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The 2024-25 film awards season continues to take shape as the Producers Guild of America reveals the date and timeline for its 36th annual PGA Awards. The 2025 ceremony is set for Saturday, February 8, at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. See the full timeline below.

Producers Guild of America awards will take place on Feb. 8. The ceremony will be at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Beta Cinema is launching international sales in Cannes for director Fatih Akin‘s upcoming film “Amrum,” which starts shooting in Hamburg Monday. The film stars Jasper Billerbeck, Laura Tonke and Diane Kruger. “Amrum” will be released in German theaters in September 2025, distributed by Warner Bros.

BAFTA Unveils Special Award Winner & Host For 2024 Craft Gongs

More than 1.5million older people claiming Attendance Allowance are set for a significant income boost over the coming months now that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have applied the annual uprating to both the State Pension and the disability benefit. People on Attendance Allowance will receive either £72.65 or £108.55 each week during the 2024/25 financial year, depending on the level of support they need.

The 21st Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Awards, which highlight Irish filmmakers, television creators and performers, saw Pat Collins’ That They May Face The Rising Sun win Best Film in an upset. Despite earning a second-best 11 nominations, the top award was its only win.

Anna Marie de la Fuente In a triumphant night for Spain, J.A. Bayona’s Oscar-nominated “Society of the Snow” swept the top prizes at Platino Xcaret, named after the venue of the annual Platino Awards this year, which took place at the Xcaret Resort, Riviera Maya, Mexico.

Sarah Ferguson has paid a heartfelt tribute to Queen Elizabeth II on what would have been her "97th birthday", despite a slight error in her calculations.

Netflix smash hit Baby Reindeer is the show being talked about by everyone at the moment and it was written and created by Scots comedian, writer and actor Richard Gaad.

20,000 Species Of Bees, the debut film by Basque filmmaker Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, and Society Of The Snow, J. A. Bayona’s survival drama for Netflix, dominated the top honors at the eleventh Platino Awards Saturday evening.

Two acts were awarded the prestigious golden buzzer during Britain's Got Talent's launch episode on Saturday night.

Alex Ritman Cillian Murphy capped off his domination of awards season by claiming the top acting prize for film on home soil. The Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG award winner on Saturday night added perhaps a final statue to his flawless haul for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” when he was named best lead actor at the 21st Irish Film and TV Academy Awards.

Jimmy Kimmel is getting candid about his Oscars future!

Britain’s Got Talent viewers were delighted when a singer was awarded the season's first golden buzzer.

Dani Rojas in the “Ted Lasso” series, Cristo Fernández had a career as a soccer player. Interestingly, he portrays a prominent player for AFC Richmond in the Apple TV series.

Taylor Swift fans have been sent into a frenzy after announcing her latest release was, in fact, a double album.

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, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender.

Jack Dunn Variety has earned its third Daytime Emmy nomination for the “Actors on Actors” series, with the first coming in 2019. The PBS SoCal series pairs up actors for candid discussions about their recent work and thoughts on the entertainment industry.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This contains major spoilers for the finale of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Banana fever reigns supreme after “RuPaul’s Drag Race” crowned America’s next drag superstar. Season 16 winner Nymphia Wind snatched the crown from fellow finalists Plane Jane and Sapphira Cristál.

EXCLUSIVE: Almost 30 years after they first started working together on Saturday Night Live, Molly Shannon and Steve Koren have re-teamed for a comedy series, which is in development at HBO. Shannon and Koren are executive producing the untitled project, written by Koren and starring Shannon.

Lise Pedersen “The Landscape and the Fury” by Switzerland’s Nicole Vögele took the Grand Jury Prize in the International Feature Film Competition at Swiss doc festival Visions du Réel on Friday. Shot on the Bosnian-Croatian border, which is also the European Union border, the film unveils the struggle of refugees being chased away by police and navigating a terrain still contaminated with mines from the Bosnian War.

Famed former American Idol contestant and Grammy Award winning singer Mandisa has died.

BAFTA has confirmed that the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards will be held on Sunday 16 February, 2025.

The Tortured Poets Department has finally arrived and you can stream Taylor Swift‘s new album for free right here.

The 2024 Daytime Emmys are coming up!

EXCLUSIVE: Conrad Ricamora, the actor, singer and writer known for turns in Searchlight/Hulu’s Fire Island and ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder, has signed with Paradigm for representation.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos saw a 2023 compensation package valued at $49.8 million, down a hair from the year before but with one big change — he took more in stock option awards than in cash as the streamer shifts its pay policies.

Katcy Stephan Kevin Hart and his global entertainment company Hartbeat have signed with WME for representation in all areas. Hart will continue to develop, star in and produce feature films, television, commercials, and podcasts via Hartbeat. The move to WME comes as Hart and Hartbeat continue to expand their portfolio of multi-platform IP.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The National Academy of Televison Arts & Sciences is rolling out the nominations for Daytime Emmys, announcing a handful of categories on Thursday night and revealing the rest on Friday morning. More categories will be announced this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. PT, and then at 8:30 p.m.

prepare to embody Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and to keep her project alive, Oscar winners and look poised to play two other silver screen icons in their very own sweeping biopic: crooner and his second wife, Hollywood bombshell Ava Gardner, in a new drama from Martin Scorsese, no less.Lawrence and DiCaprio—who previously costarred in a very different awards contender, playing cranky astronomers in Adam McKay’s 2021 satire Don’t Look Up—are attached to the new film, per , though its future is still uncertain. (Sinatra’s daughter Tina, who controls her father’s estate, has reportedly yet to give her blessing to the forthcoming release.)It should, however, get greenlit, as there’s no shortage of material that’s ripe for retelling: Gardner, known for being impossibly glamorous, free-spirited, brash, and outspoken, had previously been married to Mickey Rooney and then Artie Shaw, before tying the knot with her third husband.