Film Academy’s Lorenza Muñoz Joins Amazon Studios as Senior Global Awards Executive (EXCLUSIVE)

Sudan documentary maker Hajooj Kuka, a new member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and one of five artists recently jailed in Khartoum, has received a call for an immediate release by the Toronto Film Festival. "Hajooj Kuka is an exceptional filmmaker.

Kim Cattrall is an open book. The Sex and the City alum, 64, exclusively spoke to Us Weekly about 25 things you might not know about her — including her biggest fear, favorite country and the things she loves to collect most.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards winners may be celebrating alone in their own homes during the live but virtual broadcast on Sunday, but some of them won’t have to socially distance from their awards!Trophy presenters “may be visiting some of the winners live,” ABC, which will air the event, announced Friday. With this announcement came a first look (which you can see above) at the health and safety measures these presenters will utilize in order to deliver the statues amid the coronavirus pandemic.The hazmat suit was created and designed by costume designer Katja Cahill and executive producer Guy Carrington.

Brie Larson is halfway to achieving EGOT status after picking up her first Emmy Award!

Aaron Neuwirth While the premise of “Antebellum” has been shrouded in mystery, activist filmmakers Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz (credited as Bush + Renz) worked with their crew to deliver a wild ride delving into the current climate of racism.In choosing to deal with the pandemic situation, “Antebellum” will only be available on VOD in the United States, beginning Sept. 18, even though it will see a theatrical release internationally.

Nine Inch Nails multihyphenates Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won an Emmy on Thursday, making the pair one Tony away from EGOT status. On the strength of their work on Damon Lindelof's HBO limited seriesWatchmen, based on theDC Comics graphic novel,they won an Emmy for original dramatic score for a limited series, movie or special.

Woody Allen’s online/on-site press conference for “Rifkin’s Festival,” which world premiered on Friday at the San Sebastian Festival, was probably as much for Allen’s career at large as his latest movie in particular.Opening the festival, and set at the San Sebastian Festival – with at least one scene set in the very Kursaal Center auditorium where the press then caught the film – the movie was received with genteel applause at its end, as well as guffaws at choice gags.The most obvious delight for the mostly local audience at the Friday’s press screening was also the subject Allen warmed to most in a subsequent press conference: the homage paid by “Rifkin’s Festival” to San Sebastian at large and, more specifically, to its festival.

The Gazette, announcing the news.The notice announced: ‘The Queen has directed that the appointment of Harvey Weinstein to be an Honorary Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated January 19 2004, shall be cancelled and annulled and that his name shall be erased from the Register of the said Order.’Honours can be removed with approval from the Queen, with a committee considering whether the honour holder has brought the system into ‘disrepute’.The 68-year-old has been expelled from many top industry bodies since his sentencing including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which awards the Oscars, while the fellowship he received from the British Film Institute has also been

Four years after winning her Best Actress Oscar for her stirring performance in Room, Brie Larson has won her first Emmy for an innovative VR experience.Larson, 30, won Outstanding Interactive Program for Oculus' The Messy Truth VR Experience, which she produced with Van Jones, Jana Carter and her boyfriend Elijah Allan-Blitz, who also directed the program.The Captain Marvel's Emmy win was one of the many highlights during Night 4 of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, including Trent Reznor's first Emmy win, putting him just one Tony Award shy of the coveted EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) win.

Maya Rudolph has finally won an Emmy Award!

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorQuibi, in its awards-season debut, picked up two acting trophies at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Thursday night.Both were for “#Freerayshawn,” a police drama from from executive producer Antoine Fuqua: Laurence Fishburne and Jasmine Cephas Jones won the acting awards in the short-form category.The first Emmy wins for Quibi, led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, don’t come as a surprise: The well-funded mobile streamer has paid handsomely for its originals — upwards of $100,000 per minute of programming from A-list Hollywood talent.

Terry Flores Women in Animation revealed the Class of 2020 Best Short Film winners from the organization’s WIA Class of 2020 Showcase during a live Zoom ceremony Thursday, Sept. 17.Because the coronavirus pandemic curtailed most of the festivals where student filmmakers typically unveil their work, the WIA organized the showcase as a way of helping the burgeoning artists get their short films seen by animation professionals, recruiters, hiring managers, agents and studio executives in a virtual setting.

Cher is one of the most dynamic celebrity home flippers, and one of her best properties still carrying her signature touch is on the market!

Cher is one of the most dynamic celebrity home flippers, and she’s just put one of her best properties on the market!

Hungarian filmmakers Kornel Mundruczo and Kata Weber have a reputation as fabulists. In the surreal opening scene of White God (2014), a young girl cycles through the eerily empty streets of Budapest, pursued by a pack of hundreds of dogs.

A new Beatles book is set to be released next year, to accompany the Peter Jackson directed documentary ‘The Beatles: Get Back’. The book will tell the story of the making of the band’s ‘Let It Be’ album in their own words.

Nicki Minaj has landed a significant win in a copyright lawsuit brought against her by Tracy Chapman.A judge ruled Wednesday that the 10-time Grammy nominee did not commit copyright infringement in her song based on Chapman'sBaby Can I Hold You.US district judge Virginia A Phillips found that her use of the song constitutes 'fair use,' protecting a common practice in the music industry of developing new music based on existing work, and requesting license from the original artist before release.

The Creative Emmy Awards continued into its third night on Wednesday, which included in-person and virtual presenters like Laverne Cox, Bobby Cannavale and Rose Byrne.Cox, 48, presented the award for Outstanding Sound EditingFor A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation during the ceremony on Wednesday night.Cannavale, 50, and Byrne, 41, who have been married since 2012, presented virtually from their home, the award for Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAnother night, another Creative Arts Emmys celebration!The third of five nights designed to hand out the 72nd Annual artisans’ awards was also the first night in which scripted categories made an appearance. Wednesday’s festivities included everything from cinematography and costumes to both picture and sound editing, and special visual effects across comedy, drama and limited series/TV movies.This event was one of the four streamed on Emmys.com at 8 p.m.

Jay Weissberg Among the many praiseworthy qualities of “My Tender Matador,” the most notable is its honesty. It would have been so easy for the film, about a transgender woman in Pinochet’s Chile and her relationship with a straight political activist, to have overplayed its hand with ill-judged sentiment or sensationalism, but instead director Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa guides everything just right, from the refusal to treat anyone with less than full respect to the superb ensemble, and from Sergio Armstrong’s carefully calibrated camerawork to the thoughtful understanding of how daylight changes a person who’s lived fullest under the protection of the night.

Kerry Washington is finally an Emmy Award winner.