Feinberg Forecast: Scott’s First Post-TIFF Look at the Oscar Race
PLEASE NOTE: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of awards coverage Scott Feinberg, reflects his best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these projections by drawing upon consultations with voters and industry insiders, analysis of marketing and […]
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SCAD Savannah Film Fest: Directors of 10 of 2023’s Top Documentaries Set for 10th ‘Docs to Watch’ Panel (Exclusive)
The SCAD Savannah Film Festival, which takes place each year at the Savannah College of Art and Design shortly before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences votes to determine its Oscar shortlists, and which has become a premier showcase for documentary programming, has revealed the names of the 10 documentary features that it […]
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Jon Batiste Doc ‘American Symphony’ Acquired by Netflix and Higher Ground; Oscar Run Set for This Season (Exclusive)
This year’s best documentary feature Oscar race, which heretofore seemed unusually wide open, now has a frontrunner. American Symphony, Oscar nominee Matthew Heineman’s moving portrait of the musician Jon Batiste as he experiences his greatest professional success (he dominated the 2022 Grammys) at the same time his wife faces her greatest personal challenge (Suleika Jaouad […]
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Toronto Awards Analysis: ‘American Fiction’ Oscar Contender Status Cemented by Audience Award
Anyone who was inside Toronto’s Royal Alexandra Theatre on Friday, Sept. 8, for the world premiere of American Fiction — an Amazon/MGM film that came into the festival with virtually no profile — could feel it: Cord Jefferson’s satire about American racial dynamics was clicking on all levels. Audience members were howling with laughter, choking back […]
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Toronto Post-Fest Analysis: Which Awards Hopefuls Popped and What’s Winning the Audience Award?
The 48th Toronto International Film Festival, from which I just returned, technically runs through Sunday, but by this point, virtually every film in the lineup has screened at least once. So, I thought I’d seize this opportunity to share some impressions of this year’s fest and the awards hopefuls that played there and also offer […]
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Toronto: Three Questions With Tony Goldwyn, Director of Buzzy Sales Title ‘Ezra’ (Exclusive)
Tony Goldwyn is best known as an actor who has starred in films like Ghost (1990) and on TV programs including Scandal (2012-2018). But he has also quietly and consistently built an impressive résumé as a director, with A Walk on the Moon (1999), The Last Kiss (2006), Conviction (2010) and, most recently, Ezra. The […]
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Feinberg Forecast: Scott’s Updated Oscar Projections Post-Toronto Film Fest
PLEASE NOTE: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of awards coverage Scott Feinberg, reflects Scott’s best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these projections by drawing upon consultations with voters and industry insiders, analysis of marketing and […]
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Toronto Awards Analysis: Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’ Could Return Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor to Contention
Ava DuVernay’s latest film, Origin, followed its Sept. 6 world premiere at the Venice Film Festival — where DuVernay became the first African American filmmaker to have a film play in competition, and where Neon acquired its U.S. distribution rights — with its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Roy Thomson Hall on […]
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Toronto Awards Analysis: Nicolas Cage Zeroes In on Third Oscar Nomination for ‘Dream Scenario’
A24 may have a somewhat unexpected awards contender on its hands with Nicolas Cage’s lead performance in Kristoffer Borgli’s Ari Aster-produced Dream Scenario, a smart and surreal dramedy that world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Royal Alexandra Theatre on Saturday night and had most of the audience laughing out loud from start to […]
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Middleburg Film Fest: ‘Rustin’ and ‘Holdovers,’ Plus Their Directors, Are Headed to Virginia
Rustin, The Holdovers, Saltburn and a host of other awards hopefuls will be part of the lineup at the 11th Middleburg Film Festival, which will run Oct. 19-22, fest organizers have announced. Rustin, a Netflix biopic of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin that was directed by George C. Wolfe and stars Colman Domingo, will open […]
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TIFF Tribute Awards: Spike Lee, Pedro Almodovar, Colman Domingo Provide Star Power Despite Strikes
Despite the first simultaneous strikes of actors and writers since 1960 — 16 years before the first edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, or, as it was known then, the Festival of Festivals — a host of big names came out to present and receive honors Sunday evening at the fifth annual TIFF Tribute Awards.The […]
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Toronto Awards Analysis: Social Satire ‘American Fiction’ Makes Contenders of Jeffrey Wright and Cord Jefferson
The awards team at Amazon, as the parent company of MGM, a division of which includes Orion, may have an unexpected awards contender on its hands with Cord Jefferson’s feature directorial debut American Fiction, an adaptation for Orion of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film […]
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