Viggo Mortensen to Receive American Riviera Award From Santa Barbara Film Festival
Mortensen currently stars in the Oscar contending film “Green Book” with Mahershala Ali
Awards
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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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‘Birds of Passage’ Directors Say They Found the Real Story of Narco Trafficking From the Women, Not the Men
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s very hard to see Pablo Escobar become a hero to a generation, because his process was really a process of destruction,” says director Ciro Guerra
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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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How ‘Never Look Away’ Juggled Art, Love and the Madness of German History
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “Our county, Germany, has been at the center of every craziness, of every madness, of every abomination of the 20th century,” says director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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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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‘Sew Winter to My Skin’ Director Demystifies Last Days of South African Outlaw
“It’s a love letter to our history,” director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka tells TheWrap
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CMA Awards 2018: The Complete Winners List
Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley host the show for the 11th straight year
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Idris Elba’s Daughter Named 2019 Golden Globes Ambassador
Isan Elba will hand out trophies at next year’s Golden Globes and work with nonprofit organizations
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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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E’s People Choice Awards 2018: Complete Winners List
“Avengers: Infinity War” and “Black Panther” dominate in the movie categories, of course
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Michael Moore Finally Finishes His ‘Bowling for Columbine’ Oscar Speech 15 Years Later
Moore was infamously cut off at the 2003 Oscars after speaking out against the Iraq War
