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Celine Song’s romantic dramedy “Materialists” opens from A24 in what we hear are about 2,800 theaters in the U.S. this weekend — majorly more screens than Song’s debut “Past Lives,” which opened two years ago in four theaters. Strong social sentiment and positive reviews initially set the stage for a possible $7 million opening, but A24 could be looking at another fast-rising hit on its hands if the movie opens above $10 million, which is entirely possible.

On this week’s episode of IndieWire’s “Screen Talk” podcast, co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio dish on what needs to happen for “Materialists” to sustain potential early success — especially as Dakota Johnson, with co-stars Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal at her side, delivers another viral press tour with candid thoughts on “Materialists,” plus “Madame Web” and Hollywood’s drive for repetition and remakes.

Elsewhere on the podcast, we make some early Emmy...

For the fourth annual recording of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast in front of an audience in the Campari Lounge of the Palais during the Cannes Film Festival, the legendary actress Sissy Spacek joined yours truly for an hourlong conversation about her remarkable life and career.

Spacek, a youthful 75, reflected on her journey from small-town Texas to Hollywood (and then to a farm in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she has resided since 1982); her involvement in the “New Hollywood” of the ’70s and early ’80s, including massively acclaimed performances in 1973’s Badlands, 1976’s Carrie, 1977’s Three Women, 1980’s Coal Miner’s Daughter (which brought her a best actress Oscar) and 1982’s Missing; and the recently deceased filmmaker David Lynch, a childhood friend of Spacek’s husband Jack Fisk and a friend of hers for some 50 years, whose breakthrough 1977 film, Eraserhead, she and Fisk helped to finance, and in whose 1999 film The Straight Story she starred.

Sissy Spacek brought her Texas charm to Cannes, where the Oscar winner regaled an intimate crowd with stories from her 50-plus- year career.

The conversation was lively and funny, with the actress discussing her defining role in 1976’s Carrie and nearly missing out on Lynne Ramsay’s current Cannes title, Die, My Love.

It was all part of the fourth annual live Cannes taping of the Awards Chatter podcast, hosted by Scott Feinberg, THR’s executive editor of awards.

Spacek first met Carrie director Brian De Palma through her husband, famed production designer Jack Fisk. The night before her audition, she stayed up late, rereading the Stephen King novel it was based upon, and “feeling very tortured.” She showed up to the audition looking rough, in full Carrie mode. She put Vaseline in her hair and wore a torn dress. After the screen test, she was certain she’d blown her chance.

Terrence Malick’s status as a moving target––more accurately, a target who rushes towards us while seen through a wide-angled lens––makes it easy to lose track of odds and ends. Thus I sometimes forget our report from August 2023, based on a pair of rather reliable sources, about a longer cut of To the Wonder, à la The Tree of Life or The New World, which would possibly integrate footage from Eugene Edwards’ adjacent docufiction Thy Kingdom Come. (A great film in its own right and essential companion you can rent here.) When we’d first heard of this in 2019 it was deemed a major time-consumer, and with workflow later derailed by Covid it became uncertain when (or if) this project saw the light of day.

But now a major update comes courtesy Keith Fraase, one of that film’s five credited editors, who told podcast Writers on Film,...

The annual Art Directors Guild Awards celebrate not just the names with which cinephiles are well acquainted, the Jack Fisks and Catherine Martins, but the people who bring those designs to life on everything from blockbusters to game shows. And the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Honorees prove the huge breadth of the guild. This year, Lisa Frazza, Barbara Mesney, Dan Sweetman, and J. Dennis Washington will be honored for their contributions to their respective crafts.

IndieWire spoke to all four about what their jobs entail (an ever-shifting terrain as technology continues advancing) and about some memorable titles from their filmographies before they accept their laurels at the Adg Awards February 15.

Lisa Frazza, Scenic Artist ‘The Price Is Right’©CBS/Courtesy Everett Collection

Frazza worked on hundreds of shows during her career at CBS, including “Wheel of Fortune,” “Jeopardy,” “The Price is Right,” “Dancing with the Stars,” “Survivor,” “The Young and the Restless,...

The late David Lynch was a masterful storyteller, and his works will likely remain cinematic staples for generations to come. His unique sensibilities and love for creative freedom are central pillars of his many works. Like many filmmaking legends, Lynch was a stickler for detail and an adept visual illusionist capable of turning ordinary scenery into eye-popping art.

Of course, a magician never reveals his secrets. Lynch’s work yielded countless innovations, but he still held some secrets. As a lover of deep thought, he rarely offered concreted explanations for his surrealist masterpieces. And one of the greatest Lynchian conundrums is buried in his first film, Eraserhead.

David Lynch Burst Onto the Scene With Eraserhead in 1978 Continuous production problems and budgetary issues caused Eraserhead’s filming to span five years. Eraserhead was added to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry in 2004. Jack Nance maintained his character’s wild...

“I love the logic of dreams… Anything can happen and it makes sense.”

—David Lynch

The first thing I thought of were the bugs.

If you’ve seen Blue Velvet, then you remember the opening — and whether you love or hate David Lynch’s 1986 masterpiece of curdled Americana, it’s not a film you’re capable of forgetting. The camera pans down on a white-picket fence, as Bobby Vinton croons his 1963-version title track. The roses dotting the bottom of the frame are so Technicolor red that it hurts your eyes to look at them.

David Lynch is dead at the age of 78. By any measure the most influential filmmaker of our time, the Missoula, Montana-born artist left such a mark that his very name became an adjective. There’s Hitchcockian, and then there’s Lynchian.

Controversial, visionary, and absolutely singular, his films from “Eraserhead” and “Blue Velvet” to “Lost Highway” and “Mulholland Drive” were immersive plunges into rich cinematic landscapes of twisted psyches and luscious surfaces.

The news of Lynch’s death was confirmed on his official Facebook page.

“It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.'”

“It’s a beautiful...

In 1967, when he was only 21, the late David Lynch moved to Philadelphia with his pregnant wife, Peggy. The city would change him forever. He moved into a cheap home in an impoverished neighborhood that was lousy with crime. He also felt he wasn't prepared to be a father, although he did very much love his daughter, Jennifer. In the interview book "Lynch on Lynch," the filmmaker said that Philadelphia was a city of fear. People regularly broke into his house, and his car was stolen. "There was violence and hate and filth," he said. He took a job as an engraver, and his thoughts turned dark.

From 1967 to 1970, Lynch began making his first short films, including "Six Men Getting Sick," and "The Alphabet." The former was to be projected on a specially sculpted screen that Lynch made himself, with six human figures emerging from the wall. At about the same time,...

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” died Jan. 15. He was 78.

Lynch revealed in 2024 that he had been diagnosed with emphysema after a lifetime of smoking, and would likely not be able to leave his house to direct any longer. His family announced his death in a Facebook post, writing, “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.'”

The “Twin Peaks” TV show and films such as “Blue Velvet,” “Lost Highway” and “Mulholland Drive” melded elements of horror, film noir, the whodunit and classical European surrealism. Lynch wove tales, not unlike those of his Spanish predecessor Luis Bunuel, which proceeded with their own impenetrable logic.

One of the most mysterious and legendary directors of all time is returning in 2025 with his first feature film in six years. Terrence Malick's The Way of the Wind (originally titled The Last Planet) should be on every cinephile's calendar in 2025, provided it gets proper distribution (likely after it premieres at the Cannes Film Festival in May). It's set to be the kind of epic only Malick knows how to make, with themes that he's become adept at exploring.

Spirituality has always been a component of Terrence Malick's films, from war movies (The Thin Red Line) to abstract family dramas (The Tree of Life), but it seems to be his main focus these days as the 81-year-old approaches the end of his life and career. His previous film, A Hidden Life, was about a religious farmer who refused to take the Hitler Oath and join the German army. Now...

As Terrence Malick and company now enter the sixth year of editing on his Biblical epic The Way of the Wind, 2025 may now finally be time it sees the light of day. After once again placing it highly among our most-anticipated films of the year, we have a few more details on the film, including a potential reason for it being Malick’s longest-ever post-production.

In celebration of his new book The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick, author John Bleasdale has published a fascinating new series on his podcast Writers on Film exploring Malick’s work, including a conversation with his long-time production designer Jack Fisk. While Fisk didn’t work on The Way of the Wind, he did heavy location-scouting for the film starring Géza Röhrig as Jesus, Matthias Schoenaerts as Peter, and Mark Rylance as Satan alongside Ben Kingsley, Joseph Fiennes, Tawfeek Barhom,...

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network, festive Doctor Who, new Lord of the Rings and more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

Reel Talk / One Rules Them All

In an epic crossover fit enough to forge a ring, Sam Stokes brings his Reel Talk podcast together with Baz Greenland and Luke Winch’s One Rules Them All to discuss new animated Lotr film, The War of the Rohirrim…

The Tardis Crew

It wouldn’t be Christmas without Doctor Who and this year, Steven Moffat is on writing duties with 'Joy to the World’, dissected by Baz and Ben Greenland…

Writers on Film

A surfeit of episodes from John Bleasdale have arrived in recent weeks, including part two of a conversation with Terrence Malick’s cinematographer Jack Fisk, and this end of 2024 summation alongside a re-aired favourite, Walter Chaw on Walter Hill…

MovieVersaries

In a network tradition,...

Sissy Spacek has been one of America’s top actresses for almost 50 years. Throughout her career she has received six Oscar nominations for Best Actress, seven Golden Globe bids and three Emmy nominations. The New York Film Critics Circle has been so enamored of her work that they have recognized her four times, placing her second behind only Meryl Streep as the organization’s most acclaimed actresses.

Stephen King‘s first novel “Carrie” first brought Spacek international stardom after she initially gained attention in the movie “Badlands.” Spacek has told the story of how she volunteered to do “Carrie” for director Brian De Palma as a favor. Spacek was in demand after her reception in “Badlands,” but after De Palma hired Spacek’s boyfriend and future husband Jack Fisk as the art director for “Carrie,” Spacek read the script, liked it and offered De Palma her services.

The success of...

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network, our array of film and TV chats cover Ancient Rome, slasher movies and more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

Reel Talk

Strength and honor all the way this week as Sam Stokes and guest Ian Buckley discuss Ridley Scott’s epic sequel Gladiator II. Are you not entertained?!

Britcom Goes to the Movies

Check it! Bo, join me main men Rob ‘Eaf and Guy Walka to chat all about Ali G: Indahouse, starring bredwin Sacha Baron Cohen, from 2003. Westside!

Modern Horror Podcast

The modern slasher is hacked about with this week as A. J. Black and Hugh McStay cover Chris Nash’s stripped back, artful 2024 bloodbath, In a Violent Nature…

Writers on Film

Don’t forget John Bleasdale’s discussion with Terrence Malick’s production designer Jack Fisk on ‘The Malick Hours’ series, but he also talks to recurring...

Exclusive: A24’s Timothée Chalamet movie Marty Supreme, about ping-pong prodigy Marty Reisman, is one of the few blue-chip movies on offer at this week’s American Film Market in Las Vegas. It’s also shaping up to be the most expensive.

Word from buyers this past week has been that the movie — which is filming in New York — comes with an eyebrow raising $90M budget. We hear that’s exaggerated, however, and that $70M gross is more accurate.

That still makes the project the most expensive new package on sale at this year’s AFM and makes it A24’s joint most-expensive production to date alongside Dwayne Johnson starrer The Smashing Machine, which is in post-production (and is another ‘sports biopic’ that doesn’t obviously scream big-budget). Both movies are directed by a Safdie brother: Marty Supreme by Josh, and Smashing Machine by Benny. Both previously teamed on A...

Date: February 19th, 2024, David Lynch orders a milkshake. It is 2:30 p.m., and that is precisely when he sits down at Bob’s Big Boy every day. It could be day one or the last day of a seven-year run. But it is still a milkshake, and it’s all the same, but never monotonous. It is here, at Bob’s Big Boy – a quintessential American experience – that David Lynch builds his world. And it was in a booth that he met Frank Booth. Not literally – Hollywood’s not that messed up – but through his mind. It was places like Bob’s Big Boy that helped represent David Lynch in the professional part of his career, and before that, he was in love with the design of Coca-Cola bottles and Studebakers. Perhaps he is the greatest American filmmaker to ever live – not the greatest filmmaker born in America but...

Production designers have one of the most interesting jobs on the crafts side of film and television production. They’re tasked with crafting worlds and telling a character or characters’ story within it through visuals. We recently gathered four elite members of the production design community for a “Meet the Experts” TV production designers video roundtable. They include Trevor Smith from Season 5 of the FX “Fargo,” Alex Digerlando for the FX limited series “A Murder at the End of the World,” Helen Jarvis for the new FX edition of “Shōgun” and James Merifield for Hulu’s “We Were the Lucky Ones.” Each discussed tricks of their trade while also answering the question, “What’s the favorite part of your job?” Watch the full roundtable discussion above. Click on each person’s name to watch an individual chat.

So what is the favorite part of their job?

See‘Fargo’ casting director...

Anybody who has ever taken a stab at acting knows one aspect of the process deemed the absolute worst: the audition. Imagine stepping foot into a room filled with several people who are all there to judge you. Your looks, personality, emotions… every aspect of who you are on display for a room full of strangers. Well, in Hollywood, there is a legend of one audition that has been deemed the best put on tape. It was an audition for a new film by a director who was credited with single-handedly creating the summer blockbuster and who had a dream about crafting a more intimate family story about a kid and an alien. Imagine the immense pressure any actor, let alone a ten-year-old child, would be under to nail this audition. Yet this audition was so good that within seconds, the director, Steven Spielberg, uttered the words that would forever change this ten-year-old life: “Ok,...

Updated with Emma Stone win: Poor Things wrapped up its night at the Oscars with a lead actress win for Emma Stone, along with earlier nods for Production Design, Makeup & Hairstyling and Costume Design. See the acceptance speeches above and below.

A clearly emotional Stone thanked director Yorgos Lanthimos for the “gift of a lifetime” for her role as Bella Baxter. This was Stone’s second Oscar win out of four nominations. She also served as a producer on the film.

In her acceptance speech, Stone said “It’s not about me. It’s about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts and that is the best part about making movies.”

Related: The Script’s The Thing: Read All Of This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Screenplays

James Price and Shona Heath, along with set decorator Zsuzsa Mihalek, was the production design team behind the Searchlight Pictures film.

It’s the day of the 2024 Academy Awards and we’ll be bringing you all of the red carpet photos right here!

Hundreds of celebs are expected to step out for the biggest night in entertainment on Sunday (March 10) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

The show will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and there are so many incredible stars expected to present throughout the show. Oppenheimer leads with 13 nominations and we have the full list of nominations ready for you to see!

Make sure to keep checking back all night long as we’ll be updating this post live as the red carpet arrivals continue throughout the evening.

Head inside to check out photos of every celeb on the red carpet…

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Photo: Emma McIntyre Despite two historic strikes, shifting release schedules, and the ongoing risk of coronavirus, Hollywood had a lot to celebrate at tonight’s 96th Academy Awards. If there was a message to take away from this year’s awards season, it’s that 2023 was a very good year for movies.

Photo: Emma McIntyre (Getty Images)

Despite two historic strikes, shifting release schedules, and the ongoing risk of coronavirus, Hollywood had a lot to celebrate at tonight’s 96th Academy Awards. If there was a message to take away from this year’s awards season, it’s that 2023 was a very good year for movies.

My, how much the race has evolved since the 96th Oscars nominations were announced January 23. We won’t say changed, since it seems like the certain sure bets at that time have become even surer bets. You all know “Oppenheimer,” long considered a frontrunner in many categories,” received the most nominations then with 13, followed by “Poor Things” with 11 and “Killers of the Flower Moon” with 10. Well, tonight, this evening of Sunday March 10 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles at 7:00pm Et, we’re finally gonna see if what we all assume to be true is actually going to pan out: That “Oppenheimer” is teed up for a very big night, as IndieWire’s own Anne Thompson has predicted, with her final Oscar picks, herself.

“Oppenheimer” has won top honors at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, BAFTAs, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Surely Oscars domination is next, right?...

Best Picture:

And the Oscar Goes to: - OPPENHEIMER

AMERICAN FICTION

ANATOMY OF A FALL

BARBIE

THE HOLDOVERS

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

MAESTRO

PAST LIVES

POOR THINGS

THE ZONE OF INTEREST

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:

And the Oscar Goes to: - Emma Stone - POOR THINGS

Annettte Bening - NYAD

Sandra Huller - ANATOMY OF A FALL

Carey Mulligan - MAESTRO

Lily Gladstone – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Best Achievement in Directing:

And the Oscar Goes to: - Christopher Nolan - OPPENHEIMER

Jonathan Glazer - THE ZONE OF INTEREST

Yorgos Lanthimos - POOR THINGS

Martin Scorsese – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Justine Triet - ANATOMY OF A FALL

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:

And the Oscar Goes to: - Cillian Murphy – OPPENHEIMER

Bradley Cooper - MAESTRO

Colman Domingo - RUSTIN

Paul Giamatti - THE HOLDOVERS

Jeffrey Wright - AMERICAN FICTION

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song):

And the Oscar Goes to: - Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell - BARBIE: "What Was I Made For?"

Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson - AMERICAN SYMPHONY: "It Never Went Away"

Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt - BARBIE: "I'm Just Ken"

Dianne Warren - FLAMIN' HOT: "The Fire Inside"

Scott George - – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: ""Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)"

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score):

And the Oscar Goes to: - Ludwig Göransson - OPPENHEIMER

Laura Karpman - AMERICAN FICTION

John Williams - INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY

Robbie Robertson - – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Jerskin Fendrix - POOR THINGS

Best Sound:

And the Oscar Goes to: - THE ZONE OF INTEREST

THE CREATOR

MAESTRO

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

NAPOLEON

OPPENHEIMER

Best Live-Action Short Film:

And the Oscar Goes to: - THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR

INVINCIBLE

KNIGHT OF FORTUNE

RED, WHITE, AND BLUE

THE AFTER

Best Achievement in Cinematography:

And the Oscar Goes to: - Hoyte Van Hoytema - OPPENHEIMER

Ed Lachman - EL CONDE

Rodrigo Prieto – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Matthew Libatique - MAESTRO

Robbie Ryan - POOR THINGS

Best Documentary Feature:

And the Oscar Goes to: - 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL

BOBBY WINE: THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT

FOUR DAUGHTERS

THE ETERNAL MEMORY

TO KILL A TIGER

Best Documentary Short Film:

And the Oscar Goes to: - THE LAST REPAIR SHOP

THE ABCs OF BOOK BANNING

THE BARBER OF LITTLE ROCK

THE ISLAND IN BETWEEN

NAI NAI & WAI PO

Best Achievement in Editing:

And the Oscar Goes to: - Jennifer Lame - OPPENHEIMER

Laurent Sénéchal - ANATOMY OF A FALL

Kevin Tent - THE HOLDOVERS

Thelma Schoonmaker – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Yorgos Mavropsaridis - POOR THINGS

Best Achievement in Visual Effects:

And the Oscar Goes to: - GODZILLA MINUS ONE

THE CREATOR

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

NAPOLEON

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:

And the Oscar Goes to: - Robert Downey Jr. - OPPENHEIMER

Sterling K. Brown - AMERICAN FICTION

Robert De Niro – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Ryan Gosling - BARBIE

Mark Ruffalo - POOR THINGS

Best International Feature Film:

And the Oscar Goes to: - THE ZONE OF INTEREST

IO CAPINTANO

PERFECT DAYS

SOCIETY OF THE SNOW

THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE

Best Achievement in Costume Design:

And the Oscar Goes to: - Holly Woddington - POOR THINGS

Jacqueline Durran - BARBIE

Jacqueline West – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Janty Yates, David Crossman - NAPOLEON

Ellen Mirojnick - OPPENHEIMER

Best Achievement in Production Design:

And the Oscar Goes to: - Yorgos Mavropsaridis - POOR THINGS

Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer - BARBIE

Jack Fisk Adam Willis – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Arthur Max, Elli Griff - NAPOLEON

Jennifer Lame - OPPENHEIMER

Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling:

And the Oscar Goes to: - POOR THINGS

GOLDA

OPPENHEIMER

SOCIETY OF THE SNOW

MAESTRO

Best Adapted Screenplay:

And the Oscar Goes to: - Cord Jefferson - AMERICAN FICTION

Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach - BARBIE

Christopher Nolan - OPPENHEIMER

Tony McNamara - POOR THINGS

Jonathan Glazer - THE ZONE OF INTEREST

Best Original Screenplay:

And the Oscar Goes to: - Arthur Harari, Justine Triet - ANATOMY OF A FALL

Josh Singer, Bradley Cooper - MAESTRO

Samy Burch, Alex Mechanic - MAY DECEMBER

Celine Song - PAST LIVES

David Hemingson - THE HOLDOVERS

Best Animated Feature Film:

And the Oscar Goes to: - THE BOY AND THE HERON

ELEMENTAL

NIMONA

ROBOT DREAMS

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

Best Animated Short Film:

And the Oscar Goes to -WAR IS OVER!

LETTER TO A PIG

NINETY-FIVE SENSES

OUR UNIFORM

PACHYDERME

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:

And the Oscar Goes to - Da'Vine Joy Randolph - THE HOLDOVERS

Emily Blunt - OPPENHEIMER

Danielle Brooks - THE COLOR PURPLE

America Ferrera - BARBIE

Jodie Foster - NYAD...

Having trouble predicting what will win Best Production Design at the 2024 Academy Awards? Let’s consult Gold Derby’s Oscar Experts! These savvy prognosticators from major media outlets have chimed in with their predictions, and they are divided between whether “Poor Things” or “Barbie” (Sarah Greenwood & Katie Spencer) will win. The other three Academy Award nominees are “Oppenheimer” (Ruth De Jong & Claire Kaufman), “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Jack Fisk & Adam Willis) and “Napoleon” (Arthur Max & Elli Griff).

As of this writing, 16 out of our 27 Oscar Experts predict a victory for “Poor Things”: Christopher Rosen (Gold Derby), Claudia Puig (Kpcc), Clayton Davis (Variety), Erik Davis (Fandango), Jazz Tangcay (Variety), Joyce Eng (Gold Derby), Matt Neglia (Next Best Picture), Nikki Novak (Fandango), Perri Nemiroff (Collider), Ray Richmond (Gold Derby), Sasha Stone (Awards Daily), Scott Mantz (Ktla-tv), Shawn Edwards (Wdaf-tv Fox), Susan King (Gold Derby), Tariq Khan (Gold Derby) and Wilson Morales...

by Cláudio Alves

Jack Fisk as "Man in the Planet" in David Lynch's Eraserhead.

From Malick to PTA, going through De Palma and Lynch, Jack Fisk's contributions to American cinema are enough to take one's breath away. This year, he collaborated with Martin Scorsese for the first time and earned his third Oscar nomination for Killers of the Flower Moon. According to the designer, his director wanted his film to be "wide, big, like a western," and Fisk delivered.

Working primarily from historical documents, he dove deep into Osage country records to figure out the reality of the characters' lives, including which houses they once inhabited. He also dug through old buildings in search of period foundations and used original plans of buildings like the train station to recreate them as faithfully as possible. For the oil derricks, he recycled research he'd done for There Will Be Blood. In total,...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:

Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys

2024 Oscars Predictions:

Best Achievement in Production Design Barbie

Weekly Commentary: If you’re keeping track of the contenders vying for Academy Awards this season, you might have noted Variety’s prediction that Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” could clinch a single award for production design, sparking a flurry of discussions within the punditry community.

The films competing for the 2024 Best Production Design Oscar are “Barbie,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Napoleon,” “Oppenheimer,” and “Poor Things.” Our odds currently indicate that “Barbie” (17/5) will be the winner, followed in order of likelihood by “Poor Things” (7/2), “Oppenheimer” (4/1), “Killers of the Flower Moon” (9/2), and “Napoleon” (9/2).

After 1970 and 2004, this is only the third year in Oscars history that the same five movies are nominated for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design. The two present lineups differ, however, in that none of the former’s individual contenders are past winners, constituting the first such instance in the category since 2009. In that case, the only returning nominees were art director Nathan Crowley (“The Dark Knight”) and set decorator Gary Fettis (“Changeling”).

Leading this year’s production design hopefuls in terms of total career nominations are “Barbie” duo Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, who earned joint recognition for half a dozen earlier films.

The 2024 Oscars are almost here. Here’s what to know about the 2024 Oscars so far, including how to watch, the full list of 2024 Oscar nominees, Oscar winner predictions, and what time the show starts.

When are the Oscars?

The 2024 Oscars take place on Sunday, March 10, 2023. The Oscars 2024 ceremony starts at 7 p.m. Et/4 p.m. Pt and airs on linear television via ABC.

What time are the Oscars?

The 96th Oscars ceremony officially starts at 7 p.m. Et/4 p.m. Pt on March 10, 2024. The show will air live on ABC and be available to stream online via ABC.com and the ABC app provided the user has a cable subscription.

What films are nominated for Oscars this year?

Take a deep breath. Here is the full list of 2024 Oscar nominees, led by “Oppenheimer” (13 nominations), “Poor Things” (11 nominations), “Killers of the Flower Moon” (10 nominations), “Barbie” (eight nominations), and “Maestro” (seven nominations...

Producer Daniel Lupi had worked for years with the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Spielberg, but until Killers of the Flower Moon, he had never collaborated with Martin Scorsese. So when he got the call to come on board, it was a no-brainer. “How could you say no to Martin Scorsese?” he says. “He’s Martin Scorsese. Paul Thomas Anderson would probably say the same thing. Some of the shots in Boogie Nights, you could argue, were inspired by Goodfellas.”

Lupi came on board after the script for the adaptation of David Grann’s nonfiction book had already been rewritten to focus on the relationship between Lily Gladstone’s Mollie, an Osage woman, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Ernest Burkhart amid the genocide that Ernest participated in which targeted Mollie’s family. With the updated screenplay in hand, Lupi was tasked with helping get the production to Oklahoma, where...

Authenticity was top of mind when Martin Scorsese and his team set about creating the world of “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The Oscar-nominated film, which is in contention for Best Picture, Director, Actress, Cinematography, Film Editing, Production Design, Costume Design, Original Score and Original Song at the Academy Awards, aims to capture the tragic true story of the murders of several Osage in 1921 Oklahoma, and the film’s design team went to great lengths to do service to the tale at hand.

Set during a time when indigenous peoples in the area were tremendously wealthy owing to oil discovered on their land, “Killers of the Flower Moon” chronicles the horrendous series of murders that were designed to transfer ownership of the land back to white people, all told through the eyes of Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone) and her husband Ernest (Leonardo DiCaprio).

“History is fascinating, and you can’t...

Deadline has launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: The Nominees, the Oscar nominees panel showcase that took place Saturday.

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Cast and creatives from eight Oscar-nominated films sat down for wide-ranging discussions about the craft that went into the making of the movies now in final stretch to the Academy Awards on March 10.

The diverse panels ran the gamut, from Best Picture nominees Killers of the Flower Moon, The Holdovers and Anatomy of a Fall to documentaries like Bobi Wine: The People’s President, To Kill a Tiger and Năi Nai & Wài Pó, the historical epic Napoleon and the animated Elemental.

Panelists included Napoleon costume designers Janty Yates and David Crossman and production designer Arthur Max; Holdovers stars Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, director Alexander Payne, writer-producer David Hemingson and producer Mark Johnson; Flower Moon cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, production designer Jack Fisk,...

The 2024 Bafta Film Awards ceremony is taking place today (February 18) at London’s Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank.

The show started at around 4:45pm UK time and finishes at approximately 8pm, and will be broadcast with a time delay on BBC One starting at 7pm. Unlike last year’s ceremony, the final categories will not be broadcast live. David Tennant is on hosting duties.

Screen will be posting all the winners on this page as they are announced during the live ceremony (refresh the page for latest updates).

Christopher Nolan’s historical drama Oppenheimer leads the nominations with 13 nods.

Joining me in the Apple Original Films portion of Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees were several Oscar nominees for Martin Scorsese’s epic Western Killers of the Flower Moon, and since the film has been nominated for a whopping 10 Academy Awards it was a good cross-section of artisans who made this very big film come to life.

The panelists included cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, production designer Jack Fisk, set decorator Adam Willis, producer Daniel Lupi and Original Song nominee for “Wahzhazhe ( A Song for My People)” Scott George.

Lupi, a multiple past Oscar nominee, was tasked with helping bring the production the kind of authenticity that can only happen if it is shot where the true story really happened. “When I got involved, the film was always going to be shot in the Osage Nation. There was never a doubt that that’s where we were going to go,” he said.

As we race to the Oscar finish line, it has certainly been a year to remember. The movie business all but shook off the last vestiges of the Covid era with the phenomenon that was Barbenheimer — collectively, Barbie and Oppenheimer earned more than $2 billion globally at the box office. Not only is cinema alive and kicking, but both of those box office behemoths are Oscar-nominated for Best Picture.

It sets the stage for Contenders Film: The Nominees, Deadline’s annual awards-season showcase. Today, we sit down with casts and creatives from eight of this year’s Oscar-nominated films, representing hopefuls spanning categories from the crafts to Best Picture. The virtual livestream begins at 9 a.m. Pt.

Click here to register and watch the livestream.

The Best Picture competition is still very much on, and Focus Features’ The Holdovers is in the running. Joining us today for a Q&a conversation are director Alexander Payne,...

Some categories go together naturally, like Best Picture and Best Director. It’s no different in the below-the-line categories, either, with Best Costume Design, Best Production Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling having an interesting relationship with one another.

The three design awards are often paired or grouped together as a trio and awarded to the same film. Most recently, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” won both Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Let’s take a closer look at this trifecta of categories and examine the last 20 ceremonies to break down how often these awards overlap.

As you can see, in the past two decades, there have been 11 instances where a film has won at least two of these three design categories.

Eight films have won both Costume Design and Production Design: “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” in 2004, “The Aviator” in 2005, “Memoirs of a Geisha...

“Killers of the Flower Moon” star Lily Gladstone embraces her monumental responsibility as an Oscar nominee, utilizing her platform to advocate for the Indigenous community and hoping to pave the way for more actors like herself.

During a panel conversation at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Virtuosos Awards, Gladstone — of Siksikaitsitapi and Niimiipuu heritage — addressed the harmful depictions and references to Indians in media, notably mentioning the Kansas City Chiefs the day before their Super Bowl win.

“Honestly, you could hold both teams accountable,” Gladstone tells Variety. “The 49ers are based on the California Gold Rush, which was an incredibly brutal time for California Indians. And then the Chiefs. There are many ways that you could interpret the name ‘chief.’ It’s not just the name that bothers me. It’s hearing that damn Tomahawk chop. Every time, it’s a stark reminder of what Hollywood has done to us,...

Snoop, the border collie featured in best picture nominee Anatomy of a Fall, and figurines of monsters from Godzilla: Minus One, a nominee for best visual effects, competed for attention with A-listers including Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper and Robert Downey Jr. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon.

Per tradition, the gathering of nominees from across the 23 Oscar categories — along with their plus ones, members of the Academy’s board of governors and a handful of journalists also in the room — took place in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton. Unlike Oscar night itself, nominees tend to feel less nervous at the luncheon, at which they are deliberately seated with nominees from other categories and films, and from which everyone leaves a winner. (See photos of the arrivals.)

Table groupings included Poor Things’ Stone, Maestro’s Cooper and American...

Nominations voting is from January 11–16, 2024, with official Oscar nominations announced on January 23, 2024. Final voting is February 22–27, 2024. And finally, the 96th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 10, and air live on ABC at 8 p.m. Et/ 5 p.m. Pt. We update predictions throughout awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2024 Oscar picks.

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“Poor Things” prevailed over “Barbie” in the fantasy production design category at the 28th Art Directors Guild Awards and is now in the driver’s seat to win the Oscar. Throughout the season, it has been a race between these two big feminist films constructed around rebirth and unconventional world-building.

Meanwhile, Oscar-nominated “Oppenheimer” took period honors over Oscar-nominated “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Napoleon,” along with “Asteroid City” and “Maestro.”

In Yargos Lanthimos’ twisted “Frankenstein” gender-bender, “Poor Things,” Bella (Best Actress nominee Emma Stone) is reanimated from the dead...

“Oppenheimer” got a big boost in its Oscar bid for Best Production Design with a win on February 10 at the Art Directors Guild Awards. Over the first 27 years of these prizes, the eventual Oscar winner has always numbered among the Adg nominees in the various genre categories. “Oppenheimer” prevailed in the period picture race over two of its Oscar rivals – “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Napoleon” — plus “Asteroid City” and “Maestro.”

Oscar nominee, “Poor Things” won the fantasy film prize over another Oscar rival, “Barbie,” plus “The Creator.” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” and “Wonka.”

“Saltburn” won the contemporary category over “Beau is Afraid,” “John Wick: Chapter 4,” “The Killer” and “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.”

Period Film

Asteroid City

Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen

Killers of the Flower Moon

Production Designer: Jack Fisk

Maestro

Production Designer: Kevin Thompson

Napoleon

Production Designer: Arthur Max

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Poor Things, Oppenheimer and Saltburn won Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) Awards in the categories for fantasy, period and contemporary live action features, respectively, at the 28th Adg Awards, which were handed out Saturday at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Ovation Hollywood.

Poor Things and Oppenheimer are additionally nominated for the Oscar in production design, alongside Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon, which were also Adg nominated in their respective categories.

Over the past five years, the winner of the Adg’s period film prize has gone on to win the Oscar for production design twice: In 2020, for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and in 2021, for Mank. During that time, the production design Oscar went to the winner of the fantasy category twice, in 2019, for Black Panther, and 2022, for Dune. A year ago, eventual Oscar winner All Quiet on the Western Front was nominated in the period...

Production design Oscar nominees “Barbie,” “Poor Things,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Oppenheimer,” “Napoleon” all competed for the 28th Art Directors Guild Awards February 10 at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. “Poor Things” prevailed over “Barbie” for fantasy, and is now in the driver’s seat to win the Oscar. Throughout the season, it has been a race between these two big feminist films constructed around rebirth and unconventional world-building.

Meanwhile, “Oppenheimer” took period honors over “Asteroid City,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” and “Napoleon.” Contemporary winner “Saltburn,” though, is not in the Oscar running. The animated feature winner was “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”

The TV winners for one-hour period, fantasy, and contemporary were “The Great,” “The Last of Us,” and “Succession.” Movie or limited series went to “Beef,” and the half-hour series winner was “Reservation Dogs.”

As previously announced, the Adg Awards honored Mimi Leder (Apple TV’s...

“Saltburn,” “Oppenheimer” and “Poor Things” were among the winners at the 28th Annual Art Director’s Guild Awards which took place in Hollywood on Saturday evening.

Hosted by Max Greenfield, the Adg Awards celebrated outstanding production design in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, animated features and music videos.

“Poor Things” production designers Shona Heath and James Price drew visual references ranging from the paintings of French futurist Albert Robida to Francis Ford Coppola’s “Dracula” to build Yorgos Lanthimos’ extraordinary sets.

In “Oppenheimer,” Ruth De Jong built Los Alamos from the ground up. But her most challenging task came when she had to build the Oval Office for the film’s third act. Working with supervising art director, Samantha Englander, the two had floated the idea of finding a pre-existing build of the Oval Office. They looked no further than HBO’s beloved political satire “Veep.” Not only was “Veep...

A critically important craft to filmmaking is production design. The production designer is responsible for the look of a film, which includes finding locations, designing and building sets, and running the art department. Although the name of this category has changed over the past nine-and-a-half decades, the general principle is the same, with this Oscar going both to a film’s production designer(s) and its set decorator(s).

This category doesn’t usually match the ultimate Best Picture winner; the last time that happened was in 2017 with Guillermo del Toro‘s “The Shape of Water,” and before that was Peter Jackson‘s “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” in 2003. One of this year’s nominees didn’t even receive a Best Picture nomination.

SEESarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer (‘Barbie’ production designers) bring colorful playsets to life: ‘It was really hard work to play like that...

Lily Gladstone is making Oscars history!

The 37-year-old actress, whose background is Blackfeet and Nez Percé, made history as the first Native American to become nominated in the Lead Actress category for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon at the 2024 Oscars.

Following her nomination, Lily shared a statement celebrating this historic feat.

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“I am so deeply grateful to the Academy for this unparalleled honor. It has been a great blessing in and of itself to be a working actor at all, and to get to tell a story like ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is beyond what I could have ever hoped for,” Lily shared, via Entertainment Tonight.

“I both share and owe this moment to the incomparable Martin Scorsese, who honored the voices and wishes of the Osage Nation with such fortitude, and to my gracious and legendary co-stars Robert De Niro,...

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Nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced today in a live presentation from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Academy President Janet Yang opened the ceremony hosted by actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid. The nominees in all 23 Academy Award categories were revealed. The 96th Oscars Airs Sunday, 10 March, with the in-person event taking place at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.

And the nominees are…

Best Picture

American Fiction

Anatomy of a Fall

Barbie

The Holdovers

Killers of the Flower Moon

Maestro

Oppenheimer

Past Lives

Poor Things

The Zone of Interest

Actor In A Leading Role

Bradley Cooper - Maestro

Colman Domingo - Rustin

Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer

Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction

Actor In A Supporting Role

Sterling K. Brown - American Fiction

Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon...

The 2024 Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday, January 23 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Scroll down for the complete list of Academy Award nominees in all 23 categories.

This year’s nominations event was emceed by actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid and aired live (beginning at 8:30 a.m. Et/5:30 a.m. Pt) on ABC during “Good Morning America” while simultaneously streaming globally on Oscar.com, Oscars.org, and the academy’s Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook accounts.

The final voting period for the 96th Oscars will run from February 22-27. The winners will then be revealed during a live ABC ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and airing Sunday, March 10 at 8:00 p.m. Et/5:00 p.m. Pt.

Best Picture

“American Fiction”

“Anatomy of a Fall”

“Barbie”

“The Holdovers” (Mark Johnson)

“Killers of the Flower Moon”

“Maestro”

“Oppenheimer”

“Past Lives”

“Poor Things”

“The Zone of Interest...

2024 BAFTA Awards Nominations Unveiled ( Photo Credit – IMDb; Facebook )

After the Emmys and Golden Globes, it’s time for the British Academy Film Awards or the BAFTA Awards 2024. The nominations have been unveiled, with Oppenheimer again enjoying multiple nods at the prestigious awards. Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo’s Poor Things has also earned numerous nominations.

The streaming giant Lionsgate Play will telecast the event live, and eminent actor David Tennant will host it. The ceremony will take place at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The first ceremony was held in 1949 and was telecasted on the BBC. There are over twenty film-related categories. Keep scrolling for more.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has received 13 nominations at the BAFTA Film Awards 2024, followed by 11 nominations by Poor Things and nine nods by Killers of the Flower Moon. Margot Robbie led Barbie, which is lagging and has only five nods.

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Bafta has announced the nominations for the Ee British Academy Film Awards in 2024, celebrating the very best in film of the past year. Former Ee Rising Star nominees Naomi Ackie and Kingsley Ben-Adir hosted the announcement via global livestream from the arts charity’s headquarters at 195 Piccadilly, London. The Ee Bafta Film Awards, hosted by David Tennant, will be broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer from London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 18 February. In addition, the Ee Bafta Film Awards will be available across BritBox International in USA, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, South Africa and Australia, with more international broadcasters to be confirmed. Viewers at home will also have front row seats to the red-carpet arrivals, which will be streamed live on Bafta’s YouTube, featuring interviews with nominees and other special guests. Voting for the Ee Rising Star Award is now open at ee.co.uk/BAFTA.