film directed by Todd Field as Best Film of 2022, and Cate Blanchett received Best Actress honors for her performance as musician Lydia Tár in the film.
Saban Films revealed the official trailer for The Last Resort, the action-packed thriller starring Jon Foo with Clayton Norcross.
Dark Sky revealed the official trailer for Night of the Bastard, a savage cultist siege film described as a”grimy, brutal take on the 70s action thriller” starring London May (The Dark Knight Rises, Verotika), Mya Hudson (A Wall Away, upcoming F*ck, Kill Mary), Hannah Pierce (Flock of Dudes, The Hunted), and Henry Mortensen (Crimson Tide).
The HBO Max documentary Call Me Miss Cleo chronicles the rise, fall, and reinvention of controversial and revered ’90s television psychic Miss Cleo and features testimonials with those closest to her, as well as actresses Raven-Symoné and Debra Wilson.
Sony Pictures Classics debuted the official trailer for One Fine Morning, the French romantic drama starring Léa Seydoux, Pascall Greggory, Melvil Poupard, Nicole Garcia and Camille Leban Martins.
Neon unveiled the official trailer for Broker (브로커), the South Korean drama starring Song Kang-ho and Gang Dong-won, as friends running an illegal business stealing babies from the church’s baby box – boxes for people to anonymously drop off their unwanted babies -and selling the babies on the adoption black market. Also starring in the film are Bae Doona, Lee Ji-eun, and Lee Joo-young.
Steven Spielberg and the cast of The Fabelmans will be honored with the Vanguard Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Vanguard Award honors a film’s cast and director in recognition of their collective work on an exceptional film project. The award will be presented to director Steven Spielberg and cast members Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle and Judd Hirsch who are all expected to attend. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 5, 2023 with the festival running through January 16, 2023.