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Troy Kotsur was being honored by his hometown of Mesa, Arizona. But he almost lost his biggest honor of all. Kotsur reported on his Twitter account that a car thief hopped into his Jeep and took off. The CODA actor was to be honored Thursday for his achievement in becoming the first primarily deaf actor to win an…

Now comes my favorite part of the film awards season, the very beginning, when everyone is a contender. It's just like the old days, when the carnival came to town (also in late summer). Step right up, everyone's a winner! Take a shot, win a prize!! You can't win if you don't play the game!!! We all know it isn't…

Park Chan-wook's crime drama Decision To Leave has been selected by South Korea to represent the country in the Best International Feature category at the 95th Academy Awards. The film originally debuted in Cannes where Park won the Best Director prize. It is also teed up to screen at the New York Film Festival this…

Borat 2 star Maria Bakalova will chair the committee selecting Bulgaria's best international film submission for the 2022-23 Oscar race, the country's National Film Center has confirmed. Bakalova was Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated in the 2020-21 awards season for her performance as Borat's daughter along Sacha Baron…

Switzerland has selected Michael Koch's Swiss-German language feature A Piece off Sky as its candidate for the best international film category of the 2023 Oscars. Set in a remote mountain village, the drama revolves around the against-the-odds-love story between a local woman and an outsider farmhand, who is struck…

Producer Janet Yang has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization's Board of Governors at a meeting held Tuesday. She replaces David Rubin, who has served as president for the past three years but has termed out because he has reached the end of…

The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) has selected Colm Bairéad’s debut feature The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) as its entry for the best international film category for the 2023 Oscars, in the first announced submission of the upcoming awards season. The Irish-language work swept the IFTA Awards last March to…

Here's a wish for Tuesday: Sometime during the day, governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will meet to elect new officers, including a president to replace termed-out David Rubin. I wish they would choose a Great Communicator for the top job. The film Academy already has a…

UPDATED throughout: In a video that is 5 minutes, 44 seconds long, Will Smith has broken his silence about the regrettable "slap heard around the world," in which he struck Oscar presenter Chris Rock after the comic made fun of Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith. This before Smith was awarded Best Actor…

Film award seasons, most of them, follow a curved track. The action begins in one place (at the Telluride festival), then loops around to end somewhere else (with the Oscars at the Dolby Theater, unless the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences exercises its early termination option with that venue in…

New Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer continues what appears to be a major reorganization of AMPAS with yet another newly created position and appointment. Jenny Galante has been promoted to EVP Revenue and Business Development, Kramer announced today. She will report directly to him. A…

In an attempt to further cement its dedication to diverstity across all activities, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences has promoted Jeanell English to EVP Impact and Inclusion, Academy CEO Bill Kramer announced today. English will report directly to Kramer. In this newly created executive job English will…