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Exclusive: Fifth Season has taken worldwide sales on The Artist, the gilded age series starring Mandy Patinkin and Kaos’ Janet McTeer.

The Artist is for Aram Rappaport’s nascent streamer The Network and also stars Danny Huston, Zachary Quinto and Patti LuPone. Additional cast include Hank Azaria, Clark Gregg, Katherine McPhee, Jill Hennessy and Ever Anderson.

In the twilight of the gilded age, the show starts with a murder that strikes the estate of an eccentric and failing tycoon. As he hosts the era’s biggest celebrities including Thomas Edison, Edgar Degas and Evelyn Nesbit, mystery and ambition collide as the truth is shockingly revealed.

The Network founder Rappaport is creator, executive producer, writer and director, with Hilary Shor (Children of Men) producing. The show is Fifth Season’s first from The Network, which was launched last year by Rappaport with content including Steve Coogan’s Chivalry and The Green Veil starring John Leguizamo.

Many have suggested that a better system to award Oscars would be to wait a few years before handing them out. Give films time to breathe, and see which ones remain in the public consciousness a couple of years after release and which ones have faded. That’s not a bad idea, and it is especially appealing when taking a deep-dive look back at 20 years of Oscar wins and losses. As it relates to the Best Director category, more than a few wins can be chalked up to “make-up” Oscars where the winner takes the prize for the “wrong” movie a couple of years after a better one, and some reflect the notion that everyone was caught up in the heat of the moment. All these years later, are people even watching The Artist?...

Anora scored five Oscars on Sunday, but one of its wins took many, including Jack Antonoff, by surprise. Demi Moore was the odds-on favorite to win Best Actress, but The Substance star fell to Anora star Mikey Madison. But Madison's victory is not very surprising when you get down to it. Here's how she pulled off the win.

1. The stronger movie prevails over narrative

Anora won five Oscars from six nominations, with four wins for Sean Baker: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. The Palme d'Or champ was the Oscar frontrunner for most of the season, with just a short blip after its Golden Globe shutout before it claimed the Producers Guild of America and Directors Guild of America Awards to reassert itself. The Substance had five nominations, a great haul for a body-horror film, and won one, Best Makeup and Hairstyling. It...

Anora had the greatest day at the Oscars. How did it do it? Awards Magnet hosts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng broke down all the 2025 Oscars winners and losers live right after the ceremony.

Anora translated five of its six Oscar nominations into wins, including four personally for Sean Baker: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. He ties Walt Disney with a record four wins in one night, but Baker is the first to win four for the same film. Its fifth trophy was for Best Actress for Mikey Madison. After its wins at the Producers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America, and Writers Guild of America Awards, Anora reclaimed its Best Picture frontrunner status. However, it still wasn't expected to take home five Oscars, especially after getting shut out at the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards. This is the third...

In the 21st century, 25 films have so far won Best Picture. A lot has changed over the past 25 years around the world and within the Academy. That evolution is partly reflected in this century’s list of Best Picture winners, which contains films that are both beloved and oft-derided. In the case of some, their Best Picture wins have even directly strengthened or worsened their reputations.

Now, ahead of the 2025 Oscars, here is where you can currently stream all of the Best Picture winners of the 21st century so far.

“American Beauty” (DreamWorks Pictures) “American Beauty” (1999)

The Best Picture winner at the 2000 Oscars, “American Beauty” is director Sam Mendes’ divisive drama about a white suburban American family slowly coming apart at the seams. It is available to stream now for free on Pluto TV.

“Gladiator” (Universal Pictures) “Gladiator” (2000)

This crowd-pleasing epic about a Roman general (Russell Crowe) who is forced...

Belle Gibson took the world by storm when her claims of surviving brain cancer through natural and alternative medicine were revealed to be a scam. By the time her claims were proven to be false, she had already made a lot of money from her app and cookbook called The Whole Pantry.

Years after her scam was exposed and she was fined by the Federal Court in Australia, Gibson reportedly has yet to pay the $440,000 fine to Consumer Affairs Victoria. Gibson’s empire reportedly earned in the millions during its heyday but the con artist has reportedly failed to pay the fines.

Belle Gibson is yet to pay $440,000 in fines to the Australian court A still from Apple Cider Vinegar | Credits: Netflix

Health fraud is truly one of the most despicable things one can do (not that other scams are in any way morally good). Australian influencer Belle Gibson became...

“Anora” won Best Feature at the the 40th Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, which took place on Saturday afternoon in Santa Monica and was hosted for the second year in a row by Aidy Bryant. “Anora’s” Indie Spirit win follows its recent triumphs at the DGA and PGA awards and boosts its chances for Oscar glory next week. “Anora” also won Best Director for Sean Baker and Best Lead Performance for Mikey Madison. Repeating her victory at the BAFTAs, Madison beat Demi Moore, who had been considered the solid frontrunner.

In many ways, the Indie Spirit Awards followed a pattern it has shown in recent years: Anytime its voters can give a statuette to an Oscar-nominated film or performance, they do. This year’s Spirit nominations included Oscar nominees in seven different categories — and in every one of those categories, the Academy-approved entry won.

Aside from the three big wins for “Anora,...

For those with Hollywood dreams, whether it's acting in films or directing them, their biggest aspiration may be to win an Oscar. "Academy Award winner" would be forever attached to their name, and presumably, doors would open in their careers that had never opened before.

While the Oscars certainly recognize performers and filmmakers for their exceptional talents and place them in a class above the rest, they also bring high expectations. After winning, there will always be pressure to live up to that title, which may be impossible to achieve again. This is part of the dreaded "Oscar curse." What happens after you've achieved the biggest honor in Hollywood?

Oscar campaigns and wins can be just as much of a story as the movies themselves. Hollywood's publicity machine spins a specific narrative to help an artist win the coveted award — the higher the stakes or the more cultural impact, the better.

Exclusive: Malcom McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) and Alex Hassell (Rivals) will star in crime thriller Dog & Bull, with Essential Film Group launching sales on pic at the EFM.

Written and directed by James Marquand (Dead Man’s Cards), the feature from Blackwater Pictures also stars Sinead Cusack (Napoleon), Lara Peake (How to Have Sex), Francis Magee (Layer Cake), Bobby Schofield (Cherry) and Paul Barber (The Full Monty). Tiernan Handy is producing along with Kevin Harvey, Simon Marriott and Antoine Dixon-Bellot, and Essential has boarded for worldwide sales.

Per the synopsis, Dog & Bull is billed as “a dark, hard-boiled crime-thriller, with black comedy undertones, in which legendary actor McDowell stars as a fugitive criminal hiding out as a pub landlord who questions his identity when he gets discovered by a psychotic hitman (Hassell), who is also his biggest fan.”

McDowell grew up as the son of a publican, who ran a...

For the millions of people who haven’t even heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture this year, there’s still a very good reason to watch the Academy Awards: comedy.

After all, this year’s ceremony will be hosted by none other than Conan O’Brien, who previously hosted the Emmys, the MTV Awards, the NFL Honors, and, of course, the esteemed Audiencey Awards.

We also just learned who will be writing this year’s ceremony. In addition to several names that may or not be pseudonyms for Bruce Vilanch, the team includes comedian Carol Leifer. While she’s written for hit shows like Saturday Night Live, Modern Family, The Larry Sanders Show, and most recently, Hacks, a lot of us first became aware of her because of Seinfeld.

Leifer was Emmy-nominated for her work on Seinfeld, writing six episodes (and working as a story editor on dozens more), including classics like “The Rye.

The Academy Awards have staged some iconic showdowns. Think of the tension around “La La Land” versus “Moonlight,” “12 Years a Slave” versus “Gravity” or “The Godfather” versus “Cabaret.” Each was a nail-biter that kept viewers on the edge of their seats. But what happens when six films — “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Emilia Pérez” and “Wicked” — are all serious contenders for Hollywood’s most coveted prize? Enter “The Year Without the Frontrunner,” as Variety aptly dubbed it.

So, what is the pathway for each contender?

With 13 nominations, “Emilia Pérez” seems to have the logical edge (although recent controversies could derail that assertion). It has key guild nods and below-the-line Oscar mentions. But in this unpredictable year, historical trends are no guarantee. Major upcoming ceremonies like DGA, PGA and SAG may clarify the race — or make it even messier.

After winning big at the Golden Globes, “Emilia Pérez...

Agatha All Along was a fan-favorite series from start to finish — thanks to its unique story, spellbinding cast, and careful integration of comic-book lore. Despite the rave reviews that this delightfully witchy MCU installment received, however, Lilia Calderu actress Patti LuPone has revealed the devastating news that Agatha All Along will not be returning for a second season.

With the incredible reception and high viewing numbers for Agatha All Along, many fans assumed that the show was likely to continue. However, when appearing on the podcast series Andy Cohen Live, LuPone officially shut down these hopes, saying that showrunner Jac Schaeffer herself informed LuPone that Agatha All Along would remain a one-hit wonder. "Jac Schaeffer, the creator, came into my trailer, and she said, 'Patti, I'm just here to tell you that Lilia's going to die,'" recalled LuPone, "and I went, 'But I wanted a second season.'...

Align, the Los Angeles-based financier and production company launched by Adrian Politowski and Nadia Khamlichi in 2019, has closed its second fund, Take Two, to pump $120m worth of financing into international feature film and TV drama over the next four years.

The company, which provides bridge loans, and cash flows presales and tax credits as well as offering gap financing, is involved in three features premiering in Sundance this week: Sophie Hyde’s Jimpa, starring Olivia Colman and John Lithgow; Bryn Chainey’s Rabbit Trap starring Dev Patel; and Dylan Southern’s The Thing With Feathers starring Benedict Cumberbatch, which...

In the entire history of the Academy Awards, only six Best Picture winners have been 100 minutes or less. It seems that traditional, Oscar-bait "prestige" pictures tend to run long, attracting Academy voters with their sheer volume. Extra-long films are also a little rare, though, as only five Best Picture Winners are 200 minutes or more. Additionally, a whopping 18 Best Pictures have been between 160 and 195 minutes, so voters clearly don't mind longer movies. Indeed, the average length of a Best Picture winner is 136 minutes. In terms of cinematic storytelling, that seems to be the sweet spot. 

Of course, Roger Ebert's adage needs to be mentioned. The famed critics once posited that no good movie is too long, and no bad movie is short enough. The actual length of a film doesn't really matter, so long as it's a quality picture, and it makes good use of its time. Personally, I feel...

The board of directors of the Cannes Film Festival has unanimously re-elected Iris Knobloch to serve a second term as festival president.

Knobloch, a former executive at Warner Bros. France, took over from Pierre Lescure as the first-ever female president of the Cannes festival in 2023. Her new mandate will run for three years, through the festival’s 2028 edition.

Announcing the decision, the board said it reflects “a renewed vote of confidence in [Knobloch’s] leadership, acknowledging her achievements, ensuring stability, and enabling the continuation of the Festival’s strategic initiatives.”

In a statement, Knobloch said she was “profoundly honored to once again receive the trust of our Board of Directors. I take great pride in the success of the past two editions and I am excited to continue this journey alongside our General Delegate Thierry Frémaux and our dedicated teams in the years to come. Together, we will continue working hand in...

Iris Knobloch has been re-elected as Cannes Film Festival President for a second term, running from July 2025 to 2027 inclusive.

The festival said in a statement that the reappointment had been agreed unanimously by the its board and that the decision reflected, “a renewed vote of confidence in her leadership”.

“I am profoundly honored to once again receive the trust of our Board of Directors. I take great pride in the success of the past two editions and I am excited to continue this journey alongside our General Delegate Thierry Frémaux and our dedicated teams in the years to come,” said Knobloch.

“Together, we will continue working hand in hand to nurture and enhance this magnificent Festival, a unique platform where all films, voices, and talent find their place.”

Former Warner exec Knobloch originally took up the role of Cannes President on a three-year mandate on July 1, 2022, succeeding Pierre Lescure who...

Iris Knobloch, the respected former boss of Warner Bros. France and Germany who became the first female president of the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, has been re-elected by the festival’s board for another three-year mandate.

The German-born, Paris-based executive will continue working alongside Cannes Film Festival’s longtime general delegate and artistic director Thierry Fremaux, who remains in charge of the official selection.

Knobloch was elected by the board of directors of the Association Française du Festival International du Film, which brings together public authorities and film industry professionals. She succeeded Pierre Lescure as Cannes president.

“I am profoundly honored to once again receive the trust of our Board of Directors. I take great pride in the success of the past two editions and I am excited to continue this journey alongside our General Delegate Thierry Frémaux and our dedicated teams in the years to come,” Knobloch said in a statement.

As Netflix's big awards-season contender, Emilia Pérez has received both acclaim and backlash – the latter of which intensified after the movie won four Golden Globes on Sunday, with critics of the musical labeling it "racist" and rife with "stereotypes." However, Issa López, the showrunner for True Detective: Night Country, defended Emilia Pérez while on the red carpet at the Golden Globes.

Emilia Pérez took home the awards for Best Film (Comedy or Musical), Best Song, Best Film Not in the English Language, and Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña. But the film has stirred controversy since premiering at the 2024 Cannes International Film Festival, where it also clocked accolades including the Jury Award and Best Actress for all three of its leads — Saldaña, Selena Gomez and, Karla Sofía Gascón.

Related 'Emilia Pérez' Star Lands Historic Golden Globes Nomination

'Emilia Pérez's Karla Sofia Gascón is the first trans actress to earn...

The domestic box office is bound to do around $9 billion in 2025, roughly $300 million more than 2024’s estimated final figure of $8.7 billion. If so, it will be the second time that U.S.-Canada ticket sales hit that threshold post-Covid after 2023’s domestic tally of $9 billion.

ComScore reports that 110 movies in 2025 will open in more than 2,000 theaters apiece, which is 15 more than 2024 and the most ever post-pandemic. The New Year will even end with a big event movie to carry us over into 2026: 20th Century Studios’ Avatar: Fire and Ash. The previous James Cameron-directed sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, was released December 2022 and overall grossed $684M domestic, with $283M of that total coming in 2023.

‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ concept art

Exhibitors and studio execs declare with glee that 2025 will be “a normal year,” untainted by strike disruptions and (knock on wood) a pandemic. The anticipated merger of Paramount...

It has been a banner year for Martin Delemazure, the managing director of Paris-based composer agency Grande Ourse.

He had seven films at the Cannes Film Festival in May featuring music by composers on the agency’s books, topped by Jury Prize-winner Emilia Pérez, which also won Best Cannes Soundtrack for Grande Ourse talent Camille, who takes a co-music credit with life and work partner Clément Ducol.

The other titles spanned Palme d’Or contender Wild Diamond, for which the soundtrack was composed by Audrey Ismaël, who also wrote the music for Un Certain Regard title The Kingdom.

Grande Ourse also represents David Sztanke, who wrote the music for a second film in the sidebar, Dog on Trial. Elsewhere in the Official Selection, client Matteo Locasciulli wrote the soundtrack for bio-doc Jacques Demy, the Pink and the Black in Cannes Classics.

In the parallel Cannes Critics’ Week section, Rebeka Warrior...

Gold Derby launched its own awards for film in 2002, for TV in 2004, and for music in 2021 to give our savvy users the opportunity to weigh in on the media they love. Now the time has come to vote for the nominees in 22 categories for the 2025 Gold Derby Film Awards. You can rank your top three choices in almost every category except for Best Picture, for which you can vote for five choices; the higher you rank them, the more points they get. Vote by clicking on a category above. Below: Grab contenders one by one from the left column and add them to the right column by clicking on the green + symbol. Arrange in order of preference (No. 1 is your top choice). Grab each entry to move it up or down. (Illustrated instructions are at the bottom of this post.) You have until the end of Jan. 10 to make your final selections.

"Kindergarten Cop" is the quintessential 90s movie. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, the defining action star of the era, in a role few thought he could pull off, and it's directed by one of the most prolific filmmakers of the decade. The film also features a cast of young actors just before they went on to achieve major success. Now, we're looking back at the talent involved in "Ghostbusters" director Ivan Reitman's popular 1990 comedy to find out what they're up to these days, mainly because we love reminding ourselves just how old we are. 

For those unaware, "Kindergarten Cop" follows Detective John Kimble (Arnold) as he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to bust a dangerous criminal. Like "Twins," Reitman's previous collaboration with Arnold, "Kindergarten Cop" blends comedy with drama, plus a hefty dose of surprisingly violent action, resulting in the perfect movie to show kids of all ages in...

A Cobra Kai alum is headed to space: Barrett Carnahan, who plays young Kreese on the aforementioned Netflix series, has joined For All Mankind Season 5, our sister site Deadline reports.

The actor will recur on the Apple TV+ alt-history drama as Marcus, a recent high school graduate living on Mars.

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Katharine McPhee, Jill Hennessy, Ever Anderson and Ana Mulvoy Ten have joined the murder mystery limited series “The Artist.”

From the free, ad-supported streamer and studio The Network, the Gilded Age-set series also stars previously announced cast members Mandy Patinkin, Janet McTeer, Danny Huston, Patti LuPone, Hank Azaria, Zachary Quinto and Clark Gregg.

The seven-episode series, which will debut in March 2025, follows “an ensemble of the era’s celebrities including Thomas Edison, Edgar Degas and Evelyn Nesbit” as they meet at the home of “an eccentric and failing tycoon,” per the logline. By the end of the night, the mogul is found dead, spurring a historical fiction-themed murder mystery.

McPhee will play early-20th-century vaudeville performer Nora Bayes. Anderson will play Evelyn Nesbit, the woman at the center of the infamous Crime of the Century, while Hennessy will play her mother. Mulvoy Ten will play Lilith, an orphaned dancer from France.

Netflix’s Spanish-language musical Emilia Pérez has become one of a only a handful of predominantly non-English-language films ever to make the top 10 films list released by the American Film Institute annually since 2001 as part of the AFI Awards. It follows 2004’s Spanish-language Maria Full of Grace and 2007’s French-language The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

AFI’s eligibility rules declare, “Stories need not be presented in the English language if incontrovertibly American,” meaning that they include “significant creative and/or production elements from the United States,” which, in this case, presumably means American-born actresses Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez.

Partially non-English titles that have made the list in years past include 2006’s Letters from Iwo Jima, 2019’s The Farewell, 2020’s Minari and 2023’s Past Lives. Fully non-English titles have occasionally been given special awards, as was the case for 2011’s The Artist, 2018’s Roma and 2019’s Parasite.

Joining Emilia Pérez...

“Anora,” “Wicked,” “Conclave,” “Emilia Perez” and “Nickel Boys” were named to the American Film Institute’s list of the 10 best films of 2024, the AFI announced on Thursday.

Also on the list: “The Brutalist,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Dune: Part Two,” “A Real Pain” and “Sing Sing.”

The list is a solid summation of the films expected to compete for awards in what appears to be a wide-open year, mixing blockbusters like “Wicked” and “Dune: Part Two” with critics’ favorites and small indies.

High profile films missing from the list include “Gladiator II,” “Blitz,” “The Piano Lesson,” “His Three Daughters” and “Nosferatu.”

The films that appeared on the AFI list and on the National Board of Review’s top 11 films, which were announced on Wednesday, were “Anora,” “Wicked,” “Conclave,” “A Real Pain,” “Sing Sing” and “A Complete Unknown.” The AFI jury bypassed a few of the NBR picks, including “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,...

After close to three hours of deliberation, the New York Film Critics Circle named Brady Corbet’s three-hour-plus epic The Brutalist as Best Film. The group also named the pic’s star Adrien Brody as Best Actor.

A24 snapped up the movie after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it earned a 13-minute ovation. The Brutalist stars Brody as László Tóth, a World War II Hungarian refugee architect in the U.S. and Guy Pearce as the complex real estate tycoon who enlists Tóth’s talents of Brody’s character. Corbet, who won the Silver Lion for Best Director at Venice, shot The Brutalist in Hungary with tax credits for under $10M. It opens on December 20. A24 also will be showing the epic, which also stars Felicity Jones and Alessandro Nivola, in 70Mm.

The NYFCC handed its Best Director award to RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross,...

Brady Corbet’s epic drama “The Brutalist” was named the best film of 2024 by the New York Film Critics Circle, which announced its annual winners on Tuesday.

RaMell Ross won the Best Director award for his narrative debut, “Nickel Boys.”

Marianne Jean-Baptiste won the Best Actress award for her scorching performance in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” while Adrien Brody won Best Actor for “The Brutalist.”

Kieran Culkin was named best supporting actor for his role in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain.” Carole Kane was honored as best supporting actress for “Between the Temples.”

As the first major critics group to announce its awards, the NYFCC was able to give a little attention to its winners in a year in which few of the major categories have strong frontrunners. “The Brutalist,” a three-and-a-half hour drama starring Brody as an architect who comes to the United States after fleeing Europe during World War II,...

The New York Film Critics Circle announced its winners on Tuesday, with “The Brutalist” winning Best Film and acting awards going to Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Hard Truths”), Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”), and Carol Kane (“Between the Temples”).

Other winners included RaMell Ross (Best Director for “Nickel Boys”), Sean Baker (Best Screenplay for “Anora”), Jomo Fray (Best Cinematography for “Nickel Boys), “Flow” (Best Animated Film), and “All We Imagine as Light” (Best International Film).

Brody won Best Actor for his performance in Brady Corbet‘s epic drama, which A24 will release later this month. A former Oscar winner for “The Pianist,” Brody is widely predicted to earn his second Oscar nomination next year and is considered a front-runner to win as well.

Jean-Baptiste won Best Actress from the New York group, an outcome that many observers predicted in the days before Tuesday’s voting. The actress has...

They say third time’s a charm, and that can be true of our third visit to the Estonian capital city of Tallinn, for the annual Black Nights Film Festival. Taking place every November, HeyUGuys were fortunate enough to be invited back to celebrate all things cinema, in one of our stand-out events of the film calendar.

With the city prepping for the festive period, the wooden shacks in the old town square readying themselves to fill up tourists and locals alike with mulled wine – before the Christmas spirit engulfs the city, comes a festival that offers a uniquely diverse programme of films from around the world, showcasing stories from filmmakers both old and new, from such a myriad of fascinating voices.

Though our stay was sadly somewhat brief, during our four-day visit we still managed to get a flavour of the festival without having an all-encompassing experience, but even during our limited stay,...

The Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece “The Godfather” (1972) has been voted the greatest Oscar Best Picture winner ever. The results are from a recent Gold Derby ballot cast by 29 of our film experts and editors, who ranked all 96 movie champs.

Ranking in second place is the Michael Curtiz classic “Casablanca” (1943). Following in third place is the powerful Steven Spielberg film “Schindler’s List” (1993). Rounding out the top five are Coppola’s “The Godfather Part II” (1974) in fourth place and Billy Wilder‘s “The Apartment” (196o) in fifth place.

At the bottom of the list of the Best Picture winners is “The Greatest Show on Earth” (1952) from Cecil B. DeMille. Just above that film in the rankings are “Cimarron” (1931) from Wesley Ruggles, “The Broadway Melody” (1929) from Harry Beaumont, “Crash” (2005) from Paul Haggis, and “Around the World in 80 Days’ (1956) from Michael Anderson.

Our photo gallery above features the full top 10. See the complete rankings of all 96 films below.

The Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece “The Godfather” (1972) has been voted the greatest Oscar Best Picture winner ever. The results are from a recent Gold Derby ballot cast by 29 of our film experts and editors, who ranked all 96 movie champs.

Ranking in second place is the Michael Curtiz classic “Casablanca” (1943). Following in third place is the powerful Steven Spielberg film “Schindler’s List” (1993). Rounding out the top five are Coppola’s “The Godfather Part II” (1974) in fourth place and Billy Wilder‘s “The Apartment” (196o) in fifth place.

The worst among 96 Best Picture winners is “The Greatest Show on Earth” (1952) from Cecil B. DeMille. Just above that film on the bottom of the rankings are “Cimarron” (1931) from Wesley Ruggles, “The Broadway Melody” (1929) from Harry Beaumont, “Crash” (2005) from Paul Haggis, and “Around the World in 80 Days’ (1956) from Michael Anderson.

Our photo gallery below features the full top 10. See the complete rankings of all 96 films below.

Connie Britton is supporting single moms in a new unscripted Hallmark+ series.

The Friday Night Lights vet will host and executive-produce The Motherhood (working title), which is slated to debut on the streamer in 2025.

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In each episode, Britton, a single mother herself, “connects with another single mother who is juggling the demands of work,...

An upcoming murder mystery will keep audiences on the edge of their seats as they try to figure out who was behind the crime. According to Deadline, Zachary Quinto, Patti LuPone, Hank Azaria and Clark Gregg have joined the cast of The Artist. The limit series will take place during the final years of the Gilded Age. Principal photography for The Artist has already begun, with the project expected to debut in March of next year. The limited series will premiere on The Network. The ad-supported streaming service isn't as popular as Netflix or Max, but the launch of The Artist will certainly put it on the map when it comes to the streaming landscape.

Former mk2 films acquisition and sales agents Olivier Barbier and Ola Byszuk are joining forces with ex-Orange Studio exec Lenny Porte to create international sales company Lucky Number.

The trio, who have worked on hundreds of auteur titles between them, including Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist to name but a few – are currently building their slate for an early 2025 market launch.

Their aim is to handle 10 French and international auteur films a year, split roughly between two to three animated features, and seven to eight fiction films and docs, including work by new voices.

The trio want to offer a boutique service, which also involves financing and distribution strategies from the earliest stages of development, to ensure maximum impact on international markets.

“In an industry that has become increasingly complex both in terms of production and distribution,...

When Pedro Almodóvar’s philosophical drama The Room Next Door made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 2, headlines in publications ranging from People to The Independent focused on the length of its post-screening standing ovation — a whopping 17.5 minutes, the longest ever recorded at the gathering.

Surely, this enthusiastic reception means the Julianne Moore-Tilda Swinton picture is bound for 2025 Oscar glory, right?

Not so fast.

While attendees at such European festivals as Cannes and Venice in recent years have made a social media-fueled sport of clocking and breathlessly reporting ovation times, their significance back in the real world has always seemed … less clear.

So THR set about finding out. We crunched the numbers of some of the biggest (and not-so-biggest) applause-getters in recent years. What we found was revealing.

It turns out correlations get very shaky when comparing the tastes of enthused festival crowds with thousands of Academy voters.

Huelva’s main Competition titles, all premieres in Spain, pick up on big festival standouts that still merit further attention. Some brief details:

“Bionico’s Bachata”

Bionico’s Bachata

The film which won Morales, production house Mentes Fritas and producer and co-writer Cristián Monica a South by Southwest 2024 Audience Award. A mockumentary, shot in a box format, Biónico, an equally hopeless romantic and crack addict, battles to clean up his act and make some cash before his fiancée arrives back from rehab. A “romantic story in a hostile Caribbean city” about a “serious topic but handled via the absurd and dark comedy that we have in our culture,” Morales has told Variety.

“El Cuento del Lobo”

The latest from López Amado, a director on big Spanish TV series such as “El Principe” and “The Time In Between,” plus notable films from upscale supernatural thriller “Nos Miran” (2002), his first feature, to...

Under Paris, a shark thriller from genre regular Xavier Gens, was released through the Netflix streaming service on June 5th (you can read our review Here) and turned out to have the best launch for a non-English language film on Netflix, drawing in more than 102.3 million views. So it’s no surprise to hear, via Variety, that a sequel is in development. Both Gens and star Bérénice Bejo, who received an Oscar nomination for her role in the 2011 silent film The Artist, are expected to return for Under Paris 2. Bejo has even been quoted as saying that the sequel would begin filming in September of next year, but Variety’s sources cautioned that the project is still in early stages and might not make it into production until 2026.

Under Paris was so successful, Gens was already being asked about a sequel just nine days after the movie was released. At that time,...

Despite its seemingly final ending, the French shark thriller ‘Under Paris’ has paved the way for a sequel. According to Variety, filmmaker Xavier Gens is back at the drawing board, spurred by the film’s record-breaking debut as Netflix’s most-watched non-English language film with over 102.3 million views.

The forthcoming movie, set to begin production as early as September 2025, will bring back several key cast members.

Bérénice Bejo, known for her Oscar-nominated role in ‘The Artist’, returns as a grief-stricken activist. She’s joined by Nassim Lyes from ‘Mayhem!’, who will reprise his role as a cop.

In a recent discussion with La Tribune, Bejo shared her excitement about diving back into the chilling waters of the Parisian underground.

Although filming might kick off a bit later, possibly stretching into 2026, the anticipation is already high. ‘Under Paris’ initially caught viewers’ attention with its satirical edge and timely release before the Paris Olympics.

With its post-apocalyptic ending, the French shark movie “Under Paris” doesn’t necessarily lend itself — narratively speaking — to a sequel. But after scoring the best launch for a non-English language film on Netflix with more than 102.3 million views, filmmaker Xavier Gens is plotting a new underwater adventure, Variety has confirmed.

Key cast members — those who were not swallowed by sharks — will return, including Oscar-nominated “The Artist” actor Bérénice Bejo, who stars as a grieving activist alongside Nassim Lyes (“Mayhem!”) as a cop.

In a recent interview with La Tribune, Bejo claimed the sequel will start filming in September 2025. While sources close to the production confirmed to Variety that the project is indeed in development, it’s still in the early stages and shooting could start as late as 2026.

Released on Netflix June 5 in the run-up to the Paris Olympics, “Under Paris” captured the spirit of the time with its satirical...

Mandy Patinkin, Janet McTeer and Danny Huston are prepping one historical whodunit. The three actors have been cast in a new murder mystery titled The Artist, which will make its debut on the ad-supported streamer The Network, TVLine has confirmed.

The seven-episode limited series set in the Gilded Age follows “an ensemble of the era’s celebrities including Thomas Edison, Edgar Degas and Evelyn Nesbit” as they meet at the home of “an eccentric and failing tycoon,” reads the logline. But by night’s end, the tycoon is found dead, sparking a murder mystery that will keep all of the guests on their toes.

Mandy Patinkin, Janet McTeer and Danny Huston will star in a Gilded Age murder mystery limited series titled “The Artist.”

From the free, ad-supported streamer and studio The Network, the series follows “an ensemble of the era’s celebrities including Thomas Edison, Edgar Degas and Evelyn Nesbit” as they meet at the home of “an eccentric and failing tycoon,” per the logline. By the end of the night, the mogul is found dead, spurring a historical fiction-themed murder mystery.

The seven-episode series, which is currently entering production and filming on location in Connecticut, will premiere in March 2025.

The Network founder Aram Rappaport serves as creator, executive producer, writer and director of “The Artist.” Hilary Shor is a producer.

“The way we make television has changed. I believe it is a fundamental truth that artists should hold the keys to their craft and creativity,” Rappaport said in a statement. “This series...

Plex is gearing up for an exciting lineup of films and series in November 2024. Viewers can look forward to a variety of new additions, including Blue Ridge, But I’m A Cheerleader, Call Jane, and Empire State. Cult classics like The Grudge, Hard Candy, House of 1000 Corpses, and The Midnight Meat Train are also hitting the platform, alongside more recent hits like Wind River and Where’d You Go, Bernadette? For fans of horror, thrillers, and emotional dramas, there’s no shortage of options. However, Plex is also bidding farewell to a number of films and shows in November. Among those leaving are 24 Hours to Live, Drive Angry, The Devil’s Rejects, Snowpiercer, and USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage. If you’ve been meaning to watch these titles, now is the time to catch them before they disappear. For those looking to binge their favorites, many notable titles are still available for streaming.

If you want to win an Oscar for Best Costume Design, it’s best to pick a project for which you can create frilly dresses from a bygone era. Since its introduction at the 1948 Academy Awards, this category has favored period pictures, including the 2024 winner “Poor Things.” (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Costume Design.)

Voters love to reward the creative forces behind such films, especially those that are about the aristocracy including recent champs “Marie Antoinette” (2007), “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (2008), “The Duchess” (2009), “The Young Victoria” (2010), and “Anna Karenina” (2013). By the way, none of those films even competed for Best Picture. Indeed, only 20 Best Picture champs also won this award; the last to do so was “The Artist” in 2012.

Among the other double dippers was “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2004). Fantasy films such as this often boast Oscar-winning costumes, including 2022 champ “Cruella,...

Is it time for this “talkies” fad to come to an end? I certainly think so. Films should be seen, not heard! Dune director Denis Villeneuve recently spoke at a BFI London Film Festival event (via ScreenDaily) and expressed his desire to make his own silent movie one day.

“I love dialogue, but not [always] in cinema,” Villeneuve said. “I hope one day I will be able to make a film that will not use spoken language. I try as much as possible to use the power of images.” Following a clip of a climactic scene in Dune: Part Two, Villeneuve added, “Zendaya gave an incredible performance, where she has mostly no dialogue but just the reactions – and we understand the tragedy.“

This isn’t the first time Villeneuve has expressed his preference for imagery over dialogue in movies. “I don’t remember movies because of a good line, I remember...

The 16th edition of the Lumière Film Festival kicked off in high style, with a glittering lineup of stars including Benicio del Toro, Tim Burton, Monica Bellucci and Vanessa Paradis plus high-profile directors Costa-Gavras and Giuseppe Tornatore gracing the red carpet in Lyon.

Bellucci, who’s in town to present a new documentary about the stage play in which she portrays Maria Callas, was among the last to take to the red carpet. After taking a few steps, she turned back with a playful gesture as if she had forgotten something, reached through the curtain, and drew out Tim Burton, to the delight of the 5,000-strong crowd: Burton’s unannounced appearance drew massive applause.

The pair famously met and fell in love in Lyon in 2022, when Burton was the recipient of the festival’s lifetime achievement Lumière Award, which was handed to him by Bellucci. The Italian actress has since...

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Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion" was one of the best films of 2011, but, for reasons that continue to not make a good deal of sense to me, Warner Bros. did not run a vigorous awards campaign for it in what wound up being an unusually uncompetitive year (which is how uninspired tripe like "The Artist" wins the Oscar for Best Picture). The film's baffling lack of a prestige play that year was underscored nine years later when, while in Covid lockdown, people the world over discovered that Matt Damon starred in a movie about a pandemic that was disquietingly true to our then situation. This was a great, prescient piece of work from a master filmmaker. It shouldn't have taken a real-life catastrophe to drive this home.

People are still catching up with "Contagion" three years after the first round of...

Almost all of the Best Actor winners at this century’s 23 Academy Awards ceremonies have ticked at least one of these two boxes: they were over 40 or portraying a real-life fellow. [The only exceptions: Russell Crowe (“Gladiator”) and Jean Dujardin (“The Artist”) who were 36 and 39 respectively when they won for playing fictional characters.] Of this year’s leading contenders for Best Actor all but one (who stars in a long-awaited sequel to a Best Picture champ) tick at least one of those two boxes. (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Actor.)

Ralph Fiennes, 61, is devilishly delightful as a cardinal in Edward Berger‘s thriller “Conclave.” It’s been almost three decades since he was last at the Oscars for his starring role in the Best Picture winner “The English Patient.” His only previous bid was for his scene-stealing role in the 1994 champ “Schindler’s List.”

Colman Domingo, 54, reaped his first...

One of the most famous scenes in Peter Weir's "Dead Poets Society" finds unorthodox prep school English teacher John Keating vilifying an essay written by the fictional Dr. J. Evans Pritchard that seeks to determine the excellence of individual poems via the application of a geometrical formula. The works of Byron and Shakespeare are measured in terms of their importance and degree of technical perfection; those that score highly on both counts cover a large area, and are thus considered truly "great." The horrified Keating therefore commands his teenage pupils to tear Pritchard's laughably square introduction out of their textbooks.

Art is not math. Creative works can't be measured on a numerical scale, or, worse, by up- or downturned thumbs. When you walk out of a movie or hash out your feelings about a novel with your book club compatriots, you don't quickly assign whatever it is you've just engaged a number,...

French actor-filmmaker Nicolas Bedos is facing a one-year suspended prison sentence on charges of alleged sexual assault and sexual harassment under the influence of alcohol, Variety has confirmed.

During a criminal court hearing on Sept. 26, the Paris prosecutor requested a one-year suspended sentence for Bedos, as well as “an obligation of care for a period of two years,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement sent to Variety. Bedos’ attorney Julia Minkowski had no comment.

Charges against Bedos stem from a complaint filed by a woman for an alleged sexual assault which is alleged to have occurred on June 1 in a Parisian nightclub. Bedos allegedly put his hand on the crotch of the woman who was wearing jeans. Two more women since came forward accusing Bedos of sexual misconduct but neither filed a police complaint. One woman said Bedos grabbed her by the waist and kissed her on the...