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‘Get Out’ Leads 2017 Gotham Awards Nominations
“Get Out,” writer-director Jordan Peele’s surprise smash of a scary movie, led the pack of nominations for the 2017 Gotham Awards, Independent Filmmaker Project’s annual ceremony honoring indie film....
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Gotham Awards Once Again Remind of the Oscar Season Possibilities
It’s rather wonderful that the New York-based Independent Filmmaker Project is always the one to get the awards season ball rolling with its nominations for the annual Gotham Awards. The organization’s...
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AFI Fest Adds Galas for ‘Call Me by Your Name,’‘Disaster Artist,’‘Hostiles’
The American Film Institute has added a trio of awards season contenders as centerpiece galas for next month’s AFI Fest — “Call Me by Your Name,” James Franco’s “The Disaster Artist,” and Christian...
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MoMA to Open Contenders Series With ‘Three Billboards’
New York’s Museum of Modern Art has set the initial lineup for The Contenders, its annual screenings of awards-season buzzmagnets, opening the series in November with Martin McDonagh’s “Three...
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Oscar Foreign-Language Entries Break Barriers
This year’s record long list for the Academy’s foreign-language film race is good news for an award that, however much the Academy attempts to tinker with it, can only be an imperfectly selective...
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‘Call Me by Your Name’: A Global Effort to Create a Simple, Well-Told Tale
It takes a lot of work to make something simple. Exhibit A: “Call Me by Your Name,” the coming-of-age first romance of a 17-year-old American in 1983 Italy. “We had a little movie about the simplest...
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Coming-of-Age Dramas Make Mad Dash for Awards Season Glory
The coming-of-age genre is nothing new to Oscar season. From recent best picture nominees “Juno” and “An Education” to classics such as “Dead Poets Society” or “American Graffiti,” the universal truths...
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Spirit Awards Nominations Led by ‘Call Me by Your Name’
Coming-of-age drama “Call Me by Your Name” has scored six Spirit Award nominations, with “Good Time” and “Get Out” taking five each. “Lady Bird” and “The Rider” each earned four noms and “I, Tonya,”...
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Spirit Awards: ‘Call Me by Your Name,’‘Get Out’ Soar, ‘Shape of Water’...
Film Independent’s annual Spirit Awards has become less the consolation opportunity for small films and performances destined to lose at the Oscars the very next night, and more like a trial run. Five...
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‘Call Me by Your Name,’‘Darkest Hour’ Soar in Limited Openings
Awards contenders “Call Me by Your Name” and Gary Oldman’s “Darkest Hour” have both scored impressive platform openings over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Coming of age drama “Call Me by Your...
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‘Call Me by Your Name’: A Love Story — and a Meditation on the Closet
“Call Me by Your Name” is a love story that seems, on the surface (and a ripe and gorgeous surface it is), to be all about the lyrical sensations of erotic and emotional discovery. The back-and-forth...
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‘The Disaster Artist’ Dazzles, ‘Call Me by Your Name’ Stays Strong
James Franco’s “The Disaster Artist” has been anything but a box office disaster, launching impressively with $1.2 million at 19 locations for a $64,254 per screen average for A24. The weekend saw two...
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Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. Crowns ‘Call Me by Your Name’ Best Picture of...
The Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. has named “Call Me by Your Name” the best film of 2017. Timothée Chalamet (“Call Me by Your Name”) and Sally Hawkins (“The Shape of Water”) won top acting honors....
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‘I, Tonya’ Filmmakers Rejected Indie Rock Darling Sufjan Stevens’‘Tonya...
Indie-rock hero Sufjan Stevens is effectively running against himself in the Oscars’ best original song category, with two prominently featured and equally respected tunes in “Call Me By Your Name”...
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Peter Debruge’s 10 Best Films of 2017
2017 was the year of fanboys and wonder women, as the former grew almost deafening in their zeal (permitting no dissent on the unquestioned genius of the DC, Marvel, Star Wars and Apes franchises, even...
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International Players React to Fox-Disney Deal With Envy, Fear
Admiration, uncertainty, and downright fear rippled through entertainment circles far beyond American shores in response to the historic hookup between two already major global players, Disney and 21st...
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Palm Springs Fest Encourages Awards Season Binge Watching
Long known for its foreign film riches, the Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival has lately adopted a “best of the fests” approach to take advantage of its prime spot on the calendar. Its annual awards...
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Engaged Filmmakers Follow Tradition of Speaking Truth to Power Via Cinema
When Donald Trump won the presidency in November 2016, it wasn’t just the end of the Obama Era; for the great majority of those in Hollywood, it was the beginning of the Trump Resistance. Hollywood is...
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‘Lady Bird,’‘Call Me by Your Name,’‘I, Tonya’ Screener Copies Leaked to...
Three indie movies vying for Oscar laurels — “Lady Bird,” “Call Me by Your Name,” and “I, Tonya” — popped up on piracy file-sharing networks Tuesday. The movies were evidently ripped from...
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Ryan Tedder, Sufjan Stevens, Chris Cornell Among Rockers Making a Play for Oscar
The rock world is seemingly fielding ever more contenders in the Oscars’ Best Original Song category, with artists including Sufjan Stevens, Elvis Costello, OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder, Sara Bareilles,...
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