Nomadland, Rocks, The Father and The Mauritanian among BAFTA’s diverse shortlist
Leading figures in the British film industry have welcomed the first set of BAFTA Film Award nominations to emerge since the process was
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Nomadland and Borat dominate diverse, virtual Golden Globes ceremony
What is certain to be the most unconventional awards season in living memory has got underway in earnest with the Golden Globes giving
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Rocks, The Father and His House dominate BIFAs
Sarah Gavron’s Rocks took five BIFA, including the top prize Sarah Gavron’s drama Rocks has emerged as the most successful film at the
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Nomadland and Saint Maud impress London Film Critics Circle
One of the early front-runners in the delayed film awards season, Nomadland, has collected three prizes from the London Film Critics Circle, including
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1917 tops a 2020 UK box office crushed by Covid
It’s been an unprecedented year across all walks of life – all sectors of industry – but the global film and entertainment business
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Netflix dominates Brit-heavy Golden Globe nominations
The most nominated film and TV series at this year’s Covid-delayed Golden Globes are Netflix productions, with both the biopic Mank and drama
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British talent honoured by Spirits as film awards season starts to take shape
British actors, writers and directors have been listed among the nominees for the upcoming Independent Spirit Awards – a major US ceremony honouring
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Bond 25 delayed for a third time
With the briefest of statements, the producers of the long-awaited 25th instalment of the James Bond franchise have announced that’s release has been
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What’s Worth Seeing – or avoiding – from 2020?
Well, that’s a year that many people will be glad to see the back of – not least a cinema industry where social
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Contagion director Steven Soderbergh to produce Covid Oscars show
The body behind the Oscars – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – have picked the director of the global pandemic
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Warner Bros kicks off a new battle in the post-Covid war between studios and cinemas
Warner Brothers have launched a new salvo in the battle for survival in the film business, by announcing that all of its 2021
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Raindance winners announced at live-streamed ceremony
A dark comedy about a womaniser who contracts a potentially fatal sexually-transmitted disease has been named the Film of the Festival by the
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What’s Worth Seeing from an unconventional, largely online LFF 2020
This year’s London Film Festival has to be the most unusual to date, with many features being screened virtually for the first time,
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Viewers give LFF’s top prize to Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round
The most unconventional of London Film Festivals has come to a close with a virtual awards ceremony, whose winners were chosen by members
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LFF boss tells us What’s Worth Seeing in 2020
As coronavirus infections continue to gather pace across the UK – and the world – the London Film Festival is getting started in
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Cineworld closing indefinitely and Odeon cutting opening hours after latest Bond delay
Britain’s two biggest cinema chains are taking measures to reduces their losses resulting from a lack of big releases to attract audiences during
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Bond’s No Time To Die delayed again
The film industry has been left reeling by the perhaps not unexpected news that the release of Daniel Craig’s final outing as James
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Raindance and London Film Festivals make more events free to public
As film festivals around the world continue to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic – with Cannes announcing only yesterday that it will stage
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An abbreviated Cannes Film Festival to take place, five months late
The organisers of the Cannes Film Festival are to stage a mini version of the event, in its traditional home at the Palais
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BAFTA boosts nominee numbers to encourage diversity
BAFTA has brought in more changes designed to increase the diversity of the actors and film-makers recognised at its annual film awards ceremony.
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