The SCAD Savannah Film Festival 27th annual continued its second and third days with more exciting screenings and conversations. On Sunday, Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley accepted the Icon Award and Luminary Award respectively prior to the screening of “The Substance”, Isabela Merced accepted the Rising Star Award before the screening of “Alien: Romulus”, and Marisa Abela accepted the Next Gen Award followed by a screening of “Back to Black.” On Monday, Dai...

  ZOE SALDAÑA TO BE HONORED WITH AMERICAN RIVIERA AWARD AT 40TH ANNUAL SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2025     Saldaña will receive the award on Friday, February 7, 2025 at an in-person conversation about her career, leading up to her acclaimed performance this year as Rita Moro Castro in Netflix’s EMILIA PÉREZ. Zoe Saldaña's performance in EMILIA PÉREZ is one of her most trans...

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is honored to announce that cinema icon Angelina Jolie will receive the Maltin Modern Master Award at the 40th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Jolie will receive the prestigious award on February 5, 2025. Angelina Jolie's career as an actress has been marked by versatility and critical acclaim, with significant impact globally. Angelina Jolie's latest film, “Maria” marks a significant turn in her care...

41st ANNUAL MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL TO HONOR SHERYL LEE RALPH (PRECIOUS GEM AWARD) AND MICHAEL SHOWALTER (ART OF LIGHT AWARD)   Today, the Miami Film Festival, produced by Miami Dade College, announced it will honor Emmy Award-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph and director Michael Showalter during the 2024 festival taking place from April 5-14. Ralph will receive the Precious Gem Award on Saturday, April 13, following a conversation about her career. S...

  Variety will present Tom Hiddleston with the Variety Virtuoso Award at the Miami Film Festival on Tuesday, April 9. The award will be for his career achievements across film, theater and television.   "From screens large and small to the Broadway stage, Tom Hiddleston is one of our most versatile and engaging actors,” said Jenelle Riley, Variety Focus Awards and Features Editor. “With Season two of 'Loki,' he brought a Shakespearean arc to a fan-favorite...

  Variety will honor Molly Ringwald with the Variety Creative Vanguard Award at the Miami Film Festival on Saturday, April 6. The award will be for her outstanding career achievements, earning acclaim from critics and audiences alike.   Ringwald will participate in a Q&A about her extensive work in film and TV with Variety Senior Awards Editor Clayton Davis.   "It's important to that before Molly Ringwald was the iconic young star of John Hughes' t...

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Sharon Stone present The Cinema for Peace Honorary Award to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton. Cinema for Peace Gala 2024 Honors Pope Francis, Secretary Hillary Clinton, UN SG Ban Ki-moon, Helen Mirren, and the World's Most Influential Filmmakers by Sharon Stone, Pussy Riot, Sir Bob Geldof, Ann Curry, Ukrainian Nobel Peace Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk, and 102-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Margot Friedländer The C...

  New York Festivals® Television & Film Awards will honor trailblazing sports journalist, Olympic champion, and award-winning broadcasting pioneer, Donna de Varona with the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award.   The New York Festivals Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes prominent industry leaders, innovators, and driving forces in the broadcast industry whose accomplishments have advanced their field and made a lasting impression on the industry. The Lifetime Achievement Award...

The Berlinale presented today this year’s Honorary Golden Bear to to Martin Scorsese: a filmmaker who has constantly pushed the medium toward uncharted paths. With a body of work spanning six decades and over fourty features, running the gamut from crime epics to animated features and religious dramas, Martin Scorsese has revolutionised the medium, and reinvented himself with every new film. His latest, "Killers of the Flower Moon" (Apple Original Films), is a vivid and...

SBIFF 2024 Cinema Vanguard Award Honoring Paul Giamatti ...

  Visions du Réel is delighted to announce that the Special Guest for the 55th edition of the Festival (12 – 21 April) will be American filmmaker John Wilson. He is mainly known for his documentary series How To with John Wilson, nominated for the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards, in which he explores the eccentricities of daily life through a succession of quirky and hilarious comic detours. To accompany a selection of episodes from his series and earlier works presented dur...

The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell are the recipients of the Chairman’s Award for their critically acclaimed song “What Was I Made For?” from Greta Gerwig’s acclaimed, record-breaking film Barbie. The song has been nominated for five GRAMMY® Awards and received Best Original Song Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards nomina...

The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Colman Domingo is the recipient of the Spotlight Award, Actor for his performance in Rustin. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024. The event will be sponsored by Entertainment Tonight and IHG Hotels & Resorts.  “In Rustin, Colman Domingo demonstrates his impressive talents bringing to life civil rights activis...

48. Laceno d’Oro International Film Festival | December 3/10 2023 | Avellino   To Robert Guédiguian the “Pier Paolo Pasolini' Lifetime Achievement Award   The master of French social cinema second international guest announced after Paul Schrader (USA)   The French director Robert Guédiguian, winner of the "Pier Paolo Pasolini" Lifetime Achievement Award, will open the 48th edition of the Laceno d'Oro Internat...

Costa Gavras and Cristian Mungiu The Cinema Heritage festival announces the 9 films in the International Competition after more than 500 films were viewed. Eva Peydro, Barbara Lorey de Lacharrière and Philip Cheah, who make up the Selection Committee for the first edition of the Cinema Heritage festival, have viewed 500 films from 56 different countries and are presenting the finalists. The I...

Ynon Kreiz, Mattel Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, who has transformed the company and spearheaded its global blockbuster film, Barbie, will receive the 2023 IFF Industry Leadership Award at the 36th ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL in Los Angeles Opening Night Gala on November 1st.  Meir Fenigstein, founder and executive director of the Israel Film Festival, made the announcement.   Fenigstein noted: “Ynon Kreiz’s visionary leadership and incredible achievements at Mattel, m...

Tonino Zera will receive the Campari ion for Film Award / He created the sets for The Palace by Roman Polanski, to be presented Out of Competition   La Biennale di Venezia and Campari are pleased to announce that the production designer Tonino Zera (The First King, Rose Island, Angel of Evil) is the recipient of the Campari ion for Film Award of the 80th Venice International Film Festival (August 30th - September 9th, 2023).   The Campari ion for Film Awa...

His new work film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (40’) to premiere at Festival   La Biennale di Venezia and Cartier are pleased to announce that the American director, writer and producer Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch, Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums) is the recipient of the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award of the 80th Venice International Film Festival (August 30th – September 9th, 2023), dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly ori...

2023 Golden Apricot Film Festival  in Yerevan runs July 9 – 16, 2023 By Alex Deleon  for Filmfestivals.com Takeshi Kirano at the height of "beatness" in "Violent Cop", 1989 Takeshi Kitano (北野 武, Kitano Takeshi, born January 18, 1947), better known as Beat Takeshi (ビートたけし, Bīto Takeshi) in Japan, is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker.  The nickname "beat" which he adopted as...

Today’s press conference in Bern saw the unveiling of the official program for the 76th Locarno Film Festival, together with eagerly awaited competition line-ups and the presentation of the non-competitive sections. British actor Riz Ahmed was also revealed as the recipient of this year’s Excellence Award Davide Campari.  ©Photo by Matt Petit/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images  From the 2nd to 12th of August the ion ...

‎‏Hussein Fahmy President of CIFF: He is a unique director. His works are so prominent in the history of cinema. ‎‏Amir Ramses Director of CIFF: His works include a special cinematic language. He used the of Egyptian cinema in a brave way. ‎‏Yousry Nasrallah: I’m glad to be granted the Golden Pyramid Honorary Award. I appreciate being honored at CIFF. ‎‏Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) announced honoring the iconic director Yousry Nasra...

EWAN McGREGOR WILL RECEIVE THE FESTIVAL PRESIDENT'S AWARD This year’s 57th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival welcomes as its guest Scottish actor, director, and producer Ewan McGregor. This winner of a Golden Globe, an Emmy, two European Film Awards, and numerous other awards will be on hand to receive a Festival President´s Award and to present his new film You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder, in which he appears alongside his daughter Clara, who will als...

Festival of Cinema NYC is excited to announce that director Dito Montiel, who will be serving on our Jury , will be in attendance to receive our first ever honorary filmmaker award. The festival will also be presenting a retrospective screening of his film A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS with a moderated Q & A to follow. Sponsored by  The 2023 Festival of Cinema NYC will be taking place at the legendary Regal UA Midway in Forest Hills, with additiona...

  Composer Laurence Rosenthal is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd edition of the World Soundtrack Awards, which takes place as the concluding event of Film Fest Gent on Saturday 21 October. The 50th edition of the festival crowns two grandmasters of the world of film music in its anniversary year. Earlier, it was announced that Italian composer Nicola Piovani will be a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award as well. A veteran composer for film, television ...