2015 European Film Awards winners and nominations Best European Film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. En Duva Satt På En Gren Och Funderade På Tillvaron. Sweden,…
The Emigrants with Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow. From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, the New York Film Critics Circle handed out top awards to a couple of…
Bryce Dallas Howard. Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World? Howard possibly the next female star in Jurassic Park franchise Bryce Dallas Howard, Rush director Ron Howard’s daughter perhaps best known…
Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos in ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color.’ Lesbian love story Blue Is the Warmest Color wins Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or The 2013 Cannes Film Festival…
Critics’ favorite films: Kathryn Bigelow, seen here with cinematographer Barry Ackroyd while shooting The Hurt Locker, is this awards season top Best Director choice. The clear Academy Award front-runner, Bigelow…
List of individuals who have signed (as of Oct. 7) the “Free Roman Polanski” petition organized by the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD): Michael A. Russ Erika Abrams,…
Fetish Festival: Featured movies include Modern Love Is Automatic by Zach Clark (top); The Pawn Layman by Frank-Peter Lenze (bottom). Kiel’s Fetish Film Festival, which runs from Oct. 29-31 at…
German ‘Schindler’s List’ Tops Lola Awards + Bruce Lee Biopic Tops Hong Kong Film Awards Inspired by real-life events, the World War II drama John Rabe won the 2009 German…
School film The Class. School film wins Palme d’Or: French drama ‘The Class’ Laurent Cantet’s “school film” The Class was the Palme d’Or winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival,…
The Wind That Shakes the Barley with Cillian Murphy. British-Irish Politics Wins Palme d’Or 13th-time lucky: Veteran Ken Loach’s British-Irish political drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a depiction…
Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In / La piel que habito Christophe Honoré & Catherine Deneuve to close Cannes Film Festival Christophe Honoré’s…
Silvio Orlando and Alba Rohrwacher in Giovanna’s Father. Matteo Garrone’s organized crime drama Gomorrah (above, top photo), based on Roberto Saviano’s polemical book, took top honors at the 2009 David…
Paolo Sorrentino’s mafia thriller is the surprise big winner at this year’s Italian Oscars, while a Hollywood superstar is an odd honorary award recipient.