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It’s hard to believe now but before taking 12 long years to follow 1987’s Full Metal Jacket with Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, the famously meticulous Stanley Kubrick was comparatively prolific — in the ’60s alone he released four of his 13 features. In these days of instant gratification, a director taking longer than three years is either deemed to be M.I.A. or about to pop up with a secret film made entirely under the radar. But absence does make the heart grow fonder, and these five directors can expect a warm welcome in 2025.

Kathryn Bigelow

Back with: Untitled. Last film Detroit (2017) Kathryn Bigelow directing ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

Kathryn Bigelow made history in 2010 when she became the first woman ever to win the Oscar for Best Director (she won Best Picture too), but the California...

Warner Bros.’ “Mickey 17” doesn’t look like it will blast off at the box office, earning an opening weekend of $19.1 million from 3,807 locations as it faces a long road to recouping its nine-digit production budget.

Greenlit in January 2022 under previous Warner film chairman Toby Emmerich, “Mickey 17” is acclaimed director Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to his Best Picture Oscar winner “Parasite” and carries a reported production budget of $118 million.

Reception for the film has been generally positive with Rotten Tomatoes scores of 79% critics and 73% audience to go with a B on CinemaScore. But it remains to be seen whether that good-but-not-great word of mouth will be enough to give “Mickey 17” the legs to be theatrically profitable, especially with Paramount’s “Novocaine” being released next week with a relatively more accessible form of the gory action thrills that “Mickey 17” offers along with Bong’s brand of biting satire.

This time a year ago, the box office was getting a drought-busting weekend thanks to the $82.5 million opening of Warner Bros./Legendary’s “Dune: Part Two.” But Warner’s new release this weekend, “Mickey 17,” isn’t opening to a quarter of that.

Industry estimates have Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi satire opening to just $18.5 million from 3,607 locations after a $7.7 million opening day, a foreboding result given the film’s reported $118 million budget.

With no other films earning more than $10 million this weekend — “Captain America: Brave New World” is second with $8.7 million in its fourth frame — overall totals are coming in at a mere $56 million, down 60% from the opening weekend of “Dune: Part Two” a year ago.

While reception for “Mickey 17” is skewing positive, it isn’t the overwhelming acclaim that an R-rated sci-fi film would need to earn considerable legs. Rotten Tomatoes scores stand at 79% critics and 76% audience, while...

Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17,” the first of Warner Bros.’ eclectic, pricey 2025 slate of original films from name-brand directors like Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson, isn’t getting the warmest arrival at the box office. The sci-fi comedy, starring Robert Pattinson as a pair of interstellar doppelgangers, earned $7.7 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,807 locations.

That kick-off puts “Mickey 17” on pace to land within projections for an opening weekend north of $18 million. Whether or not it can fulfill that forecast though, it’s going to be a slow start for a film sporting a $118 million production budget. Add in marketing and distribution costs and the Warner Bros. release will likely struggle to enter profitability in theaters, which could take more than $275 million in global admissions.

Playing in Imax and other premium large-format auditoriums, “Mickey 17” will easily top domestic charts. But the film won’t open...

Turns out, when you’ve won Best Picture, most of the time, the only place you can go after that high is down.

Opening this weekend at the box office is “Mickey 17,” the first film from director Bong Joon Ho since his film won Best Picture for “Parasite” back in 2019. “Parasite” was something of a unicorn, an international film that crossed all borders and became a $259 million global commercial hit and an awards circuit sensation. Even with Robert Pattinson helping his cause, that’s going to be a tough benchmark to surpass. Warner Bros. is projecting a $40-50 million global opening weekend.

The difference this time is director Bong is working with a major studio, Warner Bros., rather than indie distributor Neon, and “Mickey 17” will open wide on 3,400 screens domestically, whereas “Parasite” at its peak only hit 2,000.

But when a director’s movie wins Best Picture, does their next one perform better?...

David Cronenberg has said that his new film The Shrouds – which has been making the festival rounds lately (you can read what JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray thought of it Here) – was originally intended to be a Netflix TV series, but the streamer dropped it after paying him to write the pilot episode. So a feature film it is, and Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the film, with their plan being to give it a theatrical release sometime in 2025. We don’t know a specific release date for this one yet, but the Motion Picture Association ratings board has revealed that The Shrouds has secured an R rating – primarily for sexual content and nudity! Here’s the reason given: Rated R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity, language and some violent content.

Pyramide Distribution will be giving the film a theatrical release in France on April 30th.

One year after Oppenheimer became one of the highest-grossing Best Picture of all time, the Academy bestowed its top prize on Anora, one of the lowest-grossing winners in the modern era.

With $15.6 million in domestic ticket sales and just over $40 million worldwide, Anora is the lowest-grossing Best Picture winner since The Hurt Lucker, except the pandemic-impacted Nomadland ($39 million) and the streaming film Coda.

The only Best Picture winners to gross less than $50 million worldwide since 1990 are The Hurt Locker, Nomadland, Coda, and Anora.

However, despite the low gross, Anora was an unqualified success for filmmaker Sean Baker and distributor Neon even before it won five Oscars on Sunday night, including a record four individual awards for Baker (he’s the first person to ever win four Oscars for the same film in one night).

Anora was reportedly produced for roughly $6 million and funded independently, as Baker has said several times...

Conventional wisdom suggests that studios should not open their newest movies or tentpoles on Oscars weekend. Wouldn’t you rather wait until the weekend after the industry has finished celebrating the year’s best movies before promoting a new one?

But historically, that hasn’t necessarily been the case, especially when compared to something like Super Bowl weekend. So, with studios largely avoiding major new releases, this weekend had the unfortunate effect of being the lowest weekend at the overall domestic box office during the Oscars in at least 15 years.

Seems like the real winners were onstage on Sunday. The widest release from a major distributor this week was “Last Breath,” the deep-sea diver thriller starring Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu. It opened on over 3,000 theaters and pulled in $7.8 million, finishing No. 2 in the domestic top 10 behind “Captain America: Brave New World” in its third week of release. It made...

The Oscar race is a marathon, not a sprint. There are dozens of pit stops along the way and trophies to be given out before the 2025 Oscars on March 2. Keep track of precursor wins here with our scorecard. This includes honors from major film festivals, critics groups, guilds, and televised shows of the 2024-25 Oscar season. Wins are listed in order of announcement and in accordance with candidates' FYC campaigns.

Updated: Sunday, March 2, 2025, with Oscar winners.

The Oscar season began and ended with Anora. Sean Baker's film moved to the front of the Oscar race after winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and while it didn't have the smoothest path, its Oscar journey ended with five trophies Sunday night, including Best Picture.

Anora also won Best Actress for Mikey Madison, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing — the last three of which went to Baker.

In the 21st century, 25 films have so far won Best Picture. A lot has changed over the past 25 years around the world and within the Academy. That evolution is partly reflected in this century’s list of Best Picture winners, which contains films that are both beloved and oft-derided. In the case of some, their Best Picture wins have even directly strengthened or worsened their reputations.

Now, ahead of the 2025 Oscars, here is where you can currently stream all of the Best Picture winners of the 21st century so far.

“American Beauty” (DreamWorks Pictures) “American Beauty” (1999)

The Best Picture winner at the 2000 Oscars, “American Beauty” is director Sam Mendes’ divisive drama about a white suburban American family slowly coming apart at the seams. It is available to stream now for free on Pluto TV.

“Gladiator” (Universal Pictures) “Gladiator” (2000)

This crowd-pleasing epic about a Roman general (Russell Crowe) who is forced...

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This March, Paramount+ is bringing you a ton of entertainment with the much anticipated true crime drama series Happy Face and also the streaming release of the horror comedy film Rumours. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Paramount+ this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 10 best films coming to Paramount+ in March 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Up In The Air (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90% Credit – Paramount Pictures

Up in the Air is a comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Sheldon Turner. Based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Walter Kirn, the 2009 film follows Ryan Bingham, a man whose job is to travel places and fire people from their jobs.

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This March, Peacock is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated streaming release of Wicked to Amanda Seyfried‘s crime drama series Long Bright River. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Peacock this month and have an 84% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the seven best films that are coming to Peacock in March 2025 with an 84% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

The Hurt Locker (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Credit – Summit Entertainment

The Hurt Locker is a war action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow from a screenplay by Mark Boal. The 2008 film is set during the Iraq War, and it follows a bomb disposal team training under Sergeant William James, whose intense training methods and ideologies force the team to revolt against him.

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This March, Tubi is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the brilliant comedy-drama series Loudermilk to the beloved sci-fi drama series Timeless. However, for this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Tubi in the next month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the five best movies coming to Tubi in March 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92% Credit – Warner Bros.

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory is a musical fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart from a screenplay by Roald Dahl. Based on Dahl’s 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the 1971 film follows Charlie, a poor young boy who gets a chance to explore a famous but mysterious chocolate factory run by the eccentric Willy Wonka.

Looking for something to stream that won’t break the bank? From award-winning films like Craig Gillespie’s “I, Tonya” and Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” to thrillers like David Fincher’s “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,” Mubi is bringing a new slate of films to the ad-supported platform.

If binging is more your speed, new TV shows added to Tubi in March will include the 1971 classic “All In The Family,” the sitcom “Community” and the “Men in Black” series. And for those looking for frights, the first four “Insidious” films will be available to stream.

Along with the updated library, Tubi is also premiering three original thrillers.

Here are all the new titles coming to Tubi in March:

Tubi Original Thrillers

“My Husband’s Mistress” follows a successful businesswoman as she discovers her husband’s affair and sets out to destroy his career — and life. (3/14)

“Invasive 2: Getaway” follows a woman,...

Post-traumatic stress disorder has certainly not been a topic that has been under-discussed within American war cinema. Nevertheless, it is rarely the focus of an entire film. Recently acclaimed films about modern warfare, such as “The Hurt Locker” and “American Sniper,” shifted focus on the debilitating consequences of Ptsd within their third acts in order to indicate that the battle waged on the battlefield was only part of the fight that every soldier experienced. However, a majority of soldiers’ lives are spent not in active service, as Ptsd is a reality that many have to simply live with. Even if this doesn’t result in haunting nightmares regularly, the most minor of incidents can end up resurfacing memories of their service, and all the hardship that it entails.

My Dead Friend Zoe” (2025) is a conscious effort to paint a more holistic view of military service and is able to refreshingly...

The Brutalist star, up for an Academy Award for the first time, talks about awards fuss, living with his ex and making his new film Inside in an actual prison

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After his acclaimed performances in films such as LA Confidential, The Proposition, Memento, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Animal Kingdom and The Hurt Locker, you may be surprised that Guy Pearce has just been nominated for an Oscar for the first time: for his turn as the sociopathic industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren in The Brutalist. Or maybe you haven’t noticed Pearce’s Oscars campaign because he keeps rubbishing his own career: he was “shit” in Memento (“I’m bad in a good movie. Fuck!”), worse in Neighbours (“I played the same thing and it fucking drove me nuts”) and has cheerfully owned up to acting in “a bunch...

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival turned out to be a low-key affair, but it got off to a rousing start with a $15 million world rights sale of Together, the body horror film acquired by Neon. Starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, it gives Neon a chance to follow up the rousing genre success of Longlegs last year.

Together, which also has landed a berth at SXSW, is written/directed by Michael Shanks. Franco and Brie are a couple that moves to the countryside and a supernatural encounter begins an extreme transformation of their love, their lives, and their flesh. It was a real crowd pleaser to the Midnight Madness audience.

The film was produced and financed by Picturestart, marking the latest in a string of notable deals put together by the company formed by Erik Feig after a run at Summit and Lionsgate that included The Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games,...

Peacock has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports that will be available on the streaming service in March. The Peacock March 2025 schedule includes The Traitors Season 3 finale and reunion, Long Bright River, Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2, The Office 20th Anniversary, Wicked and more.

Calling all Traitors and Faithfuls, the ultimate game of deception comes to a dramatic close when The Traitors Season 3 finale and reunion premieres on March 6! Will the Faithful uncover the Traitors in time, or will treachery reign supreme? Find out as the Emmy Award-winning reality series wraps up another jaw-dropping season. The third season of the UK version will also be available to stream!

Wicked

From deception in the Scottish Highlands to secrets lurking in the streets of Philadelphia, prepare for a different kind of mystery with Long Bright River, premiering March 13. This gripping Peacock Original stars Amanda Seyfried as a Philadelphia cop whose...

Paramount has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows and live sports coming to Paramount+ in March, which will mark the streaming service’s fourth anniversary. The Paramount Plus March 2025 schedule includes the updated Women Who Move Mountains collection, which shines a light on the real and fictional women who inspire.

For Women’s History Month, new additions to the collection include A League of Their Own, Annihilation, Blue Crush, Ex Machina, Failure to Launch, Julie & Julia, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life, Marie Antoinette, Practical Magic, Room, Sugar & Spice, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Women and more.

Happy Face

Speaking of strong leading ladies, don’t miss the premiere of the original series Happy Face, inspired by the true-life story of Melissa G. Moore (played by Annaleigh Ashford) who discovered that her once beloved father, Keith Jesperson (Dennis Quaid), was the prolific serial killer known as Happy Face.

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of March titles. The Tubi March 2025 slate features new Tubi Originals, TV series, and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library of over 250,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of exclusive Originals, and nearly 250 live channels.

You can watch the Tubi March 2025 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi site.

The Z-...

Guy Pearce, the guest of this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is one of the most gifted screen actors of his generation.

An England-born Aussie, he has given standout performances in films such as 1994’s The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 1997’s L.A. Confidential and 2000’s Memento; 2009’s The Hurt Locker and 2010’s The King’s Speech, both of which went on to win the best picture Oscar; and in the 2011 limited series Mildred Pierce, for which he won an Emmy and was nominated for Golden Globe and SAG awards, and the 2021 limited series Mare of Easttown, both opposite Kate Winslet.

Most recently, though, Pearce has garnered rave reviews for his portrayal of Harrison Lee Van Buren, a millionaire Pennsylvania industrialist who becomes the patron of a Jewish architect who survived the Holocaust and came to America, in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, a...

Spoiler alert: The crazy, unpredictable Oscar season? Still crazy. Still unpredictable.

Fresh off a one-two punch weekend where “Anora” cleaned up at the PGA and DGA Awards, the BAFTAs decided to stir the pot with their own take on the race. If history tells us anything, it’s that BAFTA can be either a crystal ball or a red herring.

In 2024, every BAFTA winner (except for visual effects) went on to win the Oscar, making it the most predictive year in recent memory. The year before, however, BAFTA charted its own path — only “Everything Everywhere All at Once” editor Paul Rogers repeated at the Oscars. So, with the final Oscar voting closing on Tuesday, Feb. 18, let’s break down the key takeaways from BAFTA’s curveballs and what they could mean for Hollywood’s biggest night.

Carlos Diehz stars as Cardinal Benitez in director Edward Berger’s Conclave, a Focus Features release.

Anthony Mackie once had a very different career in mind before stepping into the Marvel spotlight. Long before Captain America 4 positioned him as one of the smartest Avengers alive, he had his sights set on something completely unrelated to superhero stardom.

Danny Ramirez and Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World | Credits: Marvel Studios

Mackie wasn’t dreaming of vibranium shields or high-flying action; he had a more down-to-earth plan in mind. But Hollywood had other ideas.

From equations to Avengers: Anthony Mackie’s hidden genius before Hollywood Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World | Credits: Marvel Studios

Anthony Mackie had a backup plan before Hollywood came calling. “I wanted to be a mechanical engineer,” he once revealed, dropping a fact that surprised even his longtime The Falcon and the Winter Soldier co-star Sebastian Stan.

Yeah, the man behind the MCU’s new Captain America...

Ralph Fiennes, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast — which was recorded last week in front of 2,000 people at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where Fiennes was honored with the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award in recognition of his Oscar-nominated performance in Conclave — has been widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest screen actors for more than 30 years.

To name just a few of the films in which the Englishman has shined: Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, Robert Redford’s Quiz Show, Kathryn Bigelow‘s Strange Days, Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient, István Szabó’s Sunshine, Neil Jordan’s The End of the Affair, David Cronenberg’s Spider, Fernando Meirelles’ The Constant Gardener, Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, Stephen Daldry’s The Reader, Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash...

Anthony Mackie welcomed in rave reviews after Captain America: Brave New World premiere in Los Angeles. The movie premiered with great fan fervor earlier today with many A-listers in attendance from Hollywood.

Anthony Mackie as Captain America | Credits: Marvel Studios

Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford also seemed to be in a spectacular mood on the red carpet. To add to the charm, the movie itself has been receiving some good early reviews, with many claiming the old Marvel is back in action.

Mackie, though, seems to have charmed the audience especially well in his debut as Captain America. Although he had been a part of Marvel for a long time, many claim this movie proved his worth as a superhero film star.

Anthony Mackie earns a W from the audience in Captain America: Brave New World

The hype has been building for what many claim is Marvel’s biggest gamble of the year.

In a recent interview, Anthony Mackie shared his thoughts on his longtime friend, Jeremy Renner, and his remarkable recovery after the terrifying snowplow accident that nearly cost Renner his life. The two actors, who have known each other since starring in The Hurt Locker in 2008, both joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe later on.

Renner, 54, was seriously injured on January 1, 2023, when he was crushed by a seven-ton snowplow while trying to clear snow near his mountain home in Reno. The accident left him with over 30 broken bones, a collapsed lung, and a lacerated liver.

He had jumped out of the snowplow but ended up getting caught underneath it. Despite the severe injuries, Renner never viewed himself as a victim.

Mackie, who was among the first to visit Renner in the hospital, reflected on the experience, saying, ‘I was really surprised and hurt when I got the news. The first thing I thought was,...

In an industry that likes to pigeonhole actors into particular roles, Guy Pearce has proven himself equally adept as a leading man or as a supporting character in a variety of films. Scroll through our photo gallery below as Gold Derby reexamines the 10 best Guy Pearce movies, ranked.

Born in England on October 5, 1967, his family relocated to Australia when Pearce was 3 years old, and he became a competitive bodybuilder as a teen. His acting career began when he was cast in the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 1986.

Pearce’s breakout film role was as drag queen Felicia Jollygoodfellow in the surprise hit Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994; just three years later he found success in American films with the Oscar-nominated L.A. Confidential, and has built an impressive resume of diverse films and television series in the nearly three decades since.

His most definitive...

From Schindler’s List to The English Patient to the Harry Potter films to Conclave, Ralph Fiennes has had a celebrated career as a leading star and character actor.

The British performer, who graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, is adept at playing compromised men on the big screen, such as his Austrian Nazi Amon Göth, who oversees the building of a concentration camp in Poland in Schindler’s List. In 2011, Fiennes made his big-screen directorial debut and also starred in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Coriolanus. He starred, produced and directed 2013’s The Invisible Woman, where he portrayed Charles Dickens. Most notably, Fiennes has been in several Best Picture Oscar winners including 1993’s Schindler’s List, The English Patient, and 2009’s The Hurt Locker. His 2022 movie The Menu brought him a Golden Globe nomination in the comedy/musical category. And his 2024 film Conclave, in which he plays an embattled...

Oscar nominee Guy Pearce from The Brutalist, Maria Pedraza from Money Heist, and Farming actor-director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje have joined Alex Pettyfer on the erotic thriller Blurred, which Cloud9 Studios is introducing to EFM buyers next week.

Ben Cookson wrote and will direct, with Pettyfer and James Ireland producing through their Dark Dreams Entertainment alongside Yariv Lerner for Film Forage.

Blurred takes place against the backdrop of the New York fashion scene and is described by Cloud9 president and executive producer Pia Patatian as a “beautiful, raw and intense thrill ride”. Production wrapped in the UK last summer and Patatian will...

The gold-plated meltdown that has followed the revelation of Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón’s past anti-Muslim and racist tweets — with anti-George Floyd and pro-Hitler sentiments thrown in — has now required numerous apologies/explanations from the Best Actress Oscar nominee. Gascón’s previous online remarks have seriously cratered the odds for her and her film, which is nominated for 13 Oscars. The journalist and podcaster who uncovered Gascón’s troubling social media posts insists it was good old-fashioned reporting and she was not a “studio plant” fueling a smear campaign underwritten by a rival nominee.

In any case Gascón’s self-inflicted mess is the latest example of an internet-powered scandal that has threatened to derail an Oscar campaign. Here’s a look at the four most notable examples this century and how they played out.

Green Book (2018)

As this fact-based drama — about a blue-collar bouncer who chauffeured a Black...

David Cronenberg has said that his new film The Shrouds – which has been making the festival rounds lately (you can read what JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray thought of it Here) – was originally intended to be a Netflix TV series, but the streamer dropped it after paying him to write the pilot episode. So a feature film it is, and Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the film, with their plan being to give it a theatrical release sometime in the spring of 2025. We don’t know a specific release date for this one yet, but a new teaser trailer has arrived online and you can check it out in the embed above. We saw the previous teaser trailer eight months ago.

Pyramide Distribution will be giving the film a theatrical release in France on April 30th.

In The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel, who previously...

Plenty of cinephiles think fondly of Guy Pearce’s turn as the amnesiac Leonard Shelby in “Memento,” but Pearce isn’t one of them.

The 57-year-old actor, who most recently picked up an Academy Award nomination for his supporting turn in Brady Corbet’s historical epic “The Brutalist,” spoke candidly about his performance in Christopher Nolan’s 2000 thriller “Memento” in an interview with The Times.

“I’m having an existential crisis,” Pearce admitted. “I watched ‘Memento’ the other day and I’m still depressed. I’m shit in that movie. I’d never thought that before, but I did this Q&a of ‘Memento’ earlier this month and decided to actually watch the film again.”

“But while it was playing I realized I hate what I did,” he added. “And so all this stuff about an exec at Warners being why I’ve not worked with Chris again? It came crashing down.

Anthony Mackie has delivered plenty of award-worthy performances; whether it's 8 Mile, The Manchurian Candidate, Million Dollar Baby, The Hurt Locker, or even Netflix's Altered Carbon, he's impressed on screen time and time again.

However, he's frequently been overlooked and that's something the actor is well aware of.

Asked by Esquire about the way his career has played out in terms of award success (or lack of), Mackie said, "This ain’t no overnight shit. It’s always apropos for me when awards season comes up. Because I know I’ve done at least four performances that could have been nominated - if not for a Golden Globe, then an Oscar or an Emmy."

A consolation for Mackie is the fact he's now the face of a new blockbuster franchise, starting with Captain America: Brave New World next month. "Captain America is my Oscar," he tells the site. "Because...

Anthony Mackie recently took over the mantle of Captain America and inherited the shield from Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers for Brave New World. Even then, while Mackie is set to start a critical new chapter in the MCU, the actor still seems sore from his Oscar snubs. Although he feels validated for the top billing in a major studio blockbuster, Mackie can’t help but lament about the industry’s negligence towards him.

Anthony Mackie as Captain America | image: Marvel Studios

Recalling the recent Golden Globes ceremony where he took to the stage to present the Best Animated Motion Picture award, Anthony Mackie noted how he has been overlooked by the award committees as a contestant. Losing Oscar nods to the likes of Ryan Gosling and Jeremy Renner, Mackie held onto his Captain America achievement as his greatest accomplishment.

Anthony Mackie feels taken for granted by the award committees Anthony...

Anthony Mackie told Esquire magazine in a new cover story that playing Captain America “is my Oscar because I’ve been overlooked so many times in my career.” The actor says there are least four performances of his that deserved award nominations, and yet he was snubbed every time. So he’s making “Captain America: Brave New World” his Oscars moment, as he’s finally leading a Marvel tentpole after 11 years in the franchise.

“The expectations of what comes along with this role is something that nobody talks about,” Mackie told the magazine about becoming Captain America. “Nobody really acknowledges the mental jousting that takes place. When I walk out of this hotel, I don’t walk out of this hotel as Anthony Mackie. I walk out of this hotel as Captain America.”

Mackie said “Brave New World” is “literally the best movie it can be,” adding: “It stays in the lines of Marvel.

Anthony Mackie is embracing his superhero status in a way that goes beyond box office numbers. In a recent interview, Mackie made it clear that while the Academy Awards have continually overlooked his performances, he’s already won in his own way. His trophy? The shield.

Anthony Mackie in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | Credits: Marvel Studios

The actor, who first stepped into the MCU as Sam Wilson in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, has gradually climbed the superhero ranks, officially taking over as Captain America in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the upcoming Captain America: Brave New World. Despite his undeniable talent and contributions to blockbuster hits, Mackie has never received an Oscar nomination. And he’s got some thoughts about that.

Who Needs an Oscar When You Have the Shield? Anthony Mackie in a still from The Falcon and The Winter Soldier | Credits: Marvel Studios

For Anthony Mackie,...

The whiplash of the Oscar nominations rippled across Hollywood professionals, awards pundits, and elated enthusiasts of 2024’s best films and performances.

The most jaw-dropping — and welcomed — moment of nomination morning came from Walter Salles’ Brazilian drama, “I’m Still Here,” which landed three major nominations: international feature, best actress for Fernanda Torres, and best picture. This marks the second consecutive year in which more than one non-English language movie received a best picture nomination, following 2023’s “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest” (although it’s the first time two international feature nominees have been recognized). It shows that the Golden Globes (at least their winners) still matter.

After Torres won the Globe for best actress, triumphing over A-listers Angelina Jolie (“Maria”) and Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), many Academy voters told Variety they were seeking out the film, with feedback being overwhelmingly positive. Torres’ steady appearances on late-night talk shows and her vocal,...

The 2025 Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday and while some vets like Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) and Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown) have been around the block before, many others heard their names called for the very first time.

Among those Oscar newbies is Best Actress contender Demi Moore (The Substance), whose career spans more than 40 years but who, as she noted in her Golden Globe acceptance speech, was dismissed as a “popcorn actress” by a producer. It’s surprising that Guy Pearce (The Brutalist) never earned an Oscar nom before now; his past roles include Oscar-winning films like L.A. Confidential (1997), The Hurt Locker (2009), and The King’s Speech (2010), but he finally got on the board in this year’s Best Supporting Actor race. Hollywood royalty Isabella Rossellini (Conclave), the daughter of Oscar nominee Roberto Rossellini and Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman, finally scored a nom of her own in Best Supporting Actress.

Who’s afraid of a little female body horror? For once, not the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which on Thursday morning, finally opened one of the last remaining gilded doors of their annual Oscar nominations, pouring love all over filmmaker Coralie Fargeat and her “The Substance.”

The filmmaker, with just her second film, earned the sole spot for a female filmmaker in the Best Director race, in addition to helming the lone female-directed film in the Best Picture race. Meanwhile, other female filmmakers and their work were shut out not just from the picture and director race, but the entire Oscar nom kit and kaboodle, including Payal Kapadia and her “All We Imagine as Light” and Halina Reijn and her “Babygirl.”

Earlier this month, Fargeat told IndieWire at the Golden Globes that she believes horror films are fully deserving of a level playing field at the Oscars.

All five Academy Award nominees for Best Director on Thursday — Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, Sean Baker for Anora, Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez, James Mangold for A Complete Unknown, and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance — are first-timers in the category.

The last time the Best Directors list was all first-timers was 1998, when James Cameron (Titanic), Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty), Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting), Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential), Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter), Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line), and Peter Weir (The Truman Show) were honored. That was the year that Cameron went on to personally win three Oscars, for Best Picture and Best Editing in addition to directing as part of Titanic’s massive 11-victory haul.

Too, Fargeat joined an exclusive club on Thursday, becoming just the ninth woman to be nominated in the Best Director category. The other eight were Lina Wertmüller (Seven Beauties,...

Coralie Fargeat joined an exclusive Oscar list on Thursday morning thanks to her Best Director nomination for The Substance.

She is now the ninth woman to receive a directing bid at the Academy Awards, with the eight other female filmmakers being Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties (1976), Jane Campion for The Piano (1993) and The Power of the Dog (2021), Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003), Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2009), Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird (2017), Chloé Zhao for Nomadland (2020), Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman (2020), and Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall (2023). To date, the only three to win are Bigelow, Zhao, and Campion (The Power of the Dog).

Joining Fargeat in this year’s Best Director lineup are Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez), Sean Baker (Anora), Brady Corbet (The Brutalist), and James Mangold (A Complete Unknown). All five of them are first-time director nominees. See the complete list of 2025 Oscar nominations.

Ninety-six films have won the Academy Award for Best Picture since the first Oscars ceremony was held in 1928, and it’s never been easier to watch every Best Picture Oscar winner, should you choose to do so. Thanks to the technological innovations of streaming, all of these winners – some all-time classics, some retroactive headscratchers – are available to watch online.

This year, several Best Picture contenders are already streaming. But before the 97th Best Picture winner is crowned on March 12, you could choose some past winners to catch up with from our list of where to watch every Best Picture Oscar winner – from Wings to Oppenheimer and everything in between.

2024: Oppenheimer

The Barbenheimer phenomenon helped raise Christopher Nolan‘s unlikely blockbuster to Best Picture glory. It’s available to stream on Prime Video and to rent on Amazon, Apple TV, and other platforms

2023: Everything Everywhere All at Once

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John Krasinski's best movies and TV shows go far beyond his star-making role as Jim on The Office, showcasing his incredible career over the years. The American actor started his professional acting career with bit parts in movies and shows, but landing the role as prankster paper salesman Jim Halpert on The Office helped to make him a Hollywood name. From there, Krasinski went on to prove he was more than just a sitcom star with a number of notable projects on the big screen and small screen.

Krasinski has stepped behind the camera several times as a director, most notably with the A Quiet Place movies, but he still seems focused on his acting. He has worked with acclaimed directors like Kathryn Bigelow and Sam Mendes while also sharing the screen with actors like Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. He has excelled as the comedic lead as well as the action hero,...

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The 1995 James Cameron-written cyberpunk thriller Strange Days proved to be a box office flop in its time and has failed to gain a cult following even now—in fact, barely anyone remembers this great 1990s action movie in spite of its big names. However, with its thematic relevance to present-day events, Strange Days deserves another look from modern audiences. Starring Ralph Fiennes as black market virtual reality (VR) dealer Lenny Nero, the film explores the societal impact of technological advances and mass violence.

Many great sci-fi movies got the future wrong, but oddly enough, Strange Days managed to predict quite a few things about the turn of the century as well as the American zeitgeist 30 years later. Civil unrest, police brutality, political corruption, and societal desensitization to mass violence are just a few themes from Strange Days, and while...

Mark your calendars, Oscars fans, because the 97th Academy Awards will air on Sunday, March 2, 2025 on ABC. The annual star-studded ceremony will honor movies released in theaters within the 2024 calendar year of eligibility. AMPAS members will vote on the Oscar winners in 23 categories, including Best Director. But who will win? Here at Gold Derby, thousands of users have been making and updating their 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Director, so let’s take a look at all of the top contenders in our photo gallery below.

These 25 Best Director hopefuls are listed in order of their racetrack odds, which are derived from the combined forecasts of four unique groups: experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, editors who cover awards year-round for this website, top 24 users who had the best accuracy scores last year, and the mass of users who make up our biggest predictions bloc.

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We have some suggestions if you’re looking for a movie to watch on streaming this weekend. Our list includes a top pick that’s a current awards contender available for home viewing this week; two other new releases that may or may not be awards contenders; a recommendation for a similar film that would make a nice double feature with the top pick; and a past Academy Award winner worth rewatching at the moment—got all that? Let’s go!

Top pick: Flow

After winning the Golden Globe for Best Animated Film, Flow has gone from a likely Academy Award nominee to a potential Best Animated Feature category winner. And if it also manages to snag a Best International Feature nomination, it would become the first Latvian film to earn an Academy Award bid.

Flow is a dialogue-free adventure about an adorable cat that gets swept away by a...

Jeremy Renner & Amy Adams Laugh Riot ( Photo Credit – YouTube )

Denis Villeneuve’s critically acclaimed sci-fi drama Arrival, released in 2016, treated viewers with an emotionally resonant yet challenging story of humanity’s first encounter with extraterrestrial life. Starring Amy Adams as linguist Louise Banks and Jeremy Renner as physicist Ian Donnelly, Arrival became a landmark achievement in the genre and marked a turning point in the Dune director’s career.

Ironically, the central conflict observed in Arrival — linguistic barriers to communicating with a diverse species — wasn’t limited to the movie’s script but found its way to the production, albeit not so much as emotionally but humorously. During the promotional tour of Arrival, Adams and Renner appeared on The Graham Norton Show, where they delighted the audience with hilarious behind-the-scenes anecdotes about working with Villeneuve.

Host Graham Norton introduced Villeneuve’s French-Canadian background, wondering that since his first language is French,...

The 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations sent a shockwave through the Oscars race, boosting top contenders like Anora, A Complete Unknown, Emilia Pérez, and Wicked while dealing potentially trajectory-altering blows to Sing Sing, Angelina Jolie, and Denzel Washington.

Here’s what the SAG Awards nominations mean for the Oscars.

Anora is back – but maybe it never left

After the Golden Globes blanked Anora on Sunday, it felt like Sean Baker’s madcap comedy might not pay off its status as an early Best Picture frontrunner. But the actors’ guild gave the Neon film a jolt, scoring nominations for ensemble, Film Actress for Mikey Madison, and Film Supporting Actor for Yura Borisov. Madison was long considered a lock in the Gold Derby odds, and Anora hung on to the fifth position before the nomination announcement. But the Borisov nomination was a surprise (he had been in seventh place in the odds). The Russian star,...

Voltage Pictures has taken a majority stake in fellow international sales and finance company The Exchange as it continues to expand operations.

Under the new structure, Brian O’Shea will remain CEO of The Exchange and focus on creative strategy and expanding the slate of projects.Financial terms were not disclosed.

Voltage COO Sarah Dunn will oversee day-to-day operations, and Alexandra Cocean has been promoted to president of global sales and distribution, working across both companies to integrate their films.

Screenunderstands worldwide sales and distribution presidentNat McCormick has left The Exchange.

Voltage CEO Nicolas Chartier announced the development and said the...

Exclusive: Oscar winning producer and distributor Voltage Pictures has taken a major step in its expansion strategy by acquiring a controlling interest in the international sales and finance company The Exchange.

Under the new structure, Brian O’Shea will remain CEO of The Exchange, focusing on creative strategy and expanding the slate of projects, while Sarah Dunn, Voltage’s COO, will oversee day-to-day operations. In addition, Alexandra Cocean has been promoted to President of Global Sales and Distribution, working across both entities to integrate their various films.

Nicolas Chartier, CEO of Voltage Pictures said: “Brian and I have been friends for years, and we’re thrilled to finally collaborate in a meaningful way. By bringing Voltage’s operational strength and production expertise together with The Exchange’s entrepreneurial acumen, we’re creating a unique platform to empower filmmakers and grow our global footprint. This partnership allows us to supercharge The Exchange,...