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The fact that Maggie Gyllenhaal would be one of the key players of the 2022 awards season became obvious after the world premiere of The Lost Daughter at the 78th Venice Film Festival, where Gyllenhaal won the Golden Osella Award for Best Screenplay for the psychological drama which she both wrote and directed. Her feature directorial debut also brought Gyllenhaal, who is already a Golden Globe-winning actress, her first Golden Globe nomination for Best Director, along with numerous other accolades for Best Directing and Best Adapted Screenplay.

UPDATE- The cycle of honors around the 50th Anniversary of The Godfather will close in full regalia this weekend. On Saturday, October 29, at 7:30 PM,  Francis Ford Coppola’s classic film, winner of five Golden Globes, will screen for one night only, to the sound of Nino Rota’s score, played live by a 61-piece orchestra at the Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd.

‘Below the line’ is an industry term for everyone working on a film who is neither a writer, director, producer or cast member. Despite what the term might indicate, these are not jobs that are less significant to the collaborative effort of making a TV or film production.

The popular South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, wrapped on March 20 after 10 memorable days celebrating the convergence of tech, film, music, and comedy. Of course, you’ll find coverage of the festival highlights on our website, but what is it really all about? The Hollywood Foreign Press invited three of our members who were attending the event for the first time to share their impressions; on not just the events that make the festival so unique, but the party vibe, the BBQ, and the Nic Cage flyers all over town asking him to call his biggest fan.

Not long ago, documentary films used to struggle to find market share. Only a small handful of brand-name auteurs, like Michael Moore and Errol Morris, would receive consistent wide-scale international release, and big box office breakthroughs, like the $127 million worldwide haul of 2005’s March of the Penguins, were few and far between.

Essie Davis looks different in almost every role she plays, going from wearing a dark 1920s bob haircut as Phryne Fisher in the television series Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, to a super-short blonde cut in The Matrix films, to a rather messy look with grey roots as the eccentric Helen in her current film Nitram.   It is not only different looks that the Australian actress is able to slip into.

“When you get a chance to be in the room, don't shut the door behind you. Don't say, ‘I'm in.

Honoring Women’s History Month, the HPFA hosts its 2022 International Women Directors’ Symposium What’s Left to Do? Moderated by award-winning journalist and HFPA member KJ Matthews, this virtual panel connects three brilliant female directors – Teniola Olatoni Ojigbede from Nigeria, Katja von Garnier from Germany, and Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière from Argentina – to speak about the current trends, the controversy of being a woman in the modern movie industry, to discuss perspectives of the film industry and elaborate on what’s left to do. Join us at 9:00 am PT/12 pm ET on March 22, 2022: the HFPA International Women Directors’ Symposium will be streamed on our YouTube channel and www.

Proving that anime movies continue to increase their appeal in the United States and Canada, Jujutsu Kaisen O opened strongly and landed second place in the box office charts. But the number two showing of Jujutsu Kaisen O, a film adaptation of Gege Akutami’s manga series revolving around Yuji Itadori, a young student who becomes a jujutsu sorcerer, surprised even some box office analysts.

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