LOS ANGELES Robbie Ryan, BSC, ISC has over his career enjoyed lengthy collaborative relationships with notable directors, lensing multiple films for Andrea Arnold, Ken Loach and Yorgos Lanthimos. Ryan’s efforts for the latter have been especially fruitful on the industry awards circuit as The Favourite in 2019 and Poor Things in 2024 each earned Oscar, ASC Award Read More 

LOS ANGELES Moderating an awards season panel discussion right after a recent screening of Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures) at the Directors Guild in Los Angeles, Spike Jonze observed that writer-director Ryan Coogler’s film is several movies rolled into one, blending genres such as horror, musical, drama, big-screen spectacle and period piece. Jonze expressed his admiration for Sinners Read More 

LOS ANGELES One cinematographer reunited with director Josh Safdie on a movie which is generating Oscar buzz, including for its marquee performance by Timothée Chalamet. Another DP continued a collaborative bond with a lauded director that goes back nearly 25 years, back when they were at film school together. Their latest teaming is on the much anticipated Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, Guillermo del Toro, Chloé Zhao and Josh Safdie have been nominated for the Directors Guild’s top prize. The organization announced feature film and first-time director nominees Thursday for the 78th annual Directors Guild Awards. The five films singled out for the top prize, “One Battle After Another” (directed by Anderson), Read More 

LOS ANGELES The Directors Guild of America has unveiled the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television, Commercials and Documentary for 2025. On the television series front, The Bear and The Pitt nabbed two nods apiece in the Comedy and Dramatic Series categories, respectively. Nominated for The Pitt were Amanda Marsalis for the “6:00 P.M.” and John Read More 

LOS ANGELES The field of nominees for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award recognizing Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials for 2025 consists of three two-time winners, a helmer who just scored his third career nod, and another registering his second. Making up the trio of two-time DGA Commercial Director of the Year winners are: Kim Gehrig Read More 

LOS ANGELES The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has unveiled the nominees for its 2026 Outstanding Achievement Awards, recognizing excellence across feature films, documentaries, television, and music videos. Nominated in the marquee feature film category are: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC for “Sinners”; Michael Bauman for “One Battle After Another”; Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC for “Marty Supreme”; Dan Read More 

LONDON BAFTA has unveiled this year’s longlists for the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards. Leading the way with 16 mentions is One Battle After Another, followed by Hamnet and Sinners with 14 apiece. Marty Supreme garnered 13 mentions, with Bugonia and Frankenstein tallying a dozen each. These films were joined by Nuremberg, Sentimental Value, The Ballad of Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) “One Battle After Another” dominated nominations to the Actor Awards on Wednesday, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s ragtag revolutionary saga landing a record seven nods in the annual SAG-AFTRA honors. In the 31 years of the Actor Awards, formerly known as the SAG Awards, no movie has received more than five nominations. Along with a nod Read More 

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) Matthew Broderick presented his wife of nearly 30 years Sarah Jessica Parker with the Golden Globes’ Carol Burnett Award for a life of achievement in television at Golden Eve, a ceremony that also added Helen Mirren to the list of legends that have won the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Broderick suggested if she’d listened to Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Warner Bros. again rejected a takeover bid from Paramount and told shareholders Wednesday to stick with a rival offer from Netflix. Warner’s leadership has repeatedly rebuffed Skydance-owned Paramount’s overtures — and urged shareholders just weeks ago to back the sale of its streaming and studio business to Netflix for $72 billion. Paramount, meanwhile, has made Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) The high-profile private attorney for Nick Reiner was granted a request to be removed from his case Wednesday, but later told reporters that according to California law his client is not guilty of murder in the killing of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. “Circumstances beyond our control and more importantly circumstances beyond Read More 

LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK The top 10 SHOOT stories that generated the most engagement (clicks to view) in 2025 included: Connelly Partners’ acquisition of ad agency McCarthy Mambro Bertino; a survey of major industry players about the past, present and future of the business–coverage that was part of a celebration marking SHOOT’s 65th year of publication; a preview installment Read More 

LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK From the comedic to serious public service fare and much more, SHOOT’s most viewed ScreenWork videos of 2025 provided a wide range of creative messaging–topped by the first film to emerge from a strategic partnership between Primordial Soup and Google DeepMind. Also in the mix was a Nike Super Bowl spot directed by Kim Gehrig Read More 

VERO BEACH, Fla. The most engaging publicity news releases on the SHOOT Publicity Wire (SPW) in 2025 included: the premiere of several films on the festival circuit–at SXSW in particular; the casting of Mel England for writer-director Jeff London’s Snow Falling on Pumpkins; composer Michael Novack’s launch of Spacecat Music & Sound; and the teaming of Ariel Winter Read More 

SANTA MONICA, Calif. One Battle After Another was named Best Picture during the Critics Choice Awards ceremony at The Barker Hanger in Santa Monica on Sunday (1/4). The film also won Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay honors for Paul Thomas Anderson. Topping the awards tally on the motion picture side, though, with four awards apiece were Frankenstein Read More 

LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK The National Society of Film Critics has chosen “One Battle After Another” as Best Picture of 2025. “One Battle After Another” also topped the Best Director (Paul Thomas Anderson), Best Supporting Actress (Teyana Taylor) and Best Supporting Actor (Benicio del Toro) categories. The Society, which is made up of more than 60 of the country’s Read More 

BURBANK, Calif. ASIFA-Hollywood has unveiled the nominations for its 53rd Annie Awards™ recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. Leading the charge on the feature side were KPop Demon Hunters and Elio with 10 nods apiece. This year’s Best Animated Feature nominations went to Elio – Pixar Animation Studios; KPop Demon Hunters – Sony Pictures Read More 

LOS ANGELES The Art Directors Guild (ADG), IATSE Local 800 (ADG 800), has unveiled the nominees for its 30th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, celebrating excellence in production design across theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos, and animated feature films. Nominees in the Period Feature Film category are: production designer Hannah Beachler for Sinners; Fiona Read More 

LOS ANGELES Film producer Jerry Bruckheimer will receive the Visual Effects Society (VES) Lifetime Achievement Award and Wētā Workshop co-founder and chief creative officer Sir Richard Taylor will be presented the VES Visionary Award at the 24th Annual VES Awards. Taking place on February 25 at The Beverly Hilton, the event recognizes exceptional contributions to the visual Read More 

LOS ANGELES The Television Academy has announced the creation of the Legacy Award, which will be presented to television programs that have made a “profound and lasting impact” on audiences and remain relevant to society, culture and the industry. The Academy last introduced an award of this significance with its Television Academy Honors Award in 2007, recognizing Read More 

LOS ANGELES Casting Society (CSA) has unveiled the film nominees, special honorees and set the hosts for the 41st Annual Artios Awards. On the latter score, Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows”), Emmy Award winner Jeff Hiller (“Somebody Somewhere”) and Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Jessica Gunning (“Baby Reindeer”) have been named hosts of Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) When we first glimpse Noah Wyle’s Michael Robinavitch — aka Dr. Robby, of course — in Season 2 of “The Pitt,” he’s looking darned good, truth be told. The beloved ER doc is riding his motorcycle to work, wearing nice shades, hair rustling in the early-morning Pittsburgh breeze. Wait — hair rustling? It’s only then Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967. CPB had been winding down since Congress acted last summer to defund its operations at Read More 

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) Leonardo DiCaprio emphasized the importance of creating cinema over content at the Palm Springs Film Festival Friday night. “Movies are still meant to be experienced, together, in a theatre. Right now, that belief matters more than ever. Original films are harder to make and harder to protect. But movies still matter, not content, but cinema. Read More 

NEW YORK As it marked its final year as an agency brand, FCB once again took top positions in The One Club for Creativity’s year-end Global Creative Rankings, with both FCB New York crowned Global Agency of the Year and FCB as Agency Network of the Year for the third year in a row. Rankings for the Read More 

NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES Global creative studio PSYOP has signed someform, a Berlin-based design and branding studio, for U.S. representation. This marks the first time someform has been repped in the American market. The collaboration between PSYOP and someform reflects a shared focus about how technology, art, and narrative can converge to build new dimensions of design not only Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Hollywood kicked off 2026 with “Avatar: Fire and Ash” atop the box office for the third straight week and with hopes for a blockbuster-filled year after a disappointing 2025. In three weeks of release, “Fire and Ash” has cleared $1 billion worldwide. The third chapter in James Cameron’s Pandora epic collected $40 million over its Read More 

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