Ron Howard is continuing his relationship with National Geographic and is set to direct another documentary film for the studio, this time focused on the founder of the nonprofit organization World Central Kitchen, chef and humanitarian Jose Andres, National Geographic announced Thursday.
Howard will direct the documentary that will focus on the work of Andres helping to rebuild nations in the wake of disasters and providing healthy food to those affected. Howard will have access to World Central Kitchen’s archives and will follow Andres around the globe, including his work in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Dorian from September of last year.
The untitled film continues the relationship after Howard directed “Rebuilding Paradise” for National Geographic about the Paradise wildfires. The film premiered at Sundance early this year.
Also Read: Why 'Rebuilding Paradise' Director Ron Howard Speaks Out on Climate Change | Video
Howard and Brian Grazer are producing...
Howard will direct the documentary that will focus on the work of Andres helping to rebuild nations in the wake of disasters and providing healthy food to those affected. Howard will have access to World Central Kitchen’s archives and will follow Andres around the globe, including his work in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Dorian from September of last year.
The untitled film continues the relationship after Howard directed “Rebuilding Paradise” for National Geographic about the Paradise wildfires. The film premiered at Sundance early this year.
Also Read: Why 'Rebuilding Paradise' Director Ron Howard Speaks Out on Climate Change | Video
Howard and Brian Grazer are producing...
- 4/16/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
In a Gold Derby exclusive, we have learned the category placements of the key Emmy Awards contenders for National Geographic. For this season, the network has the new limited series “Barkskins”, documentaries “The Cave” and “Sea of Shadows,” nonfiction series “Cosmos: Possible Worlds,” “Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted,” “The World According to Jeff Goldblum” and more as part of their 2020 campaign.
Below, the Nat Geo list of submissions for all of their programs. More names might be added by the network on the final Emmy ballot. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.
See‘Barkskins’ premiere announced: Nat Geo sets spring air date for limited series with David Thewlis and Marcia Gay Harden
“Barkskins”
Limited Series
Limited Actor – David Thewlis
Limited Supporting Actress – Marcia Gay Harden
“Born Wild: The Next Generation”
Variety Special (Pre-Recorded)
“Brain Games”
Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special
“The Cave...
Below, the Nat Geo list of submissions for all of their programs. More names might be added by the network on the final Emmy ballot. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.
See‘Barkskins’ premiere announced: Nat Geo sets spring air date for limited series with David Thewlis and Marcia Gay Harden
“Barkskins”
Limited Series
Limited Actor – David Thewlis
Limited Supporting Actress – Marcia Gay Harden
“Born Wild: The Next Generation”
Variety Special (Pre-Recorded)
“Brain Games”
Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special
“The Cave...
- 4/16/2020
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Editors’ Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline’s Coping With Covid-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences of seeing a great industry screech to a halt. The hope is for an exchange of ideas and experiences, and suggestions on how businesses and individuals can best ride out a crisis that doesn’t look like it will abate any time soon. If you have a story, email mike@deadline.com.
Hospitals running out of basic supplies, desperately short of ventilators. Clinical staff risking their lives to treat patients. Doctors forced to make agonizing decisions between who lives and who dies.
Dr. Amani Ballour endured those grim conditions and worse, long before they became a reality for medical personnel around the world battling the novel coronavirus. The Syrian physician—subject of the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-contending documentary The Cave—spent more than five years running a subterranean hospital in besieged Eastern Ghouta, a facility deliberately targeted for bombing by forces allied with Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad. A “normal” day’s casualties might include dozens of civilians mangled in aerial bombardments and children gasping for breath after chemical attacks.
“I don’t envy the tough path that lies ahead of medical professionals in this [Covid-19] war,” says Dr. Amani (as she is commonly called). “Many doctors and nurses will watch tremendous suffering and be forced to stand by, helpless. The same circumstances that make them heroes will haunt them forever. I know firsthand what this feels like.”
Dr. Amani’s experience in the trenches in Syria gives her a unique perspective on the coronavirus emergency, the struggles confronting medical workers, and what we—and our political leaders—should be doing in response.
Deadline: What advice would you give doctors and nurses on the frontlines of the coronavirus fight?
Dr. Amani Ballour: I always got this advice when I was in Al-Ghouta—of course I didn’t take it a lot, but it’s really serious. The medical workers and the doctors, they have to protect themselves before doing anything else, because if we lose them we can do nothing after that. We don’t know how long this pandemic will last so we have to be at our best all the time. I would advise them just to take care of themselves, to protect themselves.
Deadline: What practical steps should we all be taking to combat the emergency?
Dr. Amani: There is at least one clear way that we can help the doctors, nurses and other health care professionals as they battle this pandemic: stay home. Stay home so the spread of the virus can slow—and so doctors don’t have to face the burden of choosing who lives and who dies. It won’t always be this easy to help, but while it is, it is truly the least we can do.
Deadline: For years you had to make life-or-death triage decisions about which patients to prioritize for treatment. We are hearing of doctors in Italy facing the same dilemma in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, and there’s a potential for it happening here.
Dr. Amani: This is the most difficult thing I faced the whole time I was working [in the hospital]. After each massacre we treated a lot of injured people. Sometimes we had to decide to help one person over another because he has or she has a hope to survive more than this one… I chose to [prioritize] the children, and I chose the children who are next to me, but other children and other people died because we couldn’t help them. I can’t forget that and I will never forget that. I always think about that. I hope these [doctors] who choose now, I hope they can forget [eventually]… I really feel guilty because I had to choose, but there is nothing to do.
As doctors, we can [normally] classify the injuries, but in the chemical attack—I remember that very well, it was sarin gas—I couldn’t classify the people because all of them had the same symptoms. They were suffocating and I think it’s now the same situation with coronavirus. All the people have the same symptoms… they need ventilators. This is what happened with us. All the people have the same symptoms and they need very urgent help.
Deadline: What do you make of the U.S. response to the Covid-19 crisis? We now have more cases here than anywhere else in the world.
Dr. Amani: This is really shocking. I think that government leaders, they have to reconsider their policy. … They have enough missiles if there is a war but they don’t have enough medical supplies. … We will [overcome] this thing and we will get rid of this virus, but I hope they listen, they learn a lesson from what happened now. We don’t need more weapons in this world. We need more things to protect people, not to kill people.
Deadline: In your hospital you dealt with a constant shortage of equipment and medicine. You wrote, “Often the only anesthesia available for surgery was the soothing recording of an orchestra to distract the mind.” Here, we are facing a shortage of ventilators, as well as masks and personal protective gear for medical workers.
Dr. Amani: I’m really surprised what has happened [in the U.S.]—they don’t have enough resources, they don’t have enough ventilators. The most cases are in New York now. Can you imagine if it happened in Idlib [in northwest Syria]? This is what I think about. If a developed country couldn’t deal with this pandemic, how are [less developed] countries going to do that?
Deadline: You were forced into exile after the Assad regime crushed the last resistance in Eastern Ghouta. So far as you can tell, what is the situation like in Syria under the additional threat of the coronavirus?
Dr. Amani: The Assad regime destroyed a lot of hospitals. They killed a lot of doctors and actually most of the other doctors and medical workers left Syria. So there are not enough medical workers and doctors in Syria, no good healthcare system.
Three months ago, the Assad regime started a [bombing] campaign against Idlib and they destroyed three hospitals just in one day. Doctors there expect that about 100,000 people are going to die if the virus reaches them. The virus is now in the neighboring countries—in Turkey, in Jordan, in Lebanon. It’s everywhere around them. That’s why we’re very worried about the people there. The Syrian population could be ravaged by this disease: social distancing in refugee camps is virtually impossible, and the continued bombing of hospitals will be even more devastating as hospitals begin to overcrowd.
Deadline: You point out that the coronavirus pandemic has given others a better sense of what life has been like in Syria during the civil war.
Dr. Amani: Because now all the people have the same experience—to be afraid all the time from something. If you wanted to protect yourself, your family, your children, and you can’t find the resources. This is what all the world is experiencing now. I’m not happy because this happened. But I hope people [understand] how Syrians lived for about nine years without anything, in fear all the time. They couldn’t protect their children, couldn’t protect their families. If they flee from place to other place, the bombing follows them into the camps.
Deadline: You’re currently in Berlin, stranded there when travel restrictions hit to contain the spread of Covid-19. You were there on a fundraising tour for the Al Amal (Hope) Fund, which was created to honor your work in Syria. How difficult is it to be away from your homeland at this time of growing crisis?
Dr. Amani: I wish I can be there now but I’m in quarantine. I can’t move. Before I could do advocacy for them and fundraising for these people. This was my way to help them, but now it’s stalled. Working to help other people, that makes very, very beautiful feelings. I was happy when I was there because when you save a life, of course you’re going to feel happy in spite of all the circumstances, all the danger. I was happy because I was useful.
I see a lot of doctors and medical workers, they really risk their lives [fighting the coronavirus pandemic]. I can understand that very well, because we believe in humanity. I’m ready to risk my life anytime to help others. And this is our work as medical workers. This is what we want to do, why we study and we work in the medical field… I really respect them and appreciate what they do. And I think this is just because we are humans. If you can help someone, if you can do something to protect someone, of course you’re going to do it.
For more information on the Al Amal (Hope) Fund, click here.
Hospitals running out of basic supplies, desperately short of ventilators. Clinical staff risking their lives to treat patients. Doctors forced to make agonizing decisions between who lives and who dies.
Dr. Amani Ballour endured those grim conditions and worse, long before they became a reality for medical personnel around the world battling the novel coronavirus. The Syrian physician—subject of the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-contending documentary The Cave—spent more than five years running a subterranean hospital in besieged Eastern Ghouta, a facility deliberately targeted for bombing by forces allied with Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad. A “normal” day’s casualties might include dozens of civilians mangled in aerial bombardments and children gasping for breath after chemical attacks.
“I don’t envy the tough path that lies ahead of medical professionals in this [Covid-19] war,” says Dr. Amani (as she is commonly called). “Many doctors and nurses will watch tremendous suffering and be forced to stand by, helpless. The same circumstances that make them heroes will haunt them forever. I know firsthand what this feels like.”
Dr. Amani’s experience in the trenches in Syria gives her a unique perspective on the coronavirus emergency, the struggles confronting medical workers, and what we—and our political leaders—should be doing in response.
Deadline: What advice would you give doctors and nurses on the frontlines of the coronavirus fight?
Dr. Amani Ballour: I always got this advice when I was in Al-Ghouta—of course I didn’t take it a lot, but it’s really serious. The medical workers and the doctors, they have to protect themselves before doing anything else, because if we lose them we can do nothing after that. We don’t know how long this pandemic will last so we have to be at our best all the time. I would advise them just to take care of themselves, to protect themselves.
Deadline: What practical steps should we all be taking to combat the emergency?
Dr. Amani: There is at least one clear way that we can help the doctors, nurses and other health care professionals as they battle this pandemic: stay home. Stay home so the spread of the virus can slow—and so doctors don’t have to face the burden of choosing who lives and who dies. It won’t always be this easy to help, but while it is, it is truly the least we can do.
Deadline: For years you had to make life-or-death triage decisions about which patients to prioritize for treatment. We are hearing of doctors in Italy facing the same dilemma in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, and there’s a potential for it happening here.
Dr. Amani: This is the most difficult thing I faced the whole time I was working [in the hospital]. After each massacre we treated a lot of injured people. Sometimes we had to decide to help one person over another because he has or she has a hope to survive more than this one… I chose to [prioritize] the children, and I chose the children who are next to me, but other children and other people died because we couldn’t help them. I can’t forget that and I will never forget that. I always think about that. I hope these [doctors] who choose now, I hope they can forget [eventually]… I really feel guilty because I had to choose, but there is nothing to do.
As doctors, we can [normally] classify the injuries, but in the chemical attack—I remember that very well, it was sarin gas—I couldn’t classify the people because all of them had the same symptoms. They were suffocating and I think it’s now the same situation with coronavirus. All the people have the same symptoms… they need ventilators. This is what happened with us. All the people have the same symptoms and they need very urgent help.
Deadline: What do you make of the U.S. response to the Covid-19 crisis? We now have more cases here than anywhere else in the world.
Dr. Amani: This is really shocking. I think that government leaders, they have to reconsider their policy. … They have enough missiles if there is a war but they don’t have enough medical supplies. … We will [overcome] this thing and we will get rid of this virus, but I hope they listen, they learn a lesson from what happened now. We don’t need more weapons in this world. We need more things to protect people, not to kill people.
Deadline: In your hospital you dealt with a constant shortage of equipment and medicine. You wrote, “Often the only anesthesia available for surgery was the soothing recording of an orchestra to distract the mind.” Here, we are facing a shortage of ventilators, as well as masks and personal protective gear for medical workers.
Dr. Amani: I’m really surprised what has happened [in the U.S.]—they don’t have enough resources, they don’t have enough ventilators. The most cases are in New York now. Can you imagine if it happened in Idlib [in northwest Syria]? This is what I think about. If a developed country couldn’t deal with this pandemic, how are [less developed] countries going to do that?
Deadline: You were forced into exile after the Assad regime crushed the last resistance in Eastern Ghouta. So far as you can tell, what is the situation like in Syria under the additional threat of the coronavirus?
Dr. Amani: The Assad regime destroyed a lot of hospitals. They killed a lot of doctors and actually most of the other doctors and medical workers left Syria. So there are not enough medical workers and doctors in Syria, no good healthcare system.
Three months ago, the Assad regime started a [bombing] campaign against Idlib and they destroyed three hospitals just in one day. Doctors there expect that about 100,000 people are going to die if the virus reaches them. The virus is now in the neighboring countries—in Turkey, in Jordan, in Lebanon. It’s everywhere around them. That’s why we’re very worried about the people there. The Syrian population could be ravaged by this disease: social distancing in refugee camps is virtually impossible, and the continued bombing of hospitals will be even more devastating as hospitals begin to overcrowd.
Deadline: You point out that the coronavirus pandemic has given others a better sense of what life has been like in Syria during the civil war.
Dr. Amani: Because now all the people have the same experience—to be afraid all the time from something. If you wanted to protect yourself, your family, your children, and you can’t find the resources. This is what all the world is experiencing now. I’m not happy because this happened. But I hope people [understand] how Syrians lived for about nine years without anything, in fear all the time. They couldn’t protect their children, couldn’t protect their families. If they flee from place to other place, the bombing follows them into the camps.
Deadline: You’re currently in Berlin, stranded there when travel restrictions hit to contain the spread of Covid-19. You were there on a fundraising tour for the Al Amal (Hope) Fund, which was created to honor your work in Syria. How difficult is it to be away from your homeland at this time of growing crisis?
Dr. Amani: I wish I can be there now but I’m in quarantine. I can’t move. Before I could do advocacy for them and fundraising for these people. This was my way to help them, but now it’s stalled. Working to help other people, that makes very, very beautiful feelings. I was happy when I was there because when you save a life, of course you’re going to feel happy in spite of all the circumstances, all the danger. I was happy because I was useful.
I see a lot of doctors and medical workers, they really risk their lives [fighting the coronavirus pandemic]. I can understand that very well, because we believe in humanity. I’m ready to risk my life anytime to help others. And this is our work as medical workers. This is what we want to do, why we study and we work in the medical field… I really respect them and appreciate what they do. And I think this is just because we are humans. If you can help someone, if you can do something to protect someone, of course you’re going to do it.
For more information on the Al Amal (Hope) Fund, click here.
- 4/1/2020
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Cambodia’S Largest International Cultural Event Celebrates 10 Years!
The 10th Ciff presents film from 44 countries through a selection of 157 films, including short and feature films, documentaries, and animation.
From March 13 to 22nd, Ciff offers 150+ screenings in all major cinemas of Phnom Penh; venues included this year are Legend Cinemas, Major Cineplex, Bophana Center, Chaktomuk Theater, Rosewood Hotel & The Ciff Village @ Echange Square.
Ciff Is Possible Thanks to all partners and industry supporters and we are glad to announce Cellcard as Presenting Partner of the Festival.
Opening Ceremony On March 13th will host Cellcard’s Ambassador Suzanna Reth.
Cambodian Cinema – Films made-in and About Cambodia
Buoyancy
– Stories In Cambodia includes fictions related to Cambodia including the recent feature films shot in the Kingdom such as Buoyancy (multi Awarded Film in Festivals around the word) dealing with the topic of human trafficking in Cambodia and Southeast Asia. Also The Clock: Spirits Awakening...
The 10th Ciff presents film from 44 countries through a selection of 157 films, including short and feature films, documentaries, and animation.
From March 13 to 22nd, Ciff offers 150+ screenings in all major cinemas of Phnom Penh; venues included this year are Legend Cinemas, Major Cineplex, Bophana Center, Chaktomuk Theater, Rosewood Hotel & The Ciff Village @ Echange Square.
Ciff Is Possible Thanks to all partners and industry supporters and we are glad to announce Cellcard as Presenting Partner of the Festival.
Opening Ceremony On March 13th will host Cellcard’s Ambassador Suzanna Reth.
Cambodian Cinema – Films made-in and About Cambodia
Buoyancy
– Stories In Cambodia includes fictions related to Cambodia including the recent feature films shot in the Kingdom such as Buoyancy (multi Awarded Film in Festivals around the word) dealing with the topic of human trafficking in Cambodia and Southeast Asia. Also The Clock: Spirits Awakening...
- 3/12/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
National Geographic Documentary Films has bought the documentary “Saudi Runaway,” which follows a young woman in Saudi Arabia attempting to flee the country before her arranged marriage.
The deal was announced on Tuesday prior to “Saudi Runaway” screening at the Berlin Film Festival. Directed by Susanne Regina Meures, the movie had its premiere in the World Documentary Competition section at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Meures also wrote the pic and produced it with Christian Frei.
The young Saudi woman used her cell phone to secretly document her claustrophobic existence and her flight to freedom. Working in close collaboration with Meures (whom she spoke with multiple times a day for months), the result is a view inside Saudi Arabia’s patriarchal culture.
“Muna is one of the strongest-willed and most courageous women I know,” Meures said. “Unprecedented, as a Saudi woman, Muna dares to speak up. She shares her...
The deal was announced on Tuesday prior to “Saudi Runaway” screening at the Berlin Film Festival. Directed by Susanne Regina Meures, the movie had its premiere in the World Documentary Competition section at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Meures also wrote the pic and produced it with Christian Frei.
The young Saudi woman used her cell phone to secretly document her claustrophobic existence and her flight to freedom. Working in close collaboration with Meures (whom she spoke with multiple times a day for months), the result is a view inside Saudi Arabia’s patriarchal culture.
“Muna is one of the strongest-willed and most courageous women I know,” Meures said. “Unprecedented, as a Saudi woman, Muna dares to speak up. She shares her...
- 2/25/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
National Geographic Documentary Films, distributers of the Oscar-winning Free Solo and Oscar-nominated The Cave, has obtained the rights to Saudi Runaway, the Susanne Regina Meures-directed documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and is slated to screen at Berlin International Film Festival.
It’s a story about a brave young woman who daringly takes her fate into her own hands at great personal risk. The doc follows Muna, a young woman in Saudi Arabia reckoning with her upcoming arranged marriage and a life controlled by her domineering father.
When Muna hatches a plan to escape, she uses her cell phone to secretly document her claustrophobic existence and her flight to freedom. Working in close collaboration with director Susanne Meures (whom she spoke with multiple times a day for months), the result is a never-before-seen view inside Saudi Arabia’s patriarchal culture and the riveting story of...
It’s a story about a brave young woman who daringly takes her fate into her own hands at great personal risk. The doc follows Muna, a young woman in Saudi Arabia reckoning with her upcoming arranged marriage and a life controlled by her domineering father.
When Muna hatches a plan to escape, she uses her cell phone to secretly document her claustrophobic existence and her flight to freedom. Working in close collaboration with director Susanne Meures (whom she spoke with multiple times a day for months), the result is a never-before-seen view inside Saudi Arabia’s patriarchal culture and the riveting story of...
- 2/25/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Rise and Shine World Sales, Cinetic represented filmmakers.
National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired recent Sundance entry Saudi Runaway ahead of its European premiere at the Berlinale tonight (25).
Susanne Regina Meures directed the film about Muna, a Saudi woman with an upcoming arranged marriage who secretly records her escape attempt from the Middle Eastern kingdom on her mobile phone.
Saudi Runaway premiered in the World Documentary Competition section in Park City last month.
“Muna is one of the strongest-willed and most courageous women I know,” said Meures. “Unprecedented, as a Saudi woman, Muna dares to speak up. She shares her...
National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired recent Sundance entry Saudi Runaway ahead of its European premiere at the Berlinale tonight (25).
Susanne Regina Meures directed the film about Muna, a Saudi woman with an upcoming arranged marriage who secretly records her escape attempt from the Middle Eastern kingdom on her mobile phone.
Saudi Runaway premiered in the World Documentary Competition section in Park City last month.
“Muna is one of the strongest-willed and most courageous women I know,” said Meures. “Unprecedented, as a Saudi woman, Muna dares to speak up. She shares her...
- 2/25/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
“The Walking Dead” Season 10 went on hiatus after a major cliffhanger left several beloved characters in grave danger. If the months spent away from the apocalyptic series has you scratching your head wondering who survived the twists and turns of this season, fear not! These five events contain every murder and mystery you need to know before “The Walking Dead” returns for its mid-season premiere, “Squeeze,” on Sunday, February 23 on AMC.
Double-crossing Dante
The biggest twist of the season was the discovery that Dante (Juan Cavier Cardenas) was a Whisperer spy. The mole successfully infiltrated Alexandria as a doctor and sabotaged the town’s water supply. And just as poor Siddiq (Avi Nash) put together the pieces, Dante overpowers and strangles him to death. Rosita (Christian Serratos) walks in on the crime scene a minute too late, but thankfully beats the hell out of Dante. She also must put down...
Double-crossing Dante
The biggest twist of the season was the discovery that Dante (Juan Cavier Cardenas) was a Whisperer spy. The mole successfully infiltrated Alexandria as a doctor and sabotaged the town’s water supply. And just as poor Siddiq (Avi Nash) put together the pieces, Dante overpowers and strangles him to death. Rosita (Christian Serratos) walks in on the crime scene a minute too late, but thankfully beats the hell out of Dante. She also must put down...
- 2/22/2020
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
South Korean smash stuns Hollywood awards show.
South Korea’s Parasite was the big winner at the 92nd annual Academy Awards, earning awards for best picture, director, international feature film, and original screenplay.
All the winners appear below in bold. The ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Oscars 2020: Full list of winners
Best Motion Picture of the year
Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Parasite
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman Todd Phillips, Joker Sam Mendes, 1917 Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Bong Joon Ho,...
South Korea’s Parasite was the big winner at the 92nd annual Academy Awards, earning awards for best picture, director, international feature film, and original screenplay.
All the winners appear below in bold. The ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Oscars 2020: Full list of winners
Best Motion Picture of the year
Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Parasite
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman Todd Phillips, Joker Sam Mendes, 1917 Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Bong Joon Ho,...
- 2/10/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦¬1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
South Korean smash stuns Hollywood awards show.
Parasite was the big winner at the 92nd annual Academy Awards, earning awards for best picture, director, international feature film and original screenplay.
All the winners appear below in bold. The 92nd Academy Awards took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Oscars 2020: Full list of winners
Best Motion Picture of the year
Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Parasite
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman Todd Phillips, Joker Sam Mendes, 1917 Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Bong Joon Ho,...
Parasite was the big winner at the 92nd annual Academy Awards, earning awards for best picture, director, international feature film and original screenplay.
All the winners appear below in bold. The 92nd Academy Awards took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Oscars 2020: Full list of winners
Best Motion Picture of the year
Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Parasite
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman Todd Phillips, Joker Sam Mendes, 1917 Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Bong Joon Ho,...
- 2/10/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
The winners of the 92nd Academy Awards have beeb announced, ending the 2019-20 awards season that saw “Parasite” make history as the first South Korean movie to break into the Oscar race and win several Academy Awards. “Joker” was the year’s most nominated film at the 2020 Oscars, followed closely by “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “The Irishman,” and “1917” with 10 nominations each. “Joker” took home Oscars for Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) and Best Original Score. “The Irishman” was completely shut out, while “Hollywood” took two prizes (Best Supporting Actor and Best Production Design) and “1917” won Tkt. “Parasite” competed in six categories and won Oscars for Best International Feature Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director. The latter was a big surprise after Sam Mendes took home Best Director honors from the DGA and BAFTA Awards. Other multi-nomination contenders in 2020 include “Marriage Story,” “Jojo Rabbit,” “Little Women,” and “Ford v Ferrari.
- 2/10/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The Bong Hive has greatly expanded. The 2020 Academy Awards have now concluded, with Parasite winning Best Picture, making history as the first foreign-language film to win the award, while Bong Joon Ho also earned Best Director.
On the acting side, the expected winners all took home statues, while Parasite and Jojo Rabbit picked up screenplay awards. Parasite also earned Best International Film and American Factory grabbed Best Documentary.
Unfortunately, The Irishman went home empty-handed though the love for Martin Scorsese was felt throughout the night, particularly in Bong Joon Ho’s Best Director speech, which can be seen below.
See the winners below in bold.
Best Picture
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Todd Phillips, Joker
Sam Mendes, 1917
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
Best Actor
Antonio Banderas,...
On the acting side, the expected winners all took home statues, while Parasite and Jojo Rabbit picked up screenplay awards. Parasite also earned Best International Film and American Factory grabbed Best Documentary.
Unfortunately, The Irishman went home empty-handed though the love for Martin Scorsese was felt throughout the night, particularly in Bong Joon Ho’s Best Director speech, which can be seen below.
See the winners below in bold.
Best Picture
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Todd Phillips, Joker
Sam Mendes, 1917
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
Best Actor
Antonio Banderas,...
- 2/10/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
And the winner is American Factory!
The film took home the award for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd annual Academy Awards on Sunday.
“Just being in the presence of our sister and brother documentarians, who risk their lives making stories, bringing stories to us about hospitals being bombed, about brazil — we are so proud, we are inspired,” co-director Julia Reichert, who previously revealed she was diagnosed with terminal cancer at 73, said alongside Steven Bognar.
“Our film is from Ohio and China, but really could be from anywhere where people put on a uniform, punch a clock, trying to make...
The film took home the award for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd annual Academy Awards on Sunday.
“Just being in the presence of our sister and brother documentarians, who risk their lives making stories, bringing stories to us about hospitals being bombed, about brazil — we are so proud, we are inspired,” co-director Julia Reichert, who previously revealed she was diagnosed with terminal cancer at 73, said alongside Steven Bognar.
“Our film is from Ohio and China, but really could be from anywhere where people put on a uniform, punch a clock, trying to make...
- 2/10/2020
- by Robyn Merrett
- PEOPLE.com
The rustbelt rebound story American Factory won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature tonight, earning gold for the first collaboration between Netflix and Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground, which produced with Participant Media.
Directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert and producer Jeff Reichert accepted the award from presenter Mark Ruffalo, who noted in his introduction that four of the five nominated docs were either directed or co-directed by women.
Reichert saluted her fellow “sister and brother documentarians” from the stage, noting, “We are so proud. We are inspired by you guys.”
The Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions picked up American Factory after its debut at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, launching the film on Netflix as part of their deal with the streaming platform. The documentary, produced by Participant, explores what happened when a Chinese auto glass giant opened a plant on the site of a shuttered Gm factory near Dayton,...
Directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert and producer Jeff Reichert accepted the award from presenter Mark Ruffalo, who noted in his introduction that four of the five nominated docs were either directed or co-directed by women.
Reichert saluted her fellow “sister and brother documentarians” from the stage, noting, “We are so proud. We are inspired by you guys.”
The Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions picked up American Factory after its debut at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, launching the film on Netflix as part of their deal with the streaming platform. The documentary, produced by Participant, explores what happened when a Chinese auto glass giant opened a plant on the site of a shuttered Gm factory near Dayton,...
- 2/10/2020
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix’s “American Factory,” produced by Michelle and Barack Obama, took home the award for best documentary at the 92nd Oscars. It’s the first Academy Award for the Obamas’ production company, Higher Ground.
The former president and first lady weren’t able to attend Sunday’s ceremony in Hollywood. The award was accepted by the film’s co-directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert.
Accepting the award, Reichert said, “Working people have it harder and harder these days — and we believe that things will get better when workers of the world unite.”
Michelle Obama sent her congratulations, tweeting “The best stories are rarely tidy or perfect. But that’s where the truth so often lies.”
Congrats to Julia, Steven, and the whole crew on winning Best Documentary for #AmericanFactory, Higher Ground's first release! So glad to see their heart and honesty recognized—because the best stories are rarely tidy or perfect.
The former president and first lady weren’t able to attend Sunday’s ceremony in Hollywood. The award was accepted by the film’s co-directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert.
Accepting the award, Reichert said, “Working people have it harder and harder these days — and we believe that things will get better when workers of the world unite.”
Michelle Obama sent her congratulations, tweeting “The best stories are rarely tidy or perfect. But that’s where the truth so often lies.”
Congrats to Julia, Steven, and the whole crew on winning Best Documentary for #AmericanFactory, Higher Ground's first release! So glad to see their heart and honesty recognized—because the best stories are rarely tidy or perfect.
- 2/10/2020
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
South Korean smash ‘Parasite’ stuns Hollywood awards show.
South Korea’s Parasite was the big winner at the 92nd annual Academy Awards, earning awards for best picture, director, international feature film, and original screenplay.
All the winners appear below in bold. The ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Oscars 2020: Full list of winners
Best Motion Picture of the year
Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Parasite
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman Todd Phillips, Joker Sam Mendes, 1917 Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Bong Joon Ho,...
South Korea’s Parasite was the big winner at the 92nd annual Academy Awards, earning awards for best picture, director, international feature film, and original screenplay.
All the winners appear below in bold. The ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Oscars 2020: Full list of winners
Best Motion Picture of the year
Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Parasite
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman Todd Phillips, Joker Sam Mendes, 1917 Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Bong Joon Ho,...
- 2/10/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦¬1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Best Picture
Parasite
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Actor
Joaquin Phoenix – Joker
Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory
Leonardo DiCaprio – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Adam Driver – Marriage Story
Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes
Best Actress
Renee Zellweger – Judy
Cynthia Erivo – Harriet
Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan – Little Women
Charlize Theron – Bombshell
Best Supporting Actor
Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes...
Parasite
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Actor
Joaquin Phoenix – Joker
Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory
Leonardo DiCaprio – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Adam Driver – Marriage Story
Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes
Best Actress
Renee Zellweger – Judy
Cynthia Erivo – Harriet
Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan – Little Women
Charlize Theron – Bombshell
Best Supporting Actor
Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes...
- 2/10/2020
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
The 2020 Oscars are here!
This year’s Academy Awards, which are voted on by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, are being presented live from Los Angeles on Sunday night.
The Oscar nominations list is led by Joker with 11 nominations. Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Sam Mendes’ 1917 and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood come in second with 10. Little Women, Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit and Parasite each have 6 nods, while Ford v Ferrari has 4.
Scroll down for the full list of winners.
Best Picture
1917
Joker
Marriage Story
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Once Upon a Time…...
This year’s Academy Awards, which are voted on by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, are being presented live from Los Angeles on Sunday night.
The Oscar nominations list is led by Joker with 11 nominations. Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Sam Mendes’ 1917 and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood come in second with 10. Little Women, Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit and Parasite each have 6 nods, while Ford v Ferrari has 4.
Scroll down for the full list of winners.
Best Picture
1917
Joker
Marriage Story
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Once Upon a Time…...
- 2/10/2020
- by People Staff
- PEOPLE.com
The 2020 Oscars may have had no host, and yet a Parasite loomed large.
In addition to making history as the first foreign-language film to be named Best Picture, the twisty, low-budget South Korean thriller on Sunday night collected three more Oscars, including for director Bong Joon Ho and for Best International Feature Film — and as such it led the Hollywood pack.
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The “one-take” war drama 1917 followed with three total wins, while Joker, Once Upon a Time…...
In addition to making history as the first foreign-language film to be named Best Picture, the twisty, low-budget South Korean thriller on Sunday night collected three more Oscars, including for director Bong Joon Ho and for Best International Feature Film — and as such it led the Hollywood pack.
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The “one-take” war drama 1917 followed with three total wins, while Joker, Once Upon a Time…...
- 2/10/2020
- TVLine.com
The 2020 Oscars are officially in the books. Sunday night belonged to Bong Joon Ho and “Parasite,” which was named Best Picture.
The film also earned the Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature trophies.
Joaquin Phoenix was named Best Actor for his leading role in “Joker.” Renée Zellweger won Best Actress for portraying July Garland in “Judy.”
See all of the winners and nominees below.
Also Read: After Oscars, ABC Will Remain Last in Viewers Among Big 4 - But Maybe Not in Key Demo
Best Supporting Actor
Tom Hanks, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”
Anthony Hopkins, “The Two Popes”
Al Pacino, “The Irishman”
Joe Pesci, “The Irishman”
Brad Pitt, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” *Winner
Best Animated Feature
“How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World”
“I Lost My Body”
“Klaus”
“Missing Link”
“Toy Story 4” *Winner
Best Animated Short Film
“Dcera (Daughter)”
“Hair Love” *Winner...
The film also earned the Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature trophies.
Joaquin Phoenix was named Best Actor for his leading role in “Joker.” Renée Zellweger won Best Actress for portraying July Garland in “Judy.”
See all of the winners and nominees below.
Also Read: After Oscars, ABC Will Remain Last in Viewers Among Big 4 - But Maybe Not in Key Demo
Best Supporting Actor
Tom Hanks, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”
Anthony Hopkins, “The Two Popes”
Al Pacino, “The Irishman”
Joe Pesci, “The Irishman”
Brad Pitt, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” *Winner
Best Animated Feature
“How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World”
“I Lost My Body”
“Klaus”
“Missing Link”
“Toy Story 4” *Winner
Best Animated Short Film
“Dcera (Daughter)”
“Hair Love” *Winner...
- 2/10/2020
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Awards season officially comes to a close on Oscar Sunday.
The 92nd Academy Awards will be held at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on Feb. 9 and air live on ABC at 5 p.m. Pt/8 p.m. Et. Red carpet coverage will begin at 3:30 p.m. Pt/6:30 p.m. Et. Viewers will be able to live-stream the awards show on abc.com or on the ABC app via DirecTV Now, Hulu, PlayStation Vue and YouTube TV.
The ceremony, which is going hostless again, will include appearances from this year’s nominees, as well as presenters Salma Hayek, Brie Larson, James Corden, Regina King, Lin-Manuel Miranda and more. Additionally, the show will feature performances from Cynthia Erivo, Idina Menzel, Elton John, Chrissy Metz, Randy Newman and five-time Grammy winner Billie Eilish.
A special tribute for Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna is scheduled to take place during the ceremony. The pair,...
The 92nd Academy Awards will be held at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on Feb. 9 and air live on ABC at 5 p.m. Pt/8 p.m. Et. Red carpet coverage will begin at 3:30 p.m. Pt/6:30 p.m. Et. Viewers will be able to live-stream the awards show on abc.com or on the ABC app via DirecTV Now, Hulu, PlayStation Vue and YouTube TV.
The ceremony, which is going hostless again, will include appearances from this year’s nominees, as well as presenters Salma Hayek, Brie Larson, James Corden, Regina King, Lin-Manuel Miranda and more. Additionally, the show will feature performances from Cynthia Erivo, Idina Menzel, Elton John, Chrissy Metz, Randy Newman and five-time Grammy winner Billie Eilish.
A special tribute for Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna is scheduled to take place during the ceremony. The pair,...
- 2/9/2020
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
The 92nd Academy Awards were held on February 9, 2020. For the second year in a row, the Oscars did not have a host. That reduced the running time of this ceremony, which has stretched to over four hours in the past. Scroll down for the full and complete list of winners.
Leading this year’s nominees with 11 bids is “Joker” followed by three films with 10 each: “The Irishman,””1917” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” All four are up for the big prize of the night, Best Picture. Also in contention for that Oscar are four six-time contenders — “Jojo Rabbit,” “Little Women,” “Marriage Story” and “Parasite” — and four-time nominee “Ford v Ferrari.”
See 2020 Oscars online: How to watch 92nd Academy Awards live stream without a TV
Best Picture
“Ford v Ferrari”
“The Irishman”
“Jojo Rabbit”
“Joker”
“Little Women”
“Marriage Story”
“1917”
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
“Parasite”
Best Director
X – Bong Joon Ho,...
Leading this year’s nominees with 11 bids is “Joker” followed by three films with 10 each: “The Irishman,””1917” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” All four are up for the big prize of the night, Best Picture. Also in contention for that Oscar are four six-time contenders — “Jojo Rabbit,” “Little Women,” “Marriage Story” and “Parasite” — and four-time nominee “Ford v Ferrari.”
See 2020 Oscars online: How to watch 92nd Academy Awards live stream without a TV
Best Picture
“Ford v Ferrari”
“The Irishman”
“Jojo Rabbit”
“Joker”
“Little Women”
“Marriage Story”
“1917”
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
“Parasite”
Best Director
X – Bong Joon Ho,...
- 2/9/2020
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
‘Joker’ leads nominations with 11; ‘The Irishman’, ’Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’, ‘1917’ have 10 each.
Parasite has becomes the first film to win the recently renamed best international feature Oscar and the first from South Korea to win the award in the history of Academy’s award for a foreign language film.
Bonh Joon Ho took to the stage and welcomed the category name change. It was the film’s second Oscar of the night after Bong and Han Jin-won won for original screenplay.
Laura Dern won the best supporting actress Oscar for Marriage Story, after Brad Pitt won the...
Parasite has becomes the first film to win the recently renamed best international feature Oscar and the first from South Korea to win the award in the history of Academy’s award for a foreign language film.
Bonh Joon Ho took to the stage and welcomed the category name change. It was the film’s second Oscar of the night after Bong and Han Jin-won won for original screenplay.
Laura Dern won the best supporting actress Oscar for Marriage Story, after Brad Pitt won the...
- 2/9/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
‘Joker’ leads nominations with 11; ‘The Irishman’, ’Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’, ‘1917’ have 10 each.
Roger Deakins has won the best cinematography Oscar for 1917, while Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland picked up the editing Academy Award for Ford v Ferrari.
Earlier in the ceremony Donald Sylvester won for sound editing Oscar for Ford v Ferrari and noted the film was probably one of the last to be made by Fox. won for sound mixing
Laura Dern won the best supporting actress Oscar for Marriage Story, after Brad Pitt won the first award of the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday (9) for supporting...
Roger Deakins has won the best cinematography Oscar for 1917, while Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland picked up the editing Academy Award for Ford v Ferrari.
Earlier in the ceremony Donald Sylvester won for sound editing Oscar for Ford v Ferrari and noted the film was probably one of the last to be made by Fox. won for sound mixing
Laura Dern won the best supporting actress Oscar for Marriage Story, after Brad Pitt won the first award of the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday (9) for supporting...
- 2/9/2020
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
‘Joker’ leads nominations with 11; ‘The Irishman’, ’Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’, ‘1917’ have 10 each.
Laura Dern has won the best supporting actress Oscar for Marriage Story.
American Factory has won the best documentary Oscar.
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood’ has won the Oscar for best production design at the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday (9), and Little Women prevailed in the costume design category.
Parasite won for best original screenplay and Jojo Rabbit triumphed for best adapted screenplay. The early win for Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin-won for Parasite is the first win in the category by a South Korea film.
Laura Dern has won the best supporting actress Oscar for Marriage Story.
American Factory has won the best documentary Oscar.
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood’ has won the Oscar for best production design at the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday (9), and Little Women prevailed in the costume design category.
Parasite won for best original screenplay and Jojo Rabbit triumphed for best adapted screenplay. The early win for Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin-won for Parasite is the first win in the category by a South Korea film.
- 2/9/2020
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
‘Joker’ leads nominations with 11; ‘The Irishman’, ’Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’, ‘1917’ have 10 each.
The 92nd Academy Awards takes place in Los Angeles on Sunday night (February 9) and Screen will post all the winners here live and on Twitter as they happen.
As each award is given out, the winner in each category will be shown in bold, below.
For the second year in a row the show will not have a host; instead a rolling list of presenters includes Tom Hanks, Natalie Portman, Timothée Chalamet and Mindy Kaling.
Todd Phillips’ comic book adaptation Joker leads the nominations with 11, 1917,...
The 92nd Academy Awards takes place in Los Angeles on Sunday night (February 9) and Screen will post all the winners here live and on Twitter as they happen.
As each award is given out, the winner in each category will be shown in bold, below.
For the second year in a row the show will not have a host; instead a rolling list of presenters includes Tom Hanks, Natalie Portman, Timothée Chalamet and Mindy Kaling.
Todd Phillips’ comic book adaptation Joker leads the nominations with 11, 1917,...
- 2/9/2020
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
“Joker,” “1917,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and “The Irishman” are the only films in contention at the 2020 Oscars to break the double digit barrier in the nominations count. “Joker” reaped a leading 11 bids while the other three films have 10 apiece. All four number among the nine nominees for Best Picture.
Four of the other contenders for the top prize — “Jojo Rabbit,” “Little Women,” “Marriage Story” and “Parasite” — earned six nominations each. The top race is rounded out by four-time nominee “Ford v Ferrari.” Scroll down to see the full list of nominations in all 24 competitive categories at the 92nd Academy Awards on February 9.
See 2020 Oscars online: How to watch 92nd Academy Awards live stream without a TV
Best Picture
“Ford v Ferrari”
“The Irishman”
“Jojo Rabbit”
“Joker”
“Little Women”
“Marriage Story”
“1917”
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
“Parasite”
Best Director
Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite”
Sam Mendes, “1917”
Todd Phillips,...
Four of the other contenders for the top prize — “Jojo Rabbit,” “Little Women,” “Marriage Story” and “Parasite” — earned six nominations each. The top race is rounded out by four-time nominee “Ford v Ferrari.” Scroll down to see the full list of nominations in all 24 competitive categories at the 92nd Academy Awards on February 9.
See 2020 Oscars online: How to watch 92nd Academy Awards live stream without a TV
Best Picture
“Ford v Ferrari”
“The Irishman”
“Jojo Rabbit”
“Joker”
“Little Women”
“Marriage Story”
“1917”
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
“Parasite”
Best Director
Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite”
Sam Mendes, “1917”
Todd Phillips,...
- 2/9/2020
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
London-based documentary distributor Dogwoof has boarded Hulu’s hotly anticipated film on teen climate activist Greta Thunberg.
“Greta” (working title) is to bow on the Disney-controlled streamer in the U.S. later this year, with Dogwoof selling the feature doc internationally.
Dogwoof, whose recent slate includes the Oscar-nominated “The Cave,” will begin selling limited rest-of-world rights, and are to share a promo with buyers at Berlin’s Efm later this month.
At just 17 years old, Thunberg is one of the world’s most recognizable activists. From her initial school strike for climate at 15, her profile has skyrocketed and she was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2019, as well as being nominated for last year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
The team behind “Greta” has followed the Swedish activist from the first days of her school strike.
Directed by Nathan Grossman and produced by Cecilia Nessen and Frederik Heinig of B-Reel Films,...
“Greta” (working title) is to bow on the Disney-controlled streamer in the U.S. later this year, with Dogwoof selling the feature doc internationally.
Dogwoof, whose recent slate includes the Oscar-nominated “The Cave,” will begin selling limited rest-of-world rights, and are to share a promo with buyers at Berlin’s Efm later this month.
At just 17 years old, Thunberg is one of the world’s most recognizable activists. From her initial school strike for climate at 15, her profile has skyrocketed and she was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2019, as well as being nominated for last year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
The team behind “Greta” has followed the Swedish activist from the first days of her school strike.
Directed by Nathan Grossman and produced by Cecilia Nessen and Frederik Heinig of B-Reel Films,...
- 2/7/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Jacqueline Lyanga, currently the Artistic Director of Film Independent in La, and Jasmine Jaisinghani, a film and culture professional based in La, have teamed up to present the inaugural Global Cinematheque World Cinema Awards. Seeking to give a more complete picture of the world films on offer throughout not just this past awards season, but the entire movie year, the prizes celebrate the best international cinema of year across 10 categories. Lyanga and Jaisinghani previously collaborated while working at AFI Fest.
Lyanga describes the initiative best in her statement: “Global Cinematheque and the World Cinema Awards were born of the passion for international cinema that … Jaisinghani and I share. The awards are a new platform for films made outside of the United States, through which we hope to expand the global reach of international cinema. There are extraordinary films being made all over the world and we want to bring the...
Lyanga describes the initiative best in her statement: “Global Cinematheque and the World Cinema Awards were born of the passion for international cinema that … Jaisinghani and I share. The awards are a new platform for films made outside of the United States, through which we hope to expand the global reach of international cinema. There are extraordinary films being made all over the world and we want to bring the...
- 2/6/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Parasite, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Pain And Glory figure prominently in roster.
Citing a need for the awards season “to more authentically reflect the culture of the world in which we live”, Los Angeles-based film curator and promoter Global Cinematheque has announced the winners of its inaugural World Cinema Awards.
Parasite, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, and Pain And Glory figure prominently in the roster. In addition, UniFrance will receive Global Cinematheque’s first World Cinema Cultural Spotlight Award in honour of 70 years of “extraordinary work” promoting French cinema throughout the world.
Three additional Global Cinematheque Spotlight...
Citing a need for the awards season “to more authentically reflect the culture of the world in which we live”, Los Angeles-based film curator and promoter Global Cinematheque has announced the winners of its inaugural World Cinema Awards.
Parasite, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, and Pain And Glory figure prominently in the roster. In addition, UniFrance will receive Global Cinematheque’s first World Cinema Cultural Spotlight Award in honour of 70 years of “extraordinary work” promoting French cinema throughout the world.
Three additional Global Cinematheque Spotlight...
- 2/6/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Putting together the documentary “The Cave” — which follows a group of mostly female doctors working at a subterranean hospital in Eastern Ghouta during the Syrian Civil War — was so traumatizing that the filmmakers employed an on-call therapist during production.
“Some days I could only work one hour, and then I had to go home, crying,” editor Per Kirkegaard told awards editor Steve Pond during TheWrap’s Oscars Screening Series on Sunday. “But it’s a little price to pay, given what the Syrian people are experiencing.”
Pediatrician Amani Ballour is the subject of the Best Feature Documentary nominee. Viewers follow the doctor as she operates the underground hospital nicknamed “The Cave,” covering under shelling as she pulls shrapnel from children’s mouths and resuscitates victims of chemical warfare.
Also Read: 'The Cave' Film Review: Women Are Lifesaving Heroes in Syrian War Hospital Documentary
“I will never do a...
“Some days I could only work one hour, and then I had to go home, crying,” editor Per Kirkegaard told awards editor Steve Pond during TheWrap’s Oscars Screening Series on Sunday. “But it’s a little price to pay, given what the Syrian people are experiencing.”
Pediatrician Amani Ballour is the subject of the Best Feature Documentary nominee. Viewers follow the doctor as she operates the underground hospital nicknamed “The Cave,” covering under shelling as she pulls shrapnel from children’s mouths and resuscitates victims of chemical warfare.
Also Read: 'The Cave' Film Review: Women Are Lifesaving Heroes in Syrian War Hospital Documentary
“I will never do a...
- 2/4/2020
- by Daniel Toomey
- The Wrap
For female filmmakers in the industry, this year’s round of Oscar nominations – in which acclaimed female-helmed films such as “Hustlers” and “The Farewell” were shut out in place of male-directed Best Picture nominees predominantly centred on stories of white men – told a frustratingly familiar story. But in the Academy’s non-fiction branch, a different narrative was being written.
Not only did the Best Documentary Feature category achieve directorial gender parity, with four female and four male nominees, but female filmmakers led men overall, with 13 nominees to 12 across both feature and doc short categories.
The branch celebrated newcomers such as Waad al-Kateab (“For Sama”), Tamara Kotevska (“Honeyland”) and Smriti Mundhra (“St. Louis Superman”); mid-career filmmakers such as Sigrid Dyekjær (“The Cave”) and Joanna Natasegara (“The Edge of Democracy”); and established documentarians such as Julia Reichert (“American Factory”).
The latter duo both achieved remarkable feats that garnered little mainstream press coverage:...
Not only did the Best Documentary Feature category achieve directorial gender parity, with four female and four male nominees, but female filmmakers led men overall, with 13 nominees to 12 across both feature and doc short categories.
The branch celebrated newcomers such as Waad al-Kateab (“For Sama”), Tamara Kotevska (“Honeyland”) and Smriti Mundhra (“St. Louis Superman”); mid-career filmmakers such as Sigrid Dyekjær (“The Cave”) and Joanna Natasegara (“The Edge of Democracy”); and established documentarians such as Julia Reichert (“American Factory”).
The latter duo both achieved remarkable feats that garnered little mainstream press coverage:...
- 2/4/2020
- by Adam Benzine
- Variety Film + TV
Feras Fayyad would have been forgiven for not wanting to return to Syria.
After winning a Sundance grand jury prize and an Oscar nomination for his 2017 feature doc, Last Men in Aleppo, which follows the work of Syria's White Helmets volunteer force, the filmmaker was warned in no uncertain terms that his success would make him a more visible target for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his murderous regime.
Having already been arrested and tortured twice by Syrian troops in 2011, Fayyad had no desire to return to a jail cell.
"But even though my picture was well ...
After winning a Sundance grand jury prize and an Oscar nomination for his 2017 feature doc, Last Men in Aleppo, which follows the work of Syria's White Helmets volunteer force, the filmmaker was warned in no uncertain terms that his success would make him a more visible target for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his murderous regime.
Having already been arrested and tortured twice by Syrian troops in 2011, Fayyad had no desire to return to a jail cell.
"But even though my picture was well ...
Just because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been quiet about its inner workings—a museum fund-raising announcement here, an Oscar press release there—doesn’t mean it’s been quiet inside. Every once in a while, rumblings from the Wilshire Blvd. headquarters are loud enough to be heard out here.
This week, the loudest grumbles came from within the documentary branch, where members and staff were churning around what is said to be an 11-page complaint filed by filmmaker Lauren Greenfield. According to people briefed on the complaint, it says, among other things, that prospects for her documentary feature The Kingmaker, about Imelda Marcos, were unfairly diminished by social media posts from fellow Academy members, including filmmaker Ramona Diaz, whose own Imelda won a Sundance award in 2004, and Roger Ross Williams, who recently directed The Apollo, and represents the doc branch on the Academy’s Board of Governors.
This week, the loudest grumbles came from within the documentary branch, where members and staff were churning around what is said to be an 11-page complaint filed by filmmaker Lauren Greenfield. According to people briefed on the complaint, it says, among other things, that prospects for her documentary feature The Kingmaker, about Imelda Marcos, were unfairly diminished by social media posts from fellow Academy members, including filmmaker Ramona Diaz, whose own Imelda won a Sundance award in 2004, and Roger Ross Williams, who recently directed The Apollo, and represents the doc branch on the Academy’s Board of Governors.
- 1/31/2020
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s been said time and again that the Academy’s documentary branch is a consistently unpredictable bunch. But are they?
Given their Oscar nomination track record, it certainly doesn’t seem like it. The group has made their likes and dislikes perfectly clear in recent years. They enjoy recognizing international productions as well as newcomers. In the past two decades alone, 12 directors have taken home the Academy Award for their very first documentary theatrical feature. They include Bryan Fogel (“Icarus”), Ezra Edelman (“O.J.: Made in America”), Louie Psihoyos (“The Cove”) and Malik Bendjelloul (“Searching for Sugarman”). Big box office numbers also don’t impress this nonfiction crowd. Examples include snubbing “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” ($22.8 million) “Three Identical Strangers” ($13.4 million) and this year’s “Apollo 11” ($15.3 million). They also aren’t awed by archival footage. (Again: “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” and “Apollo 11”.) And they especially...
Given their Oscar nomination track record, it certainly doesn’t seem like it. The group has made their likes and dislikes perfectly clear in recent years. They enjoy recognizing international productions as well as newcomers. In the past two decades alone, 12 directors have taken home the Academy Award for their very first documentary theatrical feature. They include Bryan Fogel (“Icarus”), Ezra Edelman (“O.J.: Made in America”), Louie Psihoyos (“The Cove”) and Malik Bendjelloul (“Searching for Sugarman”). Big box office numbers also don’t impress this nonfiction crowd. Examples include snubbing “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” ($22.8 million) “Three Identical Strangers” ($13.4 million) and this year’s “Apollo 11” ($15.3 million). They also aren’t awed by archival footage. (Again: “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” and “Apollo 11”.) And they especially...
- 1/31/2020
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
When the 2020 Oscar nominations were announced, critics immediately seized upon the glaring lack of women recognized in the Best Director competition. But on the nonfiction side, it’s a completely different story.
In the Best Documentary Feature category, four of the five nominated films are directed or co-directed by women. In Best Documentary Short, it’s the same story—four of five nominees are directed or co-directed by women.
It’s also a year when Greta Gerwig was overlooked for Best Director in the fiction realm. “Narrative is so badly handling women,” comments Carol Dysinger, who earned an Oscar nomination for her short doc Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl). “But in my community, documentary, we do Ok.”
Among the women documentary filmmakers recognized with an Oscar nomination this year is Syrian-born Waad Al-Kateab, who directed For Sama with Edward Watts.
“Two days before the nominations,...
In the Best Documentary Feature category, four of the five nominated films are directed or co-directed by women. In Best Documentary Short, it’s the same story—four of five nominees are directed or co-directed by women.
It’s also a year when Greta Gerwig was overlooked for Best Director in the fiction realm. “Narrative is so badly handling women,” comments Carol Dysinger, who earned an Oscar nomination for her short doc Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl). “But in my community, documentary, we do Ok.”
Among the women documentary filmmakers recognized with an Oscar nomination this year is Syrian-born Waad Al-Kateab, who directed For Sama with Edward Watts.
“Two days before the nominations,...
- 1/30/2020
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s one thing to hear of the chemical attacks in Syria killing thousands of civilians including children, but watching it takes it to another level in The Cave, an Academy Award-nominated documentary now airing on the Nat Geo channel. The Cave follows Doctor Amani Ballour and her hospital staff who ran an underground hospital in Ghouta, Syria as they struggle to help victims (mostly children) from Bashar al-Assad's attacks on his own people. Dr. Amani and her medical staff exposed themselves in the documentary which means the ruthless Syrian leader can target this group of people. The film’s producers update CineMovie on how the hospital staff are doing since The Cave was released.
- 1/30/2020
- by info@cinemovie.tv (Super User)
- CineMovie
Syria’s brutal civil war has cost the lives of tens of thousands of civilians—men, women and children. It would have cost even more were it not for the life-saving efforts of Dr. Amani Ballour, the heroine of Feras Fayyad’s Oscar-nominated documentary The Cave.
Dr. Amani, who trained as a pediatrician, ran a subterranean hospital in Eastern Ghouta, an area outside Damascus that came under relentless attack from Syrian government forces and their Russian allies. For her work she was recently awarded the Council of Europe’s Raoul Wallenberg Prize, named for the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during World War II.
“Dr. Amani Ballour is a shining example of the empathy, virtue and honor that can flourish even in the worst circumstances: in the midst of war and suffering,” the Council of Europe’s secretary general noted. “[She] risked her own safety and security to help those in the greatest need.
Dr. Amani, who trained as a pediatrician, ran a subterranean hospital in Eastern Ghouta, an area outside Damascus that came under relentless attack from Syrian government forces and their Russian allies. For her work she was recently awarded the Council of Europe’s Raoul Wallenberg Prize, named for the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during World War II.
“Dr. Amani Ballour is a shining example of the empathy, virtue and honor that can flourish even in the worst circumstances: in the midst of war and suffering,” the Council of Europe’s secretary general noted. “[She] risked her own safety and security to help those in the greatest need.
- 1/30/2020
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Last year, “Free Solo” took home the Best Documentary Oscar, giving National Geographic its first Oscar win. Could the company make it two victories in a row?
Nat Geo, which produces documentaries under its National Geographic Documentary Films banner, has snagged a second straight nomination in the category with “The Cave.” From former Oscar nominee Feras Fayyad (“Last Man in Aleppo”), “The Cave” is pretty much the opposite of the daredevil adventures of Alex Honnold in “Free Solo,” but no less intense. It focuses on Dr. Amani Ballor, the first female hospital manager in war-torn Syria, except her hospital — the titular cave — is underground to hide from the unspeakable horrors going on above that floods the hospital with new patients by the hour.
See Oscar-nominated ‘The Cave’ director Feras Fayyad arrives in U.S. after visa issues
Like “Free Solo,” “The Cave” won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival.
Nat Geo, which produces documentaries under its National Geographic Documentary Films banner, has snagged a second straight nomination in the category with “The Cave.” From former Oscar nominee Feras Fayyad (“Last Man in Aleppo”), “The Cave” is pretty much the opposite of the daredevil adventures of Alex Honnold in “Free Solo,” but no less intense. It focuses on Dr. Amani Ballor, the first female hospital manager in war-torn Syria, except her hospital — the titular cave — is underground to hide from the unspeakable horrors going on above that floods the hospital with new patients by the hour.
See Oscar-nominated ‘The Cave’ director Feras Fayyad arrives in U.S. after visa issues
Like “Free Solo,” “The Cave” won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival.
- 1/28/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
May el-Toukhy became the first woman to win best director.
May el-Toukhy’s age-gap relationship drama Queen Of Hearts dominated the winners at the 36th Robert awards in Denmark, taking home nine prizes from 17 categories in which it was eligible.
el-Toukhy became the first woman to receive the best director prize since the category was introduced in 2001.
Scroll down for the full list of winners.
Her Sundance 2019 title also picked up best film, best actress for Trine Dyrholm, best supporting actor for Magnus Krepper, and best original screenplay for el-Toukhy and Maren Louise Käehne.
The film’s four further prizes were in best cinematography,...
May el-Toukhy’s age-gap relationship drama Queen Of Hearts dominated the winners at the 36th Robert awards in Denmark, taking home nine prizes from 17 categories in which it was eligible.
el-Toukhy became the first woman to receive the best director prize since the category was introduced in 2001.
Scroll down for the full list of winners.
Her Sundance 2019 title also picked up best film, best actress for Trine Dyrholm, best supporting actor for Magnus Krepper, and best original screenplay for el-Toukhy and Maren Louise Käehne.
The film’s four further prizes were in best cinematography,...
- 1/28/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
In today’s film news roundup, the PGA selects a site for its Produced By Conference, Ana Gasteyer is hosting the WGA Awards, and Docu-Day is set for Feb. 8.
PGA Conference
The Producers Guild of America will hold its 12th annual Produced By Conference on June 6-7 at Fox Studio Lot in Los Angeles.
The PGA’s 11th annual conference took place last June at Warner Bros. Speakers included Ava DuVernay, Toby Emmerich, Peter Roth, Cindy Holland, Michael B. Jordan, Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
The historic Fox Studio Lot on Pico Boulevard was retained by Rupert Murdoch through his newly formed Fox Corp last year when Disney bought the 21st Century Fox entertainment assets last year.
WGA Host
Actress-comedian-singer Ana Gasteyer has been selected to host Writers Guild of America West’s 2020 Writers Guild Awards on Feb. 1 at The Beverly Hilton.
“I’m so happy to be hosting this...
PGA Conference
The Producers Guild of America will hold its 12th annual Produced By Conference on June 6-7 at Fox Studio Lot in Los Angeles.
The PGA’s 11th annual conference took place last June at Warner Bros. Speakers included Ava DuVernay, Toby Emmerich, Peter Roth, Cindy Holland, Michael B. Jordan, Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
The historic Fox Studio Lot on Pico Boulevard was retained by Rupert Murdoch through his newly formed Fox Corp last year when Disney bought the 21st Century Fox entertainment assets last year.
WGA Host
Actress-comedian-singer Ana Gasteyer has been selected to host Writers Guild of America West’s 2020 Writers Guild Awards on Feb. 1 at The Beverly Hilton.
“I’m so happy to be hosting this...
- 1/28/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Feras Fayyad, the director of the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Cave,” has arrived in the United States, weeks after being denied entry.
“After weeks of turmoil and struggle and obstacles no one should have to endure, we can report that Feras arrived safely this evening in Los Angeles,” National Geographic said in a statement Sunday night.
Fayyad, who was the first Syrian director nominated for an Oscar with his 2017 doc “Last Man in Aleppo,” had encountered issues obtaining a new visa the past two months, forcing him to miss several stateside events in support of “The Cave,” including December’s International Documentary Association’s Documentary Awards, where he won the writing prize, and the film’s Television Critics Association panel on Jan. 17.
During the TCA panel, producer Sigrid Dyekjar revealed that Fayyad’s aunt’s house in Syria had been bombed, and that the director had been traveling between Turkey, to be close to his family,...
“After weeks of turmoil and struggle and obstacles no one should have to endure, we can report that Feras arrived safely this evening in Los Angeles,” National Geographic said in a statement Sunday night.
Fayyad, who was the first Syrian director nominated for an Oscar with his 2017 doc “Last Man in Aleppo,” had encountered issues obtaining a new visa the past two months, forcing him to miss several stateside events in support of “The Cave,” including December’s International Documentary Association’s Documentary Awards, where he won the writing prize, and the film’s Television Critics Association panel on Jan. 17.
During the TCA panel, producer Sigrid Dyekjar revealed that Fayyad’s aunt’s house in Syria had been bombed, and that the director had been traveling between Turkey, to be close to his family,...
- 1/27/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
“The Cave” director Feras Fayyad has arrived in the United States after dealing with a number of visa and family issues in recent weeks, National Geographic shared on Monday morning. The Syrian filmmaker made it to the U.S. on Sunday — exactly two weeks before the Academy Awards, where “The Cave” is nominated for Best Documentary Feature.
“The outpouring of support from the documentary and entertainment community to help us in our efforts to have ‘The Cave’s’ director Feras Fayyad return to the U.S. has been overwhelming,” National Geographic said in a statement. “After weeks of turmoil and struggle and obstacles no one should have to endure, we can report that Feras arrived safely this evening in Los Angeles.”
Fayyad had struggled to gain a visa into the U.S. until Sunday and missed several industry events this month as a result. He was unable to attend the...
“The outpouring of support from the documentary and entertainment community to help us in our efforts to have ‘The Cave’s’ director Feras Fayyad return to the U.S. has been overwhelming,” National Geographic said in a statement. “After weeks of turmoil and struggle and obstacles no one should have to endure, we can report that Feras arrived safely this evening in Los Angeles.”
Fayyad had struggled to gain a visa into the U.S. until Sunday and missed several industry events this month as a result. He was unable to attend the...
- 1/27/2020
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
One year after Free Solo won the best documentary feature Oscar and in the same month that The Cave was nominated for it, another project from National Geographic Documentary Films could be headed for awards season attention.
Torn — like Free Solo, a doc feature that illustrates the risks and rewards of extreme climbing by chronicling the experiences of some of the world's greatest extreme climbers — is now in post-production and will be released in theaters later this year, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Nat Geo produced the film in partnership with Lightbox, the studio co-founded by cousins Simon Chinn, a two-time Oscar winner (Man ...
Torn — like Free Solo, a doc feature that illustrates the risks and rewards of extreme climbing by chronicling the experiences of some of the world's greatest extreme climbers — is now in post-production and will be released in theaters later this year, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Nat Geo produced the film in partnership with Lightbox, the studio co-founded by cousins Simon Chinn, a two-time Oscar winner (Man ...
- 1/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One year after Free Solo won the best documentary feature Oscar and in the same month that The Cave was nominated for it, another project from National Geographic Documentary Films could be headed for awards season attention.
Torn — like Free Solo, a doc feature that illustrates the risks and rewards of extreme climbing by chronicling the experiences of some of the world's greatest extreme climbers — is now in post-production and will be released in theaters later this year, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Nat Geo produced the film in partnership with Lightbox, the studio co-founded by cousins Simon Chinn, a two-time Oscar winner (Man ...
Torn — like Free Solo, a doc feature that illustrates the risks and rewards of extreme climbing by chronicling the experiences of some of the world's greatest extreme climbers — is now in post-production and will be released in theaters later this year, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Nat Geo produced the film in partnership with Lightbox, the studio co-founded by cousins Simon Chinn, a two-time Oscar winner (Man ...
- 1/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The documentary community has been rallying around Syrian-born filmmaker Feras Fayyad, director of Oscar-shortlisted film The Cave, after he was denied a visa to enter the United States. The situation escalated 10 days ago when Fayyad was detained on his way into Copenhagen, where he lives in exile, by immigration police and was forced to miss The Cave‘s panel at TCA. At the time, his colleagues and National Geographic, which is behind The Cave, said that the documentary-maker would be reapplying for a U.S. visa. This time, he was successful.
“After weeks of turmoil and struggle and obstacles no one should have to endure, we can report that Feras arrived safely this evening in Los Angeles,” Nat Geo Documentary Films said in a lengthy statement Sunday night.
The Cave tells the story of Dr. Amani Ballour, the first woman to lead a hospital in Syria, who made heroic efforts...
“After weeks of turmoil and struggle and obstacles no one should have to endure, we can report that Feras arrived safely this evening in Los Angeles,” Nat Geo Documentary Films said in a lengthy statement Sunday night.
The Cave tells the story of Dr. Amani Ballour, the first woman to lead a hospital in Syria, who made heroic efforts...
- 1/27/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Cave” director Feras Fayyad has finally made it into the United States, weeks after he was denied entry into the country. According to National Geographic Documentary Films, which is behind the Oscar-nominated “The Cave,” “we can report that Feras arrived safely this evening in Los Angeles.”
Fayyad’s arrival comes after he missed a Television Critics Assn. press tour panel on Jan. 17 promoting “The Cave.” At the time, Nat Geo told reporters that Fayyad had been detained by immigration police in Copenhagen, and eventually released to producer Sigrid Dyekjar.
Fayyad had earlier been denied a visa into the United States, and was not able to attend the International Documentary Association’s Documentary Awards in Los Angeles to accept his prize for best writing for “The Cave.” Since then, his aunt’s house was bombed in Syria, and he had traveled back and forth between Turkey, to be close to his family,...
Fayyad’s arrival comes after he missed a Television Critics Assn. press tour panel on Jan. 17 promoting “The Cave.” At the time, Nat Geo told reporters that Fayyad had been detained by immigration police in Copenhagen, and eventually released to producer Sigrid Dyekjar.
Fayyad had earlier been denied a visa into the United States, and was not able to attend the International Documentary Association’s Documentary Awards in Los Angeles to accept his prize for best writing for “The Cave.” Since then, his aunt’s house was bombed in Syria, and he had traveled back and forth between Turkey, to be close to his family,...
- 1/27/2020
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Sam Mendes has been named the best feature-film director of 2019 by the Directors Guild of America, which handed out its annual awards on Saturday at the Ritz-Carlton in Los Angeles.
The win makes the “1917” director a commanding front-runner in the Oscar race for Best Directors — and coupled with his film’s victory at the Producers Guild Awards last week, makes the World War I drama the favorite to win Best Picture winner as well.
Mendes beat his fellow Oscar nominees Bong Joon Ho (“Parasite”), Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”) and Martin Scorsese (“The Irishman”), as well as “Jojo Rabbit” director Taika Waititi.
The DGA Award is one of the most reliable Oscar predictors, with the winner going on to win the Academy Award for Best Director for the last six years in a row, 15 times in the last 16 years and 62 times in 71 years.
In addition, the film...
The win makes the “1917” director a commanding front-runner in the Oscar race for Best Directors — and coupled with his film’s victory at the Producers Guild Awards last week, makes the World War I drama the favorite to win Best Picture winner as well.
Mendes beat his fellow Oscar nominees Bong Joon Ho (“Parasite”), Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”) and Martin Scorsese (“The Irishman”), as well as “Jojo Rabbit” director Taika Waititi.
The DGA Award is one of the most reliable Oscar predictors, with the winner going on to win the Academy Award for Best Director for the last six years in a row, 15 times in the last 16 years and 62 times in 71 years.
In addition, the film...
- 1/26/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The 2020 Directors Guild of America Awards wrapped Saturday night in downtown Los Angeles, with winners spanning television and film. IndieWire has rounded up all the night’s big winners, below. Films “1917,” “Honey Boy,” and “American Factory” all took home the night’s film prizes, while “Chernobyl,” “Watchmen,” and “Barry” claimed the television honors.
The DGA prize is often considered a bellwether for the Best Director Oscar and the last six DGA winners all went on to repeat at the Academy Awards: Alfonso Cuarón for “Roma,” Guillermo del Toro for “The Shape of Water,” Damien Chazelle for “La La Land,” and Alejandro G. Iñárritu for both “The Revenant” and “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2019
Bong Joon Ho
“Parasite”
(Neon)
Sam Mendes
“1917”
(Universal Pictures) *Winner
Martin Scorsese
“The Irishman”
(Netflix)
Quentin Tarantino
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
(Sony)
Taika Waititi
“Jojo Rabbit...
The DGA prize is often considered a bellwether for the Best Director Oscar and the last six DGA winners all went on to repeat at the Academy Awards: Alfonso Cuarón for “Roma,” Guillermo del Toro for “The Shape of Water,” Damien Chazelle for “La La Land,” and Alejandro G. Iñárritu for both “The Revenant” and “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2019
Bong Joon Ho
“Parasite”
(Neon)
Sam Mendes
“1917”
(Universal Pictures) *Winner
Martin Scorsese
“The Irishman”
(Netflix)
Quentin Tarantino
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
(Sony)
Taika Waititi
“Jojo Rabbit...
- 1/26/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Director Sam Mendes won the top prize at the 72nd annual Directors Guild of America Awards for “1917,” solidifying the World War I drama as the film to beat at the Academy Awards.
“I was fortunate enough to win this award two decades ago,” Mendes said in his acceptance speech, referencing his DGA Awards win for 1999’s “American Beauty.” “And I think if I’m honest with myself, I didn’t feel ultimately like I really knew what I was doing. I feel a little bit more like I do now.”
Mendes also used his speech to praise his fellow nominees — Bong Joon Ho for “Parasite,” Martin Scorsese for “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and Taika Waititi for “Jojo Rabbit” — and laud the chance to get to know them better.
“To hear other directors think and talk — it’s a little like being an alcoholic,...
“I was fortunate enough to win this award two decades ago,” Mendes said in his acceptance speech, referencing his DGA Awards win for 1999’s “American Beauty.” “And I think if I’m honest with myself, I didn’t feel ultimately like I really knew what I was doing. I feel a little bit more like I do now.”
Mendes also used his speech to praise his fellow nominees — Bong Joon Ho for “Parasite,” Martin Scorsese for “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and Taika Waititi for “Jojo Rabbit” — and laud the chance to get to know them better.
“To hear other directors think and talk — it’s a little like being an alcoholic,...
- 1/26/2020
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
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