Raindance to take place in October – “no ifs no buts”
Raindance has confidently announced the dates for the 2020 Raindance Film Festival. Raindance founder Elliot Grove says the festival will begin on 28th
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Netflix funds BFI scheme to help industry freelancers
The streaming giant Netflix has put £1m behind a relief fund, set up by the BFI and The Film and TV Charity, to
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BFI Flare film festival moves online
The BFI has moved its annual LGBTIQ+ film festival Flare online, days after the last-minute cancellation of the regular event, because of the
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Cannes scrapped for May – hopes to run in late June
The organisers of the Cannes Film Festival have announced that this year’s event cannot be held on the scheduled dates in May. The
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BFI Flare film festival latest Coronavirus casualty
The BFI has cancelled its Flare Film Festival, just two days before it was due to begin. The BFI said the “very special
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Banned Iranian director wins Berlin Golden Bear
A dissident Iranian film director, Mohammad Rasoulof, has won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival for his drama about the death
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From shortage to excess? The changing face of UK film studio facilities
An American film production facility has announced its intention to invest £150m in building and running a new film studio complex just outside
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Parasite upsets Oscar’s apple cart as acting awards go to favourites
Parasite – a dark social comedy from South Korea – beat 1917 to Oscar’s top two prizes. South Korea’s social satire Parasite has
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The Farewell, Uncut Gems, The Lighthouse and Marriage Story among the big winners at the pre-Oscar independent Spirit Awards
As a film awards season nears its end, during which a lack of female directors has been one of the key talking points,
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1917 dominates BAFTAs as the acting prizes go to favourites
The First World War epic 1917 has emerged as the big success at this year’s BAFTA Film Awards, taking seven prizes on a
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2019 breaks record of UK spend in film and high-end TV
Spending on film and high-end TV production in the UK reached a record of £3.62 billion in 2019, with just shy of £2
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Parasite surprise winner as most SAG awards fall where you’d expect
Parasite – a dark social comedy from South Korea – won the Palme d’Or. The South Korean social satire Parasite has surprised Hollywood
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Spike Lee to chair the jury at Cannes 2020
The American director Spike Lee has been selected to chair the main Palme d’Or jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Photo: Spike
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Joker – and Netflix – dominate Oscar nominations
The dark comic-book origins drama Joker has continued to dominate the nominations stage of Awards Season, being in the running in 11 categories
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Diversity backlash clouds BAFTA nominations that see Joker lead the pack
Hot on the heels of the Golden Globes, Britain’s film and TV academy, BAFTA has announced a set of film award nominations that
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1917, Rocketman, Joker and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood among Golden Globe winners
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has spread its honours thinly, making it hard to make predictions ahead of next month’s Oscars, but the
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The Favourite Late Night Report is a Marriage Story in a Green Book: What was – and wasn’t – Worth Seeing in 2019?
2 of the best and 2 of the worst of 2019: Marriage Story, Ad Astra, Late Night and Green Book. So 2019 is
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Marriage Story and Irishman lead Golden Globes nominations for Netflix
The Golden Globes have fired the starting pistol for the 2020 Oscar race, as the first of the major film awards of the
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For Sama and David Copperfield dominate BIFAs
The documentary For Sama has won four prizes at the annual British Independent Film Awards in London. For Sama won 4 BIFAs, including
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What’s Worth Seeing from the 2019 London Film Festival
All three and a half hours of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman has come and gone – and with it, the London Film Festival
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