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Switzerland refused visas to Gaza survivors. Now their film is its Oscar choice

Who Is Still Alive , a documentary in which nine survivors of the assault on Gaza tell their stories was supposed to be filmed in director Nicolas Wadimoff’s home country of Switzerland. But when the participants were refused Swiss visas, Wadimoff and his team were left scrambling to get the film made. They found a solution in South Africa, where they had on

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Oscar Winner David Dinerstein Boards ‘Room Of The Absolute’ As EP; Award-Winning Doc Creates Portrait Of Ukrainian Artist Alla Hurenko

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner David Dinerstein has signed on to executive produce Room of the Absolute as the award-winning short documentary ramps up its Oscar campaign. The film directed by Natalie Shirinian and Elizabeth Baudouin fashions “an intimate, diaristic portrait of Ukrainian painter Alla Hurenko, professionally known as Pazza Pennello, who docu

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Doc Talk Podcast: Director Pegah Ahangarani On Her Oscar-Contending ‘Rehearsals For A Revolution’ And Trump’s Fateful Attack On Iran

Filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani’s journey to make the award-winning documentary Rehearsals for a Revolution began with the discovery of a photograph. She was visiting her grandmother’s house in Iran when she came upon an image. In the photo, “I noticed a man who was standing next to my father, but his face had been scratched out. […]

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VarietyEN

Is ‘I Play Rocky’ Original or Adapted? Stallone’s ‘Rocky’ Origin Story Faces a ‘Barbie’-Style Oscar Dilemma (EXCLUSIVE)

Sylvester Stallone wrote “Rocky” in three days. Figuring out which Oscar screenplay category the movie about him writing it belongs in is taking a lot longer. Amazon MGM Studios’ “I Play Rocky” has been the subject of multiple conversations among the studio, the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences […]

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VarietyEN

Oscars: Best Original Score — Could One of Hollywood’s Most Overlooked Composers Finally Get His Moment?

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect […

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Oscar Contender ‘Bucks Harbor’ Set To Begin Awards-Qualifying Run; Watch Clip From Pete Muller’s Impressive Directorial Debut

EXCLUSIVE: Bucks Harbor, one of the most acclaimed documentaries of the year, is about to begin its Oscar-qualifying theatrical run. The film directed by Pete Muller opens at Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film in Manhattan on December 4. The feature documentary set in a remote coastal village of Northern Maine, where generations of men […]

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XTR Joins Oscar Contender ‘Y Vân: The Lost Sounds of Saigon,’ Award-Winning Documentary About “The Quincy Jones of Saigon”

EXCLUSIVE: Global nonfiction entertainment studio XTR is coming on board Y Vân: The Lost Sounds of Saigon as the award-winning documentary ramps up its campaign for Oscar recognition. That bid was strengthened over the weekend as the film directed by Khoa Hà and Victor Velle won the Audience Award at the New Orleans Film Festival. […]

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VarietyEN

Oscar Predictions: Best Casting — ‘Being Heumann’ and ‘La Bola Negra’ Found the Year’s Boldest Discoveries. Will the Academy Reward Them?

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect […

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Toxic Homes, Terrible Dilemma: Oscar Contender ‘Still Standing’ Documents Homeowner Nightmare After LA Wildfires – SFFILM Doc Stories

To shoot their Oscar-contending film Still Standing, directors Víctor Tadashi Suárez and Livia Albeck-Ripka donned hazmat suits – for good reason. Their documentary, winner of Oscar-qualifying awards at Full Frame, the Seattle International Film Festival, and Aspen Shortsfest, explores homes left toxic by the catastrophic Eaton fire that tore through the Alt

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VarietyEN

Oscar Predictions: Production Design — Could Something as Innovative and Cool as ‘Backrooms’ Find Love?

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect […

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Renowned Filmmaker Carla Gutiérrez Joins Executive Producing Team On ICE-Themed Oscar Contender ‘Water Cooler’

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-shortlisted filmmaker Carla Gutiérrez has signed on to executive produce the award-winning short documentary Water Cooler, joining a distinguished group of talents. Along with Gutiérrez (director of Frida and editor of RBG), the ICE-themed film is executive produced by Oscar nominees Sam Pollard, Geeta Gandbhir, and Alisa Payne through their

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Sebastián Lelio Dies: Oscar-Winning ‘A Fantastic Woman’ Filmmaker Who Also Made ‘The Wonder’ & ‘The Wave’ Was 52

Sebastián Lelio, the Oscar-winning Chilean writer-director behind such pics as A Fantastic Woman, The Wonder, and The Wave, died Friday in Santiago. He was 52. His family confirmed the news in a social media post from Lelio’s partner Amalia Kassai, and local media in Chile reported that he was found dead at his home. Kassai’s […]

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‘Jane Elliott Against The World,’ Oscar-Contending Documentary On Pioneering And Polarizing Educator, Heads To Theaters

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Elliott Against the World, the Oscar-contending documentary about the Iowa educator who opened the eyes of Americans to the pernicious mechanism of racism, will soon reach theaters. Judd Ehrlich’s film, winner of the Jury Award for Best Documentary at the Bentonville Film Festival, opens December 4 at The Quad in New York City […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Dear Oscars: Don’t Let Laika and ‘Wildwood’ Fail. There Is No Backup Stop-Motion Studio Waiting in the Wings

Travis Knight built 231 puppets and 136 sets to make “Wildwood.” Over the Laika film’s opening three-day weekend, audiences at 2,942 theaters bought enough tickets to cover roughly a 10th of what the film reportedly cost. “Wildwood” opened to $12.2 million, behind DC’s “Clayface” and the Elizabeth Holmes documentary nobody can stop talking about. It […]

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Duplass Brothers Board Jan Naszewski’s Oscar-Qualifying Short ‘Exam’ As Executive Producers

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Duplass, Mel Elsyn and Jay Duplass have joined Jan Naszewski’s short comedy film Exam as executive producers through the Duplass Brothers’ Productions label. To folks on the international film sales and distribution circuit, Naszewski is known as the congenial founding head of Warsaw-based company New Europe Film Sales. The industry veteran,

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Matt Damon Reveals Wife Suffered a Brain Aneurysm and Had Surgery the ‘Week Before the Oscars’ Where ‘Oppenheimer’ Won Best Picture

Matt Damon revealed in a new GQ magazine cover story that his wife, Luciana, suffered a brain aneurysm in early 2024 and went into surgery just one week before the 96th Academy Awards, where the Damon-starring “Oppenheimer” swept the night with Oscars for best picture, director (Christopher Nolan), actor (Cillian Murphy), supporting actor (Robert Downey […]

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VarietyEN

How ‘Frontline’ Turned Into an Oscar-Winning Documentary Juggernaut

This year’s documentary Oscar race will pit a cringe comedy maestro against the most decorated documentary film producer of the past decade. While plenty of ink has been spilled over Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s form-shattering Elizabeth Holmes curio “You Can See Everything,” it would be a mistake to count out Raney Aronson-Rath. Aronson-Rath has […]

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‘The Bend In The River’ Trailer: In Robb Moss Oscar Contender, Friends Reunite For Possibly Final Journey Down The Colorado

EXCLUSIVE: One of the most acclaimed documentaries of the year – nearly 50 years in the making – arrives on Netflix December 4. The Bend in the River, the Oscar-contending film directed by Robb Moss, marks the culmination of a cinematic project that began in the late 1970s with Riverdogs, which documented a rafting trip […]

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VarietyEN

Is This the Gayest Oscar Season Ever?

Gay men love the Oscars. But the Oscars haven’t always shown the same love back. It’s been more than 20 years since “Brokeback Mountain,” after a charmed precursor season, lost the best picture trophy to “Crash,” and though there have been breakthroughs since then — “Moonlight,” to name the most famous of them — there […]

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Em 'Cavalo selvagem nove', John Malkovich é favorito para ganhar seu 1º Oscar: 'É uma sacanagem'

John Malkovich é favorito a 1º Oscar com 'Cavalo selvagem nove' Dá para acreditar que John Malkovich, do alto de seus 72 anos e inúmeros personagens icônicos, nunca ganhou um Oscar? Tudo deve mudar com "Cavalo selvagem nove", que estreia nos cinemas brasileiros nesta quinta-feira (5). g1 já viu: John Malkovich e Sam Rockwell elevam fórmula melancólica No nov

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Meryl Streep On How Fellow Oscar Winner Introduced Her To ‘My Undesirable Friends’ Documentary: “I Was Just Absolutely Entranced’

EXCLUSIVE: Meryl Streep has become a major fan of Julia Loktev’s epic two-part documentary My Undesirable Friends, an examination of brave women journalists in Russia who paid a heavy price for daring to report the truth in their country. The three-time Oscar winner serves as an executive producer on My Undesirable Friends: Part II – […]

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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Review: Oscar Winner Takashi Yamazaki’s Vision Of Japan’s Most Iconic Monster Is Back Bigger Than Ever Battling An Even Deadlier Foe

With 2023’s monster hit Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki became only the second director after Stanley Kubrick and 2001: A Space Odyssey to take home the Visual Effects Academy Award, and his film became the only Godzilla movie in 70 years to win an Oscar. Naturally, that all calls for a sequel, doesn’t it? The […]

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Magnolia Pictures To Qualify ‘Just Look Up’ For Oscars; Documentary Examines Climate Activist (And Standup Comedian) Michael Greenberg

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures has set an Oscar-qualifying run for Just Look Up, a documentary about Michael Greenberg, “the brash, relentless founder of Climate Defiance” who is using innovative and confrontational tactics to urge action on global warming. The film directed by Betsy Hershey and Emma Wall and executive produced by Oscar winner Adam McKay and [

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