Acting awards go to Ethan Hawke for “First Reformed,” Olivia Colman for “The Favourite,” Steven Yeun for “Burning” and Regina King for “If Beale Street Could Talk”; Debra Granik wins best director for “Leave No Trace”
Bing Liu’s doc about skateboarders grappling with histories of violence takes three awards; “Wild Wild Country,” “The Trade” and “John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls” also win
Expanding the four main Grammys categories, he said, “has the ability to impact issues of diversity and inclusion, which is obviously high on our agenda”
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “You don’t choose projects, they choose you — it becomes a need, and you go for it,” the director says
Answer: They’re not the ones who picked the category for those music-heavy films
Those movies are the only two to land nominations for picture, directing, writing and acting — but do the results really say anything about what Oscar voters will do?
Lucas Hedges also stars in the family drama about drug addiction, which was directed by his father Peter Hedges
In a curious year with musicals competing as dramas and dramas competing as comedies, here’s what we think will come out on top in all major film and television categories
The wide-ranging American Film Institute list also includes “BlacKkKlansman,” “The Favourite,” “Mary Poppins” returns and more
In the Best Animated Feature category, those two Disney/Pixar films were joined by “Early Man,” “Isle of Dogs” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
The Yorgos Lanthimos film wins 10 awards, including best film, best director and acting honors for Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz
The “Star Is Born” director and star says “it’s beyond overwhelming” after Lady Gaga, Sean Penn, Zach Galifiakanis, David O. Russell and others sing his praises
Alfonso Cuaron wins award for best director; acting honors go to Ethan Hawke, Regina Hall, Regina King and Richard E. Grant
Asghar Farhadi’s dark drama stars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who have rarely gone to these emotional extremes in their work together
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck tells a slow but beautiful story set in Germany in the middle of the 20th century
Rohrwacher’s fable, the second of this year’s competition films from a female director, is both transporting and maddening
Other films on the NBR’s Top 10 list include “A Star Is Born,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Black Panther” and “Roma”
The director will be honored for this black-and-white drama “Roma,” which he also wrote, shot and edited
“The Dawn Wall,” “Hal,” “Into the Okavango,” “Three Identical Strangers” also make the cut in the Producers Guild Awards
Mortensen currently stars in the Oscar contending film “Green Book” with Mahershala Ali
The honorees were Cicely Tyson, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, Lalo Schifrin and Marvin Levy – but there was more going on than just awards
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
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
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
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
TheWrap foreign magazine: “I think there are many segments of every society that prefer that they remain invisible,” director Hirokazu Kore-eda tells TheWrap
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
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
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
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”
