Tag: Empire of Light
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Michael J. Fox, Diane Warren, Peter Weir, and Euzhan Palcy Lead Rousing, Star-Studded Governors Awards
“Wow, what a room! Who wouldn’t want to be here tonight?” was both the line Academy President Janet Yang opened the 13th Annual Governors Awards, and the thought attendees had in their minds entering the ballroom at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.While the event has long had the reputation of being the best…
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From ‘Bones and All’ to ‘Rrr,’ It’s Time for the Academy to Get Off Its High Horse
It’s a strange Oscar year. There are fewer usual suspects: critically hailed festival breakouts of serious quality like Todd Field’s “Tar” (Focus Features), Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” (Universal), Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight), and Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” (United Artists Releasing). These four films are likely to nab multiple nominations, including Best Picture.Other…
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Empire of Light Trailer Showcases Sam Mendes’ Ode to Cinema
Searchlight Pictures is pulling the curtain back on Sam Mendes’s love letter to the cinema Empire of Light in a new trailer. Described as a love story set in a theater on the coast in the 1980s, the film explores the very human connections and hardships of the employees in the Empire with the relationship…
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Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ Is a Small Movie with Big Awards Potential
If any movie deserved its hyperbolic standing ovation on the festival circuit this year, Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” was it. When the director took the stage of the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, he received the thunderous response to more than 50 years of filmmaking, not just the passion project that recounts the beginning of…
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‘Empire Of Light’ is Old School Oscar Contender With a Career Best Performance from Olivia Colman
Roughly a year ago, Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast,” launched out of Telluride, and there was something about that film’s emotional expansiveness and the irresistible pull of its unapologetic nostalgia that made it clear it was going to be a force to be reckoned with at the Oscars.I got the same sense watching Sam Mendes’ “Empire of…
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‘Empire of Light’ Review: Sam Mendes’ Ode to Movie Theaters Isn’t Worth Seeing in One
Despite being set in the early 1980s (its story spanning from “The Blues Brothers” to “Being There”), Sam Mendes’ scattershot and moribund “Empire of Light” is a movie born out of two simultaneous but unequal reckonings that erupted in the summer of 2020: The Black Lives Matter movement, and the existential threat to the future…
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‘Empire of Light’ Cements Olivia Colman as a Perennial Oscar Contender
On Saturday afternoon, as a hailstorm passed overhead, the Telluride Film Festival hosted the second of its world premiere screenings this year: Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light.” The Oscar-winning director introduced the film, a love story set at a U.K. movie theater in the early 1980s, as “by far the most personal thing I’ve ever…
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‘Empire Of Light’ Teaser: Olivia Colman Shows The Power Of Cinema In Sam Mendes’ Upcoming Drama
Over the past 20+ years, filmmaker Sam Mendes has released numerous films, each earning acclaim. Even his two James Bond films, “Spectre” and “Skyfall,” are seen as high watermarks in the world of 007. So, it’s gotten to the point when each new Mendes film is an event, which has us really excited for his…
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Sam Mendes’ ‘Empire Of Light’ added to BFI London Film Festival line-up
The title will be this year’s American Express Gala.Sam Mendes’ Empire Of Light has been selected as the American Express Gala at this year’s BFI London Film Festival.The title is written, directed and produced by Oscar and Bafta winning Skyfall director Mendes, and will have its European premiere at Lff on October 12 at the…
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Oscars 2023: Best Actor Predictions
We keep updating these predictions through the awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2023 Oscar picks. Nominations voting is from January 12 to January 17, 2023, with official Oscar nominations announced on January 24, 2023. The final voting is March 2 through 7, 2023. And finally, the 94th Oscars telecast will be…