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OTHER OSCAR NOMINATIONS ORIGINAL SCORE, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, EDITING 3 STUDIO NETFLIX RELEASE DATE DEC. 10 DIRECTOR ADAM MCKAY CAST LEONARDO DICAPRIO, JENNIFER LAWRENCE, ROB MORGAN, JONAH HILL, MARK RYLANCE, TYLER PERRY, CATE BLANCHETT, MERYL STREEP TOP AWARDS 4 BAFTA NOMS, SAG AWARD NOM, NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW TOP FILM Producer Kevin Messick’s Don’t Look Up journey was bookended by history-making events. On Jan. 6, 2021, as rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Messick was in Boston preparing to film a riot scene incited by Jennifer Lawrence’s disaffected graduate student, Kate Dibiaski. It was a high-tension moment, as cities around the nation were on alert for further unrest. The scene ultimately went off without a hitch when it filmed Jan. 7. Now, more than a year later, the Adam McKay-directed best picture nominee continues to have surprising resonance. During…

OTHER OSCAR NOMINATIONS ACTOR, SUPPORTING ACTRESS, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, EDITING 4 STUDIO WARNER BROS. RELEASE DATE NOV. 19 DIRECTOR REINALDO MARCUS GREEN CAST WILL SMITH, AUNJANUE ELLIS, SANIYYA SIDNEY, DEMI SINGLETON, JON BERNTHAL TOP AWARDS BAFTA AWARD AND SAG AWARD BEST ACTOR (SMITH), NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW BEST ACTOR, SUPPORTING ACTRESS (ELLIS) AND TOP FILM After years of planning, and many different writers attempting to tackle the story of Richard Williams, the father of tennis legends Serena and Venus Williams, King Richard finally hit theaters and HBO Max in November. And in February, the film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including best picture. Trevor White, who produced the film alongside his brother Tim White and Will Smith (who plays Richard Williams in the film), talks to THR about how they got the project off the ground, the…

OTHER OSCAR NOMINATIONS ACTOR, SUPPORTING ACTRESS, SUPPORTING ACTOR (2X), DIRECTOR, ADAPTED SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL SCORE, CINEMATOGRAPHY, PRODUCTION DESIGN, EDITING, SOUND 11 STUDIO NETFLIX RELEASE DATE NOV. 17 DIRECTOR JANE CAMPION CAST BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, JESSE PLEMONS, KIRSTEN DUNST, KODI SMIT-MCPHEE TOP AWARDS 2 BAFTAS (DIRECTOR, BEST FILM), 3 SAG AWARD NOMS Emile Sherman is not new to the best picture race. Under See Saw Films, with partner Iain Canning, Sherman earned the Academy Award in 2011 with The King’s Speech and was nominated again in 2017 for Lion. The producer will be returning to the awards show with Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank, a wealthy, menacing and hyper-intelligent Montana rancher who is obsessed with traumatizing Kirsten Dunst’s Rose, the kindly new wife of his brother, George (played by Dunst’s real-life…

Marlee Matlin was just 21 when she earned an Academy Award for starring opposite William Hurt in the 1986 drama Children of a Lesser God, becoming the first deaf person to win an Oscar and the youngest best actress recipient. Marking her feature debut, the film focused on the relationship between a hearing speech teacher (Hurt) at a school for deaf children and a deaf custodian (Matlin) working there. For Matlin, the Oscar win was the culmination of a lifelong dream that began at age 8 when she started appearing in children’s theater productions for the International Center on Deafness and the Arts in Northbrook, Illinois. Henry Winkler, who dealt with undiagnosed dyslexia as a child, saw her in a play there and offered encouragement backstage. “The win reinforced what…

OTHER OSCAR NOMINATIONS DIRECTOR, SUPPORTING ACTOR, SUPPORTING ACTRESS, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL SONG, SOUND 6 STUDIO FOCUS FEATURES RELEASE DATE NOV. 11 DIRECTOR KENNETH BRANAGH CAST JUDE HILL, JAMIE DORNAN, CAITRÍONA BALFE, CIARÁN HINDS, JUDI DENCH TOP AWARDS BAFTA AWARD, 2 SAG AWARD NOMS, NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW TOP FILM Tamar Thomas has worked alongside director Kenneth Branagh since his 1992 feature, Peter’s Friends, serving as his assistant on many features including his acclaimed Shakespeare adaptations Much Ado About Nothing, Othello and Hamlet (for which the writer-director earned an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay). Her first credit as a producer was on his 2018 drama, All Is True (the Shakespeare biopic in which Branagh played the bard in the final years of his life), and for her second, Focus Features’ Belfast, Thomas has earned her first…

OTHER OSCAR NOMINATIONS INTERNATIONAL FEATURE, DIRECTOR, ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 3 STUDIO JANUS FILMS RELEASE DATE NOV. 24 DIRECTOR RYÛSUKE HAMAGUCHI CAST HIDETOSHI NISHIJIMA, TÔKO MIURA, MASAKI OKADA, REIKA KIRISHIMA TOP AWARDS BAFTA AWARD, INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD, GOTHAM AWARD, CANNES WINNER BEST SCREENPLAY If there was a starting point to Drive My Car’s journey to the 2022 Oscars, it was in 2020, when producer Teruhisa Yamamoto made the surprising suggestion to director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi that they adapt a short story by globally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami. The novelist was known to be exceedingly reluctant to grant adaptation rights, and his stories and voice were thought to be especially tricky to bring to the screen. Yamamoto’s career had been steadily on the rise at home in Japan, but Drive My Car’s cascade of honors — three awards at Cannes, best…

OTHER OSCAR NOMINATIONS DIRECTOR, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 2 STUDIO MGM/UNITED ARTISTS RELEASE DATE NOV. 26 DIRECTOR PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON CAST ALANA HAIM, COOPER HOFFMAN, BRADLEY COOPER, SEAN PENN, TOM WAITS, BENNY SAFDIE TOP AWARDS BAFTA FOR ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW BEST FILM, DIRECTOR, BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE (HAIM AND COOPER) The latest from Paul Thomas Anderson, an 11-time Oscar nominee, is a nostalgic, shaggy comic drama set in the auteur’s native San Fernando Valley. It’s not just a return to the location that served as the setting for his previous films Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love. Licorice Pizza also is a family affair. Starring Alana Haim (of the rock trio Haim, for which Anderson has made several music videos) and Cooper Hoffman (son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, who appeared in five of the director’s films),…

OTHER OSCAR NOMINATIONS SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHY, PRODUCTION DESIGN, COSTUME DESIGN, SOUND 6 STUDIO 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS RELEASE DATE DEC. 10 DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG CAST ANSEL ELGORT, RACHEL ZEGLER, ARIANA DEBOSE, DAVID ALVAREZ, MIKE FAIST, RITA MORENO TOP AWARDS BAFTAS FOR SUPPORTING ACTRESS (DEBOSE) AND CASTING, SAG AWARD SUPPORTING ACTRESS, NAT’L BOARD OF REVIEW TOP FILM Kristie Macosko Krieger has worked with Steven Spielberg since 1997, starting as his first assistant, having come from the Shoah Foundation, Spielberg’s nonprofit dedicated to interviewing and sharing the stories of Holocaust survivors. She’d spent several years working in the world of publicity before landing the assistant gig with Spielberg, who later said to her: “If you can run my life, you can produce a movie.” She has worked on every one of his films since 2001’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Fast…

The globally pressing issue of social media’s role in the rise of both civilian journalism and dangerous populist politics is given vivid and particular expression in Music Box Films’ Writing With Fire, Oscar-nominated for best documentary feature. The film, co-directed by Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas, is many additional things, however: an empowering tale of socially marginalized women banding together to turn the tables on their assumed victim status, a vivid window into the street-level life of rural India and a call to arms over the essential value of the fourth estate to the world’s ailing democracies. At the film’s center are the journalists of Khabar Lahariya, India’s only all-female-run newspaper. Composed entirely of members of the Dalit caste, India’s most marginalized social group formerly known as “the untouchables,” Khabar…

BEST ACTRESS Jessica Chastain The Eyes of Tammy Faye The SAG Award winner, who is hoping that her third Oscar nomination will result in her first Oscar win, brought along Steve Pieters, the HIV activist famously interviewed by Tammy Faye Bakker in 1985, as her plus-one to the Oscar Nominees Luncheon, where her introduction was warmly received. Penélope Cruz Parallel Mothers After attending the Nominees Luncheon with husband/fellow nominee Javier Bardem, the Spaniard participated in a Q&A at CAA. And on March 8, she was feted with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Montecito Award, including a surprise video tribute from her Nine co-star Sophia Loren. Kristen Stewart Spencer The first-time Oscar nominee was the honorary chair of the Spirit Awards on March 6. The next day, at the Nominees…

OTHER OSCAR NOMINATIONS SUPPORTING ACTOR, ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 2 STUDIO APPLE TV+ RELEASE DATE AUG. 13 DIRECTOR SIAN HEDER CAST EMILIA JONES, TROY KOTSUR, MARLEE MATLIN, DANIEL DURANT, EUGENIO DERBEZ TOP AWARDS 2 BAFTAS (SUPPORTING ACTOR, ADAPTED SCREENPLAY), 2 SAG AWARDS (SUPPORTING ACTOR, BEST ENSEMBLE), AFI MOVIE OF THE YEAR As co-chairman of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group and, before that, president and co-chairman of Summit, French-born producer Patrick Wachsberger oversaw some of the most successful film franchises in recent history, from the Twilight saga to The Hunger Games. But when he left Lionsgate to form Picture Perfect Federation, the prolific producer knew exactly how he wanted to launch his endeavor: with the English-speaking remake of a little-known 2014 French comedy, La Famille Bélier. Although CODA — the heartwarming story of Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones), a child…

OTHER OSCAR NOMINATIONS ORIGINAL SCORE, ADAPTED SCREENPLAY, VISUAL EFFECTS, CINEMATOGRAPHY, PRODUCTION DESIGN, COSTUME DESIGN, MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING, EDITING 8 STUDIO WARNER BROS. RELEASE DATE OCT. 1 DIRECTOR DENIS VILLENEUVE CAST TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET, REBECCA FERGUSON, OSCAR ISAAC, JASON MOMOA, JOSH BROLIN, STELLAN SKARSGARD, JAVIER BARDEM, ZENDAYA TOP AWARDS 5 BAFTA AWARDS, SAG AWARD NOM, NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW TOP FILM With Warner Bros.’ Dune, producer Mary Parent has earned her second Academy Award nomination for best picture (following 2015’s The Revenant). The vice chairman of worldwide production at Legendary Entertainment, whose producing credits include the similarly large-scale adventure films Pacific Rim (2013), Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), says that the ambitious task of adapting Dune was an arduous process that faced a lot of industry skepticism. That is, until director, cowriter and co-producer…

OTHER OSCAR NOMINATIONS CINEMATOGRAPHY, PRODUCTION DESIGN, COSTUME DESIGN 3 STUDIO SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES RELEASE DATE DEC. 3 DIRECTOR GUILLERMO DEL TORO CAST BRADLEY COOPER, CATE BLANCHETT, ROONEY MARA, TONI COLLETTE, WILLEM DAFOE, RICHARD JENKINS TOP AWARDS 3 BAFTA NOMS, SAG AWARD NOM, NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW TOP FILM “No problem seemed to be big enough, but we got pretty much all of them,” filmmaker Guillermo del Toro chuckles while recalling the myriad and considerable uphill battles he faced every step of the way as co-writer, producer and director of Searchlight’s Nightmare Alley, his masterful tribute to — and tweaking of — the film noir genre. But he wasn’t to be deterred, even when the pandemic derailed production for months on end. “It’s a movie that I felt — and everybody felt — was very necessary to do now,…