Oscars organization expands international film eligibility, addresses AI in new rules
Read full article: Oscars organization expands international film eligibility, addresses AI in new rulesThe organization behind the Oscars is for the first time addressing the use of artificial intelligence in performances and scripts for the 2027 Academy Awards.
Films by Almodovar, Pawlikowski and Hamaguchi lead an auteur-heavy Cannes Film Festival lineup
Read full article: Films by Almodovar, Pawlikowski and Hamaguchi lead an auteur-heavy Cannes Film Festival lineupNew films by Polish filmmaker PaweÅ Pawlikowski, Japanese writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Spainās Pedro Almodovar will premiere at the 79th Cannes Film Festival next month.
'One Battle After Another' triumphs at 98th Academy Awards in coronation for Paul Thomas Anderson
Read full article: 'One Battle After Another' triumphs at 98th Academy Awards in coronation for Paul Thomas AndersonPaul Thomas Andersonās āOne Battle After Anotherā has been crowned best picture at the 98th Academy Awards.
Who will win at the Oscars? APās film writers make their predictions
Read full article: Who will win at the Oscars? APās film writers make their predictionsThe Oscar race has tightened after surprise wins at the Actor Awards, and Associated Press Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle say the top prizes now look less settled.
Park Chan-wook will lead the Cannes Film Festival jury, will be the 1st Korean in the role
Read full article: Park Chan-wook will lead the Cannes Film Festival jury, will be the 1st Korean in the rolePark Chan-wook, the Korean filmmaker of āOldboyā and āNo Other Choice,ā will head the jury at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, festival organizers announced Thursday.
Oscar-nominated co-writer of 'It Was Just an Accident' released from Iranian prison
Read full article: Oscar-nominated co-writer of 'It Was Just an Accident' released from Iranian prisonThe Oscar-nominated cowriter of āIt Was Just an Accidentā has been released from an Iranian prison 17 days after his arrest.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Iranian drama 'It Was Just an Accident' arrested in Tehran
Read full article: Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Iranian drama 'It Was Just an Accident' arrested in TehranOne of the Oscar-nominated screenwriters of the Iranian drama āIt Was Just an Accidentā has been arrested in Tehran just weeks before the Academy Awards.
At the NBR Awards, emotional speeches by Jafar Panahi and Ryan Coogler stir the room
Read full article: At the NBR Awards, emotional speeches by Jafar Panahi and Ryan Coogler stir the roomAn emotional plea by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and moving words from Ryan Coogler on the violence in Minneapolis have defined this year's National Board of Review Awards.
'Hamnet' and 'One Battle After Another' take top honors at Golden Globes
Read full article: 'Hamnet' and 'One Battle After Another' take top honors at Golden GlobesPaul Thomas Andersonās ragtag revolutionary saga āOne Battle After Anotherā and Chloe Zhao's Shakespeare drama āHamnetā took top honors at Sundayās 83rd Golden Globes, where the up-for-sale Warner Bros.
'One Battle After Another' and Jafar Panahi win big at Gotham Awards
Read full article: 'One Battle After Another' and Jafar Panahi win big at Gotham AwardsPaul Thomas Andersonās āOne Battle After Anotherā was crowned best feature film and the dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi won three awards Monday at the 35th annual Gotham Awards, a starry kickoff to the film industryās awards season.
Jafar Panahi doesn't want to be called a hero. He just wants to make films
Read full article: Jafar Panahi doesn't want to be called a hero. He just wants to make filmsThe Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been imprisoned, banned from traveling, put under house arrest and ordered to stop making films for 20 years.
France selects the Iranian drama 'It Was Just An Accident' as its Oscar submission
Read full article: France selects the Iranian drama 'It Was Just An Accident' as its Oscar submissionFrance announced Wednesday that it has selected the Iranian director Jafar Panahiās Palme dāOr-winning drama āIt Was Just An Accidentā as its submission to the Academy Awards.
Toronto International Film Festival sets lineup with Sydney Sweeney, Aziz Ansari and 'Knives Out 3'
Read full article: Toronto International Film Festival sets lineup with Sydney Sweeney, Aziz Ansari and 'Knives Out 3'Films starring Sydney Sweeney, Angelina Jolie and Aziz Ansari will premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival, festival organizers announced Monday.
Truckers' protest in Iran gathers steam and wins support from prominent dissident voices
Read full article: Truckers' protest in Iran gathers steam and wins support from prominent dissident voicesTruck drivers in Iran continued a nearly week-long strike on Wednesday, incensed by low salaries, high insurance rates, and a possible hike in fuel prices.
Iran summons French diplomat over praise of Palme d'Or-winning film
Read full article: Iran summons French diplomat over praise of Palme d'Or-winning filmIran has summoned Franceās representative in protest after the French foreign minister praised a prize-winning Iranian film as āa gesture of resistance against the Iranian regimeās oppression.ā.
Cannes awards Palme d'Or to Iranian revenge drama 'It Was Just an Accident'
Read full article: Cannes awards Palme d'Or to Iranian revenge drama 'It Was Just an Accident'Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahiās revenge thriller āIt Was Just an Accidentā has won the Palme dāOr at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.
Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi wins Cannesā top prize. Hereās what he says about his movie
Read full article: Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi wins Cannesā top prize. Hereās what he says about his movieBefore this week, the dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi hasnāt attended the premiere of one of his films in more than 15 years.
The Cannes Film Festival is over. Here's some key things that happened
Read full article: The Cannes Film Festival is over. Here's some key things that happenedThis yearās Cannes Film Festival is over, ending in dramatic fashion with a power outage ahead of the closing ceremony that bestowed the Palme dāOr trophy to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahiās film, āIt Was Just an Accident."
At Cannes opening, Robert De Niro calls Trump 'America's philistine president'
Read full article: At Cannes opening, Robert De Niro calls Trump 'America's philistine president'Much of the cinema world, including Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Quentin Tarantino, descended on the Cannes Film Festival as the French Riviera extravaganza got its 78th edition underway Tuesday.
Cannes, the global Colosseum of film, readies for 78th edition with new challenges on the horizon
Read full article: Cannes, the global Colosseum of film, readies for 78th edition with new challenges on the horizonPerhaps as much as ever, all eyes in the movie world will be on the 78th Cannes Film Festival when it gets underway Tuesday in the South of France.
Cannes Film Festival sets lineup with Ari Aster, Wes Anderson and, yes, Spike Lee
Read full article: Cannes Film Festival sets lineup with Ari Aster, Wes Anderson and, yes, Spike LeeNew films from Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, and Richard Linklater will compete for the Palme dāOr at the 78th Cannes Film Festival.
New York Film Festival sets lineup for 60th edition
Read full article: New York Film Festival sets lineup for 60th editionThe New York Film Festival will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a robust 32-film main slate and a number of hometown tales, including James Grayās Queens coming-of-age drama āArmageddon Timeā and Laura Poitrasā documentary āAll the Beauty and the Bloodshed,ā about artist Nan Goldinās battle against the Sackler family.
Aronofsky, IƱarritu films set for Venice Film Festival
Read full article: Aronofsky, IƱarritu films set for Venice Film FestivalDarren Aronofskyās āThe Whale,ā the Marilyn Monroe drama āBlonde,ā Alejandro GonzĆ”lez IƱƔrrituās āBardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truthsā and Guadagninoās āBones and All,ā with TimothĆ©e Chalamet, will all have their world premieres in competition at the Venice International Film Festival this fall.
Iran says acclaimed filmmaker to serve out 6-year sentence
Read full article: Iran says acclaimed filmmaker to serve out 6-year sentenceIranās judiciary has ordered one of the countryās leading filmmakers to serve out a six-year prison sentence from a decade ago that had never been enforced, as the government seeks to silence criticism amid growing economic turmoil and political pressure.
Iran arrests 3rd outspoken filmmaker in escalating crackdown
Read full article: Iran arrests 3rd outspoken filmmaker in escalating crackdownIranian authorities have arrested an internationally renowned filmmaker, the third Iranian director to be locked up in less than a week as the government escalates a crackdown on the countryās celebrated cinema industry.
