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Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy.

In her eighth feature, One Fine Morning, filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve comes up with a deceptively simple drama: a poignant, quietly illuminating rumination on being a mother, daughter and lover in these times. Hansen-Løve also wrote the deeply personal film, set in Paris, about a translator, Sandra (Léa Seydoux), who is a single mom to an eight-year-old (Camille Leban Martins), while trying to find a decent nursing home for her dad (Pascal Greggory), a former professor rapidly deteriorating from a neurodegenerative disorder.

The Exam, a drama from Iraq, is about Rojin (Vania Salar), a young Kurdish-Iraqi woman who is about to take the university exam. Heartbroken and suffering from depression after the disappearance of her fiancé, Rojin fears her father’s rule that if she fails the exam, he will force her into marriage.

This Chinese comedy-drama follows the story of an orphaned brother and sister duo surviving alone. Jing Hao lives with his 6-year-old sister, Tong.

The discussion was, shall we say, quite animated: it was around 2005 when Hollywood Foreign Press Association members felt animated films should have a unique category, pointing out the difficulty of judging animation the same way as live-action films. Others argued a film is a film, whatever the means of their creation.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture.

The Substitute is the story of a teacher who goes on a journey of self-discovery when he accepts a teaching job in a working-class neighborhood. When the Toronto Film Festival organizers invited director Diego Lerman to present his newest film, the director was included in the Special Presentations section reserved for high-profile premieres and leading filmmakers such as Sam Mendes, Mia Hansen-Løve, Martin McDonagh, Darren Aronofsky, Stephen Frears, and Steven Spielberg.

Is the world ready for a farce set in the middle of a pandemic? A Gaza Weekend was made before 2020 and Covid but now appears strangely prescient. The plot takes place in Israel, when the country is hit by a mutant virus and the Gaza Strip becomes the safest spot in the world.

Eight fishermen on a boat in the Bay of Bengal find a young woman caught in their nets. At first, they think she’s dead, a very bad omen according to local superstition.

On a quiet island alongside the Western Irish coast, a small population that seemed as rooted to its soil as their crops and animals suddenly becomes the witness of a bitter, furious conflict. Two close friends – intense Colm Doherty (Brendan Gleeson) and easygoing Pádraic Súilleabháin (Colin Farrell) – have dissolved their lifelong closeness.