As the 2023 Cannes Film Festival hits its midway point, I have three main takeaways from its first half: (1) None of the high-profile films that have already screened — among them Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Todd Haynes’ May December and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest — …

No book could ever fully capture the beautiful, ugly, inexplicable madness that is the Cannes Film Festival — but that hasn’t stopped a handful from trying. Here are THR’s executive editor (awards) and resident film-book bibliophile’s picks for the five best. 1. Two Weeks in the Midday Sun: A Cannes …

At the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off Tuesday, six titles — not counting midnight screenings or the TV series The Idol — will screen “out of competition,” meaning with a big red carpet premiere and the heavy media coverage that accompanies one, but without eligibility for festival prizes. They …

In response to several controversial campaigns last Oscar season — most notably the social media-centric and event-hosting efforts of A-listers in support of Andrea Riseborough, who landed an unexpected best actress Oscar nom for the little-seen indie To Leslie — the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and …

Patrick Harrison, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ longtime top official in New York, has been let go by the organization, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The exit of Harrison was communicated to the Academy’s roughly 1,000 Tri-State area members in an email sent last Friday by Academy …

This poll displays the Oscar votes — and candid rationales for them — of a male member of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences’ 648-person producers department, as communicated to THR in return for a assure of anonymity. THR neither endorses these views nor means that they’re consultant …

The filmmakers Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reginald Hudlin had been celebrated on Wednesday night on the eighth pre-Oscar dinner of Icon Mann, a media and consulting firm run by Tamara Houston that’s devoted to honoring the achievements of artists of coloration and offering a gathering place for highly effective Black males, …

PLEASE NOTE: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s govt editor of awards, Scott Feinberg, displays Feinberg’s greatest try and predict the conduct of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, not his private preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and trade insiders, …

Not all 160,000 or so members of the actors union SAG-AFTRA are additionally members of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, however the overwhelming majority of the 1,302 actors who’re voting members of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences are members of SAG-AFTRA. That being the …

If there was any doubt that Tom Cruise is the largest film star in Hollywood, that was eradicated on Monday afternoon on the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences’ 41st Oscar Nominees Luncheon, the place the manufacturing nominee for High Gun: Maverick — making his first look of the …

“I’m the only Oscar nominee who sells yogurt [Activia] that makes you shit,” cracked Jamie Lee Curtis throughout a career-retrospective dialog with movie historian Leonard Maltin on Saturday night time on the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara. The newly minted best supporting actress Oscar nominee for Everything Everywhere All at …

“That representation that I longed for when I was a young actor coming up? To be able to offer that, to be given the opportunity to offer that, is a dream come true,” Angela Bassett mentioned throughout a career-retrospective interview on Thursday previous to receiving the Santa Barbara International Film …