Awards Daily

2 days ago | awardsdaily.com | Sasha Stone

It seems strange that it’s taken this long for Francis Ford Coppola to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from AFI, but here we are. Coppola needs no introduction. He has easily made some of the best movies ever made with The Godfathers I and II, Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation. He made his magnum opus last year with Megalopolis. It made almost no money, cost him a fortune but he went out the way he came in, by pushing the boundaries of creativity.

3 days ago | awardsdaily.com | Sasha Stone

The Academy has tinkered around with several rule changes, although nothing so big, I’d say, to create mass hysteria in the awards community. They did not say one is only allowed to participate if they voted for the Democrats but we’ll take that to mean the rule is so obvious no one would even question it. The real rules of the Oscars are very different than those written down. It’s a little like Edith Wharton’s high society of New York, if you know, you know. Just kidding. Not kidding.

3 days ago | awardsdaily.com | Sasha Stone

Sinners has awakened the movie going public like no movie since Barbenheimer. With a solid A Cinemascore and strong box office, Sinners looks to be one of the strongest contenders to Best Picture so far this year, provided the Academy can abandon its genre bias. They probably can in this case because Ryan Coogler is such a prominent filmmaker, and it is “important” in its own way.

6 days ago | awardsdaily.com | Sasha Stone

My friend Landon sent me a link to a story in Indiewire about what Harmony Korine thinks about the state of movies. Readers of this site already know what I think because they know the truths I’ve been telling going on five years now about the disaster that loomed ahead like an iceberg no one can see in the glassy water. I’ve also said the ship is made of iron and it will sink.

6 days ago | awardsdaily.com | Sasha Stone

It’s not really breaking news as people have heard about it for a while now, but LucasFilm has announced the new project with a release date for May 28, 2027. Ryan Gosling will star in a new standalone Star Wars adventure. This looks to be a slight pivot away from what has made Star Wars fans so angry of late — is there any way to say it other than “woke casting” that then annoys people on the Left? How to talk about what is obvious without offending people? Anyway, it’s a pivot.