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UPDATED with latest: It’s a new year — time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows and nominations dates ahead as we get deeper into Oscar season and look ahead to the guild awards, Grammys, Tonys and more. Check back often for updates. January 3: SDSA…

For The Room Next Door, production designer Inbal Weinberg says her main focus was maintaining a realistic New York look while incorporating director Pedro Almodóvar's visual style. "Pedro has his own very strong aesthetic style and visual language that he has developed over 40 years of filmmaking," she…

It can be incredibly difficult to tell an expansive story while restricting yourself to a single location. However, with September 5, the restriction actually enhanced the storytelling for the filmmakers and craftspeople, once they realized they found themselves in a very similar position to that ABC…

The Costume Designers Guild has fashioned its 2025 Spotlight Award reipoient. Emilia Pérez co-star and Lioness lead Zoe Saldaña will pick her prizes at the 27th annual CDG Awards on February 6 at The Ebell in Los Angeles. The Spotlight Award celebrates an actor whose talent and career personify an…

As a longtime fan of the Broadway show, coming on as the choreographer for Wicked was an incredible opportunity for Christopher Scott. Not only was he able to translate one of his favorite shows to cinema, but the chance to infuse something new and original into a storied musical is a rare gift for any…

The Society of Composers & Lyricists has charted the nominees for its 2025 SCL Awards, which celebrate excellence and innovation in music for visual media. Emilia Pérez composers Clément Ducol and Camille and Challengers and Shōgun composer Atticus Ross lead the field with three noms each. See the full…

The shortlists are out for Oscars 2025, and the races in Makeup and Hairstyling, Sound and Visual Effects are heating up. Some inclusions in the list are not surprises, like Dune: Part Two and Wicked – both of which were shortlisted in all three categories. Dune: Part One was nominated in all three…

And they’re off. Awards season just got entirely official with the revealing of shortlists for the 97th Oscars in 10 categories today. See the lists from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences below. Fifteen movies each are moving forward in the contests for International Feature Film…

Casting for Deadpool & Wolverine, Saturday Night and Wicked are among the film nominees for the 40th annual Artios Awards set for February 12. See the full list below. Janelle James (Abbott Elementary) will host the ceremony at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, while Jessica Gunning (Baby Reindeer)…

When making a biopic about a famous artist and musician, you would think the research would come easy — until the aptly named A Complete Unknown, tracking the meteoric rise of Bob Dylan – the enigmatic man with an unknowable past. Even though the film only tells of his life through a few years…

Live from the Art Directors Guild — it’s a career honor for Jason Reitman. The ADG said today that the Saturday Night filmmaker will receive its 2025 Cinematic Imagery Award at its 29th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards on February 15 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. The…

EXCLUSIVE: "In Wicked, the light is actually the darkness and the darkness is actually the light," says cinematographer Alice Brooks in a new Wicked featurette. "All through movie one, the pink sun rises for Glinda, and the sun is always setting for Elphaba." In the cinematic retelling of the…