The show was created by Megan Amram for the express (and tongue-in-cheek) purpose of winning her an Emmy, but it led to a rule change that was responsible for “State of the Union” getting its nomination and beating her
Toronto Film Festival 2019: The black comedy set in Nazi Germany beats “Joker,” “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” “The Two Popes” and others for a prize that usually indicates Oscar success
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Borrowing from the imagery of his recent album of the same name, the film directed by Springsteen and Thom Zimny is both an intimate concert film and a series of musings on solitude and community
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Justin Kurzel’s period drama stars George Mackay, Russell Crowe, Charlie Hunnam and Nicholas Hoult
Toronto Film Festival 2019: It’s easier to cover this much ground in 784 pages than in a 2-hour-and-29-minute running time that begins to feel exhausting well before it ends
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Sandler makes for a hangdog Everyman sliding into desperation in a film by indie cinema’s masters of chaos
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Joaquin Phoenix says, “It wasn’t an easy decision” to play the role. “Honestly, I didn’t f—ing know”
Toronto Film Festival 2019: The New Zealand director has taken a risky premise and turned in a twisted piece of grandly entertaining provocation
Toronto Film Festival 2019: TIFF has showcased everything from Mr. Rogers to urban dramas, but Todd Phillips’ dark comic movie looms large
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Craig Brewer’s film about guerrilla filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore drew a raucous crowd to celebrate both Moore and the man who plays him
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Director Marielle Heller finds a state of real grace in her valentine to kindness
Film is directed by Roger Michell and also stars Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Director Destin Daniel Cretton has made subtler movies than this one, but it was a true crowd-pleaser in its TIFF premiere
Toronto Film Festival 2019: The creator of “Veep” and “The Death of Stalin” has fun with a color-blind take on Dickens’ large and wacky cast of characters
Toronto Film Festival 2019: You probably don’t remember it, but director Gabe Polsky spins a wild true story that includes Russian mobsters, Disney, strippers and the very weird collision of Russian and American hockey
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Director Feras Fayyad’s cameras roam freely through an underground hospital in which many of the patients are indeed children who’ve grown up under the shadow of warplanes
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Daniel Roher’s documentary about the seminal musician is haunted by the deaths of three of Robertson’s fellow musicians in the Band
Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman use Ronstadt’s voice to tell her story, but that voice speaks loudest when she’s singing
The three-day festival will also present tributes to actors Renee Zellweger and Adam Driver and director Philip Kaufman
Fall Movie Preview: Dozens of awards contenders, including Joaquin Phoenix, Tom Hanks and Renee Zellweger, are soon to live or die on the canals of Venice, the mountains of Telluride and the streets of Toronto
TIFF completes its programming by also unveiling special events, speakers and the first Mary Pickford Award presentation to director Mati Diop
The three awards automatically qualify their winners for this year’s short-film Oscars
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Producer/director Ben Winston discusses the trick of landing nominations for half a dozen different shows in the Corden Television Universe
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Megan Amram explains her unquenchable Emmy lust and why she loves the “Cats” trailer
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I can’t tell you the number of times that someone has come up to me and said, ‘I wish I had a Doug Stamper on my team,'” the four-time nominee says
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “We set out to communicate to the audience that the world is in difficulty,” producer Keith Scholey says of the British series
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Only three episodes of the show were eligible, but the show’s 11 nominations included a best-director nod for Daina Reid, one of only nine women nominated for directing
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “From the first day of shooting, I remember thinking, ‘This feels really different,'” says Emmy best-director nominee Stiller
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I need another scary lady to play,'” says Arquette of playing troubled women in “Escape at Dannemora” and “The Act” back-to-back
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Whether she’s writing for “Fleabag” or for 007, Waller-Bridge tells TheWrap she’s looking to create “truthful, witty, sexy characters with a heart”
