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Cate Blanchett to chair Palme d’Or jury at 2018 Cannes Film Festival

4th January 201814th March 2025Jason Korsner

The double-Oscar-winning Australian actress Cate Blanchett has been appointed to preside over the jury that will hand out the prestigious Palme d’Or award [click for more...]

Three Billboards continues to dominate as London Critics reveal awards nominations

19th December 201712th February 2018Jason Korsner

Frances McDormand and Woody Harrelson are both individually nominated for the front-runner, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Martin McDonagh’s American crime thriller Three [click for more...]

Three Billboards leads SAG nominations to firm up acting Oscar race

14th December 201714th December 2017Jason Korsner

The Screen Actors Guild – whose awards are usually one of the strongest predictors of acting Oscars – has published a nominations list [click for more...]

Christopher Plummer up for Golden Globe a month after replacing Kevin Spacey

11th December 201714th December 2017Jason Korsner

Already the oldest actor ever to win an Oscar, Christopher Plummer could be on his way to securing that honour after receiving a [click for more...]

God’s Own Country, Lady Macbeth and Death of Stalin dominate BIFAs

10th December 201714th December 2017Jason Korsner

Lady Macbeth has won the most prizes at the 20th BIFA Awards, the ceremony run by the Raindance organisation. But the top award of the night, Best British Independent Film, went to the gay drama God’s Own Country, which won a total of 4 BIFAs, [click for more...]

Call Me By Your Name, Florida Project, Lady Bird, Get Out and Good Time among 2018 Independent Spirit nominees

21st November 20175th March 2023Jason Korsner

The gay love story Call My By Your Name has topped the list of nominations for the 2018 Independent Spirit Awards. It’s up [click for more...]

Lady Macbeth, Death of Stalin and I Am Not a Witch lead BIFA nominations

1st November 20171st November 2017Jason Korsner

The Nineteenth Century drama Lady Macbeth has received a field-leading fifteen nominations at the twentieth British Independent Film Awards. Florence Pugh received one [click for more...]

Harvey Weinstein stripped of BFI Fellowship amid harassment scandal

19th October 20178th July 2018Jason Korsner

The BFI has become the latest industry body to punish the disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein over the allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape that have been emerging over the past few weeks. [click for more...]

Harvey Weinstein’s shadow hangs over London Film Festival awards

14th October 201712th February 2018Jason Korsner

One of Britain’s most successful directing exports, Paul Greengrass, has been honoured with the British Film Institute’s highest accolade, the BFI Fellowship, at [click for more...]

Constitution wins 3 top awards at Raindance Film Festival

29th September 2017Jason Korsner

A Croatian drama, The Constitution, has won three of the main awards at this year’s Raindance Film Festival. Nebojša Glogovac won Best Performance [click for more...]

Diversity wins as Handmaid’s Tale, Veep and Big Little Lies triumph at Emmys

18th September 201718th September 2017Jason Korsner

Diversity was the big winner at an Emmy awards in which the most successful shows were female-led and the most successful men were [click for more...]

Guillermo del Toro’s Shape of Water wins Venice Film Festival Golden Lion

9th September 20179th September 2017Jason Korsner

The Mexican director Guillermo del Toro has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. Sally Hawkins stars as a cleaning lady [click for more...]

Bourne director Paul Greengrass to be honoured with BFI Fellowship

29th August 201729th August 2017Jason Korsner

The BFI is to bestow its highest honour, its Fellowship, to the British film-maker Paul Greengrass. [click for more...]

FrightFest tribute to “Horror icon” Tobe Hooper dies at 74

27th August 201728th August 2017Jason Korsner

One of the most influential horror film directors of the 1970s and 80s, Tobe Hooper, has died in Los Angeles at the age [click for more...]

Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards to close London Film Festival 2017

22nd August 201722nd August 2017Jason Korsner

The man behind In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh, is to close this year’s London Film Festival with his third feature. Bereaved [click for more...]

Tom Cruise broken ankle halts Mission Impossible 6 shoot

16th August 201717th August 2017Jason Korsner

Paramount Pictures have halted production on Mission: Impossible 6 after Tom Cruise broke his ankle while performing a stunt, on set in London. [click for more...]

Daniel Craig to return as James Bond for one last time

16th August 201716th August 2017Jason Korsner

Daniel Craig as James Bond in his third outing as 007 in Skyfall The James Bond actor Daniel Craig has confirmed that he [click for more...]

Guy Ritchie to be honoured by 2017 Raindance Film Festival

10th August 201711th August 2017Jason Korsner

One of the most idiosyncratic British directors of the past two decades, Guy Ritchie, is to be honoured by this year’s Raindance Film Festival with its 2nd Annual Auteur Award. [click for more...]

Venice and Toronto line-ups hint at Oscar contenders

28th July 201714th November 2018Jason Korsner

The oldest and biggest film-festivals in the world have revealed some of the highlights for film fans this autumn, giving the first indication [click for more...]

Film business helps boost UK economy

26th July 201726th July 2017Jason Korsner

Official figures show that what’s been described as a “booming film industry” has boosted the growth of the UK economy. The Office for [click for more...]