Celine Song’s quiet romance “Past Lives” won two of the biggest awards at the Film Independent Spirit Awards Sunday afternoon, including best feature and best director. Other big winners were Cord Jefferson’s comedic satire “American Fiction,” with Jeffrey Wright winning for lead performer; and Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,” which won prizes for Da’Vine Joy Randolph … Read more
The kids are all right, it’s the teachers that require disciplinary measures in Alexander Payne’s eagerly awaited return to the director’s chair. The Holdovers arrives 20 years after the filmmaker and actor Paul Giamatti took a road trip through rolling Californian vineyards in the Oscar-winning comedy drama Sideways. Lightning strikes twice because their reunion is … Read more
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Every awards season there are the favourites who tend to win big gongs at other ceremonies before picking up the Oscar at the end of it all. This year the most likely contender across the board in the Best Actor categories is Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer. The 47-year-old star is hotly tipped to win the … Read more
