Hopefuls for 93rd Academy Awards face a marathon, mostly virtual, unlike anything ever seen before.
Best Picture
One Night in Miami
Regina King presented the four stars of her feature directorial debut Kingsley Ben-Adir, (above, who portrays Malcolm X), Eli Goree (Cassius Clay), Aldis Hodge (Jim Brown) and Leslie Odom Jr. (Sam Cooke) with the ensemble award at the virtual San Francisco Film Awards Night on Dec. 9.
The Midnight Sky
Two-time Oscar winner George Clooney s eagerly awaited seventh film as a director, in which he stars as a scientist fighting to save the human race from extinction, hit theaters (and drive-ins) Dec. 11 in advance of its Netflix debut Dec. 23. However, it was greeted with a lackluster 53 percent approval rating on RottenTomatoes.com.
Melissa Haizlip s award-winning documentary, Mr. Soul! , has now been nominated for Outstanding Debut Feature at the Cinema Eye Honors. According to the awards group, which has been annual honoring nonfiction work since 2007, over 65% of its nominees this year are first-timers. Women filmmakers and craftspersons made up 44% of today’s announcements, a record for Cinema Eye, and female directors scored more nominations overall than their male counterparts across all categories for the first time, revealed Cinema Eye in an official statement. The awards ceremony will be held virtually on March 9th, 2021.
Advertisement
The film chronicles the legacy of SOUL! , the public television variety show produced and hosted by Ellis Haizlip (the director s uncle) that turned a spotlight on the Black Arts Movement. Enhancing the picture are music composed by Grammy-winner Robert Glasper as well as narration from Blair Underwood, who also serves as one of the film’s executive prod
Gunda are a few of the films nominated for the 14th annual Cinema Eye Honors.
Time (pictured), Bradley’s portrait of a family’s struggle over years of incarceration, was nominated for six Cinema Eye Honors, including outstanding feature, direction, editing, score and debut.
Both Nanau’s
Collective – about journalists who uncovered health care fraud in the wake of a deadly nightclub fire in Bucharest, Romania, in 2015 and Kossakovsky’s
Gunda which follows the daily life of a pig, two cows, and a one-legged chicken had four nominations and joined
Time in being nominated for best feature, direction and editing.