Judd Apatow honed in on Tom Cruise when he was onstage at the Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday evening (February 18).
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Hasan Minhaj has been tapped to host the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards, which are set to take place March 4 in Santa Monica.
The annual indie-focused awards show will stream live on IMDb, Film Independent’s YouTube channel and other platforms beginning at 2 p.m. PT.
“With his unparalleled ability to bring both humor and perception to the issues around us, Hasan Minhaj is the ideal host to help us celebrate these independent artists,” Film Independent president Josh Welsh said Tuesday. “We can’t wait to see what surprises he has in store for the Spirit Awards on March 4th.”
Last year, Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman co-hosted the ceremony, at which Netflix’s The Lost Daughter scored a leading three wins including Best Feature. That show aired on live on IFC and AMC+.
This year, A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, as it did with the Oscar nominations last week, leads the way with nominations on the film side, nabbing eight. The multiverse-spanning hit will be looking to build momentum ahead of the Oscars on March 12; the Spirits this year land in the middle of final Oscar voting.
Also this year, Film Independent has made their main acting categories gender-neutral, with 10 nominees each in Best Lead Performance and Best Supporting Performance on both the film and TV sides. The group added a couple of new categories as well, including Best Breakthrough Performance, which has five nominees.
In the TV categories, ABC’s Abbott Elementary, FX’s The Bear, Apple TV+’s Severance and HBO/HBO Max’s Station Eleven lead with three nominations apiece.
Minhaj, the onetime The Daily Show correspondent, is known for his standup special Homecoming King and Netflix’s satire series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, which won a
Judd Apatow honed in on Tom Cruise when he was onstage at the Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday evening (February 18).
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor In celebration of his love for animation, Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro is set to program a weekend of animation for the American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica called “Guillermo del Toro’s Weekend of Animation.” The films programmed by del Toro will include screenings of “The Red Turtle” and “I Lost My Body.” The weekend of animation will open with the 2016 Studio Ghibli film, “The Red Turtle,” with del Toro virtually introducing the film. Following that, there will be a screening of the Netflix film “I Lost My Body.” Sunday concludes with a 35mm screening of the Oscar-nominated film “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.” Del Toro and co-director Mark Gustafson will attend a post-screening Q&A.
There was a lot more going on behind the scenes of filming season four of Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip with Brandi Glanville than just the incident with former co-star Caroline Manzo! In case you haven’t been keeping up, r
Camila Mendes and her boyfriend Rudy Mancuso have made their public debut as a couple!
EXCLUSIVE: Frank DiLella, the host of Spectrum News NY1’s theater program On Stage and a ubiquitous presence in the Broadway community, has signed with Adam Leibner at United Talent Agency (UTA) for agency representation.
Seraphina Affleck is going to have an Oscar-worthy skateboarding reel. The 14-year-old and their friends had a skateboarding session on Saturday, and their dad Ben Affleck was out in the street capturing the tricks with what looks like two very expensive cameras.Seraphina’s stepmom, Jennifer Lopez, and step-sibling Emme Muñiz were there to offer support.
Camila Mendes and Rudy Mancuso take a moment to pause while out walking through Soho on Sunday (February 12) in New York City.
Billie Shepherd was mum-shamed after sharing photos of her baby daughter while on holiday with her sister, Sam Faiers.The former TOWIE star, who featured on the show from 2010 to 2016 with cast members like Chloe Sims, Bobby Norris and Amy Childs, flew her family to Dubai alongside Sam and their mum, Suzie.They flew business class with Emirates, and Billie shared a picture of Margot, Nelly, eight, and son Arthur, five, on the plane. "Margot's first holiday.
Sam Faiers and Billie Shepherd, along with their partners and children, as well as mum Suzie Wells have headed to their holiday favourite Dubai for some winter sun. Billie, 33, has recently welcomed daughter Margot with husband Greg Shepherd, and the trip marks the new arrival's first holiday. Luckily, the seven hour flight was made more comfortable for the family of five, which also includes Nelly, eight, and Arthur, five, as they travelled in style.
Temperatures will be turned up in South Africa from tonight (Sunday February 12) as Love Island brings back its infamous Casa Amor stage to put relationships to the test. Dubbed the 'ultimate relationship test', the twist sees a batch of six new girls and six new boys head into the main TV villa and neighbouring villa Casa Amor.
EXCLUSIVE: Lily Rabe (The Tender Bar), newcomer Chase Infiniti, Nana Mensah (Queen of Glory), Matthew Alan (Monster) and Kingston Rumi Southwick (9 Full Moons) have rounded out the cast of Presumed Innocent, Apple TV+’s upcoming limited series from David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV, where the company is based. They join previously cast Jake Gyllenhaal, who also executive produces, Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Renate Reinsve, Peter Sarsgaard and O-T Fagbenle.
to pain medication.“I hate the word ‘taboo.’ I think it should be stricken from the dictionary,” Bell in a new interview, per . “There should be no topic that’s off the table for people to talk about.” keeps this same energy when discussing “hard topics” with ; nine-year-old Lincoln and eight-year-old Delta. “I talk to my kids about drugs, and the fact that their daddy is an addict and he’s in recovery, and we talk about sex,” she said.
Kristen Bell is opening up about parenthood again.
How they make it work! Kristen Bell opened up about how her husband, Dax Shepard, keeps her on her toes after nearly 10 years of marriage.
We are learning more details about what allegedly went down between Brandi Glanville and Caroline Manzo while filming scenes for a forthcoming season of Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip in Morocco. As we previously reported, both Brandi
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip’s production company and network are speaking out for the first time about what happened between Brandi Glanville and Caroline Manzo during filming for season four of the show!
Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, French filmmaker Alice Diop and Romanian director Cristian Mungiu have demanded that Iran’s Fajr International Film Festival remove their films from the line-up of its current edition, running from February 1 to 11.
Perhaps it’s the fact the ceremony traditionally takes place in a tent on a beach. Maybe it’s the early afternoon brunch setting where an abundance of spirits are flowing.
Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, has selected 30 filmmakers for Project Involve 2023 and with a renewed partnership with LAIKA Studios, expanded the stop-motion animation track into a two-year program, selecting five filmmakers.