Today, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced that Academy Award-winning filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller will serve as the Guest Artistic Directors for AFI FEST 2026 presented by Canva.

On episode 364 of the Awards Watch podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade, Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson and Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello break down the winners and losers of the Venice, ...

After its inaugural year as a new category last season, diving into who will be nominated this year gives us just one example of how the casting branch thought about what makes a nominee and a ...

Today, SFFILM announced the next special event of its fall film season: Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid. The talk of the Cannes Film Festival, Club Kid was acquired by A24 after a heated battle from ...

Peter Berg’s The Mosquito Bowl will have its World Premiere at the 40th edition of AFI FEST presented by Canva on Thursday, October 22 at the TCL Chinese Theater. Directed and co-written by Peter ...

It all starts with the script. Whether it’s an original idea borne from personal experience, a fascinating human story or an adaptation of classic literature, it all begins here. This ...

While Matt Damon has held the course as one of the few Best Actor contenders with frontrunner status and the fortitude to maintain it, the fall festivals have revealed the likes of Andrew Scott ...

On episode 363 of The Awards Watch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson and contributor Griffin Schiller to review the latest film from director Zach ...

Few series this decade have served as better social medicine than HBO’s How To with John Wilson. Targeting topics the average viewer has only thought of in passing, Wilson’s series highlighted an ...

When Jane Austen was first writing her debut novel, “Sense and Sensibility,” she penned it under the working title “Elinor and Marianne.” Like her best works, the book is an incisive look at ...

La Bola Negra, the sweeping epic directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, has won the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival’s ...

The supporting categories have always been the spot for multiple nominees from the same film making the cut but this year, with the new Academy rule allowing a single person to be nominated more ...