Oscar winner Diane Keaton dies
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Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton passed away Saturday at age 79, according to a report in People Magazine. Keaton starred in popular films like “Baby Boom,” “Manhattan” films, and “The First Wives Club.
Much like its protagonist, played by Timothée Chalamet — a young man with a dream no one respects, who goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness — the film could be the dark horse the Oscar race didn’t realize it needed.
Slovak director Tereza Nvotová's Father has won the 21st Zurich Film Festival's Golden Eye for Best Film in the Swiss event’s main competition devoted to first, second and third features. The drama follows a work-stressed father who forgetfully leaves his two-year-old daughter in a car all day in the middle of a heatwave.
The summer blockbuster, directed by Shen Ao and starring Liu Haoran, dramatizes the horrors of the Nanjing Massacre and has earned over $417 million at China’s box office.
The Manhattan Short Film Festival brings Oscar-qualifying short films from around the globe to Vicksburg’s Strand Theatre this Saturday, with audience members voting for Best Film and Best Actor.
There was a question about whether Erivo and Grande would switch categories, since Glinda has a much more elevated role in Act 2 of the stage show. There was also speculation they could follow the path of the original Broadway stars,
But now, as TRON: Ares prepares to expand that universe, it’s impossible not to see the parallels with today’s creative tension around AI in filmmaking. In 1982, the Academy dismissed computer graphics as too artificial, too machine-driven. Sound familiar?