Tag: Green Book
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PGA Awards Winners: Complete List (Updating Live)
The Producers Guild of America are announcing the winners in the motion picture and television categories for its 31st Annual Producers Guild Awards on Saturday night at the Hollywood Palladium.The PGA Awards has been one of the most reliable bellwethers for the Oscar for best picture, matching award in 21 of its past 30 years,…
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2020 PGA Awards: The Full List of Film Winners, Updating Live
As the 31st annual Producers Guild Awards get underway Saturday night at The Hollywood Palladium hotel in Los Angeles, keep an eye on this page for updates as soon as the results roll in.The winner of the PGA Awards’ top prize, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, has historically…
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Directors Guild Nominees Include Bong Joon Ho, Sam Mendes, Taika Waititi
The Directors Guild of America has nominated Bong Joon Ho for “Parasite,” Sam Mendes for “1917,” Martin Scorsese for “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and Taika Waititi for “Jojo Rabbit.”The DGAs are seen as a stepping stone to the Oscars, where the last six best director winners also went…
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2020 BAFTA Nominations Omit Actors of Color as ‘Joker’ Leads the Field
In this foreshortened, speedy awards schedule, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations for the Ee British Academy Film Awards arrived mere hours, rather than a week, before Oscar voters hand in their nominations ballots. BAFTA’s February 2 Awards show comes two days before Academy ballots are due on February 4. BAFTA has…
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Golden Globes Snubs and Surprises: What Do They Mean for the Oscars?
The Golden Globes were held last night, and despite the fact that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s reputation as a respectable voting body is less than stellar, and that Globes voters don’t vote for Oscars, the Globes do still have an impact on the Oscar race. As such, certain predicted wins that didn’t pan out…
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Nbr Spreads the Love: Does Adam Sandler Get an Oscar Boost With His Best Actor Win?
Less than 24 hours after “Marriage Story” swept the Gotham Awards with four wins, it failed to snag any major prize Tuesday from the National Board of Review.However, the Noah Baumbach divorce drama did land on the Nbr’s top ten film list. Meanwhile, Nbr’s top honor went to “The Irishman.”What does this mean for Baumbach’s…
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‘Harriet,’ ‘Jojo Rabbit,’ and ‘Parasite’ Reap Holiday Box Office Bounty
This year, responding to the pushed-up Oscar calendar and competitive bookings, distributors opened more fall movies earlier than usual. Usually a major awards player like “Roma,” “Darkest Hour” or “The Favourite” opens on the well-attended Thanksgiving weekend.That’s why the weekend saw no new breakout limited opener, but rather Netflix’s fall festival hit “The Two Popes,”…
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Distributor Filmink Presents Launches in Australia
Industry veterans, Dov Kornits and Lou Balletti have announced the launch of a new theatrical distributor operating in Australia. The company pitches itself as a one-stop shop straddling distribution and media promotion, and will begin operations with a Friday 13 December release of horror title “Wrinkles the Clown.”Kornits is publisher of Australian film magazine and…
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From the outhouse to the arthouse: how Hollywood’s kings of comedy got serious
Cinema’s former fart-gag maestros have recast themselves as social critics. Are they the ideal pundits for an age of obscenity?A little over 20 years ago, There’s Something About Mary spearheaded a new era for what was known as gross-out comedy. The film depicted Cameron Diaz’s central character with semen in her hair and Ben Stiller…
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The Love-It-or-Hate-It Trick of ‘Jojo Rabbit’ (Column)
It isn’t rare to see a love-it-or-hate-it movie; every awards season brings one or two of them. Last year we had “Green Book,” this year we have “Joker.” “Jojo Rabbit,” the movie that invites us to deplore the evil actions of the Nazis but adore the cuddly comedy of seeing them turned into over-the-top fops…