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Apple TV+ is telling the story of one of Hollywood's most legendary storytellers.

The streamer has unveiled the trailer for Mr. Scorsese, a five-part docuseries about Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese, directed by the acclaimed Rebecca Miller. Watch the trailer below and keep reading for everything you need to know.

What's it about?

Mr. Scorsese examines how the filmmaker’s colorful life informed his artistic vision. Starting with his earliest experiences (New York University student films) through to the present day, the documentary explores the themes that have fascinated Scorsese, including the place of good and evil in the fundamental nature of humankind. The five-part docuseries grants audiences unprecedented access to the Academy Award-winning filmmaker.

When does it come out?

Mr. Scorsese will premiere Oct. 17 on Apple TV+.

Who directed it?

Taking the helm is acclaimed writer-director Rebecca Miller, whose work includes the films Angela, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,...

If you’re a fan of Martin Scorsese then buckle up. The director has had one of the greatest cinematic careers of all time, from his livewire early features (Mean Streets! Taxi Driver!), to his astonishing ‘90s (GoodFellas! Casino!) to his modern classics (The Wolf Of Wall Street! The Irishman! Killers Of The Flower Moon!). Even there, we’ve failed to mention many of his legendary features. In fact, you’d need a good five hours to so really capture the scope of the man. Well, get ready for Mr. Scorsese – a five-part documentary series coming to Apple TV+, delving into Marty’s oeuvre with plenty of familiar faces. Here’s a teaser:

If having Steven Spielberg as one of your talking heads isn’t a major flex, we don’t know what is. Also listed as contributors to Mr. Scorsese are the likes of Robert De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis,...

Martin Scorsese is a true rarity. Here is a filmmaker who is considered to be one of the all-time greats since the early days of his career, and is still working and passionate about movies at the age of 82. When his movies regularly skate around the line of three hours, you also can’t accuse him of phoning in his job. Apple TV+ has now released a first look at the upcoming documentary on the filmmaker.

In the clip from Mr. Scorsese, which you can get a peek at below, Scorsese and his filmmaker friend, Steven Spielberg, recall when the studio was threatening to cut the pivotal ending of Taxi Driver. In the short clip of the story, Scorsese talks about how his fight with the studio got so heated that he attempted to lie about retrieving a gun to take matters into his own hands. In the end, a...

Today, Apple TV+ revealed a first-look clip from Mr. Scorsese, the five-part documentary event from acclaimed director Rebecca Miller set to premiere globally on October 17. The sneak-peek look at the new series grants audiences unprecedented access to the Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Martin Scorsese.

As seen in the clip, Scorsese and his filmmaker friends, including Steven Spielberg, reflect on how the director’s cut of Taxi Driver almost never saw the light of day, and the extreme lengths the visionary filmmaker was willing to go to protect what would go on to be one of his most iconic films.

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Mr. Scorsese examines how Scorsese’s colorful life experiences informed his artistic vision, as each film he made stunned the world with originality. Starting with his earliest experiences (New York University student films) through to the present day, this documentary explores the themes that have fascinated Scorsese,...

Apple TV+ has unveiled a first look at director Rebecca Miller’s five-part documentary, Mr. Scorsese, exploring the life and career of legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese.

In the clip (below), Scorsese and his filmmaker friends, including Steven Spielberg, recall the extreme lengths the Oscar winner was willing to go to protect his cut of 1976’s Taxi Driver, which was almost never released.

“They’re going to destroy the film anyway, you know. So let me destroy it. I’ll destroy it. But before destroying it, I’m going to steal it,” Scorsese says in the footage.

The docuseries “examines how Scorsese’s colorful life experiences informed his artistic vision as each film he made stunned the world with originality. Starting with his earliest experiences (New York University student films) through to the present day, this documentary explores the themes that have fascinated Scorsese, including the place of good and evil...

Apple TV+ will premiere its Martin Scorsese documentary series, “Mr. Scorsese,” on Oct. 17. The five-part documentary event about the legendary filmmaker comes from acclaimed director Rebecca Miller.

The “Mr. Scorsese” team was given exclusive, unrestricted access to Scorsese’s private archives and conducted extensive interviews with the filmmaker. It is anchored by conversations with Scorsese, his friends, family and creative collaborators including Robert De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone, Jodie Foster, Paul Schrader, Margot Robbie, Cate Blanchett, Jay Cocks and Rodrigo Prieto, along with his children, wife Helen Morris and close childhood friends.

“Mr. Scorsese” examines how Scorsese’s colorful life experiences informed his artistic vision. Starting with his earliest experiences with New York University student films to the present day, the documentary explores the themes that have fascinated Scorsese, including the place of good and evil in the fundamental nature of humankind.

As Brokeback Mountain returns to theaters for its 20th anniversary, a writer behind the 2005 gay neo-Western romance recently recalled its Oscars snub.

Co-writer Diana Ossana recently recalled Crash director Paul Haggis introducing her to Clint Eastwood at a party for the Academy Award nominees after voting had ended, several weeks before the awards show.

“Paul started walking me over and he goes, ‘Diana, I have to tell you, he hasn’t seen your movie,'” recalled Ossana to The New York Times. “And it was like somebody kicked me in the stomach. That’s when I knew we would not win Best Picture.”

Despite winning a record number of Best Picture prizes during the awards season, including the Golden Globe, BAFTA, Critics’ Choice Award and Independent Spirit Award, Brokeback Mountain infamously lost the Oscar to Crash.

Ossana is still convinced homophobia in Hollywood played a part in the defeat. “People want to deny that,...

Almost a decade after its rocky theatrical debut, Passengers — the 2016 sci-fi romance starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence — has found new life in the unlikeliest of places: the HBO Max global streaming charts. Despite its icy reception from critics, the film has quietly become a top 10 hit worldwide on the platform, with audiences rediscovering the slick, stylish space drama and giving it a second chance. It’s an ironic twist for a movie that was once branded “Titanic amongst the stars” by a reviewer attempting to summarize its doomed-romance-in-a-crisis formula. And while Passengers never quite hit those box office heights — or narrative depth — it’s clearly struck a chord years later.

Written by Jon Spaihts and directed by Morten Tyldum, Passengers is part slow-burn romance, part existential thriller, and part last-minute action spectacle — a combo that some audiences loved and others found deeply jarring. That genre ambiguity was a major criticism at the time,...

Actor Zoe Saldaña says her newly minted Academy Award “is gender fluid — it’s trans and goes by they/them,” a playful declaration she offered on the “Elio” premiere carpet in Los Angeles this week. Asked by People where the statuette lives, the 46-year-old replied, “We have it in my office,” before volunteering its pronouns and noting the link to the transgender storyline of Emilia Pérez, the Spanish-language musical crime drama that earned her the prize.

Saldaña’s off-hand remark lands in the middle of a broader, months-long dispute over Emilia Pérez. The film, directed by France’s Jacques Audiard, follows a Mexican cartel boss who transitions with the help of Saldaña’s lawyer character and has delivered both Oscars glory — 13 nominations and wins for Saldaña and best original song — and fierce backlash.

Trans-advocacy group GLAAD catalogued critiques calling the picture a “profoundly retrograde” portrayal of trans women and a step backwards for representation.

Director. Actor. TikTok sensation. Martin Scorsese has done it all – and continues to do so, with several projects circling at the moment. But one we’ll get even sooner than his next planned feature – a crime drama set in Hawaii – is a five-part documentary about Scorsese himself titled, aptly enough, Mr. Scorsese.

The documentary – which turns the cameras on Martin Scorsese, who has been behind the lens for about six decades now – comes from Rebecca Miller and Apple TV+. While no official release date has been set, this will be one of the must-watch films for cinephiles everywhere.

As per Apple, “Mr. Scorsese is a film portrait of a man through the lens of his work, exploring the many facets of a visionary who redefined filmmaking, including his extraordinary career and unique personal history. With exclusive, unrestricted access to Scorsese’s private archives, the documentary series is anchored by extensive...

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Martin Scorsese, the acclaimed filmmaker, producer, and writer, whose career spans more than 50 years, and is often celebrated for directing such classics as Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Casino, is about to have the cameras turned on him. Apple TV+ has announced a new five-part docuseries, aptly titled Mr. Scorsese, that will explore the life and career of the Hollywood icon through extensive conversations with the man himself and never-before-seen interviews with his family, friends, and creative collaborators.

Among those that will be speaking about Scorsese is legendary actor Robert De Niro. He will be drawing from experience, having collaborated on ten feature films with the director, starting with Mean Streets in 1973 right the way through to Killers of the Flower Moon in 2023. Interviews will also be held with Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone, Jodie Foster, Paul Schrader, Margot Robbie,...

Directed by Rebecca Miller, Mr Scorsese will explore the legendary director’s work through the years over the course of five episodes.

It’s mildly surprising that there hasn’t been a high-profile documentary on Martin Scorsese for such a long time (though 2004’s Scorsese On Scorsese is well worth checking out), but AppleTV+ is looking to fix that with Mr Scorsese. The documentary, presented in five episodes, will look at the director, writer and producer’s career through the years. Rebecca Miller is directing the project.

“I am so grateful to have been given the artistic freedom and access to create a cinematic portrait of one of our greatest living artists, Martin Scorsese,” director Miller commented on the project. “His work and life are so vast and so compelling that the piece evolved from one to five parts over a five year period; crafting this documentary alongside my long...

Alejandro González Iñárritu returned to the Cannes Film Festival this May to honor the 25th anniversary of his debut feature Amores Perros, reflecting on the film’s enduring impact and previewing his next bold collaboration.

The Mexican director recalled that when he first brought the interwoven triptych of urban trauma to Cannes in 2000, critics and audiences alike were struck by its raw energy and the storytelling device that linked three disparate lives through a single car crash.

He credited cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s kinetic camera work and Gustavo Santaolalla’s haunting score as foundational to Amores Perros’ visceral style, which later influenced a generation of filmmakers exploring nonlinear narratives. Festival delegates, including filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, praised the film as one of the finest debuts of the 21st century, noting its unflinching gaze at human cruelty and loyalty.

Speaking to press on the Croisette, Iñárritu described his upcoming project with Tom...

Apple TV+ is continuing its relationship with Martin Scorsese. The streamer is moving forward with a five-part docuseries about the iconic filmmaker, which will be titled “Mr. Scorsese.”

The project comes from director Rebecca Miller, who is known for her work on “Personal Velocity: Three Portraits” and “She Came To Me.” Miller is also married to one of Scorsese’s favorite actors, Daniel Day-Lewis.

“I am so grateful to have been given the artistic freedom and access to create a cinematic portrait of one of our greatest living artists, Martin Scorsese,” Miller said in a statement to press. “His work and life are so vast and so compelling that the piece evolved from one to five parts over a five year period; crafting this documentary alongside my longtime collaborators has been one of the defining experiences of my life as a filmmaker.”

Miller and Damon Cardasis at Round Films will...

Exclusive: Martin Scorsese has directed over a dozen documentaries from The Last Waltz to No Direction Home. But the filmmaker is now set to have the cameras turned on him in a new five-part series for Apple TV+.

Rebecca Miller, the filmmaker behind Personal Velocity: Three Portraits and She Came To Me, is to direct Mr. Scorsese for the streamer.

The project is a five-part film portrait of the legendary director behind Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, The Color of Money, Goodfellas, Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon.

Miller, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and photographer Inge Morath, and wife of Scorsese collaborator Daniel Day-Lewis, has gained exclusive, unrestricted access to Scorsese’s private archives.

Mr. Scorsese is anchored by extensive conversations with the filmmaker himself and never-before-seen interviews with friends, family, and creative collaborators including Day-Lewis,...

Exclusive: Mubi has acquired worldwide rights on the 4K restoration of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Amores Perros, and is scheduling a theatrical re-release of the film.

The 4K restoration of Amores Perros launched in Cannes Classics yesterday, 25 years after the film originally debuted in the Critics’ Week sidebar, winning the Grand Prize.

Mubi will conduct a global theatrical re-release of the film, in collaboration with cultural institutions. The film will be available to stream exclusively on Mubi worldwide following its theatrical release, including a co-exclusive period in Latin America until September 2027.

The restoration was carried out by the Criterion Collection,...

With the Cannes Film Festival just around the corner, the festival has now unveiled its Classics lineup, featuring new restorations, films about filmmaking, and much more. Highlights include Stéphane Ghez’s David Lynch, une énigme à Hollywood (Welcome to Lynchland), a new documentary about the late director, Quentin Tarantino in-person to present two features by George Sherman, plus films by Edward Yang, John Woo, Stanley Kubrick, Charlie Chaplin, Mikio Naruse, Marcel Pagnol, and more.

Check out the lineup below and learn more here.

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Artificial or not, Netflix co-ceo Ted Sarandos has some ideas on how artificial intelligence could make films “better.” During the company’s first-quarter earnings call on Thursday, Sarandos said that he believes that the real opportunity for AI in filmmaking is if they can help films be “10 percent better,” not just “50 percent cheaper.” Sarandos cited James Cameron’s recent comments about how the technology could cut production costs in half.

“There’s a ton of excitement about what AI can do for content creators,” Sarandos said on the call. “I read the article too about what Jim Cameron said about making movies 50 percent cheaper. I remain convinced that there’s an even bigger opportunity if you can make movies 10 percent better. So, our talent today is using AI tools to do set references, pre-vis, VFX sequence prep, shot planning, all kinds of things today that kind of make the process better.

Exuding confidence amid a volatile economic climate, Netflix leadership unveiled solid Q1 results that were on par with or beat Wall Street estimates.

Leadership also said that co-founder and former CEO Reed Hastings was segueing from his executive chairman role to chairman of the board and non-executive director.

Thursday marked the streamer’s first quarterly earnings without an update on the subscriber count. In Q4 the company reported 18.91m paid global adds to 301.6m.Thursday’s letter to shareholders said 700m people watched worldwide, over two-thirds of whom live outside the United States.

Widely regarded as the winner in the so-called streaming wars,...

Exuding confidence amid a volatile economic climate, Netflix leadership unveiled solid Q1 results that were on par with or beat Wall Street estimates.

Leadership also said that co-founder and former CEO Reed Hastings was segueing from his executive chairman role to chairman of the board and non-executive director.

Thursday marked the streamer’s first quarterly earnings without an update on the subscriber count. In Q4 the company reported 18.91m paid global adds to 301.6m.Thursday’s letter to shareholders said 700m people watched worldwide, over two-thirds of whom live outside the United States.

Widely regarded as the winner in the so-called streaming wars,...

Costume designer Anna Terrazas has spent her career working between her native Mexico and the U.S., on films and shows including Roma, The Deuce, Bardo – False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths and most recently Eddington.

Speaking to Deadline at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra project and talent incubator on Tuesday, she revealed her fear as she traveled to the U.S. earlier this year in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidency and his attacks on Mexico.

“I went back to New Mexico for Eddington, for a couple of things, and Trump was president. When we shot, he wasn’t there yet,” said Terrazas.

“For the first time, when I crossed, I had a weird feeling. I have a visa, an O1 visa, that I have been having for almost 15 years… But this time when I entered the U.S, I was a tiny bit afraid. I was like,...

After 20 years, Michelle Williams is just as confused as the rest of us by a major Academy Award injustice.

The 5x Oscar nominee recently questioned why the Academy snubbed her 2005 Ang Lee-helmed gay western Brokeback Mountain, which infamously lost the Best Picture trophy to Paul Haggis’ Crash.

“I mean, what was Crash?” Williams asked on Watch What Happens Live while discussing the film’s continued impact.

“People were so open about it,” she recalled. “I just remember doing the junket. You don’t really get an opportunity to see a lot of grown men cry. That was the moment that I think that we all knew that it was going to be special.

Brokeback Mountain starred Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as ranch hand Ennis Del Mar and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist, who begin a 20-year love affair while herding sheep together in 1963.

Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams in...

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It is a comedy, first and foremost, so cinematographer Aguilar’s colorful, wacky choices are spot on for Perkins’ madcap vision. The cinematographer previously shot Rodrigo Prieto’s Pedro Páramo and Elle Callahan’s Witch Hunt. Aguilar took the time to speak with Daily Dead about crafting The Monkey, including the bloody motel sequence and how to best frame the deadly toy.

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Edward Lachman, Jomo Fray, and Sam McCurdy take home top honors at the 39th annual ASC Awards, while ‘Maria’ and ‘Nickel Boys’ stand out among the winners.

Edward Lachman won his first ASC Award for Maria, beating out Greg Frasier for Dune: Part Two and Lol Crawley for The Brutalist at the 39th annual ASC Awards, held on February 23 at The Beverly Hilton. Lachman’s surprise win comes after five previous nominations, marking a long-awaited achievement in his career.

Maria, Lachman’s collaboration with director Pablo Larraín, focuses on the final days of opera singer Maria Callas, reflecting on her life and the challenges of maintaining her voice. To capture this story, Lachman utilized Kodak film in 35mm, 16mm, and Super 8, shooting in both color and black-and-white stock. This film is part of Larraín’s Important Women Trilogy, alongside Jackie and Spencer.

Other notable winners included Robert Elswit for Ripley in the Limited Series category,...

Edward Lachman has taken top honors at the 39th annual American Society of Cinematographers Awards for his work on “Maria.”

In a competitive year, the ASC nominated seven cinematographers in the feature film category. The last time the field expanded beyond five was in 2014. The other nominees are Lol Crawley for “The Brutalist,” Phedon Papamichael for “A Complete Unknown,” Stéphane Fontaine for “Conclave,” Greig Fraser for “Dune: Part 2,” Jarin Blaschke for “Nosferatu,” and Alice Brooks for “Wicked.”

In its 38-year history, only 18 have gone on to win the Oscar. Last year, Hoyte Van Hoytema won the ASC for “Oppenheimer” and went on to win the Oscar.

In TV, winners included Robert Elswit for “Ripley.” Elswit won the Creative Art Emmy last year. Speaking with Variety for Inside the Frame, Elswit spoke about shooting the black and white limited series. He said, “Lighting was important. It needed to reflect who...

The American Society of Cinematographers Awards were handed out Sunday night, with the film prize going to Edward Lachman for Maria.

This is Lachman’s first ASC win. He was previously nominated for Far From Heaven (2003), Mildred Pierce (2011), Carol (2016) and El Conde (2024). He received the ASC’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.

On the TV side, Richard Rutkowski won for Sugar in the episode of a half-hour series category, and Sam Mccurdy won for Shogun in the one-hour regular series category, while the limited or anthology series of motion picture made for television award went to Robert Elswit for Ripley.

The Spotlight Award was awarded to Jomo Fray, cinematographer of Nickel Boys.

The 2025 ASC Career Achievement in Television Award was awarded to Michael Goi, whose credits have included Web Therapy, Glee, American Horror Story and Scream Queens. Pete Romano was honored with the 2025 Curtis Clark ASC Technical Achievement Award for revolutionizing underwater cinematography.

Best Actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón’s recently resurfaced tweets — including one that posited Adolf Hitler “simply had his opinion of the Jews” — have put the 13 Oscar nominations for French narco musical “Emilia Pérez” in turmoil. The fallout is reverberating across Hollywood: Celebrities are distancing themselves, while some online detractors are even calling on the Academy to rescind her nomination.

There’s no joy in being right here, but: We told you so. Latinos knew that “Emilia Pérez” — a film in which a cartel kingpin reemerges as a women’s rights activist — was a disaster waiting to happen. The debacle raises serious questions beyond Netflix vetting Gascón’s Twitter account.

Namely, why did an industry that relies so heavily on Hispanics — who buy more movie tickets per capita than anyone — embrace a film that the very people who keep its lights on widely rejected? More troubling, why were Latino objections ignored?...

With thirteen Oscar nominations, the most for any international feature, Emilia Pérez has become one of the most talked-about films this year. The musical crime drama set in Mexico has been controversial since its Golden Globes win, with many native Mexicans rejecting the film as an authentic portrayal and criticizing several cultural and thematic elements.

Starring Karla Sofía Gascón as the eponymous character, the film follows a cartel gangster who wants to undergo gender-affirming surgery and lead a more authentic and honest life. While many from the industry lauded the film and it even won the Jury Prize at Cannes, many critics have called it Oscar bait and have brought up several problems with it.

A still from Emilia Pérez | Credits: Pathe

Many films each year try their best to win the coveted golden statue. While some gain the love of the voters through sheer authenticity, some try to manufacture it.

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You either love or hate the awards season, but it’s hard to escape it. Awards of course don’t mean everything; they’re often indicative of a great marketing campaign and the production’s address book rather than actual quality.

Awards like the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs and the Oscars do however offer a reflection of the state of the entire industry. And today’s Oscar nominations didn’t paint a pleasant picture.

There are some excellent films nominated this year, such as Conclave, Sing Sing and Anora. We’re not here to criticise these films for getting nominated, but to highlight what they tell us about Hollywood itself. That being said, it seems I watched a different film called Emilia Pérez than the awards voters.

We are fully in the throes of awards season with the Golden Globes behind us and, more importantly, the Academy Awards just around the corner. The 2025 Oscar nominations were announced recently and we now know which movies will be competing for the coveted Best Picture prize. That list includes several critical darlings such as "The Brutalist" and "Anora," and it also features a couple of surprises -- perhaps most notably Mubi's body horror flick "The Substance." But one of the nominees is not like the others, because it's by no means a critical favorite.

Netflix's "Emilia Pérez" has the worst overall critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes of the ten movies nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars this year. As of this writing, it holds a so-so 76% approval rating from critics on the site, with 237 reviews counted. More amazingly, it holds an abysmal 34% audience approval, suggesting that quite...

Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón has made Oscar history. The titular Emilia Pérez star was just nominated for Best Actress, making her the first openly transgender performer ever nominated in the category. She stars in the musical as a Mexican drug lord who undergoes a gender transition but can’t fully escape her past.

This nomination is historic, but it didn’t come as a surprise. Beginning at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024, Gascón and costars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz were jointly named Best Actress. Emilia Pérez was then acquired by Netflix, which released it in theaters on Nov. 1 and on its streaming platform on Nov. 13.

Since then, the film has been enthusiastically embraced by awards groups. It received 10 Golden Globe nominations, the most ever for a comedy or musical, including one for Gascón. It went on to win four of those awards, including the top prize for best film.

Martin Scorsese’s schedule has been uncertain of late. When we talked to Rodrigo Prieto in November he revealed they were supposed to be at work on a new project––not Home or Life of Jesus, which had both generated much heat in the last year, but Sinatra, a project many thought dead. Par for the course, then, if he goes back to the well. Per Deadline, Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are looking to reunite for The Devil in the White City, an adaptation of Erik Larson’s non-fiction sensation with which they were involved some ten years ago and which is being revived at 20th Century Studios.

But for a filmmaker who stressed there’s no time left, this is a curiously soft prospect: no script yet exists, despite decade-old word that Billy Ray would be adapting. Assuming the project happens at all, I wouldn’t be surprised if...

The photographic excellence of The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Maria, Dune: Part Two, Nosferatu, and Wicked were cited in the marquee Theatrical Feature Film category as the American Society of Cinematographers announced nominees Thursday morning for the 39th Annual ASC Awards. The ASC Awards span features, documentaries, television, and music videos among its seven categories, with these nominations delayed a week due to the Los Angeles wildfire crisis.

This feature lineup is packed with awards season favorites, including cinematographers Lol Crawley for The Brutalist, Greig Fraser for Dune: Part Two, and Jarin Blaschke for Nosferatu. Last year’s ASC feature winner, Hoyte van Hoytema for Oppenheimer, went on to win the Academy Award. The ASC winner has claimed that year’s Oscar 18 times in 38 years, or a smidgen less than half the time.

The number of nominees in the feature category — seven this time — can vary between five and...

The American Society of Cinematographers today focused in on the delayed nominations for its 39th annual ASC Awards, which celebrate the year’s best in cinematography in seven categories spanning feature films, TV, documentaries and music videos. See the list below.

Vying for the marquee Theatrical Feature Film prize are the DPs behind Nosferatu, Wicked, The Brutalist, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Maria and A Complete Unknown. The number of nominees in the category can vary from five to 10, depending on vote percentage. The last time there were seven was in 2014.

Winners will be feted February 23 during 39th annual ASC Awards at the Beverly Hilton. The ceremony will be livestreamed at theasc.com.

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Producer and Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy is set for the ASC’s 2025 Board of Governors Award, and longtime Sidney Lumet collaborator Andrzej Bartkowiak will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.

The cinematographers of “The Brutalist,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Maria,” “Nosferatu” and “Wicked” have been nominated for the top feature-film award by the American Society of Cinematographers, which announced its nominations on Thursday after a week-long delay because of the Los Angeles wildfires.

The nominated cinematographers were Jarin Blaschke for “Nosferatu,” Alice Brooks for “Wicked,” Lol Crawley for “The Brutalist,” Stéphane Fontaine for “Conclave,” Greig Fraser for “Dune: Part Two,” Edward Lachman for “Maria” and Phedon Papamichael for “A Complete Unknown.”

The nominations were the fourth for Fraser, Lachman and Papamichael. Brooks became only the fourth woman ever nominated in the feature-film category by the ASC, following Rachel Morrison for “Mudbound,” Ari Wegner for “The Power of the Dog” and Mandy Walker for “Elvis.” Walker is the only woman to win.

The category was expanded to seven nominees rather than the usual five, but it still did...

After a delay due to the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) announced the nominees for its 2025 Outstanding Achievement Awards, spanning feature films, documentaries, television, and music videos. “Dune: Part 2” continues to be a craft favorite with a nomination for Greig Fraser, but winter films made their mark, with nominations for “Nosferatu” and “A Complete Unknown,” among others. The ASC’s spotlight award, which highlights outstanding features with a more limited release or festival run, also nominated Jomo Fray’s work on “Nickel Boys,” keeping it in the conversation.

On the television side, both “House of the Dragon” and “Shōgun” earned multiple nominations for sweeping and sometimes fantastical work in the One-Hour Regular Series category; “Hacks” and “The Franchise” earned nominations for the sharp, funny backstage view of the entertainment industry that Adam Bricker’s and Carl Herse’s cameras each take. The ASC...

Emilia Pérez had quite a contentious win at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards. The French-made, primarily Spanish language musical beat fan favorites like Anora, Wicked, and The Substance for Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy, despite containing what many have deemed controversial material. Emilia Pérez, essentially, follows the story of Emilia Pérez, a former cartel kingpin in Mexico who undergoes gender-affirming surgery and leaves her crime-ridden past behind with the help of a corrupt lawyer, all told through an absurdist musical style.

The film stars Karla Sofía Gascón in the titular role, as well as a supporting cast of the likes of Zoe Saldaña ( who took home the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress), Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz. With such forces and wins behind it, why has Emilia Pérez been so polarizing?Here's a breakdown.

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2024 is nearly over, and while this year saw the release of many brilliant movies, in this article, we are only discussing the best fantasy movies that came out. Fantasy is one of those genres that invokes something magical in all of us, from the heroic journey in The Lord of the Rings films to the coming-of-age fantastical story in Harry Potter, and maybe that’s why this genre has one of the most loyal fan bases. So, let’s find out which fantasy movies released in 2024 were the absolute best.

If Credit – Paramount Pictures

If is a fantasy comedy film written and directed by John Krasinski. The 2024 film follows Bea, a young girl who discovers she can see imaginary friends of other people. She soon sets out on a magical adventure to find human kids to pair them with forgotten imaginary friends.

Montevideo, Uruguay — “As a meeting place, Ventana Sur was fantastic, the sales agent presence was good, focused on companies which really do buy, and the organization was impecable, run by highly dedicated and nice people,” said Antonio Saura, at Madrid-based sales agency Latido Films.

Most other attendees would buy into that.

Transferred for the first time since its launch in 2009 from its traditional Buenos Aires base to the heart of Uruguay’s Montevideo, this week’s Ventana Sur proved an upbeat affair, highlighting a clutch of titles likely to make A-List festival selection, plus some of the Latin America’s movers and shakers in the region and beyond, and the latest trends in an ever evolving regional industry.

Following, some first takeaways from Ventana Sur, Latin America’s weightiest film-tv market, co-hosted by the Cannes Festival’s Marché du Film, Uruguay’s Acau agency and Argentina’s Incaa.

Ventana Sur...

On Wednesday, the National Board of Review announced its winners for the 2024 calendar year, and it’s great news for “Wicked.” The blockbuster film adaptation of the popular Broadway musical won Best Film and Best Director for Jon M. Chu, plus the Spotlight Award for the Creative Collaboration between stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. (See the full list of winners below.) All of the NBR champions will receive their trophies at a New York City gala event on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, with Willie Geist serving as host.

This year’s lead acting trophies went to Daniel Craig (“Queer”) for Best Actor and Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”) for Best Actress, while the supporting honors went to Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”) for Best Supporting Actor and Elle Fanning (“A Complete Unknown”) for Best Supporting Actress.

Other NBR award winners include “Conclave” for Best Ensemble, Mikey Madison (“Anora”) for Breakthrough Performance, India Donaldson...

As Ventana Sur settles into its stride in its first edition in Montevideo, Uruguay, Screen highlights 10 projects expected to make a splash at the leading Ibero-American audiovisual market.

The titles are at various stages in the production cycle and the filmmakers are in Montevideo looking to establish meaningful partnerships.

Selections include stories of vampires grappling with transformation, quests, coming-of-age stories, coastal erosion, and a project from the inaugural Latam Series Market.

Ventana Sur runs through December 6.

The Condor Daughter (Bol-Per-Uru)

Section: Copia Final

Director: Álvaro Olmos

The Condor Daughter marks the second fiction feature from Olmos, who has directed documentary and television,...

Seen from the 14th floor of its Radisson Hotel, Montevideo’s skyline, bristling with white marble high-rises and monuments, looks like a very different scenario for Ventana Sur, Latin America’s foremost film-tv co-pro forum and market, relocated from its chic Buenos Aires setting for the first time since 2009.

Yet in many ways, this is the same Ventana Sur, playing to its strengths and galvanized by its context, Uruguay, one of Latin America’s fastest-growing film-tv hubs, both as a big-shoot locale and home-grown movie industry.

Ten takes, as producers and sales agents began to arrive at the Radisson for this year’s edition, hosted by Cannes Marché du Film and Uruguay’s public-sector film agency, Agencia del Cine y Audiovisual (Acau), and running Dec. 2-6 in the Uruguayan capital:

Attendance Holds

As of Saturday night, attendance had just passed 2,000 delegates, tracking to hit that number of jobbing professionals by market end,...

Based on the novel by Juan Rulfo, a key work in Mexican literature, Rodrigo Prieto’s Pedro Páramo follows several characters across decades as they search for answers to their lives. The story unfolds in arid villages and lush haciendas, against a backdrop of feudal aristocracy and a powerful Catholic church. First seen at a crossroads in a desolate landscape, Juan Preciado (Tenoch Huerta) sets out to keep a promise to reconnect with his estranged father Pedro Páramo (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo). In his journey Juan encounters others who have dealt with his father: criminals, priests, the deaf and blind, and above all, […]

The post “I Thought Maybe Directors Have This Magical Thing Where They Can Judge a Performance”: Dp Rodrigo Prieto on his Directorial Debut, Pedro Páramo first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Based on the novel by Juan Rulfo, a key work in Mexican literature, Rodrigo Prieto’s Pedro Páramo follows several characters across decades as they search for answers to their lives. The story unfolds in arid villages and lush haciendas, against a backdrop of feudal aristocracy and a powerful Catholic church. First seen at a crossroads in a desolate landscape, Juan Preciado (Tenoch Huerta) sets out to keep a promise to reconnect with his estranged father Pedro Páramo (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo). In his journey Juan encounters others who have dealt with his father: criminals, priests, the deaf and blind, and above all, […]

The post “I Thought Maybe Directors Have This Magical Thing Where They Can Judge a Performance”: Dp Rodrigo Prieto on his Directorial Debut, Pedro Páramo first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

It was just a year ago I spoke to Rodrigo Prieto about Killers of the Flower Moon, his fifth collaboration with Martin Scorsese. We once again found ourselves at EnergaCAMERIMAGE––this year bringing him into jury duty for the festival’s main competition, working alongside Cate Blanchett, Anthony Dod Mantle, Łukasz Żal, Jolanta Dylewska, Anna Higgs, and Sandy Powell to award a major achievement in cinematography. (A day after our conversation they’d bestow such honor upon The Girl with the Needle.)

Thus there wasn’t an exact objective to our conversation––Prieto is accomplished, engaging, and genial enough to carry a larger-scope chat about cinematography as philosophy and practice, about the particulars of jury duty, and regarding the actor-dp relationship. But this year also yielded his directorial debut, Pedro Páramo, and foretells further collaborations with Martin Scorsese and Taylor Swift, a powerful combination nobody but one man covers.

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Rodrigo Prieto was on double duty at Camerimage.

This year the veteran Camerimage Golden Frog winner sat on the international competition jury alongside Cate Blanchett. Away from official jury duties, however, Prieto was around town screening and promoting Pedro Páramo, the thrilling and elusive film he has directed for Netflix.

Pedro Páramo is Prieto’s directorial feature debut. Born and raised in Mexico, Prieto is best known as the DoP who lensed a series of now-celebrated features that shaped the early 2000’s renaissance of Mexican cinema like Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel, 21 Grams, and Amores Perros. Prieto is now widely considered one of contemporary Hollywood’s most trusted and in-demand cinematographers. In fact, much of the prep on Pedro Páramo took place while Prieto was photographing two of last year’s biggest movies, Greta Gerwig’s existential hit Barbie and Martin Scorsese’s Osage epic Killers Of The Flower Moon.

Jurors at the EnergaCamerimage cinematography fest say the Golden Frog main competition films have been remarkably varied and inspiring in the event’s 32nd edition.

The 12 competing films “were radically different from each other,” said “Barbie” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, whose directorial debut, “Pedro Paramo,” is also screening at the fest. “I enjoyed that.”

The varied styles, approaches and storytellers, he added, defied easy categorization. “Happily, I didn’t notice trends, which I have noticed sometimes in the past in some festivals.”

Juror Anthony Dod Mantle, who won Golden Frogs in 2008 for his lensing of “Slumdog Millionaire” and in 2016 for “Snowden,” said, “I’ve been to this festival before and the overall collection of films and categories, I felt, was even wider. I feel slight absence of certain films from other ethnic backgrounds. They were different, these films, but they could be far more different.

Polish-born cinematographer Michal Dymek has won Golden Frog — the main compeition prize — at this year’s Camerimage Film Festival.

Dymek was handed the award this evening at the festival’s closing ceremony by the Camerimage competition jury, which was headed by Cate Blanchett. She was joined by Anna Higgs, Sandy Powell, Anthony Dod Mantle, Rodrigo Prieto, Lukasz Zal, and Jolanta Dylewska.

Directed by Magnus von Horn, The Girl with the Needle debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and has been selected as Denmark’s submission for the Best International Feature Film category at the Oscars.

The film follows Karoline (Sonne), a young factory worker, who is struggling to survive in post-World War I Copenhagen. When she finds herself unemployed, abandoned, and pregnant, she meets Dagmar (Dyrholm), a charismatic woman running an underground adoption agency, helping mothers find foster homes for their unwanted children. With nowhere else to turn,...

Top figures in the cinematography world took on what they described as “a really critical issue that we all know about in our industry” on Tuesday, sharing war stories from the ongoing fight for greater diversity and inclusion.

The broader film industry and cinematography in particular are still woefully out of step with diverse filmmaking talent, said the group during a panel held at the 32nd edition of the EnergaCamerimage film festival in Torun, Poland.

“The idea that inclusion dilutes excellence is not up for debate,” said producer and columnist Anna Higgs as she introduced the hastily assembled talk, called “Widening the Lens: Inclusion and Excellence in our Industry,” which organizers put together this week in the wake of a controversy that saw some top filmmakers boycotting Camerimage.

Industry organizations have decried published remarks made by fest president Marek Zydowicz that seemed to imply that a focus on inclusion can lead to “mediocre film productions,...