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The cast of “The Handmaid’s Tale” was sent good weather with its third consecutive nomination for drama ensemble at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. But can it finally nab its first victory? In our combined odds, it’s currently in fifth place, trailing “The Crown,” “Big Little Lies,” “Game of Thrones” and “Stranger Things.”

The fact that it was able to edge out, among others, rising favorite “Succession,” Apple TV+’s buzzy “The Morning Show” and two-time reigning champ “This Is Us” for a nom is already a great feather in its cap. While the show has yet to win a SAG Award, it’s never been snubbed during its three seasons; leading lady Elisabeth Moss has earned three consecutive bids and Joseph Fiennes received one last year.

After it scooped up eight Emmy, two Golden Globe and three Critics’ Choice Awards for its first season, the show quickly became...

“Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” and “Joker” led all films in nominations for the 67th annual Mpse Golden Reel Awards, the Motion Picture Sound Editors announced on Monday.

Those two films each received three nominations in the Golden Reel’s seven film categories, including Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Effects/Foley, the category that most closely corresponds to the Oscars Best Sound Editing category.

Other nominees in that category were “Ford v Ferrari,” “1917,” “Avengers: Endgame,” “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum,” “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” and “A Hidden Life.”

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“Ford v Ferrari,” “Jojo Rabbit,” “1917,” “Rocketman,” “Avengers: Endgame,” “Frozen II” and “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese” received two nominations each.

In the television categories, “Game of Thrones” and “Vikings” each received three nominations,...

A nonprofit group of professional sound and music editors, the Motion Picture Sound Editors today announced the nominees for the 67th annual Mpse Golden Reel Awards. Nominees represent the past year’s best feature film, television, animation, computer entertainment, and student productions.

On the film side, these nominations set the stage for what to expect across the sound categories at the Academy Awards. “Joker” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” lead the film side with three nominations each.

Winners across 23 categories will be unveiled on Sunday, January 19 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown La.

2020 Mpse Filmmaker Award

Victoria Alonso

2020 Mpse Career Achievement Award

Cecelia “Cece” Hall

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Animation

Toy Story 4

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Frozen 2

Missing Link

Abominable

The Lion King

White Snake

Spies in Disguise

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Dialogue / Adr

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The Art Directors Guild has announced nominations for the 24th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos and animation features. The nominees include features The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Ford v Ferrari, and Game of Thrones, The Mandalorian, The Crown and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on the TV side.

Winners will be honored at the 2020 Awards at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown on Saturday, February 1, 2020. The nominees were announced today by Art Directors Guild President Nelson Coates, Adg, and Awards Producer Scott Moses, Adg. Additional honorees for Cinematic Imagery will be announced at a later date.

As previously announced, Syd Mead will receive the William Cameron Menzies Award. The Adg Lifetime Achievement Awards be presented to Joe Alves, Denis Olsen, Stephen Myles Berger and Jack Johnson. Additional honorees...

“The Irishman,” “Ford v Ferrari,” “Jojo Rabbit,” “Joker,” “1917” and “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” on Monday all nabbed nominations for the Art Directors Guild Awards’ period-film category, the Adg category that most closely corresponds to the Academy Award for Best Production Design.

In the Adg fantasy-film category, which typically supplies one or two Oscar nominees, the guild singled out “Ad Astra,” “Aladdin,” “Avengers: Endgame,” “Dumbo,” “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” and “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.”

Both of those categories were expanded from five to six nominees because of ties.

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Nominees in the contemporary-film category are “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum,” “Knives Out,” “Parasite” and “Us.”

Animated-film nominees are “Abominable,” “Frozen II,” “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,” “The Lion King” and “Toy Story 4.

The third season of the The Handmaid’s Tale ended in spectacular fashion as (spoiler alert) June achieved her Mayday plan of getting dozens of children out of Gilead and into the safety of Canada.

But June was left for dead, lying in the grass next to the man she shot in cold blood (after he shot her) in a successful effort to distract his attention away from the children long enough so the plane could take off.

Related: The Handmaid’s Tale: 9 Times June Was The Biggest Badass

The ending left so many questions that viewers will be itching to find answers to in Season 4, which has been confirmed but has yet to get a release date.

Here are the 10 most pressing questions. Note: do not read on unless you’re all caught up!

The Handmaid’s Tale season three finale “Mayday” is miraculous in believability as the rebellion against Gilead pulls off its own Great Escape. Let’s talk about spoilers for the episode, along with some overall thoughts about the season. After June allowed the death of Eleanor Lawrence, June (Elisabeth Moss) and the Marthas proceed with their mission […]

The post ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 3 Ended With a High Note, But Can That Salvage a Flawed Season? appeared first on /Film.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the season finale of The Handmaid's Tale!

We don't know about you, but we're definitely still heavy breathing from that epic, gut-wrenching season three finale of The Handmaid's Tale. Blessed be the fruit, because that was one hell of a ride. June finally executes her Mayday plan to sneak a whopping 52 kids out of Gilead, valiantly leading an army of badass Marthas and Handmaids. Plus, we can all sleep a little sounder at night knowing that the Waterfords have gotten what was coming to them after seasons of their nasty, literal human rights abuses. You can never leave a finale of this show feeling bored!

Even in an episode where most of the ends don't feel so loose, we have serious questions, like what's going to happen to June, and where in the world is Nick? But first, let's collect the pieces and make sense of...

(Warning: This post contains spoilers for “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 3 finale, “Mayday”)

More than 50 children made it out of Gilead on the Season 3 finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” titled “Mayday,” and it’s all thanks to June (Elisabeth Moss) who orchestrated a complicated plan with the Marthas and some of the other rebellious Handmaids to smuggle the young boys and girls safely into Canada, and stayed behind to make sure it all went smoothly.

And while she might be the savior responsible for the children’s brighter future in the Great White North, she’s still stuck within the borders of the dystopian society, wounded — though protected by the Handmaids who have grown to become her family — and certainly about to face the music for what she’s done.

“Handmaid’s Tale” creator Bruce Miller told TheWrap that Gilead will “absolutely not” stand for June’s betrayal on...

About that The Handmaid's Tale season three finale cliffhanger…it's time to talk. Warning, spoilers follow! In "Mayday," June (Elisabeth Moss) successfully saved dozens of children from growing up in Gilead by getting them on a cargo plane to Canada. But at what cost? She, along with several Handmaids and Marthas, put their lives on the line to distract an armed airport guard. June was shot, but took the guard's life as well. The season ended with her seemingly on death's door being carried to safety—well, probably to punishment—by several of her fellow Handmaids. So, is June dead? Nah. She'll live to see another day. "June has plot armor based on the fact that...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Mayday,” the third season finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

There has long-been a school of thought that in order to move forward, one must be willing to look back.

In the case of “The Handmaid’s Tale’s” third season finale, starting the episode entitled “Mayday” with a flashback to June’s (Elisabeth Moss) earliest moments after being rounded up alongside dozens of other women to be led to their new lives under the new regime offered Hulu’s dystopian drama a chance to show how far the titular heroine had come.

“Just the look on her face, the way she’s walking, the way she’s talking, the way she knows how to navigate the world within the world and get what she needs now, it was really that difference,” creator and showrunner Bruce Miller tells Variety of the opening moments.

June's perseverance finally paid off on The Handmaid's Tale Season 3 Episode 13.

It has been a tumultuous season, and June has made some questionable decisions, but she came through in the end.

The light at the end of the tunnel finally came in the form of the plane flying overhead heading toward Canada with more than 52 children on board.

I've learned throughout life that it can be hard to see the bigger picture when you are in the middle of a storm.

With each passing episode it became harder to see June's bigger picture, harder to imagine June's rescue mission coming to fruition.

June has been incredibly frustrating. She could have done things differently, tread more carefully.

She has made careless, impulsive decisions, and people have lost their lives as a result of that.

It's been necessary to watch with an open mind because it's hard to imagine what you would...

The Handmaid’s Tale Mayday Trailer Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 3, Episode 13: Mayday TV show trailer has been released and stars Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, and Joseph Fiennes. Plot Synopsis The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 3, Episode 13: Mayday‘s plot synopsis, based on the novel by Margaret [...]

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[This story contains spoilers for season two, episode six of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, "First Blood."]

Forget the empire; in the case of The Handmaid's Tale, it's the rebellion that just struck back.

The latest episode of the Hulu drama, "First Blood," more than lives up to the billing, as the resistance force known as Mayday finally inflicts massive damage upon the oppressive Gilead regime. The episode builds to a climactic moment in which Commander Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) unveils a brand new building he's worked on tirelessly for months. During the ceremony, one ...

The pan-Asian co-production stars Taiwan’s Lee Hong-Chi and French actress Louise Grinberg.

Malaysia-born, Taiwan-based filmmaker Wi Ding Ho has wrapped his latest feature, Cities Of Last Things, starring Lee Hong-Chi, Jack Kao and French actress Louise Grinberg (The Class).

The film tells the story of a man and his relationships with different women through three vignettes told in reverse chronology.

Lee Hong-Chi won best new performer at the Golden Horse Awards for 2015 drama Thanatos, Drunk, while Kao is a veteran Taiwanese actor with credits including The Assassin and One Night Only. Lu Huang (Blind Massage) and Stone of Taiwanese...

It’s that time of year of again when we start scouring the internet for gift ideas. Luckily, Acorn media have served up another platter of top notch dramas for you to acquire this holiday season.

BBC One’s brilliantly clever 2013 drama Mayday comes to Acorn DVD on the 23 November. Starring Aiden Gillen (Batman: The Dark Knight Rises) it is full of more twists and turns than the Monte Carlo Grand Prix. The five part drama is based around a straightforward topic – the murder of a young woman. The events thereafter are handled in a rather unusual manner. There are four primary suspects but in the absence of a Marple or Poirot figure the audience are left to do the investigative work themselves.

Each of the suspects has an accuser but as the show progresses you began to wonder if the real villains are the accused or their accusers. Mi...

ABC Family has gone across the pond to find one of its Shadowhunters.

British actor Dominic Sherwood will portray Jace in the upcoming drama series, based on Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments book saga, the network announced Monday.

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As previously reported, the series will follow a girl named Clary Fray (who has yet to be cast), who discovers on her 18th birthday that she’s a Shadowhunter: a human-angel hybrid born to hunt demons. Following her mother’s kidnapping, Clary teams up with a fellow Shadowhunter (Sherwood’s...

Iwan Rheon will appear opposite Lacey Turner in the follow-up to Our Girl.

Turner starred as young soldier Molly Dawes in the BBC drama pilot, which aired in March 2013.

A full series was commissioned in December, with Game of Thrones and Misfits star Rheon now joining the cast.

Ben Aldridge (Lark Rise to Candleford), Charley Palmer Merkell (Mayday), Arinze Kene (EastEnders) and Ade Oyefeso (Youngers) will also feature in the five-part run.

Turner has also recently reprised her role of Stacey Slater on EastEnders after a break of over three years.

Our Girl is expected to air on BBC One later in 2014.

Iwan Rheon: 'I'd be an idiot not to do a Misfits movie'...

Former Battlestar Galactica star Jamie Bamber has landed the lead in Sky1 HD’s upcoming eight-part series, The Smoke. Bamber, who also stars in TNT’s David E. Kelley medical drama Monday Mornings, will play a firefighter in the drama about the lives of a crew in a London fire station. Rhashan Stone (Strike Back) has also been cast along with Pippa Bennett-Warner and Taron Egerton. Written by Lucy Kirkwood (Skins), the series hails from Shine’s Kudos Film and Television. Production is gearing up in London for air in early 2014. Law & Order UK and Broadchurch‘s Jane Featherstone is exec producing with The Hour‘s Noelle Morris for Kudos. Anne Mensah is exec producer for Sky; Mike Barker (Silent Witness) is directing; Chris Fry (Mayday) is producer. Bamber is repped by Alan Siegel Entertainment, Paradigm and Independent Talent.

Spooks star Peter Firth has revealed that there are plans to take the spy drama to the big screen.

Firth, who played MI5 boss Harry Pearce in the show, said that a script by its original writers is currently doing the rounds.

"There is a script kind of in the machine," The Huffington Post quotes him as saying.

"They should make it. It's not like it's a gamble with this one. But it costs a lot, and there's not a lot of money to go round at the moment."

The actor has starred in dramas World Without End and Mayday since Spooks ended.

The show ran for ten series on BBC One between May 2002 and October 2011.

Firth previously told the website that he would have liked a happier outcome for his character's unspoken love for Ruth Evershed (Nicola Walker), who died in the series finale.

Watch the title sequence for...

Spooks star Peter Firth has revealed that there are plans to take the spy drama to the big screen.

Firth, who played MI5 boss Harry Pearce in the show, said that a script by its original writers is currently doing the rounds.

"There is a script kind of in the machine," The Huffington Post quotes him as saying.

"They should make it. It's not like it's a gamble with this one. But it costs a lot, and there's not a lot of money to go round at the moment."

The actor has starred in dramas World Without End and Mayday since Spooks ended.

The show ran for ten series on BBC One between May 2002 and October 2011.

Firth previously told the website that he would have liked a happier outcome for his character's unspoken love for Ruth Evershed (Nicola Walker), who died in the series finale.

Watch the title sequence for...

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BBC One’s brilliantly clever Mayday came to an end tonight in an episode that was full of more twists and turns than the Monte Carlo Grand Prix. The five part drama was based around a straightforward topic – the murder of a young woman. The events thereafter were handled in a rather unusual manner. There were four primary suspects but in the absence of a Marple or Poirot figure the audience were left to do the investigative work themselves.

Each of the suspects had an accuser but as the show progressed you began to wonder if the real villains were the accused or their accusers. Mi5 veteran Peter Firth was frighteningly convincing as the town pervert while Sophie Okonedo and Lesley Manville managed to pull on the audience’s heart strings as they faced up to the horror of being married to murder suspects. Sam Spruell...

Just about everyone was a prime suspect in the BBC's inventive five-part whodunnit Mayday

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Lovers of TV crime drama rarely have to wait long for a child killing set in a small, inbred community of ordinary people with secrets up their sleeves, so I suppose we shouldn't be surprised when two come at once. We were the more generously served by Mayday, which the BBC ran over five successive nights, partly in deference to binge-watching trends, but also, perhaps, because they felt they had something to flaunt. And maybe they did. It was engaging in a British (ie non-Scandinavian) way, pulling us into the darker currents of the story by way of some light humour over an obese dog. Why was he so fat? More exercise, suggested the vet. Lesley Manville was wonderful as the dog's owner, Gail, half-indignant,...

ITV's Broadchurch is bloody brilliant TV that proves anything the Danish can do, we can do with Pauline Quirke lurking behind a caravan as a cherry on top. It's The Killing with West Country accents and 99 Flakes rather than knitted jumpers and subtitles.

We're only one hour into the eight-part crime drama, but my head is already spinning with possibilities as to who killed 11-year-old Danny Latimer.

Was it his shifty-looking dad (Andrew Buchan), who looks like he's been getting his end away more often than a Premier League footballer in a strip club? Did cornershop owner David Bradley do it with 50 pence of sherbet lemons? Are Arthur Darvill's reverend and David Tennant's detective inspector in a Doctor Who conspiracy?

The list of suspects is as long as a Peter Jackson movie and on a purely whodunnit level, the show is gripping entertainment.

But Broadchurch isn't just a...

BBC One's Mayday has been intriguing an audience of over 4 million viewers all week with its dark murder mystery.

'Who killed 14-year-old May Queen Hattie?' is the big question, hidden beneath tales of seedy peeping Toms, twisted relationships, moody teens and a broken community. But have you figured out the culprit yet?

Peter Firth's Malcolm was the obvious suspect after an intense feud with Hattie, but after killing himself midway through the series, he looks likely to be a red herring.

Could it be Seth (Tom Fisher) or Steve (Sam Spruell), the brothers who both have connections with the late girl?

Or maybe you think the sinister-looking Everett, played to creepy lip-curling perfection by Aiden Gillen, went too far with one of his sexual dalliances?

Watch a clip of the final episode of Mayday:

The other prime suspect is local copper Alan, played by Peter McDonald. He...

What chilled most about murder mystery Mayday was the claim of an ancestral right to wear green man makeup

You'd naturally think Aidan Gillen killed Hattie, the 14-year-old May Queen, in the woods above the village. Ever since he played transgressive super-hottie Stuart in Queer as Folk, he's worked sneering lips and leering eyes as a series of reptiles, chancers and scumbags – dodgy mayor in The Wire, slimy counsellor in Game of Thrones, venal banker in credit-crunch drama Freefall. Why not add murderer to the list?

In Mayday (BBC1), he's similarly sinister: a bad dad who thumps his son for nothing and buries his grief over his dead wife in video game marathons. Plus he has a mysterious bag locked in a cupboard. Could it be a body-bag full of May Queen? Possibly. Harold Pinter called Gillen "dangerous" when he was in The Caretaker, which is damning evidence. The prosecution rests,...

Goodbye Being Human, but hello Parks and Recreation. This week's Must-See TV is a little bit of an emotional rollercoaster, mixing long-awaited arrivals with some sad, sad departures and gritty murder mysteries with some controversial comedy.

Plus, there's two big Comic Relief TV events taking place in advance of the big day itself on March 15 - Russell Brand's Give It Up gig (Wednesday, March 6 at 10pm on BBC Three) in aid of beating addiction and Comic Relief's Big Chat with Graham Norton, all six hours of which will air live on BBC Three on Thursday, March 7 from 7pm, with highlights following Friday at 10.35pm on BBC One.

Mayday: Monday (March 4) at 9pm on BBC One

This edition of TV picks technically goes from the week commencing Monday, March 4, buuuuut we're going to do a bit of cheating here to make sure you don't get left behind on this dark,...

BBC One's new highly-anticipated drama series Mayday has released a new trailer ahead of its premiere on Sunday night.

The series - which stars Sophie Okonedo, Aidan Gillen, Peter Firth and Lesley Manville - will be stripped across next week from Sunday until Thursday in five episodes.

Watch the trailer for Mayday:

Written by Ben Court and Caroline Ip (Whitechapel) and directed by Brian Welsh (Black Mirror, In Our Name), the drama centres on the disappearance of a village's 14-year-old May Queen.

Mayday premieres on Sunday at 9pm on BBC One.

A project that was initially announced a year ago is finally set to make its debut... S&A fave Sophie Okonedo stars alongside Peter Firth, Aidan Gillen and Lesley Manville in what the BBC is calling a "sophisticated five-part thriller" titled Mayday, from writers Ben Court and Caroline Ip (Whitechapel). What's the Mayday story: When a young girl goes missing on her way to the Mayday parade, the small community in which she lives looks to one another for answers. But beneath the picture-postcard idyll lies a sinister other world and the dark woods teem with myth. As the community reels from Hattie’s disappearance, the drama follows the mass hysteria and...

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Mi5 veteran Peter Firth returns to BBC One during the first week of March in the new drama Mayday. The show is the brainchild of Whitechapel writers Ben Court and Caroline Ip, and like that show, Mayday focuses on the investigation of a grizzly murder. However, rather than placing the police detectives at the center of the action, Mayday is centered around the possible culprits and the friends and family members who may or may not reveal their suspicions to the police.

Peter Firth plays Malcolm – a man whose own wife thinks him capable of killing. His co-stars include Lesley Manville (Cranford), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), Sam Spruell (Eternal Law), and Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones). Precise broadcast details have yet to be revealed.

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A project that was initially announced a year ago is finally set to make its debut... S&A fave Sophie Okonedo stars alongside Peter Firth, Aidan Gillen and Lesley Manville in what the BBC is calling a "sophisticated five-part thriller" titled Mayday, from writers Ben Court and Caroline Ip (Whitechapel). What's the Mayday story: When a young girl goes missing on her way to the Mayday parade, the small community in which she lives looks to one another for answers. But beneath the picture-postcard idyll lies a sinister other world and the dark woods teem with myth. As the community reels from Hattie’s disappearance, the drama follows the mass hysteria and...

BBC One is to strip new five-part drama Mayday across a single week.

The thriller series stars Sophie Okonedo (The Slap), Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), Peter Firth (Spooks) and Lesley Manville (Cranford).

Penned by Whitechapel writing duo Ben Court and Caroline Ip, Mayday tells the story of a missing teenager and the hunt for the abductor, told through the eyes of a close-knit community.

"I am very excited that they are screening Mayday over five days," said star Okonedo. "I think it will suit the piece enormously.

"It has a lot of twists and turns and things are not always as they seem. The reality is often heightened with a cliffhanger at the end of every episode."

Mayday has been directed by Black Mirror's Brian Welsh and produced by Chris Fry (Spooks).

The series premiere on Sunday, March 3 on BBC One.

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