Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot #1: ‘Sentimental Value’ “Nearly Perfect,” “Didn’t Want [‘Hamnet’s] Jessie Buckley Turned Up to a 10 the Entire Time”

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A female member of the Academy’s 719-person documentary branch who has no connection to any of this year’s nominees, granted a cloak of anonymity in return for candor, speaks with THR about her ballot. Best picture I put Frankenstein at number 10 because I haven’t seen it, which is unfair, but I ran out of time…

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“European Cinema Is Alive and Kicking”: EFA Chief Matthijs Wouter Knol on a Bold Awards Season Pivot

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This year’s awards race has seen an unprecedented surge for European talent with several films from continental auteurs — including Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Oliver Laxe’s Sirat, and Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (a French-Iranian production from the Iranian director) — heading into the final lap as Oscar favorites. No longer relegated to…

‘Pillion’ Dominates BIFA Awards, ‘Sentimental Value’ Wins Best International Film

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Writer-director Harry Lighton‘s feature debut Pillion, a sub/dom romance starring Alexander Skarsgård as a leather-clad biker and Harry Melling as a suburban Londoner who starts a relationship with him and becomes his submissive, won four British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) statuettes, including two for best independent British film and best debut screenwriter in London on Sunday. Celia Imrie…

Joachim Trier Explains Rejecting Hollywood Money to Have Final Cut on His Films: “It’s a Moral Responsibility”

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Joachim Trier left San Sebastian Film Festival attendees in awe at an event Sunday morning where the Sentimental Value director spoke candidly and eloquently about his career. The Danish-Norwegian filmmaker, an Academy Award nominee for his 2021 romantic dramedy The Worst Person in the World, is also known for Reprise (2006), Oslo, August 31st (2011)…

‘Awards Chatter’ Live Pod: Stellan Skarsgard on ‘Sentimental Value,’ Lars von Trier and Ingmar Bergman

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Last Friday, the veteran Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard reflected on his life, career and latest project — Joachim Trier’s Cannes Grand Prize-winning dramedy Sentimental Value, in which Skarsgard plays a veteran filmmaker who has a complicated family life — during a recording of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast in front of a packed house at…