Oscars
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Martin Scorsese to Receive the Producers Guild David O. Selznick Achievement Award
The on-a-roll “Killers of the Flower Moon” director will be honored in February in Los Angeles
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Danielle Brooks Honored With Palm Springs Spotlight Award
The “Color Purple” star will join Colman Domingo as a Spotlight selection
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‘About Dry Grasses’: Is 6th Time the Charm for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Oscar Chances?
TheWrap magazine: “Sometimes very good movies can be neglected in this system, but this is the way it is,” the acclaimed Turkish director says
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Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, America Ferrera and Andrew Scott Complete Virtuosos Award Winners in Santa Barbara
They will join the previously announced Lily Gladstone, Greta Lee, Charles Melton and Da’Vine Joy Randolph
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Irwin Winkler Looks Back at His Oscar Nights, Including the One Where ‘I Wanted to Shoot Myself’
TheWrap magazine: The Hollywood figure has produced all-time classics including “Rocky,” “GoodFellas” and “The Right Stuff”
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Bradley Cooper to Receive Outstanding Performer of the Year at Santa Barbara Film Festival
The “Maestro” actor-director will receive his award on Feb. 8
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How Composer Ludwig Göransson Took Viewers Inside J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Head
TheWrap magazine: “You’re with him — you’re feeling his feelings, you’re seeing through his eyes throughout the whole film,” Göransson says
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Why John Carney Needed to Write ‘Good, Not Great’ Music for ‘Flora and Son’
TheWrap magazine: “It can’t be that she suddenly starts singing like Beyoncé and he starts writing Ed Sheeran songs,” Carney says
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How Jarvis Cocker Channeled His Childhood Cowboy to Write Songs for ‘Asteroid City’
TheWrap magazine: The musician and longtime Anderson collaborator also appears in the 1950s-set film
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Greta Gerwig to Receive Palm Springs International Director of the Year Award
The “Barbie” director will be feted on Jan. 4, 2024 at the Palm Springs Convention Center
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Roger Ross Williams Had to Prepare ‘Cassandro’ Real-Life Subject for Artistic License: ‘It Wasn’t a Documentary’
TheWrap magazine: “This is a deeply emotional story of the love between a mother and a son, their isolation and loneliness,” the filmmaker says
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How ‘Nyad’ Screenwriter Julia Cox Captured the Marathon Swimmer’s ‘Extreme, Intense, Very Esoteric Dream’
TheWrap Magazine: Cox drew from Diana Nyad’s memoir and conversations with the super athlete to write the biopic starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster
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How ‘Rustin’ Cowriter Found the Mischievous Humor Within the Stature of a Civil Rights Icon
TheWrap Magazine: “Rustin was into pranks and jokes, and I felt like that played into his brilliance as a strategist,” says screenwriter Julian Breece
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‘May December’ Screenplay Was Influenced By an ‘Eternal and Archetypal’ ’90s Tabloid Scandal
TheWrap Magazine: The Mary Kay Letourneau case was a precursor to the “never-ending true crime parade we have right now,” says screenwriter Samy Burch
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How ‘Jaws’ Inspired the Michael Jordan-Infused ‘Air’
TheWrap magazine: “This kind of unknown employee at Nike, an underdog in his own right, was all very interesting to me,” screenwriter Alex Convery says of his massive industry break