12 Years beats weighty Gravity to the top Oscar 3 March 20143 March 2014Jason Korsner In what turns out to have been one of the most predictable Awards seasons in many years, 12 Years a Slave has taken [...]
12 Years A Slave dominates Independent Spirit Awards 3 March 20143 March 2014Jason Korsner The critically acclaimed slave drama 12 Years A Slave dominated the Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles, a day before finding itself under [...]
12 Years beats Gravity to BAFTA’s Best Picture 17 February 201418 February 2014Jason Korsner Gravity has come off the biggest winner of the night at the British Academy Film Awards, taking six trophies, but the top prize [...]
Berlin honours films from China, Japan and the US 16 February 201417 February 2014Jason Korsner The jury at the Berlin Film Festival has given its top prize, the Golden Bear, to the Chinese film Black Coal, Thin Ice. [...]
London Critics hail 12 Years a Slave 3 February 20144 February 2014Jason Korsner The British-led US slave drama 12 Years a Slave has come away from the annual London Film Critics Circle awards as the big [...]
Tributes paid as Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead 2 February 20143 February 2014Jason Korsner The Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead in his apartment in New York from a suspected drug overdose. The star, [...]
UK film production and box office take both top £1bn 31 January 201431 January 2014Jason Korsner Cinema audiences in the UK and the Irish Republic spent more than a billion pounds to see films released in 2013. It’s the [...]
Christian film loses Oscar nomination 30 January 2014Jason Korsner The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has withdrawn the Oscar nomination from one of the contenders for Best Original Song at [...]
Mirren to receive BAFTA Fellowship 28 January 2014Jason Korsner The veteran actress Dame Helen Mirren is to be made a fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. BAFTA’s highest [...]
Alfonso Cuaron and Jehane Noujaim win the DGA awards 26 January 201426 January 2014Husam Sam Asi As widely predicted, Alfonso Cuaron snapped the top prize at the Directors Guild Awards last night for the space odyssey, Gravity, cementing his [...]