The Ultimate Price

A plagiarism controversy has broken out and is casting a shadow over the 96th Academy Awards as the ceremony gets underway in Los Angeles. It's alleged the story of the film The Holdovers is remarkably similar to a script written by screenwriter Simon Stephenson called Frisco, wh ...  Show more

Fin janvier, à un peu plus d’un mois des Oscars, Emilia Pérez, le film du réalisateur français Jacques Audiard, semblait lancé sur l’autoroute du succès. <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2025/01/23/oscars-2025-emilia-perez-de-jacques-audiard-nomme-dans-13-categ ...  Show more

Nijla Mu'min is a writer and filmmaker from the East Bay Area. Her work is informed by poetry, photography, fiction, and dance. Named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2017, she tells stories about Black girls and women who find themselves between w ...  Show more

Today, we look at the highlights from the 2024 Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles.Oppenheimer was the big winner of the night taking home seven Oscars while Ryan Gosling stole the show with his performance of ‘I’m Just Ken’. Emma Stone won Best Actress for her performance in Poor Thi ...  Show more

This week, The Film Comment Podcast welcomes back seminal critic David Bordwell to discuss his new book Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling. Instead of approaching the decade through the lens of one genre or auteur, Bordwell thinks about the sty ...  Show more