The Oscars

EXCLUSIVE: Quite often cinema is born from the impromptu which occurs on set and for filmmaker Nabil Ayouch, it was capturing his lead actress Nisrin Erradi in Everybody Loves Touda, who was suddenly interrupted with what is a sacred moment in Islam. The shot was too good for Ayouch to refuse. Watch…

The shortlist of 15 films to vie for a Best International Feature Film Oscar nomination at the 97th Academy Awards is set to be announced on December 17. In all, movies from 85 countries are eligible for the prize. There is decidedly a pack of frontrunners this season, and the rest feels a bit up for…

And the 2025 streaming Oscar goes to … Hulu. ABC said today that the Academy Awards will stream live for the first time on its Disney sibling Hulu. That’s along with the 97th annual Oscarcast airing live coast-to-coast on the broadcast network for a 50th consecutive year, starting at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m…

Sky Italia Commits To ‘The X Factor’ After First Ever Outdoor Final Sky Italia has committed to The X Factor for two more seasons following soaring ratings for the first ever finale to take place outdoors. Last week’s final reached its highest rating for four years and was staged outside in Naples…

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy) has boarded The Runt, an Oscar-qualified live-action short film written, directed and produced by Emmy-nominated TV veteran Christy Stratton (Modern Family), as executive producer. Walsh is just the latest to attach in that capacity today, following…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin) has joined The Boat, an Oscar-qualified live-action short from writer-director Luke Morgan, as executive producer. Based on a true story, the film follows a father who, in discovering that his daughter Dhukia is showing the early…

Household names at home but working under the moniker of Filip och Fredrik, Swedish TV hosts and journalists Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson are now in the international spotlight with their documentary The Last Journey, Sweden’s Oscar entry.  The movie follows a road trip they organize for…

Turkish director Zeki Demirkubuz taps into his country's zeitgeist with contemporary drama Life (Hayat), starring Miray Daner as a young woman who runs away to Istanbul to escape an arranged marriage but still struggles to break free of male domination. Her jilted fiancé Riza (Burak Dakak) ruminates…

After a 12-year hiatus from fiction feature filmmaking, Brazilian director Walter Salles has been feeling the love at festivals and storming the box office at home with his moving political drama I'm Still Here. Fernanda Torres stars as Eunice Paiva, a real-life figure whose husband Rubens Paiva, an…

Somehow I missed Flow when it premiered in Un Certain Regard in May at the Cannes Film Festival. Now having seen it just as it is about to open nationwide, it exceeds the various pockets of praise I had heard. It is a magical mystery tour into a sinking…

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute and WIF’s ReFrame and WIF on Thursday released their 2025 ReFrame & WIF Awards Season Voter Guide, the second year the groups have teamed to create a list of the awards season’s Academy Award-eligible women, non-binary and/or gender non-conforming, and trans people of all…

Thirteen years after making her debut feature, Kiran Rao marked her directorial return with Laapataa Ladies (Lost Ladies), which has been selected as India’s Oscar entry for the Best International Feature Film race. “It felt a bit like cycling, after not having cycled for a while,” Rao tells Deadline…