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If the 2025 Oscars nominations were announced today, what would Gold Derby predict as the nominees and winners? Since our predictions center opened on July 1, 2024, more than 5,500 people have made their forecasts in 18 top categories. So who’s out front to claim these golden trophies, according to the Gold Derby Oscar predictions 2025?

Below, see a snapshot in time of our racetrack odds for the 97th Academy Awards, updated on November 11, 2024. See how the odds and rankings have changed over time by examining our previous Oscar snapshots on July 3, July 9, July 16, July 23, July 29, August 6, August 19, August 28, September 11, September 19, September 23, September 30, October 7, October 14, October 22, October 28, and November 4.

Now expected to receive a nomination since the last update: “Wicked” in Best Picture, Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Hard Truths”) in Best Supporting Actress, and both “September 5” and “The Substance” in Best Original Screenplay.

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Saoirse Ronan started in the industry at a pretty young age and immediately won the hearts of the masses. After dedicating so much of her life to movies and her fans, she is now 30, flirty and thriving, and just wants to relax a bit.

Saoirse Ronan as Rona in ‘The Outrun.’ Image: Yunus Roy Imer. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.

Recently married, she wanted to enjoy a sort of semi-retirement or vacation one might say. The only thing that would pull her out of this break? An offer from Steve McQueen. And so it did!

Saoirse Ronan Almost Went on a Semi-Retirement if Not for Steve McQueen

Saoirse Ronan was knee-deep in a whirlwind schedule in 2022, juggling a three-month shoot in Australia for Garth Davis’ Foe and a six-month stretch on The Outrun lined up right after. With a workload like that, she joked that unless Steve McQueen himself came calling,...

Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun is a screen adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir which recounts the horrors of alcoholism in the same breath as it recounts the tonic powers of nature in beating that same evil. We are met with Rona, a young biology student, who is figuring out her life sans alcohol and in solitude. To mend her London-bred ills, Rona alights on her native place, Orkney Island, to explore the swathes of natural history and in doing so touch the open-ended strings of her personal life.

The fluid flow of time and space helps to render the film the texture of a memoir which interrelates and interfuses the protagonist’s previous life as an alcoholic and current life as a conservationist. In doing so, the personal memoir of the protagonist dances on a tightrope over an area that also makes enough space for a nature documentary.

The Outrun...

‘Love Lies Bleeding’ es la segunda película más nominada. © Elástica Films | Filmin | DeAPlaneta

Ya se conocen los nominados a los Premios BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). Estos premios son unos galardones cinematográficos que se otorgan en el Reino Unido para destacar y honrar las películas independientes británicas. Los ganadores de los premios BIFA 2024 se darán a conocer el 8 de diciembre. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los nominados de esta edición:

Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente BRITÁNICA

Kneecap

Love Lies Bleeding

On Becoming Guinea Fowl

The Outrun

Santosh

Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente Internacional

All We Imagine as Light

Anora

La Chimera

No Other Land

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Mejor DIRECCIÓN

Andrea Arnold, Bird

Nora Fingscheidt, The Outrun

Rose Glass, Love Lies Bleeding

Rungano Nyoni, On Becoming A Guinea Fowl

Rich Peppiatt, Kneecap

Mejor Guion

Nora Fingscheidt & Amy Liptrot, The Outrun

Rose Glass & Weronika Tofilska, Love Lies Bleeding

Rungano Nyoni, On Becoming A Guinea Fowl...

Welcome to Oscar Experts Typing, a weekly column in which Gold Derby editors and experts Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen discuss the Oscar race — via Slack, of course. This week, we tackle Best Actress, where Demi Moore’s odds have been steadily rising.

Christopher Rosen: Hello, Joyce! Nothing major happened this week but we’re still dutifully typing anyway. By the power of fate or maybe the calendar, the rotation has us back to Best Actress this week — perhaps apropos based on *waves hands* all this. When we last put fingers to keys about the Best Actress race, I was apparently on a bender: I didn’t have Angelina Jolie or Marianne Jean-Baptiste represented in my predictions, but I was all aboard for Amy Adams and Saoirse Ronan to make the final cut. I can only be me, but even reading that back makes my eyes roll. Needless to say,...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)

There are a lot of ways A Different Man could go and a lot of things it could be. Aaron Schimberg’s uniquely uncomfortable, uncomfortably unique feature sometimes plays as a reverse-Frankenstein medical horror, a tragic life-imitates-art satire, and a spiraling relationship drama. To its ambitious and distinct credit, it attempts packaging them all into ominous-sounding harmony, as if Charlie Kauffman’s surrealist Escher concoctions became a Twilight Zone episode modeled after David Lynch’s Elephant Man or Beauty and the Beast. It’s a dark, hilarious, and deeply unsettling portrait of a disfigured man that’s also an unflinching mirror of a looks-focused industry. – Jake K. (full review)

Where to Stream: VOD

Green Border (Agnieszka Holland...

A note from Scott: Well, it’s been a week. The presidential election did not break the way that most members of the American and global filmmaking communities would have preferred, which — low on the overall list of things to be thinking about but relevant to what we cover here — may well jolt the mood and priorities of Academy members as they contemplate what to support this season. We’ll have more on that soon.

Meanwhile, the fall film festival cycle largely wound to a close this week with the finales of the Scad Savannah and Miami Gems fests on Nov. 2 and Nov. 3, respectively. (Europe still has the International Documentary Festival in the Netherlands from Nov. 13-24 and Camerimage in Poland from Nov. 16-23.) I recorded live episodes of my Awards Chatter podcast at each — the one from Savannah, with Zoe Saldaña (Netflix’s Emilia Pérez), is now live, and the one from Miami,...

It’s been a gradual climb for Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Gold Derby’s Oscar odds for Best Actress, but it has paid off. The star of Mike Leigh‘s latest film, “Hard Truths,” now ranks among the top five likely nominees according to the combined predictions of thousands of our users. As of this writing she’s tied with Saoirse Ronan (“The Outrun”) at 11/1 odds.

Two months ago, on September 6, Jean-Baptiste was down in ninth place with 30/1 odds in the Best Actress race. A month later, on October 6, she was up to seventh place with 16/1 odds. Now she has finally cracked the top five with 17 Expert journalists predicting her nomination and one, Tariq Khan (Gold Derby), betting on her to win. This would be her second career nomination, following her Best Supporting Actress bid for Leigh’s lauded “Secrets and Lies” (1996). She would be Leigh’s third leading lady to be recognized by the academy.

Argentinian coming-of-age drama Los Frikis by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz won best film at the 13th Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (Emiff) at the closing ceremony on November 5.

Set in Cuba in the early 90s, the film follows a group of punk rockers who deliberately inject themselves with HIV so they can live in a treatment home.

Alonso Ruizpalacios’ black-and-white feature La Cocina walked away with both best director and best cinematography (Juan Pablo Ramírez) after opening the festival on October 30. Rooney Mara and Raúl Briones star In the Berlinale premiere surrounding a kitchen in New York.

Saoirse Ronan...

Der von den Kölner Weydemann Bros. mitproduzierte „The Outrun“ von Nora Fingscheidt hat tolle neun Nominierungen bei den British Independent Film Awards erhalten, darunter als bester Film, für Nora Fingscheidt als beste Regisseurin, Kameramann Yunus Roy Imer, Editor Stephan Bechinger und die Musiker John Gürtler & Jan Misere.

Saoirse Ronan in Nora Fingscheidts „The Outrun“ (Credit: Studiocanal)

Tolle neun Nominierungen hat „The Outrun“ von Nora Fingscheidt bei den British Independent Film Awards 2024 erhalten. Koproduzent ist Weydemann Bros. aus Köln, deutscher Verleih Studiocanal. Damit hat der Film die drittmeisten Nominierungen erhalten nach „Kneecap“ (14) und „Love Lies Bleeding“ (12). Die feierliche Gala im Roundhouse London findet am 8. Dezember statt.

Die Nominierungen für „The Outrun“, der auf Amy Liptrots autobiographischem Bestsellerroman basiert, erfolgten in den Kategorien: Best British Independent Film, Beste Regie (Nora Fingscheidt), Bestes Drehbuch (Nora Fingscheidt & Amy Liptrot), Beste Hauptdarstellerin (Soairse Ronan – sie hat den BIFA Award 2015 schon mal für „Brooklyn“ gewonnen), Beste...

2024’s The Outrun is this year’s great performance of a recovering alcoholic that inevitably deserves an Oscar nomination. Saoirse Ronan’s The Outrun tells the story of Rona, a 29-year-old alcoholic on her road to recovery after some terrible events traumatizing her for life. The non-chronological film might occasionally be a bit hard to take in, but at the end of the day, it’s a beautiful tale of hope and growth. To understand Rona’s experiences, the best way to understand her mind would be to go about the film as chronologically as possible. It’s the hair color that you’ve got to pay attention to. Rona grew up on a small, isolated island in Orkney, Scotland. A farm girl by birth, Rona’s an intelligent woman who easily grasps information. Her life begins to sparkle after she becomes addicted to alcohol and has outbursts while studying biology in London,...

Whilst the eyes of the world may be locked firmly on the other side of the Atlantic this morning, back here in Blighty there is at least some positivity still to be shared yet. Having shone last year when the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes brought Hollywood to a standstill, the independent British cinema scene has continued to shine throughout 2024, with revered greats, rising stars, returning masters, and bold new narratives all emerging to ensure the flame for indies from these shores has never burned brighter. As such, it comes as no great surprise that the announcement of this year's British Independent Film Awards nominees is a veritable treasure trove of great art and great artists that stand to represent the very best British filmmaking has to offer.

Leading the pack with an impressive 14 nominations — including nods for Best British Independent Film, Director, Screenplay, and Debut Director — is British-Irish filmmaker Rich Peppiatt...

by Cláudio Alves

In a fascinating turn of events, the official Oscar submission from Ireland is the most nominated film at the British Independent Film Awards. Kneecap, a comedy about the homonymous Belfast hip-hop group, scored a grand total of 14 nods, including five for its director, Rich Peppiatt. In the second place, we find Rose Glass's Saint Maud follow-up, Love Lies Bleeding. A thriller flirting with body horror, it nabbed 12 honors. Coming in third, there's The Outrun which continues to grow its awards season profile. The Scottish drama scored nine nominations overall, but its best bet is probably Best Actress, where Saoirse Ronan is aiming for gold. If things go according to Sony Picture Classic's plans, the film might add an Oscar nomination to its bounty before the season's over…...

To say the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has become more international in recent years doesn’t quite paint a full enough picture of how tastes have changed. More accurately, the Academy has become more European, so when awards bodies like the British Independent Film Awards or the European Film Awards announce their nominations, take note.

The film that arguably got the biggest show of support from both parties is documentary “No Other Land,” directed by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, chronicling Israel’s destructive occupation of the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta, all before the events of October 7, 2023. While it’s been a mainstay at fall film festivals from Telluride to Toronto to New York after first winning Best Documentary at the Berlinale, “No Other Land” has been entirely self-distributed. Already without studio support, the film lacks the backing of celebrities the way “To Kill a Tiger” (another film...

Kneecap leads the race at the BIFAs

This year’s British Independent Film Awards nominations have been released, and Belfast-based comedy Kneecap is in the lead with an impressive 14 nominations. Directed by whistleblowing journalist Rich Peppiat, the Irish language film, in which members of the titular band play themselves, attracted controversy on release but quickly proved popular with the viewing public.

Following close on its heels are Love Lies Bleeding, with 12 nominations, and The Outrun, with nine. Bird, Unicorns and On Becoming A Guinea Fowl took seven apiece.

The winners will be revealed on 8 December.

Those nominations in full:

Best British independent film Kneecap - Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling Love Lies Bleeding - Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman On Becoming A Guinea Fowl - Rungano Nyoni, Tim Cole, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe The Outrun - Nora Fingscheidt, Amy Liptrot, Sarah Brocklehurst, Dominic Norris, Jack Lowden,...

The British Independent Film Awards this year honor two Sundance breakout films, with both “Kneecap” and “Love Lies Bleeding” atop the 2024 nominations list.

Rich Peppiatt’s “Kneecap” (repping Ireland for the 2024 Best International Feature Oscar) leads this year’s nominees with 14 nods, including Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best British Independent Film. “Kneecap” is based on the eponymous rap group, which star here alongside Michael Fassbender in a fictionalized band origin story.

Following “Kneecap” with 12 nominations is Rose Glass’s “Love Lies Bleeding.” Co-leads Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian are nominated for Best Joint Lead Performance, and the film has also been recognized in the Best British Independent Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay categories.

Additional features that received multiple nominations include “The Outrun,” “Bird,” and “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.”

In 2023, “All of Us Strangers” swept the top categories with awards, in addition to “Rye Lane” and future...

“Kneecap” and “Love Lies Bleeding” led Tuesday’s nominations for the British Independent Film Awards.

Written and directed by Rich Peppiatt, “Kneecap,” Ireland’s Oscar entry, scored 14 bids, including Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Joint Lead Performance for Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, and JJ Ó Dochartaigh. It was shortlisted in a whopping eight crafts categories.

Rose Glass‘ “Love Lies Bleeding” was next in like with 12 nominations, including the same above-the-line categories as “Kneecap.” Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian are nominated for joint lead performance. It also earned eight crafts nominations.

Nora Fingsheidt‘s “The Outrun” received nine bids, including Best Lead Performance for Saoirse Ronan, who previously won the BIFA for Best Actress for 2015’s “Brooklyn.” The film is up for the top prize, while Fingsheidt is nominated for her direction and her script with Amy Liptrot.

Andrea Arnold’s “Bird,” Rungano Nyoni...

This morning, the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) announced their list of nominations for 2024.

‘Kneecap’ leads 2024 nominations with 14, ‘Love Lies Bleeding has 12, ‘The Outrun receives 9 nominations, 7 nominations each for ‘Bird,’ on becoming a guinea fowl and unicorns, 6 for ‘Hoard’ and ‘Civil War.’

Celebrating remarkable films and outstanding talent from the British film industry and beyond, this year’s list highlights the UK’s brightest new talent alongside BIFA heroes such as Andrea Arnold, Rose Glass, Rungano Nyoni, Saoirse Ronan, Jack O’Connell, Barry Keoghan and Hayley Squires.

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The nominations are;

The Richard Harris Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Actor to British Film

Tba – This year’s award recipient will be announced in the coming weeks.

Best British Independent Film

Kneecap Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling

Love Lies Bleeding Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman

On Becoming A Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni,...

Belfast-set rap comedy leads the charge with 14 nominations, with Love Lies Bleeding and The Outrun close behind

Belfast-set rap comedy Kneecap has emerged as the frontrunner in the British independent film awards, after it picked up 14 nominations to lead the field including best British independent film and best joint lead performance for its three main cast members Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, JJ Ó Dochartaigh – Aka Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí.

Kneecap, which was part funded by the British Film Institute and Northern Ireland Screen’s Irish language broadcast fund, features the Irish-language rappers alongside Michael Fassbender, and scored multiple nominations for its director Rich Peppiatt, who is up for best director and screenwriter as well as the debut versions of both categories.

The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) announced nominations for the 2024 ceremony this week. Irish language comedy “Kneecap” earned the most nominations with 14. The film centers on a hip hop group in Belfast trying to preserve their native tongue.

Rose Glass’s “Love Lies Bleeding” followed close behind with 12 nominations. The psychological thriller stars Kristen Stewart and explores themes of obsession. Both films are nominated for best film alongside nine other nominees.

Saoirse Ronan picked up a best actress nomination for her role in “The Outrun.” The film adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir tells a story of recovery on the Orkney Islands off Scotland’s northern coast. Ronan previously won a BIFA for her role in “Brooklyn” in 2015.

Other acting nominees include Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski for “Bird,” Jack O’Connell for “Back to Black,” Elliot Page for “Close to You,” and Alicia Vikander for “The Assessment.” The BIFA aims...

The subversive Irish flick Kneecap leads this year’s British Independent Film Award nominations with 14 nods, including Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Directed by Rich Peppiatt, the film’s impressive noms haul also includes nods for Best Debut Screenwriter, Best British Independent Film, and eight craft categories, including Best Casting and Best Cinematography.

Kneecap debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has been picked to represent Ireland in the International Feature Film category of the 97th annual Academy Awards.

Trailing Kneecap is Rose Glass’ punk rock flick Love Lies Bleeding, which landed 12 nominations. The film’s noms include Best British Independent Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. The film’s two leads, Katy O’Brian and Kristen Stewart, also landed nods for Best Joint Lead Performance.

Elsewhere, Saoirse Ronan’s indie flick The Outrun landed nine noms, and Andrea Arnold’s fifth feature Bird picked up seven nods.

Winners...

“Kneecap” and “Love Lies Bleeding” lead the nominees for this year’s British Independent Film Awards.

“How to Have Sex” breakout Mia McKenna-Bruce and “Rye Lane” star Vivian Oparah announced the nominations in London on Tuesday morning. “Kneecap” received the most nods with 14, including best screenplay, director for Rich Peppiatt and joint lead performance for Kneecap members Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh.

Rose Glass’ “Love Lies Bleeding” follows with 12, including best British independent film, director, screenplay and joint lead performance for Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian. “The Outrun,” starring Saoirse Ronan, received nine nods for best British independent film, director for Nora Fingsheidt, screenplay for Fingsheidt and Amy Liptrot and lead performance for Ronan.

Andrea Arnold’s “Bird,” Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” and James Krishna Floyd’s “Unicorns” each garnered seven nominations.

The winners will be revealed, in addition to...

The 2024 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) nominations were unveiled Tuesday morning by Mia McKenna-Bruce (How to Have Sex) and Vivian Oparah (Rye Lane) at One Hundred Shoreditch in London, with Kneecap, the Irish rap comedy featuring Michael Fassbender, and Love Lies Bleeding with Kristen Stewart leading the charge, followed by The Outrun with Saoirse Ronan, as well as Andrea Arnold’s Bird with Barry Keoghan, queer romance Unicorns, and Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

In the performance categories, big-name nominees include the likes of Saoirse Ronan, Barry Keoghan, Kristen Stewart, Alicia Vikander, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Elliot Page, and Jack O’Connell.

In the best international feature category, Sean Baker’s Anora will compete with the likes of Mohammad Rasoulof‘s The Seed of the Sacred Fig.

“Celebrating remarkable films and outstanding talent from the British film industry and beyond, this year’s list highlights the U.K.’s brightest...

Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap, Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding and Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun headed the nominations for the 2024 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas).

Comedy Kneecap about the eponymous west Belfast hip-hop trio scored the most nominations with 14, including director, screenplay and best British independent film for Peppiatt - the latter alongside producers Trevor Birney and Jack Tarling - and joint lead performance for its stars Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh.

Scroll down for the full list of Bifa 2024 nominations

Glass – a Bifa best debut director winner in 2020 for Saint Maud – has scored...

Mikey Madison has the potential to make history at the 2025 Oscars in Best Actress with Neon’s “Anora.” At the age of 25, she is receiving universal praise for her portrayal of the title character, a Brooklyn stripper who gets into a whirlwind, impetuous marriage. Sean Baker‘s wild romantic dramedy is continuing to gain massive buzz since winning the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and Madison is currently headlined at the top of the combined odds at Gold Derby to win Best Actress. Should it occur, she would be the ninth youngest Best Actress Oscar winner and the first since over a decade ago.

Let’s take a look at each of the first eight ingenues ahead who achieved this milestone:

Marlee Matlin

Won at age 21 years and 218 days for “Children of a Lesser God” (1986) on March 30, 1987.

Jennifer Lawrence

Won at age 22 years and 193 days for “Silver Linings Playbook...

If the 2025 Oscars nominations were announced today, what would Gold Derby predict as the nominees and winners? Since our predictions center opened on July 1, 2024, more than 5,300 people have made their forecasts in 18 top categories. So who’s out front to claim these golden trophies, according to the Gold Derby Oscar predictions 2025?

Below, see a snapshot in time of our racetrack odds for the 97th Academy Awards, updated on November 4, 2024. See how the odds and rankings have changed over time by examining our previous Oscar snapshots on July 3, July 9, July 16, July 23, July 29, August 6, August 19, August 28, September 11, September 19, September 23, September 30, October 7, October 14, October 22, and October 28.

Now expected to receive a nomination since the last update: “Wicked” in Best Sound. It’s no doubt being buoyed by the positive reactions from those who saw early screenings of Universal’s film adaptation of the classic Broadway musical.

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‘Anora’, del director Sean Baker, encabeza las nominaciones. © Gotham| Universal Pictures | A24

Ya se conocen los nominados a los Gotham, unos galardones que premian lo mejor del cine independiente estadounidense y que dan el pistoletazo de salida oficial (como cada año) a la temporada de premios.

Este año, Anora, de Sean Baker – que, por cierto, acaba de estrenarse en cines españoles –, es la película con más nominaciones, con un total de cuatro. Muy de cerca le siguen Nickel Boys, de RaMell Ross, y I Saw the TV Glow, de Jane Schoenbrun, ambas con tres nominaciones cada una.

La 34 edición de los Premios Gotham se celebrará el 2 de diciembre. A continuación, os dejamos la lista completa de nominados:

Mejor PELÍCULA

Anora

Babygirl

Challengers

A Different Man

Nickel Boys

Mejor PELÍCULA Internacional

All We Imagine As Light

Green Border

Hard Truths

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Vermiglio

Mejor INTERPRETACIÓN Principal

Pamela Anderson,...

UK-Ireland box office figures for October 2024 were down 17% compared to the previous year, causing the year-to-date figure to fall back to 11% down.

The underperformance of Joker: Folie À Deux meant the year-to-date comparison dropped from 10% down at the end of September. The 2024 box office is currently at £799.1m; total revenue for 2023 was £1.1bn.

UK-Ireland top 10 titles October 2024 Rank Title Distributor October gross Total gross Release date 1 Joker: Folie À Deux Warner Bros £10.2m £10.2m 4/10/2024 2 The Wild Robot Universal £9.5m £9.5m 18/10/2024 3 Venom: The Last Dance Sony £6.9m £6.9m 25/10/2024 4 Smile 2 Paramount £4.9m £4.9m 18/10/2024 5 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Warner Bros £4.3m £25.9m 6/9/2024 6 Transformers One Paramount...

This impressive Saoirse Ronan performance in Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” wasn’t supposed to happen. Her role as Rita, a young mother protecting her son George (newcomer Elliott Hefferman) during the Nazi bombing of London in World War II could have gone to someone else. Because, in theory, Ronan was looking for a long, extended break.

Read More: ‘Blitz’ Review: Steven McQueen’s WWII London Bombing Drama Is Dazzling [NYFF]

“I had been gone from the 5th of January in Australia for about four months [filming ‘Foe‘], and then I went straight into ‘The Outrun’ and essentially prepping that and shooting that over about six months,” Ronan explains.

Continue reading Saoirse Ronan Sings In ‘Blitz’ But Wants Greta Gerwig To Direct Her In A Musical at The Playlist.

Mit den Gotham Awards wird traditionell die Awards-Saison eröffnet. Sean Bakers Palmen-Gewinner hat jetzt die meisten Nominierungen für die Verleihung am 2. Dezember erhalten.

Sean Bakers „Anora“ ist viermal für den Gotham Award nominiert (Credit: Festival de Cannes)

Wenn am 2. Dezember mit der Verleihung der Gotham Awards die Awards-Season eröffnet wird, kann sich Sean Bakers „Anora“ die meisten Hoffnungen machen, ausgezeichnet zu werden; der Palmengewinner wurde insgesamt viermal nominiert.

Die Geschichte über eine New Yorker Stripperin, die sich in einen russischen Oligarchen verliebt, ist neben Halina Reijns „Babygirl“, Luca Guadagninos „Challengers – Rivalen“, Aaron Schimbergs „A Different Man“ und RaMell Ross‘ „Nickel Boys“ in der Kategorie Bester Film nominiert, Hauptdarstellerin Mikey Madison konkurriert in der geschlechterübergreifend vergebenen Kategorie Beste Hauptrolle mit Pamela Anderson („The Last Showgirl“), Adrien Brody („The Brutalist“), Colman Domingo („Sing Sing“), Marianne Jean-Baptiste („Hard Truths“), Nicole Kidman („Babygirl“), Keith Kupferer („Ghostlight“), Demi Moore („The Substance“), Saoirse Ronan („The Outrun...

Awards season is underway, and the Gotham nominations are only a small blip for what could be on Oscar voters radar.

While any nomination (or win) from any industry group marks a chance at gaining momentum, it’s important to remember the Oscar punditry golden rule: It’s not about what everyone wants to win, it’s about what will win. And critics are not Oscar voters. Each Gothams category is determined by a set of five distinct critics and journalists from various disciplines.

The slate of feature film nominees, with Sean Baker’s hilarious and moving dramedy “Anora” leading the charge with four nods, is yet another compelling reason to think that the Neon-distributed Palme d’Or winner has what it takes to go all the way in the race. On the other hand, I wouldn’t read too much into the complete shutout of films such as...

John Magaro went from an extra on a Steven Spielberg film to leading his own movie about the same tragic events 20 years later.

Magaro has steadily built a reputation as one of Hollywood’s most versatile actors, seamlessly transitioning between indie gems and major studio films such as “Not Fade Away” and “Past Lives.” But despite his steady rise in the industry, he remains grounded and deeply connected to the craft of acting, driven by a passion for storytelling and a dedication to exploring the complexities of each role.

In this episode of the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, Magaro discusses his latest project, Paramount Pictures’ “September 5” — a dramatic thriller about the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis. He also reflects on his early days in the business, which included an unexpected start as an extra in Steven Spielberg’s 2005 film “Munich,” a full-circle moment for him. Listen below.

“What makes this...

“Anora,” a free-wheeling comedy about a sex worker who becomes entangled with the family of a Russian oligarch, led the Gotham Awards, picking up four nominations, including a nod for best feature.

“Nickel Boys,” the story of two African-American teens who are sent to an abusive reform school, and “I Saw the TV Glow,” a psychological horror film about high schoolers who begin to lose touch with reality, were close behind with three nods apiece.

“Nickel Boys” will vie for best feature alongside “Anora.” Other nominees for the top prize include the erotic drama “Babygirl,” the black comedy “A Different Man” and “Challengers,” a love triangle that unfolds against the backdrop of professional tennis. There were several notable omissions, with critically heralded films like “The Brutalist” and “Conclave” passed over for a best feature nomination. “The Brutalist” did earn two nominations for its star Adrien Brody and for the supporting turn of Guy Pearce.

“Anora,” “Babygirl,” “Challengers,” “A Different Man” and “Nickel Boys” have been nominated as the best films of 2024 by the 2024 Gotham Awards, the Gotham Film & Media Institute announced on Tuesday.

Sean Baker’s “Anora” led all films with four nominations, including Best Feature, Best Director and Outstanding Lead and Supporting Performances for Mikey Madison and Yuri Borisov.

In the gender-neutral Gotham acting categories, other nominees included Pamela Anderson for “The Last Showgirl,” Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce for “The Brutalist,” Nicole Kidman for “Babygirl,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste for “Hard Truths,” Demi Moore for “The Substance” and Saoirse Ronan for “The Outrun.”

Eligibility for the Gotham Awards used to be restricted to films that came in under a $35 million budget cap, but the awards did away with that rule last year. Currently, the definition of a film eligible for the Gothams is “filmmaking with a point of view … where the vision of an individual director,...

It’s officially awards season, baby. While there are still more than four months to go before we cross the finish line at the Academy Awards, this afternoon the Gotham Awards—honoring independent film—announced their crop of 2024 nominees, officially kickstarting campaign season and offering the first clues about which...

An adaptation of Edith Wharton novel The Custom Of The Country by Mary Queen Of Scots director Josie Rourke is among 16 new projects backed by the Düsseldorf-based regional film fund Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw (Fms).

€600,000 in production funding was allocated by Fms to Rourke’s planned adaptation of Wharton’s 1913 novel.

The tragicomedy of manners about a Midwestern girl attempting to ascend in New York society is currently structured as a German-uk co-production between Cologne-based Mo Co-Production, a single purpose company set up by augenschein Filmproduktion, with Charles Finch’s Rabbit Foot Films.

Finch was recently a co-producer of the...

If the 2025 Oscars nominations were announced today, what would Gold Derby predict as the nominees and winners? Since our predictions center opened on July 1, 2024, more than 5,100 people have made their forecasts in 18 top categories. So who’s out front to claim these golden trophies, according to the Gold Derby Oscar predictions 2025?

Below, see a snapshot in time of our racetrack odds for the 97th Academy Awards, updated on October 28, 2024. See how the odds and rankings have changed over time by examining our previous Oscar snapshots on July 3, July 9, July 16, July 23, July 29, August 6, August 19, August 28, September 11, September 19, September 23, September 30, October 7, October 14, and October 22.

Now expected to receive a nomination since the last update: “A Real Pain” in Best Picture, “Challengers” in Best Score for Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, and “Sing Sing” (“Like a Bird”) in Best Song for Adrian Quesada & Abraham Alexander. Note that the music score for “Dune: Part Two” was deemed ineligible last week,...

The Best Actress Oscar race is looking more and more crowded as we get closer to the 2025 awards season, with numerous significant contenders in the running for those five slots. But if there’s one performance that’s surely going to make it in, it’s Saoirse Ronan in “The Outrun,” directed by Nora Fingscheidt. Why? Here are the Top 5 reasons …

1. Previous Oscar nominee.

At only 30 years old, Ronan has already received four Oscar nominations, and thus an acclaimed dramatic performance in her latest film will put her on the radar for many academy members. Her first nomination arrived in the Best Supporting Actress category for “Atonement” (2007) and then she was nominated in Best Actress for “Brooklyn” (2015), “Lady Bird” (2017), and “Little Women” (2019). Receiving as many Oscar noms as she has in such a short period of time shows that the academy is inclined to consider any new Ronan performance, and...

Believe it or not, Saoirse Ronan — a four-time Oscar nominee and one of Hollywood’s brightest stars — is just a cool girl from the Bronx.

Ronan was born in the U.S., moved to Ireland when she was three, and still splits time between there and her native land. And yes, she still votes in every election and can even one day run for president (if she chooses to). Beyond her acclaimed performances in films like “Lady Bird” and “Little Women,” Ronan remains deeply grounded. She recently married her longtime partner Jack Lowden, who celebrated his first Emmy nomination for “Slow Horses” (with Ronan secretly wishing for him to play James Bond). Nonetheless, she’s deeply committed to making the entertainment industry a safer, more supportive environment for young actors.

On this film awards season premiere of the award-winning Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, Ronan opens up about her early start in the film industry,...

Sony Pictures Classics on Wednesday announced release dates for two of its acclaimed festival titles, The Room Next Door and I’m Still Here, both of which premiered in Venice.

Written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, who has long been in business with the studio, The Room Next Door will be released in NY and L.A. theaters on December 20 and expand to select cities on January 10 before opening nationwide on January 17.

Directed by Walter Salles from a script by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, I’m Still Here is getting a one-week awards-qualifying run in November and releases in New York and Los Angeles on January 17 before expanding to theaters nationwide on February 14.

Taking home the top prize of the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival, The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, and John Turturro, marks Almodóvar’s first English-language feature. The film follows Ingrid...

Exclusive: Emmy- and BAFTA-nominated actor Paapa Essiedu has inked with WME for representation in all areas, Deadline has learned.

Essiedu notched a Supporting Actor Emmy nom in Limited or Anthology Series as well as a Lead Actor BAFTA TV nom for his turn as Kwame in Michaela Coel’s HBO series I May Destroy You. He also received a BAFTA Lead Actor TV nom for The Lazarus Project.

Other recent projects include the National Theatre’s The Effect, written by Lucy Prebble and directed by Jamie Lloyd, which is transferring to The Shed in New York this year; Season 6 of the cult anthology series Black Mirror (“Demon 79”); and Working Title/Universal Christmas movie The Genie, directed by Sam Boyd and written by Love Actually‘s Richard Curtis.

Essiedu starred opposite Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt and based on Amy Liptrot’s bestselling memoir. The feature received...

The 2025 Oscars will be televised live on ABC on Sunday, March 2 next year while the nominations will be announced a couple of months earlier — on January 17. There is a long way to go until then, of course, but, for us here at Gold Derby, it’s never too early to start thinking about the next Academy Awards. With that in mind, here is a list of contenders we think could be potential Best Picture competitors, as well as all the information you need to know about them. (Scroll down for our updated 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Picture.)

One of the early Oscar hopefuls, Greg Kwedar’s docudrama set in a prison, “Sing Sing,” debuted at the 2023 edition of TIFF. Another, Jesse Eisenberg‘s road trip “A Real Pain,” unspooled at Sundance in January. And Denis Villeneuve‘s “Dune: Part Two” was released in March. The latter was a sequel to...

If the 2025 Oscars nominations were announced today, what would Gold Derby predict as the nominees and winners? Since our predictions center opened on July 1, 2024, more than 4,900 people have made their forecasts in the categories for picture, directing, acting, writing and animation (below-the-line categories were added in early October). So who’s out front to claim these golden trophies, according to the Gold Derby Oscar predictions 2025?

Below, see a snapshot in time of our racetrack odds for the 97th Academy Awards, updated on October 22, 2024. See how the odds and rankings have changed over time by examining our previous Oscar snapshots on July 3, July 9, July 16, July 23, July 29, August 6, August 19, August 28, September 11, September 19, September 23, September 30, October 7 and October 14.

Now expected to receive a nomination since the last update: “September 5,” the Paramount Pictures historical drama about the 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis, in Best Picture, plus Edward Berger in Best Director for “Conclave,” the Focus Features mystery-thriller film.

Adrien Brody and Nicole Kidman are back in the Oscars race this year with their respective films “The Brutalist” and “Babygirl” from A24, both already making the rounds in the awards contention with strong festival premieres. The stars are now looking to claim victory in their respective categories of Best Actor and Best Actress, and if that sounds familiar, it’s because they both won these same races 22 years ago for “The Pianist” and “The Hours.” Can they strike gold for the second time and become the first duo in Oscars history to win the lead categories twice in the same years?

The year of 2002 was considered one of the most unpredictable Oscar seasons in multiple main categories. Starting with Kidman and “The Hours,” the Stephen Daldry movie took home Golden Globe Awards for Best Drama Actress and Best Drama Motion Picture, along with writing accolades for David Hare at...

As the major fall film festivals have concluded – and top regional festivals like ones held in Montclair, New Jersey, Middleburg, Virginia, and Savannah, Georgia, take turns at center stage – there is no better time to take stock in the awards race. This year’s Oscars field is one of the most wide-open in recent memory, with no clear frontrunner for Best Picture and several worthy films vying for the honor. That means what films and performances were honored during high-profile film festivals in Venice, New York, Toronto, and Telluride, Colorado – either with actual hardware or anecdotal praise and approval – is perhaps more important than ever.

Ahead is a breakdown of the fall festival award winners and honorees and what all this might mean for the race at hand.

Venice Film Festival

“The Room Next Door” (Golden Lion)

Brady Corbet for “The Brutalist” (Silver Lion for best directing)

Nicole Kidman for...

The Substance, Coralie Fargeat’s darkly funny film about an aging Hollywood movie star, who is played unforgettably by Demi Moore, has been submitted for Golden Globes consideration as a musical/comedy, rather than a drama, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Ahead of the Globes’ Nov. 4 submission deadline, the classification of the Mubi release was the last remaining question mark among top-tier contenders. (Last week, THR shared the classifications for all of the others.) This is because there was debate even within the film’s and Moore’s camps about how the film should be entered.

On the one hand, The Substance a very disturbing horror flick, with levels of blood and gore that would make David Cronenberg blush. On the other hand, though, it’s a biting satire of a business in which youth and beauty are often prioritized above all else.

In the end, a deciding consideration may...

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Oct 18-20)Total gross to dateWeek 1. The Wild Robot (Universal) £3.1m £3.3m 1 2. Smile 2 (Paramount) £1.7m £2m 1 3. The Apprentice (Studiocanal) £643,434 £746,303 1 4. Transformers One (Paramount) £642,000 £2.8m 2 5. Terrifier 3 (Signature)

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Universal animation The Wild Robot opened top of the UK-Ireland box office, with a £3.1m weekend.

Chris Sanders’ family feature, that has a voice cast including Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal and Kit Connor, played in 675 cinemas, taking a £4,591 site average. Including previews, the film has £3.3m. It is slightly down on the £3.6m start of another original Universal animation, Migration, from February this year.

Every year, there is a film that stands out from the rest. It isn’t occupied with fancy visual effects, grand stories, or even a showcase of artlike qualities. While these elements find their way into the film in subtle ways, ‘The Outrun’ (2024) manages to include an experimental structure, subdued character development, and a plethora of symbolic value with a story of addiction and the never ending struggle of trying with all heart to end it. A story that many people, especially women, will find relatability in. Helmed by rising director Nora Fingscheidt and acclaimed actress Saoirse Ronan in the lead role, ‘The Outrun’ manages to be the film of 2024 that so far succeeds in being artistic and stimulating while also a contemplative into the darker parts of life. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The...

Get ready to see a lot of Saoirse Ronan during awards season!

The 30-year-old actress, who already has four Oscar nominations to her name, could possibly get double nominations this year for her work in the movies Blitz and The Outrun.

Saoirse was joined by friend Ayo Edebiri at a CAA Screening and Reception for Blitz on Monday (October 14) in Los Angeles.

Variety just updated their Best Supporting Actress predictions for the 2025 Oscars and has Saoirse listed as the predicted winner in the category. The outlet also predicts she’ll get a Best Actress nomination for The Outrun.

Only 12 other people have ever been nominated for two acting awards in the same year with Scarlett Johansson being the most recent at the 2020 Oscars. 7 out of those 12 people won one of the awards.

Blitz will debut in select theaters on November 1 and will be available for streaming on Apple TV+ on November 22. Watch the trailer now!

Imagine standing in a seaweed field, battered by wind, kissed by the ocean, surrounded by an overpowering quiet. Now, place yourself at its center. That’s what Nora Fingscheidt’s “The Outrun” evokes: an intimate and intimidating isolation where memories swell, hijacking your thoughts, with the sound of the ocean crashing against the wind as your only companion.

When Amy Liptrot (journalist by profession and co-writer of this script) penned her memoir, I doubt she anticipated how deeply her experiences of addiction, recovery, and self-reflection would reverberate into something so achingly cinematic. She likely understood, though, that her birthplace, Orkney, is one of the most visually striking landscapes yet underutilized in cinema.

Orkney—a remote archipelago of some 70 islands in the northernmost reaches of Scotland—is home to rare wildlife and even scarcer human life. It’s here that Rona (Liptrot’s on-screen counterpart) returns to recover from years of alcoholism.