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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.

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

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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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 […]

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.

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,

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