All Award Categories articles – Page 3
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‘Anora’ director Sean Baker on making his most audience-friendly film, why he’s “worried about the next one”
Baker tells Screen how he shaped his Palme d’Or winner.
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Edward Berger on achieving his "razor sharp" ‘Conclave’ shots, upcoming projects
Edward Berger follows an Oscar-winning First Word War drama with a papal thriller. He tells Screen how he was bewitched by the intrigue and power play of Conclave.
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Love, violence and awful behaviour: the making of Rose Glass’s ‘Love Lies Bleeding’
Rose Glass and her ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ co-writer Weronika Tofilska on making their uncompromising US-set crime thriller.
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Baftas 2025: fierce competition faces titles competing for the British-only categories
Top contenders include ’Conclave’, ’Blitz’, ’Gladiator II’, ’We Live In Time’ and ’Civil War’.
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US producers are mobilising to protect their rights – and careers – in a changed industry
Without an official union, US producers are lobbying in different ways to improve their representation.
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Pedro Almodovar on ‘The Room Next Door’: “I feel naked with the reality of mortality”
Pedro Almodovar confronts issues of mortality in his first English-language feature ‘The Room Next Door’.
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“It’s a hard industry to be a woman”: Marielle Heller on making a film for mothers in ‘Nightbitch’
Marielle Heller’s fourth feature adapts a bestselling novel about a harried mother who seems to be turning into a dog.
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Denis Villeneuve breaks down four key scenes from ‘Dune: Part Two’: “It required a lot of patience from the actors”
Villeneuve opens up on the Harkonnens floating in the desert opening sequence, and Feyd-Rautha’s brutal birthday on Giedi Prime.
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‘A Real Pain’: why Kieran Culkin’s first post-‘Succession’ role proved a challenge
During the production of A Real Pain, Kieran Culkin’s loose approach frequently collided with director Jesse Eisenberg’s meticulous planning
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Karla Sofia Gascon: “As ‘Emilia Pérez’ shows, we all have time to change and become better people”
Karla Sofia Gascon describes her long journey to the gender-switching role she plays in Emilia Pérez.
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Glen Powell on why ‘Hit Man’ was a tough sell for studios
After a string of failed auditions saw Powell dropped by his agency, the actor took control of his own destiny.
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Who are the early Oscar and Bafta frontrunners in the director and screenplay categories?
Coralie Fargeat, Brady Corbet, Payal Kapadia and Sean Baker are among the ones to watch.
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How four documentaries in this season’s awards race used archive to bring history to life
The teams behind Copa 71, Frida, Power and Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat discuss their creative approaches to using footage.
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How Iranian cinema continues to take flight in the face of relentless government oppression
Iran’s filmmakers are defying strict censorship laws to scoop festival prizes and woo global buyers and audiences.
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How ‘Will & Harper’ explores friendship and trans identity
Will Ferrell and Harper Steele take a soul-searching road trip across the US.
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‘Santosh’ shows “a third way to be a woman in India”, says director Sandhya Suri
The UK’s international feature Oscar entry is fresh off two wins at the BIFAs.
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In conversation: Walter Salles and Fernanda Torres on the emotional journey behind ‘I’m Still Here’
The director and star of I’m Still Here discuss returning to 1970s Brazil, then under military dictatorship, for their real-life drama.
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Mati Diop talks “uncategorisable” ‘Dahomey’ and her ambitions for African cinema
French-Senegalese director Mati Diop talks to Screen about unpacking a heavy history of colonialism with her genre-defying hybrid documentary Dahomey.
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How ‘Nickel Boys’ tells its story through the radical use of the first-person perspective
Screen meets the film’s writer/director RaMell Ross.
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Who are the early Oscar and Bafta frontrunners in the acting categories?
This year’s Oscars and Baftas look set to deliver a strong haul of first-time nominees in the four performance categories.