10 Things We Learned at the Oscars’ 10th Governors Awards
The honorees were Cicely Tyson, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, Lalo Schifrin and Marvin Levy – but there was more going on than just awards
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The Key to Israeli Oscar Entry ‘The Cakemaker': Making Someone Else’s Story Personal
TheWrap foreign magazine: “I took my friend’s story and the story of his widow, and I put my own life into it,” says director Ofir Raul Graizer
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How the Film School Director of ‘Yomeddine’ Turned 2 Illiterate Amateurs Into Actors
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I workshopped them a lot, preparing them about what it’s like to act and to stand in front of the camera,” says first-time director A.B. Shawky
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‘Donbass’ Director: My Film’s Grotesque Corruption Isn’t Just in Ukraine, It Reaches Around the World
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “In America, in Brazil, they elected a man because he was giving a performance and saying the kind of things you could never before say in a civilized society,” says Sergei Loznitsa
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How ‘Crystal Swan’ Told an Edgy Story in a Repressive Country
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “My creative friends in [Belarus] were like, ‘Wow, I’m really amazed that they let you show the film,'” says director Darya Zhuk
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How Palme d’Or Winner ‘Shoplifters’ Made ‘The Invisible People’ Visible
TheWrap foreign magazine: “I think there are many segments of every society that prefer that they remain invisible,” director Hirokazu Kore-eda tells TheWrap
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‘The Guilty’ Offers a Recipe for an Unconventional Thriller: One Location and Lots of Imagination
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s always hard to make suspense work,” says director Gustav Möller of his film that rachets up the tension while never stepping outside a single room
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‘Village Rockstars’ Director Says Her Acting Struggles Helped Her Oscar Contending Film
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I didn’t want them to feel what I was feeling when I was looking for jobs in Bollywood,” says director Rima Das of the young stars of her film
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Why Kosovo’s Gay Rights Film ‘The Marriage’ Shocked Its Own Director When It Was Released
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Director Blerta Zeqiri tells TheWrap she had to be cautious making a film about tolerance in an intolerant society — but she wasn’t expecting the reaction her film received
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How Peter Bogdanovich, Frank Marshall and Netflix’s Money Saved Orson Welles’ Final Movie
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It was the Holy Grail of unfinished films,” says producer Filip Jan Rymsza of Welles’ wildly experimental “The Other Side of the Wind”
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How Oscar Favorite ‘Cold War’ Turned a Personal Story Into a Sweeping Epic
TheWrap foreign magazine: Director Pawel Pawlikowski based the story on his parents’ volatile relationship, but he says he wanted to set it in “the epic backgrounds” of post-World War II Europe
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‘Champions’ Director Says Disabled Actors Rewrote His Hit Spanish Movie
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “After casting, we rewrote the entire screenplay using the personalities of the people, their experiences, their real lives,” says director Javier Fesser
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How ‘Dogman’ Took a Revenge Story and Added a Touch of Buster Keaton
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “The story we took inspiration from was more focused on violence and revenge,” says director Matteo Garrone of his Italian Oscar submission
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‘Border’ Director Ali Abbasi: Here’s How I Shot the Scene That Made Cannes Squirm
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Of course the troll sex was animalistic — “it would be strange if they were f—ing on a sofa with a whiskey in their hand,” says the Iranian-Swedish director
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‘If Beale Street Could Talk,’ ‘Leave No Trace’ Nominated for Top Independent Spirit Awards
Other Spirit Awards nominees include “You Were Never Really Here,” “Eighth Grade” and “First Reformed”
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Stan Lee Didn’t Get to See His ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Cameo Before He Died
The animated film’s directors tell TheWrap that Lee’s cameo “seems very poignant” now that the comic icon has died
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‘Widows’ Film Review: Viola Davis, Steve McQueen Team Up for a Curious Heist Movie
Davis leads a gang forced to pull off a complex theft, but her director is more interested in obsessions than robberies
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‘Green Book’ Film Review: Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali Take a Perilous Road Trip Through the Deep South
“Dumb and Dumber” director Peter Farrelly gets serious with this fact-based look at a Bronx bouncer discovering the dangers of the Civil Rights-era South
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‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Tops Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
Judd Apatow, Anthony Bourdain win television awards; Michael Moore receives Critics’ Choice Lifetime Achievement Award at ceremony in Brooklyn
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‘Minding the Gap’ Leads All Films in Nominations for Cinema Eye Honors
Other top nominees in the documentary awards include “Bisbee ’17,” “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” “Of Fathers and Sons,” “Three Identical Strangers” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
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Glenn Close to Receive Icon Award From Palm Springs Film Festival
Close, currently an Oscar contender for “The Wife,” is the first honoree to be announced for the festival’s annual awards gala
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‘The Favourite’ Tops BIFA Nominations for British Independent Films
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ black comedy has now been accepted as a British indie by BIFA and as an American indie by the Gotham Awards
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Sorry, Oscar Documentary Voters: Your Workload Just Doubled
With 77 new films just added to the list of eligible docs, 2018’s field is edging close to last year’s record total
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Jim Carrey Gets Fiery and Political at Britannia Awards: ‘How Dare They!’
“I know this wasn’t funny,” Carrey said in his heated comments at the BAFTA Los Angeles event, “but it’s not very funny right now”
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Mr. Rogers Will Be Competing at the Cinema Eye Honors
In early nominations, the nonfiction film awards nominated both “RBG” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” for the Audience Choice Award, and honored Ginsburg and Rogers as unforgettable subjects
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‘Free Solo,’ ‘Minding the Gap,’ ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Land IDA Documentary Nominations
The top feature-film category has been beefed up to 10 nominees this year and also includes “Dark Money,” “Of Fathers and Sons,” “The Silence of Others” and “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
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Peter Bogdanovich Says It Only Took ‘One Good Idea’ to Make His Buster Keaton Doc ‘The Great Buster’
The “Last Picture Show” director and film historian says he jumbled the chronology of his Keaton documentary because of “the old showbiz axiom, ‘Leave ‘em laughing'”
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‘First Reformed,’ ‘The Favourite’ Lead Gotham Awards Nominations for Independent Film
Other films nominated in the Best Feature category were “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Madeline’s Madeline” and “The Rider”
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Oscars Give More Power in Foreign Language Voting to LA Members (Exclusive)
The latest adjustment to the Oscars foreign category will allow Los Angeles-based “general committee” voters to also participate in the final stage of nomination voting
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‘Free Solo’ Leads Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards Nominations
Other nominees include “RBG,” “Three Identical Strangers” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” — but MIchael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9” was not nominated in top categories
