Friday, December 19, 2025
Thirty-six minutes after the American Film Institute announced its Top 10 films of the year, Cynthia Erivo sat down with Variety's Awards Circuit Podcast to discuss "Wicked: For Good," the c…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 16, 2025
The Oscars have announced the shortlists in 12 categories for the upcoming 98th ceremony. Members from various branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences participated in pre…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05PM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2025
Welcome to Variety Awards HQ " your weekly command center for the Oscars race. It's Dec. 15, 2025, and this edition is dedicated to the magnificent Rob Reiner. The news out of Los Angeles is…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:35PM[SHARE]The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce its highly anticipated shortlists on Tuesday, narrowing hundreds of eligible films across a dozen categories ahead of the 98th A…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:47PM[SHARE]The USC Libraries have announced the finalists for the 38th annual Scripter Awards, which recognize excellence in adapting literature for film and television from the year 2025. Among the fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2025
Elle Fanning's first arrest came at a Sabrina Carpenter concert. Just an hour before leaving for the show, she received a text: "Getting arrested tonight. Dress accordingly." The mock arrest…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Amanda Seyfried is grappling with the state of America. "Did we ever think this is where we would be as Americans?" she asks, her voice catching. "No. Because America felt like the best plac…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:12PM[SHARE]Embeth Davidtz never set out to become a director. The actress, long admired for her work in films such as "Schindler's List," "Junebug" and "Matilda," stumbled into filmmaking almost by acc…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2025
When Jim Belushi was playing Ken Kesey " a literary giant gone to seed " in "The Chronology of Water," he'd hear Kristen Stewart calling out from behind the camera with one consistent note. …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2025
If Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet" lands an outstanding cast ensemble nomination at the Actors Awards " the newly renamed Screen Actors Guild Awards " one of the film's most essential performers will…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Ego Nwodim, former "Saturday Night Live" cast member, will host the 41st annual Film Independent Spirit Awards. Nominations for the Spirit Awards were announced Dec. 3, with Ira Sachs' "Pete…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2025
Welcome to Variety Awards HQ! Your weekly command center for the Oscars race. It's Dec. 8, 2025, and we're deep in the thick of it. The past seven days have been a whirlwind of major awards …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]For the first time in a while, the Golden Globes nominations felt truly international, reflecting the organization's membership. Once derided as "star fuckers," the group really leaned into …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:42PM[SHARE]No good deed goes unpunished, especially in awards season. Cynthia Erivo has made Golden Globes history, becoming the first Black woman nominated twice in the lead actress (comedy or musical…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:39AM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2025
Jon M. Chu did not simply direct "Wicked: For Good." He governed a small nation. For five years, he lived inside L. Frank Baum's universe " shaping two films, welcoming three new children, a…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Will Arnett tells a story about lying on his Sullivan Street couch, wondering if he's just delivered the best scene of his career or the worst. He's just wrapped the "vampire scene" in Bradl…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:04PM[SHARE]Quentin Tarantino is wrong about Paul Dano, but everyone is already telling him that. For more than two decades, Dano has shaped one of the most quietly radical careers in American cinema. T…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2025
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Em…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PM[SHARE]"Hamnet," "Marty Supreme" and a powerful one-two punch from Warner Bros. " "One Battle After Another" and "Sinners" " are among the American Film Institute's 10 best films of the year, the o…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, November 28, 2025
Renate Reinsve almost didn't make it to Los Angeles for our interview. Three years ago, while traveling for Oscar campaigning after her breakout role in "The Worst Person in the World," she …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Em…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:25PM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2025
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Em…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2025
Three years after his triumphant Oscar win for "The Whale," Brendan Fraser has found his next deeply personal project in an unlikely place: Tokyo. In Hikari's "Rental Family," Fraser plays P…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:04PM[SHARE]This story contains major spoilers for "Wicked: For Good." Jon M. Chu isn't shy about it " the second half of his two-film adaptation is the one where he tears down walls. Literally. One of …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2025
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Honorary Oscars to actor and producer Tom Cruise, choreographer and actor Debbie Allen and production designer Wynn Thomas at the 16…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 16, 2025
Cynthia Erivo didn't mince words when discussing the challenges she and co-star Ariana Grande have faced while promoting "Wicked: For Good." "We have come through some shit," Erivo told a pa…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2025
Chloé Zhao emerges from her cave " her words, not mine " with "Hamnet." It's a film that feels less like a period drama and more like a spiritual excavation. The co-writer and director, who…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:37PM[SHARE]Regina Hall defies expectations. She reinvents herself every few years, prompting audiences to reconsider their perceptions of her. From the slapstick absurdity of "Scary Movie" to the layer…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Em…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 8, 2025
Zoey Deutch has ideas. They're sharp, original and delivered with the kind of disarming charm that makes you wonder why Hollywood hasn't already followed her lead. "Don't you think there sho…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2025
Nina Hoss enters a conversation about "Hedda" the way her character Eileen Lövborg enters that fateful party: She commands the space, is unapologetically present and utterly impossible to…
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