Golden Globe Awards

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.

Since the very first days of cinema, there was a kinship between the written words used to help lend motion to those moving pictures, and higher literature. Popular books were adapted as early as 1928, and as recently as 2022 (All Quiet on the Western Front).