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Best Picture: Mank (Runner-up Minari) Best Director: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland (Best Director: Runner-Up: “Leigh Whannell (The Invisible Man) Best Actor: Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round, runner-up Steven Yeun, Minari Best Actress: Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of Woman, (runner-up Amaia Aberasturi (Coven) Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari, runner-up (Amanda Seyfried, Mank) Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah, Runner-up Frank Langella (Trial of Chicago 7) Ensemble: Minari (...

Movie Screenings at Pioneer Farms Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms, 10621 Pioneer Farms Dr. Tickets $25 per car, $15 per additional passenger, available in advance at www.austinfilm.org/2021-sundance-film-festival. Thursday, Jan. 28 7pm: Son of Monarchs (D: Alexis Gambis, Narrative Feature) The cross-border migrations of the monarch butterfly flutter over this story of a family reunited and divided by a funeral. Friday, Jan. 29 7pm: The Pink Cloud (D: Iuli Gerbase, Narrative Feature) Timely sci-...

MUMBAI—On Jan. 19, awards were announced in various categories for films screened at the Jaipur International Film Festival of India 2021, at the conclusion of the five-day digital edition. Thousands of viewers from around the globe watched 266 movies from 44 countries that were screened online. The best part was that the festival was organized on schedule despite the worldwide pandemic, claim the organizers.  The organizers and jury announced the awards for the movies from India and ab...

Romanian director snubs award to protest crisis facing film industry

‘Collective’ Director Alexander Nanau On How His Romanian Story Became A Global One – Contenders International Deadline 1/9/2021 UPDATED with video: Romanian director Alexander Nanau joined Deadline’s Contenders International awards-season event to talk about his searing documentary Collective, one of the year’s most acclaimed films as winner of the European Film Award for documentary. It is also Romania’s official entry to the International Feature Film Oscar race, as well as a ...

The Painter and The Thief Norwegian filmmaker Benjamin Ree had long been fascinated by art thieves who commit high-stakes crimes with a delicate touch when a chance Google search in 2015 uncovered a botched heist in Oslo. The Czech hyperrealist painter Barbora Kysilkova had just received a distressing phone call from the owner of the Galleri Nobel. Two of her large canvases had been stolen in broad daylight, but the theft had been recorded by security cameras. The perpetrators were soon tracked...

ACADEMY AWARDS 2021: THE ANSWERS TO ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS As any movie lover knows, this year’s award season has been turned upside-down due to the coronavirus pandemic.  While the Sundance Film Festival took place before all the shutdowns, the big three fall festivals—a canceled Telluride, a diminished semi-virtual TIFF, and Venice—failed to have the usual impact to influence what films are deemed front-runners so far this year.  Also complicating matters is the large number of highly-...

Hopefuls for 93rd  Academy  Awards face a marathon, mostly virtual, unlike anything ever seen before. Best Picture One Night in Miami  Regina King presented the four stars of her feature directorial debut — Kingsley Ben-Adir, (above, who portrays Malcolm X), Eli Goree (Cassius Clay), Aldis Hodge (Jim Brown) and Leslie Odom Jr. (Sam Cooke) — with the ensemble award at the virtual San Francisco Film Awards Night on Dec. 9. The Midnight Sky Two-time Oscar winner George Clooneys eagerly aw...

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