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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 […]

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,

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

EXCLUSIVE: Noel Braham, founder of the Oscar Micheaux Film and Media Institute, has set plans to launch The Micheaux Roadshow 2027, a touring theatrical program for independent features and short films. The Roadshow will take indie filmmakers across the country for screenings of their work. The Roadshow will begin in Los Angeles in April 2027 […]

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

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 – […]

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 […]

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 [

It’s 3 p.m. at the Sunset Tower Hotel, the purgatory hour between lunch and dinner at one of Hollywood’s favorite places to hammer out deals and gaze at stars. Jordan Firstman decides it’s late enough in the day for his first Aperol spritz, which leads to some reminiscing. It was a decade ago that über-producer […]

‘The Bad Sisters,’ ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ and ‘Artificial’ actress will be feted March 11 in Los Angeles.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a clip from Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s French-produced political thriller Minotaur. Minotaur premiered at Cannes, where it won the Grand Prix, and has since been selected for Telluride, Toronto, New York, and the BFI London Film Festival. The film has also landed several Gotham noms, including Best International Feature, Best Dir

Viesturs Kairišs also shares Herzog and Bergman inspirations for the film, opening Tallinn and starring Kārlis Arnolds Avots as Uljana Semjonova, the first non-U.S. woman in the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Hot Springs, Arkansas is known for many things – as the childhood home of Bill Clinton, as the former site of Major League Baseball’s spring training (in the era of Babe Ruth), for its beautiful national park, and for its mineral springs and the splendid early 20th century bathhouses built to accommodate legions of spa-goers. […]

From the judging process to the seven watches that caught our attention, here’s a closer look at the GPHG 2026, with two Singaporeans among this year’s jurors.

Cher is responding with grace to Michael Douglas’ viral diss over her 1988 Oscar win for “Moonstruck.” A representative for the music and acting icon told Entertainment Weekly point blank: “Cher adores Michael Douglas.” At the 60th Academy Awards in April 1988, Cher took home the prize for best actress over Douglas’ “Fatal Attraction” co-star […]

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 […

The 'Misty Green' filmmaker opens up on "crying like a bitch" in therapy, picking up the pieces after his multi-million dollar divorce and cleaning up his vices: "I haven’t watched porn in five, six years."

La manifestation se veut incontournable pour les productions françaises prétendant à la statuette du meilleur film international.

When Kelly Stewart Harcourt (who is also an Executive Producer) was told about the idea of making a movie about her father, the Oscar winning legend James Stewart, her reaction was that it might be pretty boring since her dad didn’t live a life full of scandals, drugs, drinking or other staples of biopics about […]

Jordanian filmmaker Zain Duraie believes Arab cinema has spent too long returning to familiar subjects. Stories of war, poverty and political upheaval have shaped how the region is represented on screen, while more intimate struggles have received less attention. With her debut feature, Sink , Duraie wanted to address one of those neglected subjects: mental

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 […

The actress returns to the stage after 11 years, alongside Stephen Dillane and Luke Thompson, in Robert Icke’s adaptation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's political Stasi thriller.

The film, which counts Joel and Ethan Coen among its writers, stars Olivier Award winner Patsy Ferran, Golden Globe winner Josh O’Connor, Golden Globe winner Damian Lewis and Oscar nominee Lesley Manville.

EXCLUSIVE: Watermelon Pictures has set a November 27 U.S. theatrical release for Switzerland’s 2027 Oscars entry Who Is Still Alive and posted the North American trailer. Conceived and directed by filmmaker Nicolas Wadimoff, the documentary revolves around nine former Gaza residents now scattered as refugees throughout the Middle East and Europe, unsure whet

The year of Sandra Hüller continues. Hüller is heading to the supporting actress race for “Fatherland,” Variety has confirmed exclusively. Mubi, which is handling the U.S. release of Paweł Pawlikowski’s black-and-white postwar drama, will campaign both Hüller and co-star Hanns Zischler in the supporting categories at the Oscars and across the awards circuit.

Hollywood Ventures Group — the film production outfit and consultancy co-founded by former Amazon MGM Studios executive Glenn S. Gainor and industry veteran Sandy Climan — has boarded the documentary short “Green Lava,” the first Vatican-produced film to be submitted to the Oscars. Gainor, Climan, Nelly Kim and Nabeel Laher are joining John Shufeldt MD […]

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Double Oscar nominee James Longley, who won the top award at Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival on Saturday with “Mohabat,” will focus next on the Rohingya genocide. Longley – who was Oscar nominated for “Iraq in Fragments” and “Sari’s Mother” – tells Variety at the Czech event, “I’ve already filmed act one of this project, working […]

HQ sobre petróleo e tiras amapaenses entram na disputa por principal troféu nacional dos quadrinhos. Divulgação O talento amapaense conquistou o cenário nacional dos quadrinhos. A obra "A Voz Da Foz: O Lucro É Deles, O Prejuízo É Nosso" e a página "Os Desenhos da Thai" foram indicadas à 38ª edição do Troféu HQMix, considerado o "Oscar" dos quadrinhos brasile

« Elle ou il s’est fait remarquer. » Coup de projecteur sur une femme ou un homme qui a marqué l’actualité. Cette semaine, l’humoriste, acteur et réalisateur canadien qui connaît un énorme succès avec son film sur Elizabeth Holmes, ancienne gloire de la Silicon Valley condamnée pour escroquerie.

Lázaro Ramos comenta expectativa sobre indicação de "Feito Pipa" ao Oscar 2027 "Feito Pipa", filme cearense gravado em Quixadá e escolhido para representar o Brasil na disputa por uma vaga na categoria de Melhor Filme Internacional do Oscar 2027, estreia em todo o País no dia 5 de novembro. Nesta sexta-feira (30), o longa teve pré-estreia oficial em Fortalez

Odysseus spent 10 years getting home. Universal is giving “The Odyssey” about 10 weeks to get its name on a ballot. The studio’s official Oscar campaign for Christopher Nolan’s epic kicks off in earnest the week of Nov. 9, Variety has learned, with a run of screenings and Q & As that puts Nolan, producer […]

EXCLUSIVE: To Hold a Mountain, the Sundance award-winning documentary that’s a strong contender for Oscar recognition, will soon reach U.S. theaters. Submarine Deluxe announced it will open the film directed by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić on December 16 at Film Forum in New York, with a national rollout to follow. The documentary – chosen […]

Barbara Kopple completes her trilogy on labor rights with “Union Town.” It follows US delivery and warehouse workers employed by UPS and Amazon, as well as app-based “deliveristas,” as they fight for a better future. “I guess I’ve always been drawn to stories about people fighting for dignity and fairness in their lives,” she tells […]

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof and Iranian-born Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat pushed back on the idea of a standalone Oscar category for exiled filmmakers, speaking at the Tokyo International Film Festival as Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund gave its first five short films their Japan premiere. The question followed the Academy’s recent rule c

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Oscar-nominated actor Barbara Barrie died Wednesday at her New York City home with medical assistance.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Tony-winning activist-playwright V, formerly known as Eve Ensler, have signed on as executive producers of Pranav Bhasin’s Oscar-qualified Indian short “We Were Here.” They join Andrew Scott as the film gears up for awards season. The New Yorker has acquired the short and will premiere it on the magazine’s YouTube channels. […]

Wildwood on upea ja synkkä animaatioelokuva, joka kaappaa mukaansa.

Empreendedora cria escola de ourivesaria e leva joia ao Oscar Uma joia criada em São Paulo ganhou projeção internacional ao integrar o visual da atriz Alice Carvalho no Oscar de 2026. Por trás da peça está a ourives e empreendedora Luiza Simões, que transformou a paixão pela joalheria em um ecossistema de negócios que reúne marca própria, loja física e uma e

Barbara Barrie, the Oscar-, Emmy- and Tony-nominated actress who starred in the original production of “Company” and in films including “Breaking Away,” died Wednesday in Manhattan. She was 95. Her daughter confirmed her death to the New York Times and said Barrie’s death was medically assisted following a terminal cancer diagnosis. On stage, Barrie made […]

EXCLUSIVE: The inaugural West Hollywood Human Rights Film Festival is set to unfold November 20 and 21, a cinematic showcase of “award-winning documentaries on global human rights, social justice and civil liberties.” In addition to Oscar-contending nonfiction features and shorts, the new festival will highlight one important narrative feature – a 20th anniv

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Visar Morina’s “Shame and Money.” The film won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, which qualifies it to compete for the Oscar for international feature film under new Academy rules. Oscilloscope is planning a theatrical release in early [

International distributors continue to fall for “Ulya.” The Latvian Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film has closed North America (New Mountain Films), France (Destiny), Italy (Invisible Carpet), Slovakia (ASFK), former Yugoslavia (Five Star Distribution), Estonia (Hea Film), Lithuania (GPI), MENA (Teleview), Finland (Cinema Orion), Poland (1

The Academy plans to keep taking the Oscars global, from recruiting members in underrepresented countries to streaming the ceremony free on YouTube, its leadership said in Tokyo, where CEO Bill Kramer said the share of members living outside the U.S. has grown from around 5% to 25% in a decade. Kramer was speaking at an […]

El nuevo film de Pawel Pawlikowski fue elegido para representar a Polonia en los premios de la Academia de Hollywood; LA NACION dialogó con su protagonista, Sandra Hüller, acerca de su trabajo como Erika, la hija del escritor Thomas Mann

Kramer says international membership growth, the Oscars-YouTube deal, and a new festival-qualifying pathway to nomination are all part of the organization’s expanding worldwide ambitions.

Nach zwei Geburten ist nichts mehr wie zuvor, findet US-Schauspielerin Jennifer Lawrence. Trotzdem will sie wie eine Frau wirken, die alles im Griff hat.

The Oscars will keep honoring human-driven work as AI spreads through filmmaking, Academy president Lynette Howell Taylor tells Variety in Tokyo, while the Academy’s leadership expects to keep refining the international feature rules in the first year of a new route that lets festivals qualify films. Howell Taylor, Academy CEO Bill Kramer, chief membership,

Nuisance Bear has become one of the most honored nonfiction films of the year, beginning with its world premiere in January right up to this very day. At Sundance, the feature directed by Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman won the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary, and on Tuesday it earned a spot on […]