After years of making films in his native Japan, writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi found unexpected global success in 2021 with “Drive My Car.”
Adapted and expanded from short stories by Haruki Murakami, it’s an exquisite drama about a grieving theater director staging a multilingual “Uncle Vanya,” and his relationship with the pensive young woman employed to drive his cherry-red Saab.
Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, where Hamaguchi and co-writer Takamasa Oe won the Best Screenplay prize, “Drive My Car” went on to dominate the fall festival circuit. The film clocked up an astonishing four nominations at the 2022 Oscars, including Best Picture and a Best Director nod for Hamaguchi, and went on to win Japan’s first Oscar for Best International Film.
Hamaguchi’s latest film, “Evil Does Not Exist” is to some extent a response to that overwhelming acclaim. “I knew that I wanted my next work to be very...
Adapted and expanded from short stories by Haruki Murakami, it’s an exquisite drama about a grieving theater director staging a multilingual “Uncle Vanya,” and his relationship with the pensive young woman employed to drive his cherry-red Saab.
Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, where Hamaguchi and co-writer Takamasa Oe won the Best Screenplay prize, “Drive My Car” went on to dominate the fall festival circuit. The film clocked up an astonishing four nominations at the 2022 Oscars, including Best Picture and a Best Director nod for Hamaguchi, and went on to win Japan’s first Oscar for Best International Film.
Hamaguchi’s latest film, “Evil Does Not Exist” is to some extent a response to that overwhelming acclaim. “I knew that I wanted my next work to be very...
- 4/30/2024
- by John Forde
- Indiewire
The New York Film Critics Circle is so determined to be one of the first groups to weigh in with its picks for the best of the year that the date of its decision-making keeps getting advanced. But how much influence does it have on the last group to be heard from — the motion picture academy which will reveal the Oscar winners 101 days from now on March 10, 2024? Let’s take a look back at the last dozen years of the NYFCC picks — that’s how far you have to go to find the last instance of this group’s Best Picture repeating at the Oscars — and see how well (or not), these early kudos previewed the Academy Awards overall.
See 2023 New York Film Critics Circle Awards: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon wins Best Picture, Actress
Last year, the New Yorkers teared up over “Tar,” awarding it both Best Picture and...
See 2023 New York Film Critics Circle Awards: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon wins Best Picture, Actress
Last year, the New Yorkers teared up over “Tar,” awarding it both Best Picture and...
- 11/29/2023
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
More is in store for fans of Disney+’s first Japanese horror-thriller series, Gannibal. The House of Mouse revealed Thursday that the hit Japanese original has been renewed for a second season, dropping a teaser trailer that offers a peek at what’s to come (see it below).
The first season of Gannibal was a pillar title for Disney+’s push into Japanese live-action series production. Following its release in December 2022, it became the streaming service’s most-watched locally produced original series in Japan ever. Gannibal‘s star, Yuya Yagira, also earned a best actor nomination at the Busan International Film Festival’s upcoming Asia Contents Awards & Global Ott Awards.
Starring some of the biggest names in the Japanese screen industry, Gannibal‘s second season will see the return of Yagira as police officer Daigo Agawa; Show Kasamatsu as Keisuke Goto, the head of the Goto family; and Riho Yoshioka as Yuki Agawa,...
The first season of Gannibal was a pillar title for Disney+’s push into Japanese live-action series production. Following its release in December 2022, it became the streaming service’s most-watched locally produced original series in Japan ever. Gannibal‘s star, Yuya Yagira, also earned a best actor nomination at the Busan International Film Festival’s upcoming Asia Contents Awards & Global Ott Awards.
Starring some of the biggest names in the Japanese screen industry, Gannibal‘s second season will see the return of Yagira as police officer Daigo Agawa; Show Kasamatsu as Keisuke Goto, the head of the Goto family; and Riho Yoshioka as Yuki Agawa,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Evil Does Not Exist,” the new film by the Oscar-winning auteur Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, has sold to several additional territories. The film will world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival, will have its North America premiere as a special presentation at Toronto, and will go on to screen at New York and San Sebastian.
Hamaguchi received Oscar nominations last year for directing and adapted screenplay, shared with Takamasa Ôe, for “Drive My Car.” The film was also nominated in the best picture category and won the international feature film Oscar.
M-Appeal, which is handling world sales on “Evil Does Not Exist,” has closed distribution deals with Pandora Film Distribution for Germany, GreenNarae for Korea, Polyfilm for Austria, and Mars Film for Turkey. All deals have a strong focus on theatrical release.
The film has already been sold in North America (Sideshow), U.K. and Ireland (Modern Films), France (Diaphana...
Hamaguchi received Oscar nominations last year for directing and adapted screenplay, shared with Takamasa Ôe, for “Drive My Car.” The film was also nominated in the best picture category and won the international feature film Oscar.
M-Appeal, which is handling world sales on “Evil Does Not Exist,” has closed distribution deals with Pandora Film Distribution for Germany, GreenNarae for Korea, Polyfilm for Austria, and Mars Film for Turkey. All deals have a strong focus on theatrical release.
The film has already been sold in North America (Sideshow), U.K. and Ireland (Modern Films), France (Diaphana...
- 8/28/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
One the occasion of “Whale Bones” screening in Bifan, Takamasa Oe talks about his success with “Drive My Car”, the impact of Sns apps, loneliness and depression, his cooperation in the scriptwriting with Kaito Kikuchi, casting and working with Motoki Ochia, Ano and Mayuu Yokota, the state of Japanese cinema nowadays, and other topics.
You can also check the review of the film Here.
You can also check the review of the film Here.
- 7/8/2023
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Takamasa Oe has become worldwide famous as the co-writer of “Drive My Car”, but also has a noticeable career as a filmmaker, with titles like “Nice to Meet You” and “Athlete” being the ones that stand out. Now, he comes up with his newest work which he has both directed and written along with Kaito Kikuchi, “Whale Bones”, a dark story that explores the world of social apps.
“Whale Bones” is screening at Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
One day, Mamiya is informed by his girlfriend that there is someone else in her life, essentially breaking up with him on the spot, and to his shattering surprise. Mamiya cannot handle the whole thing and falls into depression, a status that a colleague who seems to be the closest thing he has to a friend, immediately realizes and tries to help him. His suggestion is to check a dating app, which...
“Whale Bones” is screening at Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
One day, Mamiya is informed by his girlfriend that there is someone else in her life, essentially breaking up with him on the spot, and to his shattering surprise. Mamiya cannot handle the whole thing and falls into depression, a status that a colleague who seems to be the closest thing he has to a friend, immediately realizes and tries to help him. His suggestion is to check a dating app, which...
- 7/7/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The 2022 Oscars were quite the ride.
In a dramatic ceremony that saw Will Smith hit Chris Rock on stage, sci-fi epic Dune swept the board with the most prizes.
Apple TV+ movie Coda was the surprise Best Film winner, beating off competition from former favourite, Netflix’s The Power of the Dog.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye’s Jessica Chastain took home the gong for Best Actress, and Smith won for King Richard. Watch his tearful acceptance speech here.
Ahead of the 2023 ceremony, find the full list of 2022 Oscar winners below.
Best Picture
Belfast
Coda Winner
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye Winner
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
Best Actor...
In a dramatic ceremony that saw Will Smith hit Chris Rock on stage, sci-fi epic Dune swept the board with the most prizes.
Apple TV+ movie Coda was the surprise Best Film winner, beating off competition from former favourite, Netflix’s The Power of the Dog.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye’s Jessica Chastain took home the gong for Best Actress, and Smith won for King Richard. Watch his tearful acceptance speech here.
Ahead of the 2023 ceremony, find the full list of 2022 Oscar winners below.
Best Picture
Belfast
Coda Winner
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye Winner
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
Best Actor...
- 3/8/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
The Japanese horror thriller series Gannibal, which is based on the best-selling manga by Masaaki Ninomiya, is now available to watch on the Hulu streaming service in the United States, and can be found on Disney+ outside of the U.S. To help you decide whether or not this is a show you would like to watch, a new trailer has been unveiled and can be seen in the embed above.
Written by Takamasa Oe, the Gannibal adaptation is set in the fictional Japanese village of Kuge and centers on newly hired local police officer Daigo Agawa. While things start off promisingly for the new arrival, a series of alarming events begin to unfold that will lead Daigo to the horrifying realization that something is deeply wrong with the village and those who live there. Thrown into a hostile environment with suspense around every corner, will the latest police officer...
Written by Takamasa Oe, the Gannibal adaptation is set in the fictional Japanese village of Kuge and centers on newly hired local police officer Daigo Agawa. While things start off promisingly for the new arrival, a series of alarming events begin to unfold that will lead Daigo to the horrifying realization that something is deeply wrong with the village and those who live there. Thrown into a hostile environment with suspense around every corner, will the latest police officer...
- 12/30/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The New York Film Critics Circle is so determined to be one of the first groups to weigh in with its picks for the best of the year that the date of its decision-making keeps getting advanced. But how much influence does it have on the last group to be heard from — the motion picture academy which will reveal the Oscar winners 101 days from now on March 12, 2023? Let’s take a look back at the last 11 years of the NYFCC picks — that’s how far you have to go to find the last instance of this group’s Best Picture repeating at the Oscars — and see how well (or not), these early kudos previewed the Academy Awards overall.
Last year, the Gotham group named the Japanese import “Drive My Car” as their pick for best pic. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s film went on to reap four Oscar bids, including Best Picture,...
Last year, the Gotham group named the Japanese import “Drive My Car” as their pick for best pic. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s film went on to reap four Oscar bids, including Best Picture,...
- 12/2/2022
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
The Disney+ streaming service has announced that they will be releasing the Japanese horror thriller series Gannibal, which is based on the best-selling manga by Masaaki Ninomiya, on December 28th. Along with that announcement comes the unveiling of a trailer, which you can check out in the embed above!
Written by Takamasa Oe, the Gannibal adaptation is set in the fictional Japanese village of Kuge and centers on newly hired local police officer Daigo Agawa. While things start off promisingly for the new arrival, a series of alarming events begin to unfold that will lead Daigo to the horrifying realization that something is deeply wrong with the village and those who live there. Thrown into a hostile environment with suspense around every corner, will the latest police officer to roam the streets of Kuge village be able to bring those responsible to justice before it’s too late?
Yuya Yagira...
Written by Takamasa Oe, the Gannibal adaptation is set in the fictional Japanese village of Kuge and centers on newly hired local police officer Daigo Agawa. While things start off promisingly for the new arrival, a series of alarming events begin to unfold that will lead Daigo to the horrifying realization that something is deeply wrong with the village and those who live there. Thrown into a hostile environment with suspense around every corner, will the latest police officer to roam the streets of Kuge village be able to bring those responsible to justice before it’s too late?
Yuya Yagira...
- 11/30/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Click here to read the full article.
Disney+ has set a release date and released the first trailer for one of its most anticipated upcoming Japanese original series, Gannibal, a psycho-thriller based on the best-selling manga by Masaaki Ninomiya.
Gannibal is adapted for the screen by Takamasa Oe and produced by Teruhisa Yamamoto, both of whom were nominated for Oscars earlier this year for their work on Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Academy Award-winning feature Drive My Car.
The show’s worldwide Disney+ release date — Dec. 28 — was revealed Wednesday at The Walt Disney Co.’s annual content showcase in Singapore. The first trailer for Gannibal was premiered at the event and then released on YouTube (see it below).
Set in Kuge, a fictional Japanese village, Gannibal follows newly hired local police officer Daigo Agawa, played by Japanese star Yuya Yagira (Hokusai, Asakusa Kid). While things start off promisingly for the new arrival,...
Disney+ has set a release date and released the first trailer for one of its most anticipated upcoming Japanese original series, Gannibal, a psycho-thriller based on the best-selling manga by Masaaki Ninomiya.
Gannibal is adapted for the screen by Takamasa Oe and produced by Teruhisa Yamamoto, both of whom were nominated for Oscars earlier this year for their work on Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Academy Award-winning feature Drive My Car.
The show’s worldwide Disney+ release date — Dec. 28 — was revealed Wednesday at The Walt Disney Co.’s annual content showcase in Singapore. The first trailer for Gannibal was premiered at the event and then released on YouTube (see it below).
Set in Kuge, a fictional Japanese village, Gannibal follows newly hired local police officer Daigo Agawa, played by Japanese star Yuya Yagira (Hokusai, Asakusa Kid). While things start off promisingly for the new arrival,...
- 11/30/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car) is set to star opposite Rashida Jones in Sunny, Apple TV+’s half-hour dark comedy series from A24.
Written by Katie Robbins based on the book Dark Manual by Japan-based Irish writer Colin O’Sullivan and to be directed Lucy Tcherniak, Sunny stars Jones as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband (Nishijima) and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation” she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronics company. Though at first Suzie resents Sunny’s attempts to fill the void in her life, gradually they develop an unexpected friendship, as together they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s family, becoming dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie never knew existed.
Nishijima will star as Masa Sakamoto, Suzie’s husband,...
Written by Katie Robbins based on the book Dark Manual by Japan-based Irish writer Colin O’Sullivan and to be directed Lucy Tcherniak, Sunny stars Jones as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband (Nishijima) and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation” she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronics company. Though at first Suzie resents Sunny’s attempts to fill the void in her life, gradually they develop an unexpected friendship, as together they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s family, becoming dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie never knew existed.
Nishijima will star as Masa Sakamoto, Suzie’s husband,...
- 7/14/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar winners Ariana DeBose, Troy Kotsur and Billie Eilish and nominees Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons are among the 397 film professionals invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy announced on Monday.
Invitations were also extended to actors Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Renate Rensve and Anya Taylor-Joy, directors Reinaldo Marcus Green, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Sian Heder and Jonas Poher Rasmussen, writers Zach Baylin, Takamasa Oe and Alex Ross Perry and film critic Leonard Maltin, who was invited to join as a member at large.
Four people were invited by two different branches, and must choose which branch they wish to join. Hamaguchi, Heder and Pawo Choyning Dorji were invited by both the Directors and Writers Branches, while Rasmussen was invited by the Directors Branch and the Documentary Branch.
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Invitations were also extended to actors Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Renate Rensve and Anya Taylor-Joy, directors Reinaldo Marcus Green, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Sian Heder and Jonas Poher Rasmussen, writers Zach Baylin, Takamasa Oe and Alex Ross Perry and film critic Leonard Maltin, who was invited to join as a member at large.
Four people were invited by two different branches, and must choose which branch they wish to join. Hamaguchi, Heder and Pawo Choyning Dorji were invited by both the Directors and Writers Branches, while Rasmussen was invited by the Directors Branch and the Documentary Branch.
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- 6/28/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi has created a multi-layered nuanced film which slowly reveals its characters in ways we want to discover, witness and savor.
A renowned stage actor and director (Yusuke Kafuku played by Hidetoshi Nishijima) and his wife (Reika Kirishima), a screenwriter, are happily married until she suddenly dies and leaves behind a secret. Two years later, Kafuku, still unable to fully cope with the loss of his wife, receives an offer to direct a play at a theater festival and drives to Hiroshima with his car. There, he is assigned a chauffeur (Tôko Miura), and as they spend time together, they confront the mystery of their families which have quietly haunted them.
It has rightfully garnered a long list of prizes since premiering last July at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won three awards, including best screenplay. It was also named best picture by the National Society of Film Critics in the United States, as well as by critics’ associations in Los Angeles and New York. Most recently, it took the 2022 Golden Globe for best picture in the non-English language category.
Watch the trailer here.
Adapted from two of the stories featured in Haruki Murakami’s collection, “Men Without Women,” Drive My Car, is the exploration of one man’s life after the sudden death of his wife. One story is “Scheherazad,” the story of a woman who’s telling tales while she was having sex. Another is “Kino” which is the name of the main character who is a man being cheated on by his wife. Within that story, the state that he’s able to reach is similar to Kafuku’s own journey’s destination. The rest of the intertwined elements of Drive My Car were written by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi himself along with Takamasa Oe.
Hamaguchi says, “I felt an affinity for its theme of having two people deepen their relationship via having conversations in cars.”
Layers of the story are revealed slowly and the characters’ inter-relationships are also revealed in a way that envelops the audience. For instance, Kafuku reveals he knew about his wife’s infidelity and he suspected one of her amours was a young actor he subsequently hires to be in the play he is directing. However this actor’s own character is so flawed that his actions propel the story into an unexpected direction. The chauffeur’s personal story brings Kafuku to a realization he can only share with the chauffeur and which brings both characters to a sort of closure in their separate burdens of mourning. Drive My Car runs three hours but not a frame is superfluous and the reward is a masterful and poignent shared meditation on mournng.
The film went on to play in San Sebastian and Toronto Film Festivals. Isa The Match Factory sold the film to Janus for the USA. For Austria to Polyfilm, the Baltics to A-One Films Baltic, Benelux — September, Croatia — Kino Mediteran, Denmark — Camera, Estonia — A-One, Finland — Future, France — Diaphana, Germany — Rapid Eye Movies, Italy — Tucker, Japan producer Bitters End, Norway — Arthaus, Poland — Gutek, Singapore — Lighthouse, Slovenia and Ex-Yugoslavia—Demiurg-Cvetka Flakus, Spain — Elastica, Sweden- Njuta, Switzerland — Sister, Taiwan — Andrews, Turkey — Mars, UK — Modern.
A renowned stage actor and director (Yusuke Kafuku played by Hidetoshi Nishijima) and his wife (Reika Kirishima), a screenwriter, are happily married until she suddenly dies and leaves behind a secret. Two years later, Kafuku, still unable to fully cope with the loss of his wife, receives an offer to direct a play at a theater festival and drives to Hiroshima with his car. There, he is assigned a chauffeur (Tôko Miura), and as they spend time together, they confront the mystery of their families which have quietly haunted them.
It has rightfully garnered a long list of prizes since premiering last July at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won three awards, including best screenplay. It was also named best picture by the National Society of Film Critics in the United States, as well as by critics’ associations in Los Angeles and New York. Most recently, it took the 2022 Golden Globe for best picture in the non-English language category.
Watch the trailer here.
Adapted from two of the stories featured in Haruki Murakami’s collection, “Men Without Women,” Drive My Car, is the exploration of one man’s life after the sudden death of his wife. One story is “Scheherazad,” the story of a woman who’s telling tales while she was having sex. Another is “Kino” which is the name of the main character who is a man being cheated on by his wife. Within that story, the state that he’s able to reach is similar to Kafuku’s own journey’s destination. The rest of the intertwined elements of Drive My Car were written by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi himself along with Takamasa Oe.
Hamaguchi says, “I felt an affinity for its theme of having two people deepen their relationship via having conversations in cars.”
Layers of the story are revealed slowly and the characters’ inter-relationships are also revealed in a way that envelops the audience. For instance, Kafuku reveals he knew about his wife’s infidelity and he suspected one of her amours was a young actor he subsequently hires to be in the play he is directing. However this actor’s own character is so flawed that his actions propel the story into an unexpected direction. The chauffeur’s personal story brings Kafuku to a realization he can only share with the chauffeur and which brings both characters to a sort of closure in their separate burdens of mourning. Drive My Car runs three hours but not a frame is superfluous and the reward is a masterful and poignent shared meditation on mournng.
The film went on to play in San Sebastian and Toronto Film Festivals. Isa The Match Factory sold the film to Janus for the USA. For Austria to Polyfilm, the Baltics to A-One Films Baltic, Benelux — September, Croatia — Kino Mediteran, Denmark — Camera, Estonia — A-One, Finland — Future, France — Diaphana, Germany — Rapid Eye Movies, Italy — Tucker, Japan producer Bitters End, Norway — Arthaus, Poland — Gutek, Singapore — Lighthouse, Slovenia and Ex-Yugoslavia—Demiurg-Cvetka Flakus, Spain — Elastica, Sweden- Njuta, Switzerland — Sister, Taiwan — Andrews, Turkey — Mars, UK — Modern.
- 5/8/2022
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Updated, April 21: The Cannes Film Festival has added competition titles and additional screenings in the Midnight, Un Certain Regard, and Out of Competition sections. They are:
Competition
“The Eight Mountains,” Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix Van Groeningen
“Un Petit Frère,” Leonor Serraille
“Tourment Sur Les Iles,” Albert Serra
Cannes Premiere
“Don Juan,” Serge Bozon
“La Nuit du 12,” Dominik Moll
“Chronicle of a Temporary Affair,” Emmanuel Mouret
Midnight Screenings
“Rebel,” Adil Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Un Certain Regard
“More Than Ever,” Emily Atef
“Mediterranean Fever,” Maha Haj
“The Blue Caftan,” Maryam Touzani
Out of Competition
“L’Innocent,” Louis Garrel
Special Screenings
“Mi Pais Imaginario,” Patricio Guzmán
“The Vagabonds,” Doroteya Droumeva
“Riposte Feministe,” Marie Perennes, Simon Depardon
“Restos do Vento,” Tiago Guedes
“Little Nicholas,” Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre
Earlier, April 14: The 2022 Cannes Film Festival is upon us and once again taking place in person this spring from May 17 through May 28. The lineup for...
Competition
“The Eight Mountains,” Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix Van Groeningen
“Un Petit Frère,” Leonor Serraille
“Tourment Sur Les Iles,” Albert Serra
Cannes Premiere
“Don Juan,” Serge Bozon
“La Nuit du 12,” Dominik Moll
“Chronicle of a Temporary Affair,” Emmanuel Mouret
Midnight Screenings
“Rebel,” Adil Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Un Certain Regard
“More Than Ever,” Emily Atef
“Mediterranean Fever,” Maha Haj
“The Blue Caftan,” Maryam Touzani
Out of Competition
“L’Innocent,” Louis Garrel
Special Screenings
“Mi Pais Imaginario,” Patricio Guzmán
“The Vagabonds,” Doroteya Droumeva
“Riposte Feministe,” Marie Perennes, Simon Depardon
“Restos do Vento,” Tiago Guedes
“Little Nicholas,” Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre
Earlier, April 14: The 2022 Cannes Film Festival is upon us and once again taking place in person this spring from May 17 through May 28. The lineup for...
- 4/21/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The 94th Annual Academy Awards were presented on Sunday, March 27, during a ceremony that took place at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California, and was hosted by Wanda Sykes, Regina Hall, and Amy Schumer. So who took home the gold? Scroll down for the complete list of winners in all 23 categories, updated throughout the night.
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The Netflix western “The Power of the Dog” entered these awards with a leading 12 nominations, which is also the most nominations any Netflix film has ever received. But was it destined to become the first film from a streaming distributor to take top honors? To achieve that the film had to battle against Apple’s “Coda,” which only had three nominations but won crucial awards from the Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild, and Producers Guild, the last of which uses the same kind of ranked-choice voting as the Oscars.
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The Netflix western “The Power of the Dog” entered these awards with a leading 12 nominations, which is also the most nominations any Netflix film has ever received. But was it destined to become the first film from a streaming distributor to take top honors? To achieve that the film had to battle against Apple’s “Coda,” which only had three nominations but won crucial awards from the Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild, and Producers Guild, the last of which uses the same kind of ranked-choice voting as the Oscars.
- 3/28/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
As predicted, Janus Films’ “Drive My Car” has claimed victory at the 2022 Oscars for Best International Feature Film. The prize was handed out during ABC’s Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 27 — see the complete Oscars winners list.
This marks Japan’s fifth overall trophy in the Best International Feature Film category (which prior to 2020 was called Best Foreign Language Film). Back when the category was non-competitive, the country was awarded with three honorary Oscars for “Rashomon” (1951), “Gate of Hell” (1954) and “Samurai, The Legend of Musashi” (1955). “Departures” (2008) and “Drive My Car” are the two Japanese film to claim victory against nominees in the modern era.
See 2022 Oscar winners list in all 23 categories: Who won at 94th Academy Awards?
The three-hour movie from director Ryusuke Hamaguchi tells the story of a recent widower (played by Hidetoshi Nishijima) who is hired to direct a play and the young woman (played by Toko...
This marks Japan’s fifth overall trophy in the Best International Feature Film category (which prior to 2020 was called Best Foreign Language Film). Back when the category was non-competitive, the country was awarded with three honorary Oscars for “Rashomon” (1951), “Gate of Hell” (1954) and “Samurai, The Legend of Musashi” (1955). “Departures” (2008) and “Drive My Car” are the two Japanese film to claim victory against nominees in the modern era.
See 2022 Oscar winners list in all 23 categories: Who won at 94th Academy Awards?
The three-hour movie from director Ryusuke Hamaguchi tells the story of a recent widower (played by Hidetoshi Nishijima) who is hired to direct a play and the young woman (played by Toko...
- 3/28/2022
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Not surprisingly, the most celebrated film of the year took one of the most coveted Oscars in the world. No, this isn’t about “Power of the Dog” or the Best Picture race. We’re referring to Ryusuke Hamaguchi‘s “Drive My Car” winning the 2022 Oscar for International Film (read our review).
Read More: Hidetoshi Nishijima Carried The Pain Of “Drive My Car” On and Off the Set [Interview]
Nominated for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe) and Best Director, the adaptation of a number of Haruki Murakami’s short stories became the fifth Japanese film to take the honor.
Continue reading ‘Drive My Car’ Wins Best International Film Oscar Becoming 5th Japanese Film To Claim Award at The Playlist.
Read More: Hidetoshi Nishijima Carried The Pain Of “Drive My Car” On and Off the Set [Interview]
Nominated for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe) and Best Director, the adaptation of a number of Haruki Murakami’s short stories became the fifth Japanese film to take the honor.
Continue reading ‘Drive My Car’ Wins Best International Film Oscar Becoming 5th Japanese Film To Claim Award at The Playlist.
- 3/28/2022
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” has won Best International Feature at the 94th Academy Awards. The Japanese film is only the second film from that country to win this prize competitively, following 2008’s “Departures.” Japan previously won three Honorary Oscars before the (previously named) Best Foreign Language Film category was instituted for films from 1956. Those honorees were Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon,” Teinosuke Kinugasa’s “Gate of Hell,” and Hiroshi Inagaki’s “Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto.”
“Drive My Car” was far and away the the favorite to win Best International Feature this year, and it stands as not just one of the most acclaimed international features of the year, but one of the most acclaimed films full stop. It was up against Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated Danish submission “Flee,” Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” (Italy), Bhutan’s entry “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” by Pawo Choyning Dorji,...
“Drive My Car” was far and away the the favorite to win Best International Feature this year, and it stands as not just one of the most acclaimed international features of the year, but one of the most acclaimed films full stop. It was up against Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated Danish submission “Flee,” Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” (Italy), Bhutan’s entry “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” by Pawo Choyning Dorji,...
- 3/28/2022
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Our forum posters, many of whom are Hollywood insiders hiding behind screen names, were quick to sound off with their 2022 Oscar winner reactions. As they discussed the unfolding ceremony on March 27, they cheered for their favorite films and lamented the fact that others had lost..
Over the past 93 years the Academy Awards have learned that it’s impossible to please everybody, and this year is no exception. Below is just a sampling of the brutally honest comments of our sassy forum posters concerning the 2022 Oscar winners. Take a read and then jump in here if you’re brave enough.
Best Picture
“Belfast” Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers
X – “Coda” Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers
“Don’t Look Up” Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
“Drive My Car” Teruhisa Yamamoto, Producer
“Dune” Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, Producers
“King Richard” Tim White,...
Over the past 93 years the Academy Awards have learned that it’s impossible to please everybody, and this year is no exception. Below is just a sampling of the brutally honest comments of our sassy forum posters concerning the 2022 Oscar winners. Take a read and then jump in here if you’re brave enough.
Best Picture
“Belfast” Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers
X – “Coda” Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers
“Don’t Look Up” Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
“Drive My Car” Teruhisa Yamamoto, Producer
“Dune” Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, Producers
“King Richard” Tim White,...
- 3/28/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Going to watch the 2022 Oscars and wondering who will win? Scroll down for our Oscar predictions in all 23 categories. These official odds are derived from the 2022 Oscar predictions of thousands of Gold Derby readers. Our projected winners are highlighted in gold.
Among those making their forecasts at Gold Derby are dozens of Expert journalists from major media outlets, our Editors who cover awards year-round, the Top 24 Users who did the best predicting last year’s Oscar winners and the All-Star Top 24 who had the highest scores for the last two years combined.
“The Power of the Dog” came into these awards with the most nominations (12) and looked to be a lock. The film won with the BAFTAs and Jane Campion picked up prizes both there and with the DGA for helming. But “Coda” claimed the top prize at the SAG Awards and won Best Picture at the PGA Awards, which...
Among those making their forecasts at Gold Derby are dozens of Expert journalists from major media outlets, our Editors who cover awards year-round, the Top 24 Users who did the best predicting last year’s Oscar winners and the All-Star Top 24 who had the highest scores for the last two years combined.
“The Power of the Dog” came into these awards with the most nominations (12) and looked to be a lock. The film won with the BAFTAs and Jane Campion picked up prizes both there and with the DGA for helming. But “Coda” claimed the top prize at the SAG Awards and won Best Picture at the PGA Awards, which...
- 3/27/2022
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
After a long-haul awards season, the 94th annual Academy Awards are finally upon us. Hollywood’s biggest night will see Oscar statues doled out across 24 categories — though eight of those honors will, controversially, be handed out in the hour before the ceremony officially starts at 8 p.m. Pt.
Tonight will mark a moment of redemption for many of the most dogged Oscar campaigners, who’ve been on the awards circuit since the fall of 2021. The telecast this year features three hosts: Wanda Sykes, Regina Hall, and Amy Schumer.
Plus, they’re joined by a variety of musical guests including Beyonce (“King Richard”), Billie Eilish and Finneas (“No Time to Die”), Reba McEntire (“Four Good Days”), and Sebastián Yatra (“Encanto”), among other musical guests. Plus, the Academy has assembled an “all-star band” featuring the likes of blink-182 drummer and “The Kardashians” star Travis Barker, percussionist and singer Sheila E., and genre-spanning pianist Robert Glasper.
Tonight will mark a moment of redemption for many of the most dogged Oscar campaigners, who’ve been on the awards circuit since the fall of 2021. The telecast this year features three hosts: Wanda Sykes, Regina Hall, and Amy Schumer.
Plus, they’re joined by a variety of musical guests including Beyonce (“King Richard”), Billie Eilish and Finneas (“No Time to Die”), Reba McEntire (“Four Good Days”), and Sebastián Yatra (“Encanto”), among other musical guests. Plus, the Academy has assembled an “all-star band” featuring the likes of blink-182 drummer and “The Kardashians” star Travis Barker, percussionist and singer Sheila E., and genre-spanning pianist Robert Glasper.
- 3/27/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Update: 7:00am Et on Sunday March 27
Since the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were announced February 8, the Oscar race has evolved considerably. Back then it seemed like Netflix’s “The Power of the Dog” was the overwhelming frontrunner. But in the time since, “Coda” has surged dramatically, following rival streamer Apple TV+ going old school and screening the film frequently and judiciously for Academy voting members.
IndieWire’s Editor-at-Large and awards expert Anne Thompson released her full list of predictions for the Oscar winners on Thursday, and she believes “Coda” will win best picture, though the other most likely choice still is “The Power of the Dog.”
The Best Actress category has evolved to be nearly a five-way race: Jessica Chastain seems to have all the momentum after winning Best Actress at the SAG Awards and Critics Choice Awards; but some think Penélope Cruz could be a contender for “Parallel Mothers,...
Since the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were announced February 8, the Oscar race has evolved considerably. Back then it seemed like Netflix’s “The Power of the Dog” was the overwhelming frontrunner. But in the time since, “Coda” has surged dramatically, following rival streamer Apple TV+ going old school and screening the film frequently and judiciously for Academy voting members.
IndieWire’s Editor-at-Large and awards expert Anne Thompson released her full list of predictions for the Oscar winners on Thursday, and she believes “Coda” will win best picture, though the other most likely choice still is “The Power of the Dog.”
The Best Actress category has evolved to be nearly a five-way race: Jessica Chastain seems to have all the momentum after winning Best Actress at the SAG Awards and Critics Choice Awards; but some think Penélope Cruz could be a contender for “Parallel Mothers,...
- 3/27/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
In 1966, Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara broke new ground as the first Asian Best Director Oscar contender with his bid for “Woman in the Dunes.” He was also the 10th Japanese male nominee in any category, the first of whom was production designer Eddie Imazu. Twenty years later, his countryman Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran” brought him his first and only directing notice after four decades in the business. Now, Ryusuke Hamaguchi (“Drive My Car”) has been added to this all too short list of Japanese directing nominees and could become the first one to pull off a win.
See 2022 Oscar nominations: Full list of nominees in all 23 categories
Hamaguchi is the only first-timer in this year’s directing lineup, which also includes Paul Thomas Anderson (“Licorice Pizza”), Kenneth Branagh (“Belfast”), Jane Campion (“The Power of the Dog”) and Steven Spielberg (“West Side Story”). Spielberg has already competed here seven times and...
See 2022 Oscar nominations: Full list of nominees in all 23 categories
Hamaguchi is the only first-timer in this year’s directing lineup, which also includes Paul Thomas Anderson (“Licorice Pizza”), Kenneth Branagh (“Belfast”), Jane Campion (“The Power of the Dog”) and Steven Spielberg (“West Side Story”). Spielberg has already competed here seven times and...
- 3/26/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Sunday’s 94th Academy Awards take place at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
Heading into Sunday’s (March 27) 94th Academy Awards, Netflix’s psychological western The Power Of The Dog leads the nominations on 12, followed by Legendary/Warner Bros’ sci-fi Dune on 10.
The Power Of The Dog directed by Jane Campion and Apple TV+’s Coda directed by Sian Heder have been the joint favourites for the best picture prize with Coda possibly edging ahead after recent wins at the PGA and WGA awards. Focus Features’ Belfast from Kenneth Branagh is just behind the two frontrunners and it remains to be...
Heading into Sunday’s (March 27) 94th Academy Awards, Netflix’s psychological western The Power Of The Dog leads the nominations on 12, followed by Legendary/Warner Bros’ sci-fi Dune on 10.
The Power Of The Dog directed by Jane Campion and Apple TV+’s Coda directed by Sian Heder have been the joint favourites for the best picture prize with Coda possibly edging ahead after recent wins at the PGA and WGA awards. Focus Features’ Belfast from Kenneth Branagh is just behind the two frontrunners and it remains to be...
- 3/25/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Sunday’s 94th Academy Awards take place at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
Heading into Sunday’s (March 27) 94th Academy Awards, Netflix’s psychological western The Power Of The Dog leads the nominations on 12, followed by Legendary/Warner Bros’ sci-fi Dune on 10.
The Power Of The Dog directed by Jane Campion and Apple TV+’s Coda directed by Sian Heder are neck-and-neck in the best picture contest with Coda possibly edging ahead last week following its PGA and WGA triumphs. Focus Features’ Belfast from Kenneth Branagh is just behind in third place. Should Coda or The Power Of The Dog win...
Heading into Sunday’s (March 27) 94th Academy Awards, Netflix’s psychological western The Power Of The Dog leads the nominations on 12, followed by Legendary/Warner Bros’ sci-fi Dune on 10.
The Power Of The Dog directed by Jane Campion and Apple TV+’s Coda directed by Sian Heder are neck-and-neck in the best picture contest with Coda possibly edging ahead last week following its PGA and WGA triumphs. Focus Features’ Belfast from Kenneth Branagh is just behind in third place. Should Coda or The Power Of The Dog win...
- 3/25/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Will Sunday’s 94th Academy Awards deliver first best picture winner from a streamer?
Heading into Sunday’s (March 27) 94th Academy Awards Netflix’s psychological western The Power Of The Dog leads the nominations on 12, followed by Legendary/Warner Bros’ sci-fi Dune on 10.
The Power Of The Dog directed by Jane Campion and Apple TV+’s Coda directed by Sian Heder are neck-and-neck in the best picture contest with Coda possibly edging ahead last week following its PGA and WGA triumphs. Focus Features’ Belfast from Kenneth Branagh is just behind in third place. Should Coda or The Power Of The Dog...
Heading into Sunday’s (March 27) 94th Academy Awards Netflix’s psychological western The Power Of The Dog leads the nominations on 12, followed by Legendary/Warner Bros’ sci-fi Dune on 10.
The Power Of The Dog directed by Jane Campion and Apple TV+’s Coda directed by Sian Heder are neck-and-neck in the best picture contest with Coda possibly edging ahead last week following its PGA and WGA triumphs. Focus Features’ Belfast from Kenneth Branagh is just behind in third place. Should Coda or The Power Of The Dog...
- 3/25/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The films in contention for the 2022 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar are “Coda,” “Drive My Car,” “Dune,” “The Lost Daughter,” and “The Power of the Dog.” Our odds currently indicate that “The Power of the Dog” (17/5) will win the award, followed in order of likelihood by “Coda” (39/10), “The Lost Daughter” (4/1), “Drive My Car” (9/2), and “Dune” (9/2).
Seven of the eight individuals included in this year’s lineup are category newcomers, with Eric Roth (“Dune”) standing alone as the only veteran. He succeeded on his first outing as the writer of “Forrest Gump” (1995) and has since picked up bids for “The Insider” (2000), “Munich” (2006), “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2009), and “A Star Is Born” (2019). He shares this bid with first-time writing nominees Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve.
Roth’s half dozen nominations make him one of the three most-recognized adaptive writers alongside John Huston and only one step behind Billy Wilder. He may...
Seven of the eight individuals included in this year’s lineup are category newcomers, with Eric Roth (“Dune”) standing alone as the only veteran. He succeeded on his first outing as the writer of “Forrest Gump” (1995) and has since picked up bids for “The Insider” (2000), “Munich” (2006), “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2009), and “A Star Is Born” (2019). He shares this bid with first-time writing nominees Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve.
Roth’s half dozen nominations make him one of the three most-recognized adaptive writers alongside John Huston and only one step behind Billy Wilder. He may...
- 3/25/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
“Drive My Car” received four key nominations at the 2022 Oscars: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe), Best Director (Hamaguchi) and Best International Film. While Gold Derby’s odds predict the Japanese film will win just the international category, I think the adapted screenplay race is still up for grabs and ripe for an upset.
Our current odds leader in this category is Siân Heder for “Coda,” who recently took home big wins at the BAFTAs and the Writers Guild Awards. The other nominees are Jane Campion for “The Power of the Dog,” Maggie Gyllenhaal for “The Lost Daughter” and Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth for “Dune.”
Based on Haruki Murakami’s 2014 short story of the same name, this Japanese film is about a grieving widow (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who seeks solace with his driver (Tōko Miura) after initially wanting nothing to do with her. The...
Our current odds leader in this category is Siân Heder for “Coda,” who recently took home big wins at the BAFTAs and the Writers Guild Awards. The other nominees are Jane Campion for “The Power of the Dog,” Maggie Gyllenhaal for “The Lost Daughter” and Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth for “Dune.”
Based on Haruki Murakami’s 2014 short story of the same name, this Japanese film is about a grieving widow (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who seeks solace with his driver (Tōko Miura) after initially wanting nothing to do with her. The...
- 3/25/2022
- by Christopher Tsang
- Gold Derby
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2022 Oscars Predictions:
Best Adapted Screenplay
Updated: March 24, 2022
Awards Prediction Commentary:
For the majority of the awards season, no...
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Oscars Collective
Visit each category, per the individual awards show from The Oscars Hub
Revisit the prediction archive of the 2021 season The Archive
Link to television awards is atTHE Emmys Hub
2022 Oscars Predictions:
Best Adapted Screenplay
Updated: March 24, 2022
Awards Prediction Commentary:
For the majority of the awards season, no...
- 3/25/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Now that all of the guilds and precursors have announced their winners, we know what’s winning at the Academy Awards this upcoming Sunday, March 27 … right? Not so fast. Below, I dissect two categories that are giving me a massive headache ahead of the 2022 Oscars ceremony: Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay.
Best Adapted Screenplay
After taking home both the Writers Guild of America and BAFTA Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, “Coda” writer-director Siân Heder now seems like a safe bet for the Oscar. The last film to lose this Oscar race after winning both those prizes was “Up in the Air” (2009), which was bested by “Precious” — a film that hadn’t won a single major screenplay award in the lead-up to the Oscars but presumably benefited from the former film’s behind-the-scenes drama. While it’s true that “Coda” faced only one of its Oscar rivals at WGA,...
Best Adapted Screenplay
After taking home both the Writers Guild of America and BAFTA Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, “Coda” writer-director Siân Heder now seems like a safe bet for the Oscar. The last film to lose this Oscar race after winning both those prizes was “Up in the Air” (2009), which was bested by “Precious” — a film that hadn’t won a single major screenplay award in the lead-up to the Oscars but presumably benefited from the former film’s behind-the-scenes drama. While it’s true that “Coda” faced only one of its Oscar rivals at WGA,...
- 3/24/2022
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
Here in the final stages of the 2022 Oscars season, several Academy Awards voters told Gold Derby who they voted for — and why. They asked us not to reveal their identities, but they were otherwise eager to share their views of the year’s best films. Now that voting has concluded, we’ll share a few with you. The comments below by Voter #2 for each category are part of the thought process in choosing these potential winners.
Also, you can click here to see the ballot of Voter #1 revealed recently.
Best Picture: “Dune”
This is one of the rare films lately that you must go out to the theater and see on the big screen because it was so compelling. I have watched it twice. Some people felt like not enough happened, but I don’t think that’s true. It was an epic story with amazing visualization and the relationships playing against warfare and immigration.
Also, you can click here to see the ballot of Voter #1 revealed recently.
Best Picture: “Dune”
This is one of the rare films lately that you must go out to the theater and see on the big screen because it was so compelling. I have watched it twice. Some people felt like not enough happened, but I don’t think that’s true. It was an epic story with amazing visualization and the relationships playing against warfare and immigration.
- 3/23/2022
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
This past weekend proved to be a wild ride on the awards circuit.
The Producers Guild of America Awards bestowed its top honors upon Apple Original Film’s “Coda” on Saturday night while the Cinema Audio Society went with Warner Bros’ “Dune.”
At the Writers Guild of America Awards, several of the Oscar nominees for screenplay — “Belfast” (Kenneth Branagh), “Drive My Car”, “The Lost Daughter” (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and “The Power of the Dog” (Jane Campion) — were not eligible for recognition. So instead, the group went with “Don’t Look Up” from Adam McKay and David Sirota in original, with “Coda” taking another trophy for adapted following the BAFTAs.
And the final shoe to drop was the American Society of Cinematographers delivering Greig Fraser (“Dune”) the statuette, his second win following “Lion” (2016).
With Oscar voting still underway, a legitimate three-horse race is underway — Apple’s “Coda,” Netflix’s “The Power of the Dog” and Focus Features’ “Belfast.
The Producers Guild of America Awards bestowed its top honors upon Apple Original Film’s “Coda” on Saturday night while the Cinema Audio Society went with Warner Bros’ “Dune.”
At the Writers Guild of America Awards, several of the Oscar nominees for screenplay — “Belfast” (Kenneth Branagh), “Drive My Car”, “The Lost Daughter” (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and “The Power of the Dog” (Jane Campion) — were not eligible for recognition. So instead, the group went with “Don’t Look Up” from Adam McKay and David Sirota in original, with “Coda” taking another trophy for adapted following the BAFTAs.
And the final shoe to drop was the American Society of Cinematographers delivering Greig Fraser (“Dune”) the statuette, his second win following “Lion” (2016).
With Oscar voting still underway, a legitimate three-horse race is underway — Apple’s “Coda,” Netflix’s “The Power of the Dog” and Focus Features’ “Belfast.
- 3/21/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The 74th Writers Guild of America Awards took place Sunday, one of the last guild stops of Oscar season (the American Society of Cinematographers Awards were the same night). Did they provide clarity on two of the closest Oscar contests, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay?
The thing about the WGA Awards, of course, is that the guild’s rigid rules stipulate that only members can compete, rendering numerous Oscar contenders ineligible every year. And there were quite a few this go-round. Ineligible original scripts include “Annette,” “Belfast,” “A Hero,” “Mass,” “Parallel Mothers,” “Pig” and “The Worst Person in the World.” Adapted screenplays forced to sit out include “Cyrano,” “Drive My Car,” “The Lost Daughter,” “Passing” and “The Power of the Dog.”
In original, the WGA nominated “Being the Ricardos” (Aaron Sorkin), “Don’t Look Up” (Adam McKay & David Sirota), “The French Dispatch” (Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola & Hugo Guinness & Jason Schwartzman...
The thing about the WGA Awards, of course, is that the guild’s rigid rules stipulate that only members can compete, rendering numerous Oscar contenders ineligible every year. And there were quite a few this go-round. Ineligible original scripts include “Annette,” “Belfast,” “A Hero,” “Mass,” “Parallel Mothers,” “Pig” and “The Worst Person in the World.” Adapted screenplays forced to sit out include “Cyrano,” “Drive My Car,” “The Lost Daughter,” “Passing” and “The Power of the Dog.”
In original, the WGA nominated “Being the Ricardos” (Aaron Sorkin), “Don’t Look Up” (Adam McKay & David Sirota), “The French Dispatch” (Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola & Hugo Guinness & Jason Schwartzman...
- 3/20/2022
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Last year, Emerald Fennell won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for “Promising Young Woman,” becoming the first female champ in either writing category in 13 years. And an even longer drought has three chances to end this year.
For the first time, Best Adapted Screenplay features three individual female nominees representing three different films (read: no writing teams): Jane Campion for “The Power of the Dog,” Maggie Gyllenhaal for “The Lost Daughter” and Sian Heder for “Coda.” They are up against Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe for “Drive My Car,” and Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth for “Dune.” If Campion, Gyllenhaal or Heder prevails, they’d be the category’s first female winner since Diana Ossana, co-writer of 2005’s “Brokeback Mountain” with Larry McMurtry, and the first solo female winner since Emma Thompson, who won for 1995’s “Sense and Sensibility.”
As is the case with nearly all non-gendered categories at the Oscars,...
For the first time, Best Adapted Screenplay features three individual female nominees representing three different films (read: no writing teams): Jane Campion for “The Power of the Dog,” Maggie Gyllenhaal for “The Lost Daughter” and Sian Heder for “Coda.” They are up against Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe for “Drive My Car,” and Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth for “Dune.” If Campion, Gyllenhaal or Heder prevails, they’d be the category’s first female winner since Diana Ossana, co-writer of 2005’s “Brokeback Mountain” with Larry McMurtry, and the first solo female winner since Emma Thompson, who won for 1995’s “Sense and Sensibility.”
As is the case with nearly all non-gendered categories at the Oscars,...
- 3/8/2022
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Jane Campion made history this month when she became the first woman to be nominated twice for Best Director. She earned her first bid for 1993’s “The Piano” and followed it up this year with a nomination for “The Power of the Dog.” However, there will be much more at stake when the Oscars are handed out on March 27.
In addition to her bid for directing, Campion is also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for penning a script based on Thomas Savage’s novel of the same name, while the film, on which Campion is a producer, snagged a Best Picture nom as well, meaning Campion could take home awards for directing, writing and producing in the same year. Should that come to pass, she’ll become the first woman in history to do it. Chloé Zhao fell just shy in her attempt last year when she won the Oscar...
In addition to her bid for directing, Campion is also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for penning a script based on Thomas Savage’s novel of the same name, while the film, on which Campion is a producer, snagged a Best Picture nom as well, meaning Campion could take home awards for directing, writing and producing in the same year. Should that come to pass, she’ll become the first woman in history to do it. Chloé Zhao fell just shy in her attempt last year when she won the Oscar...
- 3/1/2022
- by Kaitlin Thomas
- Gold Derby
Thank the lack of films released this year due to the pandemic, the Academy’s expanded membership or simply a growing acceptance of subtitles. But, for myriad reasons, several Oscar-nominated screenplays are either set in foreign countries or told in languages other than spoken American English.
These include original screenplay nominees “Belfast,” writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s slightly fictionalized memoir of his childhood in Northern Ireland that reminds that religious strife and land grabs are still ever-present threats in today’s society, and “The Worst Person in the World,” the Norwegian dark romantic comedy by Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier. Despite what that film’s title suggests, it isn’t about a serial killer or some abusive person who commits a horrific crime. Rather, it’s about a 30-year-old woman named Julie (Renate Reinsve ) and the very international topic of whether some people’s desires to not have kids make them bad humans.
These include original screenplay nominees “Belfast,” writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s slightly fictionalized memoir of his childhood in Northern Ireland that reminds that religious strife and land grabs are still ever-present threats in today’s society, and “The Worst Person in the World,” the Norwegian dark romantic comedy by Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier. Despite what that film’s title suggests, it isn’t about a serial killer or some abusive person who commits a horrific crime. Rather, it’s about a 30-year-old woman named Julie (Renate Reinsve ) and the very international topic of whether some people’s desires to not have kids make them bad humans.
- 2/28/2022
- by Whitney Friedlander
- Variety Film + TV
Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced its Dorian Award nominations for the best in movies. Netflix and Neon dominate the nominations this year.
Jane Campion’s volatile period drama The Power of the Dog leads the pack with nine nods, including for best film, LGBTQ film, director and three for acting. Coming in a few rungs lower with five nominations each: The 1920s-set racial drama Passing, the unusual animated refugee documentary Flee, and Steven Spielberg’s vibrant reimagining of West Side Story.
Formed in 2009, Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ Dorian Awards go to the best in film and TV, mainstream to queer+, at separate times of the year. Galeca consists of critics, journalists and broadcasters who work for some of the most prominent and influential media outlets in the United States, Canada, Australia and the U.K. A nonprofit professional organization, the Society—via its televised Toast awards specials,...
Jane Campion’s volatile period drama The Power of the Dog leads the pack with nine nods, including for best film, LGBTQ film, director and three for acting. Coming in a few rungs lower with five nominations each: The 1920s-set racial drama Passing, the unusual animated refugee documentary Flee, and Steven Spielberg’s vibrant reimagining of West Side Story.
Formed in 2009, Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ Dorian Awards go to the best in film and TV, mainstream to queer+, at separate times of the year. Galeca consists of critics, journalists and broadcasters who work for some of the most prominent and influential media outlets in the United States, Canada, Australia and the U.K. A nonprofit professional organization, the Society—via its televised Toast awards specials,...
- 2/23/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Warnermedia OneFifty has acquired the Japanese road drama Drive My Car to premiere on HBO Max on March 2, 2022.
The film is directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi who also co-wrote the screenplay with Takamasa Oe, adapted from the short story of the same name by Haruki Murakami. It tells the of a renowned stage actor and director, Yūsuke Kafukuwho (Hidetoshi Nishijima), who connects with a taciturn young woman assigned to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900.
The Sideshow/Janus Films project also stars Tōko Miura, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima, Park Yoo-rim, Satoko Abe, Jin Dae-yeon, and Sonia Yuan.
Drive My Car recently received Academy Award Nominations in four categories: Best Picture, Directing, International Feature Film, and Adapted Screenplay. It is the first Japanese film ever to be nominated for Best Picture.
Thanks to all the Oscar love, the film has seen an uptick in interest at the box office. The...
The film is directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi who also co-wrote the screenplay with Takamasa Oe, adapted from the short story of the same name by Haruki Murakami. It tells the of a renowned stage actor and director, Yūsuke Kafukuwho (Hidetoshi Nishijima), who connects with a taciturn young woman assigned to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900.
The Sideshow/Janus Films project also stars Tōko Miura, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima, Park Yoo-rim, Satoko Abe, Jin Dae-yeon, and Sonia Yuan.
Drive My Car recently received Academy Award Nominations in four categories: Best Picture, Directing, International Feature Film, and Adapted Screenplay. It is the first Japanese film ever to be nominated for Best Picture.
Thanks to all the Oscar love, the film has seen an uptick in interest at the box office. The...
- 2/14/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
by Timothy Lyons
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and actress Reika Kirishima at Cannes this past summer with "Drive My Car"
One of the more pleasant surprises of this year’s Academy Award nominations announcement was the shortlisting of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s subtly masterful Drive My Car in Best Picture. In addition to this mention, Hamaguchi himself was nominated for Director and Adapted Screenplay (along with co-writer Takamasa Oe) and the film received an easily predicted nod in International Feature. While there seemed to be enough of a groundswell of support for the film to break into the general field, its inclusion in the top race remains a largely unexpected and refreshingly left-of-center occurrence. Despite now being the very first Japanese film nominated for Best Picture, Drive My Car is not the first to be recognised overall. It is also not the first to find favor beyond the usually ghettoized International Feature category.
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and actress Reika Kirishima at Cannes this past summer with "Drive My Car"
One of the more pleasant surprises of this year’s Academy Award nominations announcement was the shortlisting of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s subtly masterful Drive My Car in Best Picture. In addition to this mention, Hamaguchi himself was nominated for Director and Adapted Screenplay (along with co-writer Takamasa Oe) and the film received an easily predicted nod in International Feature. While there seemed to be enough of a groundswell of support for the film to break into the general field, its inclusion in the top race remains a largely unexpected and refreshingly left-of-center occurrence. Despite now being the very first Japanese film nominated for Best Picture, Drive My Car is not the first to be recognised overall. It is also not the first to find favor beyond the usually ghettoized International Feature category.
- 2/12/2022
- by Timothy Lyons
- FilmExperience
As usual, contenders in the Adapted Screenplay category are a varied bunch, with movies of all shapes and sizes adapted from prior material, whether novels, short stories, or a prior film. As always, auteurs have the advantage with Academy voters.
Literary adaptations
While David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky may have been defeated by big-screen adaptations of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science-fiction novel “Dune” (Warner Bros./HBO Max), Oscar-nominated French-Canadian auteur Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival”) embraced the chance to bring his trademark visual panache to the sci-fi epic, which will come in two parts. Part One was whittled down from the sprawling novel by the director, veteran Oscar-winner Eric Roth (“Forrest Gump”), and Jon Spaihts. Oscar Isaac’s Duke Leto Atreides and Rebecca Ferguson’s Lady Jessica travel with their son Paul (Timothée Chalamet) to dangerous desert planet Arrakis, which supplies the universe with the valuable spice melange. After pandemic delays, the movie...
Literary adaptations
While David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky may have been defeated by big-screen adaptations of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science-fiction novel “Dune” (Warner Bros./HBO Max), Oscar-nominated French-Canadian auteur Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival”) embraced the chance to bring his trademark visual panache to the sci-fi epic, which will come in two parts. Part One was whittled down from the sprawling novel by the director, veteran Oscar-winner Eric Roth (“Forrest Gump”), and Jon Spaihts. Oscar Isaac’s Duke Leto Atreides and Rebecca Ferguson’s Lady Jessica travel with their son Paul (Timothée Chalamet) to dangerous desert planet Arrakis, which supplies the universe with the valuable spice melange. After pandemic delays, the movie...
- 2/12/2022
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
As usual, contenders in the Adapted Screenplay category are a varied bunch, with movies of all shapes and sizes adapted from prior material, whether novels, short stories, or a prior film. As always, auteurs have the advantage with Academy voters.
Literary adaptations
While David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky may have been defeated by big-screen adaptations of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science-fiction novel “Dune” (Warner Bros./HBO Max), Oscar-nominated French-Canadian auteur Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival”) embraced the chance to bring his trademark visual panache to the sci-fi epic, which will come in two parts. Part One was whittled down from the sprawling novel by the director, veteran Oscar-winner Eric Roth (“Forrest Gump”), and Jon Spaihts. Oscar Isaac’s Duke Leto Atreides and Rebecca Ferguson’s Lady Jessica travel with their son Paul (Timothée Chalamet) to dangerous desert planet Arrakis, which supplies the universe with the valuable spice melange. After pandemic delays, the movie...
Literary adaptations
While David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky may have been defeated by big-screen adaptations of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science-fiction novel “Dune” (Warner Bros./HBO Max), Oscar-nominated French-Canadian auteur Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival”) embraced the chance to bring his trademark visual panache to the sci-fi epic, which will come in two parts. Part One was whittled down from the sprawling novel by the director, veteran Oscar-winner Eric Roth (“Forrest Gump”), and Jon Spaihts. Oscar Isaac’s Duke Leto Atreides and Rebecca Ferguson’s Lady Jessica travel with their son Paul (Timothée Chalamet) to dangerous desert planet Arrakis, which supplies the universe with the valuable spice melange. After pandemic delays, the movie...
- 2/12/2022
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Nearly three decades have passed since Jane Campion reaped a pair of Oscar bids for directing and writing “The Piano.” She was the second woman to pull off this double play after Lina Wertmüller. Campion won Best Original Screenplay but lost Best Director to Steven Spielberg (“Schindler’s List”).
Now, she and Spielberg face off in a long-awaited rematch, having earned nominations for helming “The Power of the Dog” and “West Side Story,” respectively. She is now the first two-time female nominee in the history of the Best Director category. The prize has only gone to two women in the past, and it took 82 years for that glass ceiling to be broken. Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”) achieved that historical feat in 2010, and Chloe Zhao (“Nomadland”) followed in her footsteps just last year.
In addition to Wertmüller, the directing category’s small group of female also-rans consists of Sofia Coppola, Greta Gerwig,...
Now, she and Spielberg face off in a long-awaited rematch, having earned nominations for helming “The Power of the Dog” and “West Side Story,” respectively. She is now the first two-time female nominee in the history of the Best Director category. The prize has only gone to two women in the past, and it took 82 years for that glass ceiling to be broken. Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”) achieved that historical feat in 2010, and Chloe Zhao (“Nomadland”) followed in her footsteps just last year.
In addition to Wertmüller, the directing category’s small group of female also-rans consists of Sofia Coppola, Greta Gerwig,...
- 2/9/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Early Tuesday morning Tracee Ellis Ross and Instagram celeb Leslie Jordan (in a tux) appeared in Zoom-ish windows to announce the nominees for the 94th Oscars.
It was “the most fun I’ve ever had at 5:25 in the morning—Not!” according to Jordan, but for many actors and actresses, especially some whose nominations were not a lock, like Kristen Stewart, Jessie Buckley, and Aunjanue Ellis, it may have been!
For those watching at home, though, there may have been a moment of stark realization: there’s some catching up to do. Years ago, if you wanted to watch all the titles nominated for best picture you’d have to put on your hat and coat and go to the theater. Today, it’s a little easier.
To that end, here’s how to watch the 2022 Oscars Best Picture nominees.
Where can I watch the 2022 Best Picture nominees?
“Belfast,...
It was “the most fun I’ve ever had at 5:25 in the morning—Not!” according to Jordan, but for many actors and actresses, especially some whose nominations were not a lock, like Kristen Stewart, Jessie Buckley, and Aunjanue Ellis, it may have been!
For those watching at home, though, there may have been a moment of stark realization: there’s some catching up to do. Years ago, if you wanted to watch all the titles nominated for best picture you’d have to put on your hat and coat and go to the theater. Today, it’s a little easier.
To that end, here’s how to watch the 2022 Oscars Best Picture nominees.
Where can I watch the 2022 Best Picture nominees?
“Belfast,...
- 2/8/2022
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
Following a record-breaking year for diversity at the Academy Awards, with nine actors of color nabbing nominations in 2021, the 2022 lineup featured just four actors of color: Ariana DeBose, Aunjanue Ellis, Will Smith and Denzel Washington.
With this latest nomination for “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” Washington extended his lead as the most-nominated Black actor at the Oscars, with a total of 10 nods and two wins. Smith earned his third best actor nomination and his first nod as a producer for “King Richard.” The sports drama landed six nominations in all, as Ellis represented the film in the supporting actress category, where she was joined by fellow first-timer “West Side Story” star DeBose, who becomes the first Afro-Latina actor (and the first openly queer woman of color) ever nominated.
Also representing the Latino community is two-time Oscar winner Guillermo Del Toro, who added another best picture nomination to his resume with “Nightmare Alley.
With this latest nomination for “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” Washington extended his lead as the most-nominated Black actor at the Oscars, with a total of 10 nods and two wins. Smith earned his third best actor nomination and his first nod as a producer for “King Richard.” The sports drama landed six nominations in all, as Ellis represented the film in the supporting actress category, where she was joined by fellow first-timer “West Side Story” star DeBose, who becomes the first Afro-Latina actor (and the first openly queer woman of color) ever nominated.
Also representing the Latino community is two-time Oscar winner Guillermo Del Toro, who added another best picture nomination to his resume with “Nightmare Alley.
- 2/8/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
The 2022 Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday, February 8 live from Los Angeles. Emmy winner Leslie Jordan and Emmy nominee Tracee Ellis Ross hosted the nomination ceremony, reading off nominees in all 23 categories. The announcement was live-streamed online via the Oscars website, accessible at both Oscar.com and Oscars.org. In addition to the academy’s main site, the nominations streamed live online via Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. The 94th Academy Awards air live on ABC on March 27 with the ceremony set to kick off from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood at 5:00 p.m. Pt/ 8:00 p.m. Et.
Scroll down to see the full list of nominations in all 23 competitive categories at the 94th Academy Awards.
Best Picture
“Belfast” Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers
“Coda” Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers
“Don’t Look Up” Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
“Drive My Car” Teruhisa Yamamoto,...
Scroll down to see the full list of nominations in all 23 competitive categories at the 94th Academy Awards.
Best Picture
“Belfast” Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers
“Coda” Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers
“Don’t Look Up” Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
“Drive My Car” Teruhisa Yamamoto,...
- 2/8/2022
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Audrey Diwan’s “Happening,” Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” and Terence Davies’s “Benediction” won top prizes at the 2022 Ics Awards, which are handed out by the International Cinephile Society.
This 19th edition marked a milestone with female talents winning best picture, director, animated film, documentary, debut feature, breakthrough performance and cinematography.
“Happening,” a timely abortion drama set in 1960s France, took home best picture, while its star, Anamaria Vartolomei, won best breakthrough performance.
“Remarkable in its combination of artistic delicacy and brutal realism, yet resisting any hint of didacticism, the film quietly builds tension to a gut-wrenching emotional pitch,” stated the Ics.
Campion, meanwhile, won best director with her Western family drama “The Power of the Dog.” Runner-up for top film was Hamaguchi with “Drive My Car,” a road drama based on Haruki Murakami’s short story about guilt and grief.
This 19th edition marked a milestone with female talents winning best picture, director, animated film, documentary, debut feature, breakthrough performance and cinematography.
“Happening,” a timely abortion drama set in 1960s France, took home best picture, while its star, Anamaria Vartolomei, won best breakthrough performance.
“Remarkable in its combination of artistic delicacy and brutal realism, yet resisting any hint of didacticism, the film quietly builds tension to a gut-wrenching emotional pitch,” stated the Ics.
Campion, meanwhile, won best director with her Western family drama “The Power of the Dog.” Runner-up for top film was Hamaguchi with “Drive My Car,” a road drama based on Haruki Murakami’s short story about guilt and grief.
- 2/7/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The streamer took 7 of 13 available feature film prizes.
Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog scooped up four prizes at the 2022 London Critics’ Circle awards, as part of a large haul for Netflix.
The streaming giant won 7 of 13 prizes awarded to individual feature films, or performers within an individual film.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The Power Of The Dog won best film, with Campion taking best director; plus actor of the year for Benedict Cumberbatch, and supporting actor of the year for Kodi Smit-McPhee.
Two films scored two individual awards each: Netflix’s Passing, with...
Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog scooped up four prizes at the 2022 London Critics’ Circle awards, as part of a large haul for Netflix.
The streaming giant won 7 of 13 prizes awarded to individual feature films, or performers within an individual film.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The Power Of The Dog won best film, with Campion taking best director; plus actor of the year for Benedict Cumberbatch, and supporting actor of the year for Kodi Smit-McPhee.
Two films scored two individual awards each: Netflix’s Passing, with...
- 2/7/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
As Hollywood eagerly anticipates this Tuesday’s Oscar nominations, all signs to continue to point towards a strong showing for “The Power of the Dog.” Jane Campion’s western, adapted from the Thomas Savage novel of the same name, continues to earn rave reviews for its minimalist script and committed performances from its cast.
Benedict Cumberbatch has earned particular praise for the method acting that he utilized in his performance, going so far as to practice castrating bulls and smoking so many cigarettes on set that he gave himself nicotine poisoning. The effort was certainly worth it, as his performance as brutal rancher Phil Burbank is the heart of the film and has propelled him towards Oscar buzz.
The London Critics’ Circle Film Awards ceremony was held in London on Sunday night and the evening was all about “The Power of the Dog.” The movie was named Film of the...
Benedict Cumberbatch has earned particular praise for the method acting that he utilized in his performance, going so far as to practice castrating bulls and smoking so many cigarettes on set that he gave himself nicotine poisoning. The effort was certainly worth it, as his performance as brutal rancher Phil Burbank is the heart of the film and has propelled him towards Oscar buzz.
The London Critics’ Circle Film Awards ceremony was held in London on Sunday night and the evening was all about “The Power of the Dog.” The movie was named Film of the...
- 2/6/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog was the big winner at Sunday’s London Critics’ Circle Awards, scooping four prizes including Film of the Year. Scroll down for the full list of winners.
The pic also won Director for Campion, Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, and Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee.
Further winners included Driver My Car, which picked up Screenwriter for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, plus Foreign Language Film.
Also winning two awards were Passing, which took Supporting Actress for Ruth Negga and Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker for Rebecca Hall, and The Souvenir Part II, which after being shut out of the BAFTA nominations earlier this week won the Attenborough Award for British/Irish Film of the Year and British/Irish Actress for star Tilda Swinton (the latter awards recognizes an annual body of work so also covers Memoria and The French Dispatch).
Andrew Garfield won British...
The pic also won Director for Campion, Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, and Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee.
Further winners included Driver My Car, which picked up Screenwriter for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, plus Foreign Language Film.
Also winning two awards were Passing, which took Supporting Actress for Ruth Negga and Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker for Rebecca Hall, and The Souvenir Part II, which after being shut out of the BAFTA nominations earlier this week won the Attenborough Award for British/Irish Film of the Year and British/Irish Actress for star Tilda Swinton (the latter awards recognizes an annual body of work so also covers Memoria and The French Dispatch).
Andrew Garfield won British...
- 2/6/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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