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Elordi Will Also Participate In Live Recording of
The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter Podcast At The Festival
The 2025 Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) announced that Jacob Elordi will receive the Maverick Award on October 16th at 5:30pm at Regal Edwards Big Newport Cinema before the opening night of the annual festival. The presentation will take place immediately following a live recording of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, moderated b...
SCAD Savannah Film Festival to Honor Acclaimed Guests Will Arnett, Rose Byrne, Miles Caton, Zoey Deutch, Joel Edgerton, Mark Hamill, Oscar Isaac, Dylan O’Brien, Benny Safdie, and Tessa Thompson
Award Presentations to Take Place Alongside Screenings of ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Hedda,’ ‘If I Had Legs I'd Kick You,’ ‘Is This Thing On?,’ ‘The Life of Chuck,’ ‘Nouvelle Vague,’ ‘Sinners,’ &lsq...
An icon of Chinese cinema, Gong Li has been instrumental in bringing Asian filmmaking to global audiences and has worked with leading directors including Zhang Yimou (Red Sorghum), Michael Mann (Miami Vice), Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) and Wong Kar-wai (2046). She has received multiple honours at Cannes, Venice and Berlin.
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This year’s edition will feature a special appearance by two-time Academy Award winner and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett, who will be participating in a series of festival events, including an “In Conversation” session moderated by media personality, Raya Abirached at the CineGouna Platform, in partnership with the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development, the festival impact partner, and UNHCR.
In keeping with its tradition, the 8th GFF will showca...
The English actor Malcolm McDowell will be a guest of the Lucca Film Festival 2025 on September 24. He will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award and present the film Caligula: The Ultimate Cut, accompanied by the international artist Hershey Felder.
The LFF will also honor a rising star with the New Protagonists Award, presented to the actor from Lucca, Alberto Paradossi.
Great anticipation surrounds the appearance of Malcolm McDowell at the Lucca Film Festiva...
La Biennale di Venezia and Campari are pleased to announce that the American director Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, My Own Private Idaho, Elephant) is the recipient of the Campari Passion for Film Award at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival (August 27th - September 6th, 2025).
The director Gus Van Sant's new film Dead Man’s Wire (105’) to premiere at the Venice Film Fes...
Lopez to Participate in Live Recording of The Hollywood Reporter’s ‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast Nov. 1
The 2025 SCAD Savannah Film Festival announced today that global icon and multihyphenate Jennifer Lopez will receive the Virtuoso Award in honor of her performance in Kiss of the Spider Woman and her trailblazing career across film, television, music, and entertainment. Lopez will receive the award following a live recording of ...
The Leopard Club Award will be awarded to Emma Thompson on the night of Friday, August 8, 2025. Locarno78 will also be premiering Thompson’s highly anticipated thriller The Dead of Winter by Brian Kirk on the Piazza Grande.
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Academy, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award-winning Emma Thompson is one of the UK’s most recognizable and beloved actors, with a career in acting, writing, and producing that spans...
The Locarno Film Festival’s prestigious Excellence Award Davide Campari will be presented to internationally acclaimed actress Golshifteh Farahani during Locarno78, on the night of Wednesday, August 6, 2025. Golshifteh Farahani will also present her most recent film, Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, which premiered this year in competition at Cannes, and will take part in a public conversation with the festival audience.
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Great festival and experience! Mestia International Short and Mountain Film Festival is celebrating a 5 years jubilee. And the big news to celebrate with this anniversary are:
Mestia FF is now an official member of the International Alliance for Mountain Film! And this is a great achievement!
Festival director Khatuna Khundadze is announcing many highlights and surprises for the upcoming edition July 28 to August 3.
The festival will start with t...
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is proud to screen a newly restored version of Miloš Forman’s cinematic landmark One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as part of this year’s “Out of the Past” section. The 1975 classic, which swept the Oscars and earned dozens of international awards, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Michael Douglas, one of the film’s producers and recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture, will persona...
EFP (European Film Promotion) and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) are pleased to announce that the Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvilli will serve as this year’s mentor for EFP FUTURE FRAMES – Generation NEXT of European Cinema. Acclaimed Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland is contributing a keynote speech.
In an exclusive masterclass, the award-winning director Dea Kulumbegashvilli will give the young filmmakers an insight into her professional journey fr...
Film Fest Gent welcomes 'Slumdog Millionaire' composer A. R. Rahman as Guest of Honour at 25th World Soundtrack Awards
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the World Soundtrack Awards, Film Fest Gent is thrilled to welcome 'Slumdog Millionaire' composer A. R. Rahman as esteemed Guest of Honour. Widely regarded as India’s greatest living composer, A.R. Rahman’s legacy has reshaped the landscape of film music worldwide. From his groundbreaking score for the ...
Cannes Lions honours Adobe Chair and CEO Shantanu Narayen as inaugural Creative Champion of the Year
New Award recognises Narayen’s dedication to enabling creativity in its many forms and driving the creative agenda across industries and around the globe
13 May 2025 - The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced that Shantanu Narayen, Chair and CEO, Adobe, will be honoured as its inaugural Creative Champion of the Year. The new honouree Award is given to individu...
The North American writer worked with William Wyler, Arthur Penn, William Dieterle and George Roy Hill,
among other filmmakers
The screenwriter Lillian Hellman, a key name of the classical Hollywood scene who worked alongside moviemakers such as William Wyler, Arthur Penn, William Dieterle and George Roy Hill, will be the focus of the retrospective at the San Sebastian Festival’s 73rd edition. Organised by the Festival and the Filmoteca Vasca, in collaboration with Film...
On Sunday, May 18, the 2025 Women In Motion Award was presented to Nicole Kidman during the official Women In Motion Awards Ceremony at the Place de la Castre by François-Henri Pinault, Chairman and CEO of Kering, Iris Knobloch, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate of the Festival de Cannes.
Rising Brazilian director Marianna Brennand received the Emerging Talent Award, honoring her bold vision and promise as a new, powerful voice in global ...
Academy Award-winning for his work on Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a Geisha, filmmaker with whom he has filmed seven times (from Chicago to The Little Mermaid), the Australian cinematographer Dion Beebe also collaborated with Jane Campion (Holy Smoke and In the cut) and with Michael Mann (Collateral and Miami Vice).
He is currently shooting the biopic of Michael Jackson, directed by Antoine Fuqua.
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Thierry Fr...
As a special tribute to the legendary filmmaker Guru Dutt's 100th birth anniversary this year, Ultra Media & Entertainment Group unveils the fully restored versions of Guru Dutt's timeless classics for the Global audience at the Cannes
Restored gems of Guru Dutt like *Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool, Chaudhvin Ka Chand, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam & others are present at the Cannes . This is a celebration of Indian creativity, its past, present & future & a step towards in...
It was announced that the award-winning film SUNSHINE (2000) will screen at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2025 as a Cannes Classics Selection. Academy Award winning director István Szabó will be in attendance with award winning producer Robert Lantos at the special screening. The film recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and stars Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Rosemary Harris, Jennifer Ehle, Molly Parker, Deborah Kara Unger, William Hurt and Mark Strong. SUNSHINE was a Canad...
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Kering and the Festival de Cannes are pleased to announce that the 2025 Women In Motion Emerging Talent Award will be presented to Brazilian director Marianna Brennand during the official Women In Motion dinner at Cannes. Brennand was selected by Malaysian director Amanda Nell Eu who received the Award in 2024, as each winner is chosen by the preceding Award winner to receive the prize, which includes a grant of €50,000 to support the creation of ...
The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia (August 27 – September 6, 2025) has been awarded to the great German director Werner Herzog (Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu the Vampyre). The decision was made by the Board of Directors of La Biennale, upon recommendation of the Artistic Director of the Festival, Alberto Barbera.
Photo credit: Werner Herzog courtesy of Lena Herzog
Werner Herzog, in a...
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On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, American actor, director and producer Robert De Niro will receive an honorary Palme d'or for lifetime achievement at the opening ceremony of the 78th Festival de Cannes, 14 years after he Presided over the Jury in 2011.
There are faces that stand in for the 7th Art, and lines of dialogue that leave an indelible mark on cinephilia. With his interiorized style, which surfaces in a gentle smile or a harsh gaze, Robert De...
American composer Philip Glass will be celebrated with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the film music concert Minimalism in Motion: Glass, Nyman and Beyond which will close Film Fest Gent’s Film Music Days 2025 and the 25th World Soundtrack Awards. While initially renowned for his work for opera and his symphonies, Glass has made an equally impressive contribution to film music, with a rich oeuvre of film scores that include Koyaanisqatsi, Mishima: A Life in Four C...
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