American film institute awards

Thirteen students from colleges and universities around the world were honored Saturday night as winners at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 39th Annual Student Academy Awards. While the recepients had been previously announced, the medal placements were announced at the awards ceremony, which featured as presenters actors Laura Dern, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Greg Kinnear and Mena Suvari alongside Academy president Tom Sherak at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. PHOTOS: Famous Graduates of the Top Drama Schools On June 24, the Palm Springs International ShortFest will screen the Gold Medal-winning films. And on June 27, the Academy, in partnership with The Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film and the Foundation for the National Archives, will screen the Gold Medal-winning films. The event is free and open to the public, and will be held in the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. The winners are: … [Read more...] about Student Academy Awards Presented to Thirteen Young Filmmakers

On Thursday morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will put an end to months of speculation -- including plenty by me, as reflected in charts posted on this blog every weekend since September -- by announcing its nominees for the 85th Annual Academy Awards. That means that it is now time, for better or worse, for me to man up and lock in my final predictions of what/who those nominees will be. I urge you to keep in mind that what follows is not necessarily what I feel should happen -- that can be better gleaned from my forthcoming top 10 list -- but rather what I think will happen, based on a full year of screenings (I’ve seen all of the likely nominees, many multiple times), observations (of critics, guilds and other awards-bestowers), and conversations (with pundits and voters). PHOTOS: The 8 Studio Picks for Best Picture Oscar Historically, I have done quite well when it comes to forecasting Oscar nominations -- for instance, I projected best picture noms for … [Read more...] about FEINBERG FORECAST: Scott’s Final Picks for Thursday’s 85th Academy Awards Nominations

The AFI Awards, one of the most exclusive and joyous events of the awards season — because everyone in attendance has already been crowned a winner — kicked off Golden Globes Weekend on Friday, as it does every year. The event, which is hosted by the American Film Institute, celebrates the top 10 films and top 10 television shows of the previous year, as well as the creative teams behind them, at a luncheon at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. The honorees at Friday's ceremony — AFI's 17th — were, on the film side, The Big Sick, Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk, The Florida Project, Get Out, Lady Bird, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Wonder Woman; and, on the TV side, Big Little Lies, The Crown, Feud: Bette & Joan, Game of Thrones, The Good Place, The Handmaid's Tale, Insecure, Master of None, Stranger Things 2 and This Is Us. The PBS documentary The Vietnam War received a special honor. As always, the star wattage … [Read more...] about AFI Awards: Women — and AFI Alums — Take Center Stage

A spotlight shone on some of the best films and TV shows of 2016 as the American Film Institute, which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year, today hosted its 17th annual AFI Awards luncheon at Beverly Hills' Four Seasons Hotel. The top 10 films and top 10 TV shows — as chosen by two AFI juries of artists, critics, scholars and AFI trustees — were celebrated, while O.J.: Made in America, Ezra Edelman's landmark documentary, was recognized as the recipient of a rare "special award." With Oscar voting having begun Jan. 5 and running through Jan. 13, few contenders associated with the films being honored passed up the chance to hobnob and be photographed in a room filled with Academy members. Among those in attendance: Arrival's Amy Adams, Fences' Denzel Washington, Hacksaw Ridge's Mel Gibson, Hell or High Water's Jeff Bridges, La La Land's Emma Stone, Manchester by the Sea's Michelle Williams, Moonlight's Mahershala Ali and Naomie … [Read more...] about AFI Awards: A Star-Studded Luncheon Celebrates 2016’s Top Films and TV Shows

"I think it's because nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away," says Tom Hanks, one of the most beloved and respected film actors of our time, or any other, as we sit down at the Ritz-Carlton in New York to record an episode of The Hollywood Reporter's 'Awards Chatter' podcast and I ask him if he feels like his new work is always being compared against past work, as opposed to being evaluated on its own merits. After all, it has somehow been 17 years since Hanks — who made his name in the 1980s and 1990s and, for 1993's Philadelphia and 1994's Forrest Gump, became the only person other than Spencer Tracy ever to win back-to-back best actor Oscars — has even been nominated for an Oscar, even though he has continued to do fine work into the 21st century, most recently as Ben Bradlee opposite Meryl Streep's Katharine Graham in Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers drama The Post. "I mean," the 61-year-old continues, "I can go through the grid on my Direct Television and — … [Read more...] about ‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — Tom Hanks (‘The Post’)