Filmmakers

Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos died at age 76 on Jan. 24 at a hospital near Athens. Angelopoulos had suffered serious head injuries after being hit by a motorcycle while crossing…

Chris Colfer: 1 of Few Openly Gay Actors (with upcoming movie and play) at Golden Globes plus Kristen Wiig, Oscar fave Octavia Spencer.

Michelle Williams and Elle Macpherson: Golden Globes’ Best Actress and Top Model as Marilyn Monroe spirit revisited.

The Artist‘s Michel Hazanavicius is the only first-timer among the five nominated directors for the 2012 Directors Guild of America Awards. Hazanavicius’ competition consists of Woody Allen for Midnight in…

Martin Scorsese: British Academy (BAFTA) Fellowship Recipient is the latest male, British/American film industry talent so honored.

Barry Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby and Gene Lockhart in Going My Way Leo McCarey is Turner Classic Movies’ Director of the Evening this Christmas. Considering that McCarey was an ardent Catholic,…

Clint Eastwood: Gay Marriage support or merely IDGAF? + Family reality show may feature ‘most fabulous’ cameo by two-time Best Director Oscar winner.

TCM Cruise: Oscar Winners Eva Marie Saint and Ernest Borgnine + Hitchcock Star Tippi Hedren plus Turner hosts Robert Osborne and Ben Mankiewicz.

Mike Leigh vs Isabelle Adjani: Berlin Film Festival getting ‘Outspoken’ President with no qualms about badmouthing 2-time Best Actress Oscar nominee.

Ken Russell, best known for his movies featuring sex-starved nuns, nude male wrestling, “offensive” religious symbolism, and kaleidoscopic musical numbers, died Sunday, Nov. 27, ’11, in the United Kingdom. Russell…

Who is The Iron Lady? Ask Meryl Streep, who plays Margaret Thatcher in the Phyllida Lloyd-directed biopic. Oscar veteran Meryl Streep may have her name already engraved on the Best…

Tate Taylor & James Earl Jones, Michael Fassbender & Steve McQueen: Oscar hopefuls and honorees at Governors Awards.

Filmmaker/animator Sarah Watt, winner of the Australian Film Institute’s (AFI) Best Director and Best Screenplay awards for the 2006 drama Look Both Ways died at age 53 on Nov. 4.…

Cam Gigandet, 5 Star Day Directed by Danny Buday (photo), and starring Twilight‘s Cam Gigandet and Sucker Punch‘s Jena Malone,the psychological drama 5 Star Day opened via Breaking Glass Pictures…

Gilbert Cates, best known as the man behind a record 14 Academy Awards ceremonies, died at age 77 on Sept. 31 in the Los Angeles of Westwood. Cates reportedly had…

Women Directors’ Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Presence: Nadine Labaki submission Where Do We Go Now? Today it was announced that Patty Jenkins, whose Monster earned Charlize Theron a Best…

Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai. Orson Welles’ career as an actor was both fruitful and frustrating. From Citizen Kane (1941) to Someone to Love (1987),…

Young Alfred Hitchcock movie? Betty Compson in The White Shadow, which was actually directed by Graham Cutts. Among other duties, Hitchcock wrote and edited the 1923 film. About thirty minutes…

Silvio Narizzano, best known for the Swinging London comedy-drama Georgy Girl, died July 26. Narizzano was 84. Based on Margaret Forster’s novel, and starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, James Mason,…

Filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis, best known for the 1964 Oscar-nominated drama Zorba the Greek, died of complications from a heart attack and chronic respiratory problems early Monday at an Athens hospital.…

Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller: I Confess with Montgomery Clift. Alfred Hitchcock is the focus of tonight’s programming on Turner Classic Movies, which will be showing five of the director’s films: Stage…

Tim Hetherington Killed by mortar fire in Libya: Oscar-Nominated Restrepo Co-Director, Photojournalist was covering civil war.

Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sidney Lumet, Murder on the Orient Express. Among Lumet’s most notable big-screen efforts are the U.S. justice system dramas 12 Angry Men and The Verdict; the…

Dawn Hudson The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is replacing retiring executive director Bruce Davis with two people: former Film Independent head Dawn Hudson and long-time Academy executive…