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Awards Daily

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Awards DailyUSA2027 Oscar Predictions: You Can See Everything and the Hive Mind As I watched Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim appear on Scott Feinberg’s documentary panel at the Savannah Film Festival, I was thinking, “Wow, they’re really going for it.” They’re doing the Oscar…

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Awards DailyUSALet’s Talk Cinema with Jerm: A Halloween Spooktacular “They did the monster mash, it was a graveyard smash!” Happy Halloween week, my friends! Halloween has always been a favorite holiday of mine.

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Awards DailyUSAThe 36th Annual Gotham Award Nominees A precursor known for not following the status quo, here is what the Gotham Film Awards have nominated for the year of 2026.

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Awards DailyUSABest Picture: Can Fjord Win Hearts and Minds? After Fjord won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, there were rumblings that it was supposedly a Conservative film, a “MAGA movie.” But this is not true.

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Awards DailyUSAMontclair Film Festival Announces 2026 Competition & Audience Award Winners MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2026 COMPETITION & AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS POSSIBLE LOVE directed by Lee Chang-dong wins the 2026 Montclair Film Festival Fiction Feature Competition REHEARSALS FOR A…

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Awards DailyUSANextGen Oscarwatcher – Discussing Potential Narratives of the Season With the conclusion of the Montclair Film Festival (the fifteenth year to be exact), all that’s really left to see before the precursor starts to chime in includes Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three…

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Awards DailyUSAFirst 17 Minutes of Cliff Booth Shown at AFI Greetings from Barstow, California, as I make my way across the country, so I couldn’t attend the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood screening at AFI and probably won’t get to see the movie until after it…

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Awards DailyUSA2027 Oscar Predictions: Hollywood Should Not Give Up On Itself I get that I am no longer in the target demographic for the awards race. Younger generations—millennials and Gen Z—are taking over and trying to shape what the Oscars will be.

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Awards DailyUSAEp. 102 – Your Oscar Primer for You Can See Everything Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen, and Jeremy Jentzen discuss the Oscar chances of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything and what it would take to get it into the various guilds.

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