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Luca Guadagnino is going to be on the road a lot in the coming months. One day after the Italian filmmaker's latest feature, After the Hunt, joined the Venice Film Festival lineup as an out of competition selection, the New York Film Festival announced that the Amazon MGM-released film will play as the opening night selection of its 63rd edition.

"We are excited to open this year’s festival with Luca Guadagnino’s latest, which confirms his status as one of the most versatile risk-takers working today," NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim said in a statement. "Brilliantly acted and crafted, After the Hunt is something rare in contemporary cinema: a complex, grown-up movie with a lot on its mind that also happens to be a deeply satisfying piece of entertainment."

In his own statement, Guadagnino called NYFF "an arbiter of global cinema," and provided a quick preview of the movie's themes.

Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt” will kick off the 63rd New York Film Festival as its opening night feature.

The film boasts an all-star cast led by Julia Roberts in a story about the impact of an alleged sexual assault on an Ivy League campus. Michael Stuhlbarg, Ayo Edebiri, Chloë Sevigny and Andrew Garfield co-star in “After the Hunt,” which Amazon MGM Studios backed. Nora Garrett wrote the screenplay.

Previous opening night films at the festival have included Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and Todd Haynes’ “May December.” RaMell Ross’s “Nickle Boys” opened last year’s edition.

Billed as the film’s North American premiere, “After the Hunt” will return Guadagnino to the festival, a place where he previously screened “Call Me by Your Name” and “Queer.” “After the Hunt” will screen at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 26, with Guadagnino...

Fernanda Torres, Mohammad Rasoulof, Zhao Tao, Stéphane Brizé, Maura Delpero and Cristian Mungiu will be joining Alexander Payne on the International Jury for the 82nd Venice Film Festival, which takes place August 27 – September 6, 2025.

As announced in April, Payne will head the international jury. On Friday, with the recommendation of the festival’s artistic director Alberto Barb, the Board of Directors of La Biennale announced the additional jury members.

Recent Best Actress Oscar nominee Torres (for Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here”) will judge the festival’s films alongside French director and screenwriter Stéphane Brizé; Italian director and screenwriter Maura Delpero; Romanian writer, director and producer Cristian Mungiu; Iranian director, writer and producer Mohammad Rasoulof and Chinese actress Zhao Tao.

The jury will give the Golden Lion, Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize, Silver Lion for Best Director, Coppa Volpi for Best Actress, Coppa Volpi for Best Actor, a best screenplay award, the...

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof and Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres are among the competition jurors for the 82nd Venice International Film Festival (August 27-September 6).

Also alongside previously announced jury chair Alexander Payne are filmmakers Stephane Brize from France, Maura Delpero from Italy and Cristian Mungiu from Romania, as well as Chinese actress Zhao Tao.

The seven-strong jury will award prizes including the Golden Lion for best film; the Silver Lion grand jury prize; and awards for best director, actress, actor and screenplay.

French filmmaker Julia Ducournau will chair the Horizons jury, alongside Italian filmmaker Yuri Ancarani, Australian director Shannon Murphy, US...

The Venice Film Festival on Friday unveiled this year’s competition jury, the group of film professionals that will pick this year’s Golden Lion for best film at the 82nd Venice Film Festival. Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof, French director and screenwriter Stéphane Brizé (At War), Italian director and screenwriter Maura Delpero (Vermiglio), Palme d’Or winning Romanian director Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) and Chinese actress Zhao Tao (Ash Is the Purest White) will all sit on the main jury.

As previously announced, two-time Oscar-winning director Alexander Payne (The Holdovers, Sideways, Nebraska) will head up the jury as president. Payne has only once screened a film in the Venice competition, with Downsizing debuting on the Lido in 2017.

In addition to the best film Golden Lion, the competition jury selects the Silver Lion Grand Jury prize, Silver Lions for best director, the Coppa Volpi for best actor and best actress,...

The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the official juries for its 82nd edition running from August 27-September 6.

On the main competition jury, previously announced jury president Alexander Payne, will be joined by French director and screenwriter Stéphane Brizé; Italian director and screenwriter Maura Delpero; Romanian director, writer and producer Cristian Mungiu; Iranian director and writer Mohammad Rasoulof; Brazilian actress, writer and screenwriter Fernanda Torres; and Chinese actress Zhao Tao.

They will decide the Golden Lion for Best Film; Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize; Silver Lion for Best Director; Coppa Volpi for Best Actress; Coppa Volpi for Best Actor; Award for Best Screenplay; Special Jury Prize; and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress.

A number of the jury members have Venice connections.

Brizé’s Another World (2021) and Out of Season (2023) premiered in Venice competition; Delpero world premiered her second film Vermiglio at the festival last year,...

The full international juries roster for this year’s Venice Film Festival has been unveiled.

The director-heavy lineup joining previously announced competition president Alexander Payne consists of: Oscar-nominated Brazilian actress and writer Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”), prominent Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof (“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”), Palme d’Or-winning Romanian director-writer-producer Cristian Mungiu, French director Stéphane Brizé (“Out of Season”), Italian director Maura Delpero (“Vermiglio”) and Chinese actor and producer Zhao Tao (“Caught by the Tides”).

In addition to awarding the Golden Lion for best film, the competition jury will also be responsible for handing out the Silver Lion grand jury prize, Silver Lion for best director, Coppa Volpi for best actress, Coppa Volpi for best actor, special jury prize, best screenplay and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for new young actor or actress.

Meanwhile, Palme d’Or-winning French director Julia Ducournau (“Titane”), who was back in Cannes this year with “Alpha,...

Oscar-nominated “Minding the Gap” filmmaker Bing Liu takes his camera from Rockford, Illinois, to New York City with his narrative feature debut, “Preparation for the Next Life.” The Chinese-American doc-maker, who’s worked as a camera assistant on fiction series and films, also uncannily follows in the footsteps of “Nickel Boys” director RaMell Ross in parallel fashion: Liu is adapting a novel (here a 2014 book by Atticus Lish), making the transition from docs to narratives, and also for Plan B, Amazon/MGM Studios, and Orion Pictures

With a screenplay by Martyna Majok, the intimate immigrant romance follows an undocumented Uyghur woman (Sebiye Behtiyar) trying to eke out a life in New York City and escape the hardships she experienced in China. Working in the city’s kitchens, Aishe tries to understand the language and reckon with her Muslim family history, having been trained by her military father. She falls in love with Skinner,...

Films have the power to change our culture. And the filmmakers who tell these stories can also have a significant impact on our industry and communities. The 2025 Changemaker Award winners embody this spirit of impact, and that’s why we’re proud to announce that this year’s Film Independent Changemaker Awards are going to Andrew Ahn, Aaron T. Edmonds and Jomo Fray.

Andrew Ahn is a queer Korean American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His film The Wedding Banquet premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and his films Fire Island, Driveways and Spa Night have premiered at festivals like Sundance and Berlinale and have won numerous awards including the John Cassavetes Film Independent Spirit Award. He has served as a mentor for Pacific Arts Movement’s Reel Voices, Outfest’s OutSet and the Sundance Institute’s Native Filmmaker Lab.

Aaron T. Edmonds is Vice President of Film at Hartbeat.

The 2025 Humanitas Prize nominations have been announced, once again honoring television and film writers who masterfully explore the depth of the human experience. This year’s awards will be presented at a Sept. 7 ceremony in Hollywood hosted by actress and comedian Fortune Feimster.

On the TV side, drama nominees include Emmy contenders The Pitt, The Last of Us, The Handmaid's Tale, and Brilliant Minds. Comedy contenders include The Studio, The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh, A Man on the Inside, and Clean Slate. Limited series being honored include Dying for Sex, Interior Chinatown, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, and Say Nothing.

In the film categories, last year's Oscar contenders Conclave, Nickel Boys, and Sing Sing will battle it out for Best Drama Feature, while Dìdi (弟弟), My Old Ass, and A Real Pain compete in comedy. Inside Out 2, Out of My Mind, and The Wild Robot are nominated for Best Family Feature.

The Humanitas org has revealed nominations for this year’s Humanitas Prizes, which will reveal winners at Avalon Hollywood on Sept. 7, hosted by actress/writer/comedian Fortune Feimster. Among the nominees on the TV side are “The Pitt,” “The Last of Us” and “The Studio,” while film nods include “Inside Out 2” and “The Nickel Boys.”

Also announced on Wednesday: Gina Prince-Bythewood will join Mara Brock Akil in presenting Lena Waithe with one of Humanitas’ top honors, the Voice for Change Award. As Variety first revealed in May, Waithe was chosen for this year’s prize because it “honors those who have created or championed visionary and courageous storytelling.”

A nonprofit that seeks to “honor and empower writers of film and television exploring the human experience,” Humanitas last year honored projects including “Hacks,” “Fellow Travelers,” “Black Cake” and Ava DuVernay‘s “Origin.”

The Humanitas Prizes are for film and television...

From a dark and death-haunted classic by Mike Leigh to Tom Cruise’s final highwire stunt and Timothée Chalamet’s brilliant embodiment of Dylan we rewind six months of sensational cinema – in order of their UK release date

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Adaptation of Colson Whitehead novel is an intensely moving story of two friends trapped in a racist reform school, told with piercing beauty by RaMell Ross.

Exclusive: Live Nation Productions has tapped Oscar nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys) to pen a feature centered on “Godmother of Rock and Roll” Sister Rosetta Tharpe, with rock legend Mick Jagger producing.

Hailing from Tribeca Studios, Jagged Films, and Inaudible Productions, the project has the participation of Tharpe’s estate, which has granted rights to her music catalogue. In the making of the film, the producers will also draw on Gayle Wald’s definitive biography Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, to which they’ve secured exclusive rights.

Rising to fame in the ’30s and ’40s, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a trailblazing gospel guitarist and singer whose fearless transgressions of musical boundaries laid the foundation for rock and roll. An artist who broke barriers as a Black woman in music, she influenced countless legends with her music — among them, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash,...

Tribeca Festival has unveiled an diverse jury lineup for its 2025 edition across 15 categories with writers, directors, actors, producers, Oscar winners and comedy trail blazers from Colson Whitehead, Nia DaCosta and Matthew Broderick to Jennifer Beals, Ilana Glazer, Art Linson, Kyle MacLachlan and Mira Sorvino.

Annie Murphy, Stephanie Hsu, Marianne-Jean Baptiste, Sheila Nevins, Alek Karpovsky will also be responsible for selecting this year’s top projects across film — narrative and documentary feature-length and shorts — as well as games and audio storytelling sections at the fest, which will unspool June 4-15 in New York City. See lineup here.

The Narrative Feature Competition jury includes Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Whitehead, whose 2019 novel Nickel Boys was was brought to screen last year by director RaMell Ross to critical acclaim; DaCosta, currently in post-production on 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple; producer Art Linson; indie filmmaker Joshua Marston; and Kent Sanderson, president of independent distributor Bleecker Street.

The Nora Ephron Award will honor an exceptional female filmmaker “who represents the spirit and vision” of the iconic filmmaker and writer.

“We’re proud to welcome an eclectic group of jurors to this year’s Tribeca Festival,” said Nancy Lefkowitz, EVP at Tribeca Enterprises. “Their breadth of expertise across genres will be instrumental in recognizing standout storytellers and honoring bold new voices from around the world.”

The winning films, projects, filmmakers, storytellers, and actors in each category will be announced at the Tribeca Festival ceremony on June 12.

Feature Film Competition

U.S. Narrative Feature Competition Jurors

Nia DaCosta

Art Linson

Joshua Marston

Kent Sanderson

Colson Whitehead

International Narrative Feature Competition

Dagmara Dominczyk

Valeria Golino

Toby Jones

David Laub

Kyle MacLachlan

Documentary Feature Competition

Sara Bernstein

Ben Proudfoot

Mira Sorvino

Best New Narrative Director Competition

Matthew Broderick

Sejin Croninger

Eliza Hittman

Best New Documentary Director Competition

Kristine Stolakis

Sean Stuart

Jamila Wignot

Nora Ephron Award

Caroline Aaron

Aijah Keith

Annie Murphy

Viewpoints Competition

Brian Jordon Alvarez

Jennifer Beals

Raul Castillo

Alex Karpovsky

Mickey Sumner

Short Film Competition Categories

Ilana Glazer

Asher Grodman

Sheila Nevins

Pamela Ribon

Moon Zappa

Short Documentary and Student Visionary Competition

Ahmed Ahmed

Weyes Blood

Kim Magnusson

Kareem Rahma

AT&T Untold Stories Greenlight Committee

Andrew Ahn

David Fortune

Stephanie Hsu

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Gina Rodriquez

Kellyn Smith Kenny

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Quiet on the set — we have an announcement: The 2026 DGA Awards is set for Saturday, February 7. The guild also said today that its 78th annual ceremony will return to the Beverly Hilton.

More timeline info for the nods celebrating the artistry and mastery of directorial craft in 2025, including a voting schedule and date for the nominations reveal, will be announced later in the year.

“DGA Awards is a unique opportunity to celebrate excellence in our craft, and I could not be more honored to serve another year as Chair of this important event,” Beth McCarthy-Miller said in a statement. “I thank DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter for appointing me to this role, and I look forward to celebrating with all of the incredible 2025 nominees and honorees.”

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The 2025 DGA Awards celebrated Sean Baker for his quirky Anora, which went on to claim...

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This April, we are getting a ton of content from the much-anticipated return of The Last of Us and Andor on streaming to the release of some of the most-anticipated movies of this year, such as The Accountant 2 and Sinners. This upcoming month will see the release of many great movies, so we thought of compiling a list of all the best movies that are coming straight to streaming.

Y2K (Max) Release Date: April 4, 2025 Credit – A24

Y2K is an apocalyptic sci-fi comedy film directed by Kyle Mooney, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Evan Winter. The 2024 film is set on the last night of 1999, and it follows a group of high school juniors who crash a party but soon find themselves trying to survive the horrors of Y2K. It stars Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler,...

New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) will celebrate the upcoming awards season at its annual ceremony on January 6, 2026.

David Ehrlich will serve as 2025 chair of the NYFCC and Stephen Garrett will continue as the group’s general manager.

The 2025 ceremony marked the group’s 90th anniversary and honoured The Brutalist for best film, while RaMell Ross was named best director for Nickel Boys, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste forHard Truths and Adrien Brody forThe Brutalist earnedlead acting honours.

Ehrlich said he expected “a rich and rewarding year for the movies”, adding: “I suspect that NYFCC will kick off its 10th decade by...

Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light took top honors at the 2025 International Cinephile Society (Ics) Awards, winning best picture, director, and ensemble. The film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix, has continued to receive recognition, earning nominations at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs.

The Ics recognized Kapadia’s film for its portrayal of “the voices, the faces, the night-lit trains of modern India.” The story follows women from different generations who form a quiet bond as they navigate personal and cultural challenges.

Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross’s Oscar-nominated drama about Black teenagers trapped in an abusive reform school, won best adapted screenplay for Ross and Joslyn Barnes, who based the script on Colson Whitehead’s novel. The film also received the cinematography award for Jomo Fray’s work.

Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths won multiple awards, including best actress for Marianne Jean-Baptiste,...

Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” triumphed at the 2025 International Cinephile Society (Ics) Awards, winning best picture, director and ensemble.

“All We Imagine as Light” world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it won the grand prize of the festival, along with a flurry of international awards. It also went on earn nominations at the Golden Globes and the BAFTA’s, among others.

The International Cinephile Society praised Kapadia’s film for highlighting “the voices, the faces, the night-lit trains of vibrant modern India.” The film revolves around a trip of women from different generations who form a quiet sisterhood to find their own peace amidst daunting personal and cultural issues.

“Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross’s Oscar-nominated drama about Black teenagers caged in an abusive reform school, took best adapted screenplay honors for Ross and Joslyn Barnes, who wrote the script based on the book by Colson Whitehead.

Lady in the Lake.It is not quite right to call a point-of-view shot “subjective.”1 As Jean Mitry observes, there is an essential tension in the spectator’s relationship to a filmic point of view: “At the movies I am both in this action and outside it, in this space and outside this space. Having the gift of ubiquity, I am everywhere and nowhere.”2 If subjectivity designates an individual’s embodied movement through the world—structured by goals, obstacles, detours, means—then point-of-view shots only highlight the disjunction between seeing through someone else’s eyes and walking in their shoes. Lady in the Lake (1947) was partly conceived with this equivalence in mind, advertised in trailers as a “revolutionary innovation in film technique,” starring Robert Montgomery and “You!” But if anything, this sustained experiment with a camera that purports to collapse viewer and character only accentuates the gap between a point...

After his Amazon MGM film “Nickel Boys” got a Best Picture nomination, writer/director RaMell Ross is eyeing his next projects — but understands that funding could prove a hurdle.

Ross told The Hollywood Reporter at Sunday’s Oscars that, after making his feature narrative debut with “Nickel Boys,” he knows that financing his indies would be a “philanthropic” venture due to a lack of guaranteed financial return.

“I think I’ve made enough films for people to say that I can make things relatively well,” Ross said. “So I’m asking someone to give me $10 million for two projects. Both of them, I think, have long cultural lives, but it has to be philanthropic because it’s not really a return. But I think they’re deep in meaning and can change a lot of people’s view on the world.”

He added of both potential projects, “They’re written out.

Deadpool & Wolverine opened with Wade Wilson pulling off some impressive dance moves to the tune of Nsync's "Bye Bye Bye." However, it wasn't Ryan Reynolds in the suit; instead, dancer Nick Pauley took on the role of the McU's "Dancepool."

During Sunday's 97th Academy Awards, host Conan O'Brien performed "I Won't Waste Time" and was accompanied on stage by Dune: Part Two's Sandworm and Deadpool & Wolverine's titular Merc with the Mouth.

The Marvel Studios movie didn't receive a single nomination - much to the chagrin of many comic book fans - but Deadpool's cameo felt like an acknowledgement of what a positive impact the threequel made to theaters in 2024.

Now, Pauley has taken to Instagram to confirm he once again donned the suit for the Oscars. He also credited Ryan Reynolds for advocating that he be the one who hit the stage as "Dancepool."

"Thank you [Ryan Reynolds]; who loved the...

Despite the sweep for Anora, most of this year's Best Picture nominees went home with awards. Golden Globe favorite The Brutalist went home with three, followed by Emelia Perez, Dune: Part II, and Wicked each garnering two, and lastly, I'm Still Here, Conclave, and The Substance all left with one award. The only snubs were the robustly nominated A Complete Unknown, and a smaller film that only scored one other nomination: Nickel Boys. The latter film, a debut narrative feature from documentarian RaMell Ross, came into award season with a high degree of pedigree. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys began amassing huge critical acclaim after premiering on the festival circuit, but sadly, this did not translate to the awards. While two Oscar nominations are nice, Nickel Boys deserved to win Oscars it wasn't even nominated for.

The Oscars, at its best, is a time-honored tradition that focuses on the magic of the movies and the movie industry. It basks us all in the warm golden glow of massive celebrity and wealth. The faces change (every Oscar host ever has a quip or three about this being due to plastic surgery), but the iconic archetypes they fill stay the same. Who is this year's ingénue, rising star, member of the old guard, decade-long celeb finally earning a nom, fresh-faced director, standby legendary filmmaker with countless wins to their name... the list of roles goes on.

It's like the water in a river; the ripples look consistent, but the water itself continues to pass through rapidly. Under the surface of it all, though, is this unique big business's dual identity as a modern art form. The Oscars always try to remind us that behind the pretty faces are...

The Academy Awards took place yesterday evening and, as per usual, the results have split opinions. Anora was the surprise Best Picture winner, with Wicked and Conclave failing to keep the momentum going following other recent award ceremonies.

Conan O'Brien hosted this year's and his performance of "I Won't Waste Time" was accompanied by surprise appearances from Dune: Part Two's Sandworm and Deadpool & Wolverine's Dancepool.

We don't know who was in the suit, though the Merc with the Mouth - who O'Brien reminded us wasn't among the nominees - pulled off some familiar Backstreet Boys-inspired dance moves before making his exit.

Ryan Reynolds initially embarked on a pretty robust "FYC" campaign for Deadpool & Wolverine, though it quickly lost momentum. The movie, which was a box office hit, wasn't exactly considered a critical darling with 78% on Rotten Tomatoes.

You may recall that were was some chatter about Reynolds...

The big night is here! The 2025 Academy Awards results are in, and with one of the most interesting line-up of films in contention, the 97th Oscars proved to be a night to remember.

Film fans across the world tuned in to see Sean Baker’s mesmeric Anora would triumph against the cinematic might of Brady Corbet’s epic film of ambition and tenacity, The Brutalist. Also in the mix was BAFTA faavourite Conclave, as well as welcome outsider The Substance (so rare for a horror film to be nominated for Best Picture) and the controversy-adjacent Emilia Perez.

Who won? Well… here’s a list of the awards and nominees with the winners in bold.

The 2025 Oscars – Full List of Winners

Best picture

Winner: Anora

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

I’m Still Here

Nickel Boys

The Substance

Wicked

Best actress

Winner: Mikey Madison – Anora...

Anora picks up five Oscars, in a surprisingly mixed Oscars 2025. Here’s the run down of what won and what didn’t.

Well, the Oscars has happened again, and perhaps now we can all get back to normal for a while.

This year’s statuette season was interesting enough given that there was no clear frontrunner like last year, when Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer dominated the awards race from start to finish. Still, set against the backdrop of the the hugely destructive Californian wildfires, it still all seemed a little superfluous at times. Meanwhile, The Brutalist director Brady Corbet provided an insight into the state of the non-blockbuster film business when he revealed that not being paid for being on a months-long awards trail meant he was living hand to mouth.

Still, fancy garments were donned and some statuettes were duly dished out and the 2025 Oscars.

For those of you...

‘Anora’ wins the Oscar® for Best Picture during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® (Credit:

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The 2025 Oscars turned out to be a golden night for Anora. The critically acclaimed indie took home five Oscars including Best Director, Best Editing, Best Original Screenplay (all Sean Baker), Best Actress (Mikey Madison), and Best Picture. Anora won in every category it was nominated in except Best Supporting Actor (Yura Borisov) which went to Kieran Culkin as expected.

Emilia Pérez went into Hollywood’s Big Night with 13 nominations, winning in just two: Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldana) and Best Original Song. The Brutalist was recognized with three Oscars after earning 10 nominations. Wicked also earned 10 nominations and finished the night with two wins. And Dune: Part Two won the Achievement in Sound and Visual Effects Oscars out of its five nominations.

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Hollywood’s biggest night has come to an end, and as usual, the Academy Awards delivered plenty of memorable moments.

But as much as we loved the James Bond tribute and the hilarious monologue from first-time host Conan O’Brien, the winners and their acceptance speeches were the focus of the night.

Several deserving stars took home their very first Oscars, including Mikey Madison, who headlined the biggest winner of the night, the audacious sex work dramedy Anora.

Mikey Madison attends the 97th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 2, 2025. (Photo by Robyn Beck/Afp via Getty Images)

The indie flick took home five awards, and director Sean Baker took the stage for a number of gracious speeches. But he and Mikey weren’t the only victors at the 97th Oscars.

So without further ado, here’s your full list of the night...

The Oscar race is a marathon, not a sprint. There are dozens of pit stops along the way and trophies to be given out before the 2025 Oscars on March 2. Keep track of precursor wins here with our scorecard. This includes honors from major film festivals, critics groups, guilds, and televised shows of the 2024-25 Oscar season. Wins are listed in order of announcement and in accordance with candidates' FYC campaigns.

Updated: Sunday, March 2, 2025, with Oscar winners.

The Oscar season began and ended with Anora. Sean Baker's film moved to the front of the Oscar race after winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and while it didn't have the smoothest path, its Oscar journey ended with five trophies Sunday night, including Best Picture.

Anora also won Best Actress for Mikey Madison, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing — the last three of which went to Baker.

Conclave screenwriter Peter Straughan is now an Academy Award winner. The honor comes after Straughan picked up wins at the BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Critics' Choice Awards.

At the Academy Awards on Sunday night, Straughan was announced as the winner for Best Adapted Screenplay. This is the second nomination for the writer, but the first time he has picked up the win. He was nominated for the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which managed to get him a win at the BAFTAs and other awards shows, but he came up short at the Oscars. The screenwriter is now getting his flowers, and it is clear from his Oscar win acceptance speech how proud he feels to have gotten the honor.

#Peter_Straughan wearing #Ukrainian_flag 🇺🇦 on his lapel.Best Adapted Screenplay for #Conclave#Oscars #Oscars2025 pic.twitter.com/QvLgnecyA6— Malainine (@CHM_iNEWS) March 3, 2025

To win the Oscar,...

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor holds onto Brandon Wilson while arriving for the 2025 Academy Awards on Sunday (March 2) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

The Nickel Boys stars were also joined on the carpet by co-star Ethan Herisse.

Also in attendance was their director RaMell Ross, who walked separately.

Nickel Boys is nominated at the Oscars tonight in two categories – Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. The latter was already announced, and was won by Conclave.

The Oscars will be hosted by comedian Conan O’Brien for the first time and the show is airing live on ABC and Hulu. The movie Emilia Perez leads the nominations with 13 nods, followed by The Brutalist and Wicked with 10 each. Make sure to check out the full list of nominations and find out who is performing during the show!

Fyi: Aunjanue is wearing Sterling Forever earrings.

Check out more photos of the Nickel Boys stars arriving at the Oscars in the gallery…...

On the heels of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Critics Choice award wins, Peter Straughan has now won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Conclave. This is Straughan’s second Oscar nomination and first win.

Straughan thanked “our crew, our amazing cast, producers and Robin House Productions, Film Nation, Indian Paintbrush, Focus Features” and a special thank you to his daughter Connie, “This is for you.”

Directed by Edward Berger and written by Straughan, Conclave is based on the 2016 novel by Robert Harris, whom Straughan thanked “for your beautiful book.” Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto and Isabella Rossellini star in Conclave in which Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence uncovers a...

Anora was the big winner at the 2025 Academy awards, taking home Oscars for best picture, best director for Sean Baker and best actress for Mikey Madison.

The Brutalist star Adrien Brody picked up best actor, with the film also winning for cinematography and original score.

As expected, Zoe Saldana and Kieran Culkin won the supporting actor prizes for Emilia Perez and A Real Pain, respectively.

The ceremony took place tonight (March 2) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Conan O’Brien hosting for the first time.

Oscar winners 2025

Best picture

Anora The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Conclave Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez...

The 97th Academy Awards is taking place tonight (Sunday March 2) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

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The ceremony started at 4pm Pt/7pm Et (midnight UK time) and is set to run for around three hours (although it usually overruns).

Conan O’Brien is hosting the ceremony for the first time, with Raj Kapoor returningas executive producer and showrunner, and Katy Mullan serving as executive producer.

Screen is posting all the winners on this page as they are announced during the live ceremony. Refresh the page for latest updates.

Winners in bold, as they are announced, below...

The bumpy road to Oscar glory will reach its end Sunday night at the 97th Academy Awards, closing out one of the most unpredictable awards seasons in years. Ups and downs, twists and turns, mudslinging, mea culpas, tears both happy and sad — we’ve seen it all in recent weeks as the race kept us guessing what new upheaval might come next.

And that includes who wins tonight. “Emilia Pérez” might have the most nominations (13), but Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language musical lost its frontrunner status pretty much the moment star Karla Sofía-Gascón’s history of bigoted tweets resurfaced. In stepped “Anora,” which won top prizes with both the PGA and DGA and seemed ready to sail to a Best Picture victory…until “Conclave” swept in and showed us that the race was much tighter than we’d thought.

And what looked like an unobstructed path to best actress anointment for...

In the days leading up to the 2025 Oscars, all of your favorite nominees and stars attended various A-list industry parties around Hollywood, where they rubbed elbows with each other and toasted to the end of a grueling campaign season.

Feb. 26: Gold Derby spotted Oscar nominees Ralph Fiennes, Chris Sanders, Brady Corbet, RaMell Ross, and Greg Kwedar and Clarence Maclin at the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group party at Steak 48. Other celebrities in attendance: Vin Diesel, Snoop Dogg, Michelle Yeoh, Tyler Posey, Laverne Cox, Regé-Jean Page, and the three young stars of Wicked, Karis Musongole, Cesily Collette Taylor, and Marissa Bode. Directors Jon M. Chu, Ava DuVernay, and Michael Mann also popped in for some drinks and hors d'oeuvres.

Universal's film studios received a combined 25 Oscar bids this year, a new record for the company. Universal Pictures' Wicked led the field with 10 bids, followed by Focus Features' Conclave with eight, Nosferatu with four,...

The red carpet has kicked off at the 2025 Oscars and we’ll be keeping track of all the red carpet photos right here!

Stars will be stepping out for the annual awards show on Sunday (March 2) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

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The Oscars will be hosted by comedian Conan O’Brien for the first time and the show is airing live on ABC and Hulu. The movie Emilia Perez leads the nominations with 13 nods, followed by The Brutalist and Wicked with 10 each. Make sure to check out the full list of nominations and find out who is performing during the show!

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With final Oscar balloting closed on February 18, we’re continuing with our eighth annual series of interviews with Academy voters from different branches for their unfiltered takes on what got picked, overlooked, and overvalued in the 2025 award season. Voter’s picks in bold. Interview edited for brevity.

Best Picture

I voted for “Emelia Pérez,” the most interesting, innovative, creative picture of the year. I went to a screening early on, so I didn’t have expectations, except that I liked [Jacques Audiard’s] other films. I love the music. I’m sad about all the stuff about Karla Sofía [Gascón]. Am I not going to look at a Picasso painting ever again? He was a shit. Am I not going to watch a Woody Allen film? It’s a slippery slope when you start with the personality of the people in the movie. Who’s perfect? It has to be about...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Christmas, Every Day (Faye Tsakas)

Rising documentarian Faye Tsakas explores the world of preteen influencers in her newest short film. Shot in rural Alabama, her observational documentary shows how much work influencers Peyton and Leyla put into developing their social media presence from an early age. Their parents assist them throughout, hopeful their help will allow their children to develop passive incomes and avoid a life of boring desk-jobs. Tsakas’ compelling visuals of child starlets filming TikTok dances against bucolic backdrops populated with tractors and livestock reveals how pervasive social media has become in modern times.

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La Cocina (Alonso Ruizpalacios)

Egos are charred and tempers seared in La Cocina, a kitchen nightmare set in the engine...

Some 172 of this year’s Oscar nominees — among them Timothée Chalamet (best actor for A Complete Unknown), Demi Moore (best actress for The Substance), Denis Villeneuve (best picture for Dune: Part Two) and Brandi Carlile (best original song for “Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late), but not Kieran Culkin (best supporting actor for A Real Pain) or Karla Sofía Gascón (best actress for Emilia Pérez) — descended upon the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Tuesday night for a night at the museum unlike any other.

The Academy decided to host the gathering, dubbed an “Oscar Nominees Dinner,” just five nights before the 97th Academy Awards, in place of its traditional Oscar Nominees Luncheon, which was canceled in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year.

Upon arrival on Tuesday, nominees were ushered into a room just off of the museum’s...

Nominations voting is from January 8-17, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 23, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.m. Et/ 4:00 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

With the equivalent of a Best Picture win at the BAFTA Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to the multiple Best Screenplay awards the film has received from awards bodies like the Golden Globes and USC Scripter Awards, “Conclave” and screenwriter Peter Straughan are most likely a lock to win the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

And though this is not the first nomination for the “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” scribe, Straughan being the frontrunner does come as a bit of a surprise...

Much of world cinema’s lost works have been victims of either technology with poor materials like nitrate film or the ignorance of a limited and often bigoted industry. Thankfully for film fans, it is becoming increasingly difficult for either to deal a death blow to a film’s trajectory.

Social and technological advancements also continue to aid our rediscovery of past great works like Zeinabu irene Davis’s debut feature Compensation, which embarked on its first wide release this past Friday just over 25 years since its festival debut.

Compensation screened at Sundance in 2000, receiving positive notices from critics like Roger Ebert and landed an Independent Spirit nod before falling into obscurity. The film had been something of a myth for film scholars and enthusiasts interested in the LA Rebellion, the late 60s and early 70s film movement at UCLA that spawned a collection of pioneering African and African-American filmmakers.

Arriving on a busy blue carpet for a gray day at the beach, guests at the 2025 Indie Spirit Awards agreed: It’s time to Make the Movies Messy Again.

Inside the ceremony tent, host Aidy Bryant put it perfectly when she said, “It’s been a great year for film and a bad year for human life.” Hundreds of the most important decision-makers and visionary artists championing creative independence today gathered in Santa Monica, California on Saturday to honor the best in boundary-breaking film and TV.

“Anora” and “Baby Reindeer” won the most categories in several tight races, but the show’s main source of dramatic tension came from the countless news items surrounding a tough awards season. From fraught talk of cultural fascism to economic critiques of the entertainment industry, honorees and their peers predicted an uncertain but fiery future for filmmakers, cast, and crew. The word “messy” came...

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Despite being one of 10 movies nominated for Best Picture, Nickel Boys has largely flown under the radar, in part due to the low-key rollout that has kept it in a limited number of theaters. Whether you were a fan of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2020 novel or simply want to catch every Best Picture release before the Oscars, here’s what you need to know about streaming Nickel Boys.

How...

Best Director gets more attention at the Oscars, but this millennium has shown the writing categories are potentially more important. In the past 15 years Argo (2012), Green Book (2018), and Coda (2021) won Best Picture without directing noms — but no film since Titanic (1997) has won without a writing nom. That could be good news for many of this year's nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay. Four of the five are also up for the top prize. Here is our breakdown of the race as it stands today.

SEEHow Kieran Culkin could end this 12-year Oscar streak Frontrunner: Conclave, by Peter Straughan

Only one film in this category earned writing nominations from the BAFTAs, Critics Choice Awards, USC Scripter Awards, and Golden Globes, and Conclave is it. The screenplay also managed to win all of those awards, including the Golden Globe, which was a shared category with original screenplay contenders. That means Conclave not only...

Keke Palmer took home the top prize of Entertainer of the Year at the 2025 NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night, beating out such Hollywood heavyweights as Cynthia Erivo, Kendrick Lamar, Kevin Hart, and Shannon Sharpe. Read on for the complete list of winners.

Netflix’s The Six Triple Eight claimed a leading five trophies: Best Picture, Best Actress for Kerry Washington, Best Film Ensemble, and both Best Supporting Actress and Best Breakthrough Performance for Ebony Obsidian. The inspirational true story about the first-ever Black female war battalion comes from writer-director Tyler Perry, and is nominated for an Oscar next week for Best Song (“The Journey” by Diane Warren).

Other film winners included RaMell Ross in Best Director for Nickel Boys, Martin Lawrence in Best Actor for Bad Boys: Ride or Die, and Denzel Washington in Best Supporting Actor for Gladiator II.

For television, Cross won Best Drama Series, while Abbott...

This “Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot,” the first in a series that THR will run ahead of Oscar night, reflects the votes — and candid rationales for them — of a male member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 202-person short films branch, as communicated to THR in return for anonymity. THR does not necessarily endorse these views or suggest that they are representative of anything other than this voter’s perspective.

Best picture

I liked Emilia Pérez when I watched it but, even before all the shit that happened [involving lead actress Karla Sofía Gascón], it wasn’t in my top 10. I’d have preferred to see its spot go to Sing Sing, which was underappreciated; or Juror #2, which I really liked; or The Wild Robot or No Other Land, but you know how most of the Academy treats animated and documentary films — no respect. I do like musicals, and Wicked was tight.

The writers behind the feature film Conclave and TV series Say Nothing took home top honors at the USC Scripter Awards, which were handed out Saturday night.

The Scripter Awards honor the best adapted projects of the year. Both the original authors and the screenwriters share the award.

Conclave was adapted by Peter Straughan from the novel by Robert Harris.

Say Nothing was honored for the episode “The People in the Dirt,” written by Joshua Zetumer. The show is based on the nonfiction book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe.

The finalists and winners were determined by a jury chaired by USC professor and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vp Howard Rodman. The awards were presented at the 37th annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards ceremony, a black-tie affair held at the Town & Gown ballroom on the campus of USC.

The 2025 NAACP Image Awards honored the best in Black excellence for the past year and we have the full list of winners!

The awards were given out across several nights with the main ceremony held on Saturday night (February 22) at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, Calif.

The show, hosted by Deon Cole, aired live on CBS.

Keke Palmer won the Entertainer of the Year award and Outstanding Motion Picture went to The Six Triple Eight, with the film’s star Kerry Washington also taking home the Best Actress prize.

Make sure to check out our recap of all the celebs who walked the red carpet.

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Entertainer of the Year

Cynthia Erivo

Keke Palmer – Winner

Kendrick Lamar

Kevin Hart

Shannon Sharpe

Outstanding Social Media Personality of the Year

Kai Cenat

Keith Lee...