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Product Description: Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce) recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost...

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BAFTA Film Awards 2025 Winners - The Complete List

The Vatican drama "Conclave" was among the big winners at the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards, scoring four trophies including Best Film, Outstanding British Film and Adapted Screenplay. Brady Corbet's "The Brutalist" also landed four wins: Best Director, Leading Actor (Adrien Brody), Original Score and Cinematography.

Netflix's musical drama "Emilia Perez" nabbed two awards, Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña) and Film Not In The English Language, while "A Real Pain" won Best Supporting Actor (Kieran Culkin) and Original Screenplay (Jesse Eisenberg).

David Jonsson ("Alien: Romulus") won the EE Rising Star Award, and Warwick Davis received the BAFTA Fellowship.

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BAFTA 2025 Film Nominations - The Complete List

The nominations for the 2025 BAFTA Film awards have been announced in London this morning. The Vatican thriller "Conclave" leads the pack with 12 nominations, while the crime musical "Emilia Pérez" is close behind with 11 nods. Both films will complete with "The Brutalist", "Anora", and "A Complete Unknown" for Best Film.

Brady Corbet's epic drama "The Brutalist" landed nine nominations, while "Anora", "Dune: Part Two" and "Wicked" are tied with seven nods. "A Complete Unknown" and the Irish biographical comedy "Kneecap" scored six nominations each.

This year the BAFTAs introduced a new "Children's And Family Film" category. The Nominees are "Flow", "Kensuke's Kingdom", "Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl" and "The Wild Robot".

The ceremony will take place on February 16th at London's Royal Festival Hall. "Doctor Who" star David Tennant will return to host.

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SAG Awards Nominations 2025 - The Complete List

The nominations for the 2025 SAG Awards were revealed. The group's scheduled in-person announcement was canceled due to the wildfire tragedy in Los Angeles. The film ensemble category nominees include "A Complete Unknown", "Anora", "Conclave", "Emilia Pérez" and "Wicked".

The lead actor contenders include Adrien Brody ("The Brutalist"), Timothée Chalamet ("A Complete Unknown"), Daniel Craig ("Queer"), Colman Domingo ("Sing Sing") and Ralph Fiennes ("Conclave"). The nominees for lead female actor are Pamela Anderson ("The Last Showgirl"), Cynthia Erivo ("Wicked"), Karla Sofía Gascón ("Emilia Pérez"), Mikey Madison ("Anora") and Demi Moore ("The Substance").

In the television categories, the nominees for Ensemble in a Drama Series are "Bridgerton", "The Day of the Jackal", "The Diplomat", "Shōgun" and "Slow Horses". The Comedy Series contenders include "Abbott Elementary", "The Bear", "Hacks", "Only Murders in the Building" and "Shrinking".

Jane Fonda will receive the SAG Life Achievement Award.

The winners of the 31st annual SAG Awards will be announced on February 23rd at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles. The ceremony will be hosted by Kristen Bell and will stream live on Netflix.

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DGA Awards 2025 Nominations - The Complete List

We now have both the TV and theatrical nominees for the 77th annual DGA Awards. In the film category, the nominees are Jacques Audiard ("Emilia Perez"), Sean Baker ("Anora"), Edward Berger ("Conclave"), Brady Corbet ("The Brutalist") and James Mangold ("A Complete Unknown").

In the television categories, the top contenders include "Shogun", "True Detective: Night Country", "The Diplomat", "The Bear", "Ripley", "Disclaimer" and "The Penguin".

The winners will be announced on February 8th at The Beverly Hilton.

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Golden Globes 2025 Winners - The Complete List

The winners of the 82nd annual Golden Globes were revealed on Sunday night. A24's "The Brutalist" won Best Motion Picture Drama, Director (Brady Corbet) and Actor (Adrien Brody), while Netflix's "Emilia Perez" won Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Zoe Saldana), Non-English Motion Picture and Original Score (Celement Ducol, Camille).

Fernanda Torres provided a major upset as Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture for Sony's "I'm Still Here", beating out Pamela Anderson, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Tilda Swinton and Kate Winslet. Torres is the second Brazilian woman to be nominated in the category. The first was her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, for Walter Salles' 1999 film "Central Station".

Demi Moore also scored an upset, winning Female Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for the horror film "The Substance". This is her first major acting award, and her third Golden Globes nomination.

Kieran Culkin won Male Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his role in Jesse Eisenberg's movie "A Real Pain". Zoe Saldaña won her first Golden Globe for Female Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for "Emilia Pérez". Sebastian Stan nabbed a trophy for Male Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for A24's "A Different Man".

FX's "Shōgun" dominated in the television categories with four awards including Best TV Drama Series and trophies for Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai and Tadanobu Asano. Max's "Hacks" won Best TV Musical or Comedy and Female Actor in a TV Series – Musical or Comedy (Jean Smart), while Netflix' "Baby Reindeer" won for Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television and Female Supporting Actor in a TV series (Jessica Gunning).

Jeremy Allen White won Male Actor in a TV Musical or Comedy Golden Globe for FX's "The Bear", and Colin Farrell won his third career Golden Globe for his performance in "The Penguin". Jodie Foster took home her fifth Globe for the HBO limited series "True Detective: Night Country".

The awards show was hosted by stand-up comedian and actress Nikki Glaser from the Beverly Hilton. The show aired live on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.

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THE BRUTALIST (2024) - Trailers, Images and Posters

"The Brutalist" is a historical drama directed by Brady Corbet ("Vox Lux") from a script he co-wrote alongside Mona Fastvold ("The Mustang"). The cast includes Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, Isaach de Bankolé and Alessandro Nivola. The film premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival where it won the Silver Lion for Best Direction. It opened in select theaters on December 20, 2024.

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New Soundtracks: THE BRUTALIST (Daniel Blumberg)

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Composer:
Daniel Blumberg

Total Time:
81:52

Label:
Milan Records

Purchasing Links:
MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
December 13, 2024




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Critics Choice Awards 2025 Nominations - The Complete List

The nominations for the 30th annual Critics Choice awards have been revealed. The 2025 film nominees include "Conclave" and "Wicked", both leading with 11 noms each, including Best Picture, as well as "Dune: Part Two" and "Emilia Pérez" with 10 nods apiece, and "The Brutalist" with nine. The previously announced TV nominations are topped by "Shōgun" with six nods, including Best Drama Series. The winners will be announced on Sunday, January 12, 2025, live on E!.

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New Trailers: 28 YEARS LATER, THE BRUTALIST, OLD GUY, LIKE FATHER LIKE SON, LAWS OF MAN and STAR TREK: SECTION 31

Today we have new trailers for:

• "28 Years Later", the third installment in the post-apocalyptic zombie horror series created by Danny Boyle. Boyle returns to direct the threequel, which stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, Edvin Ryding and Ralph Fiennes.
• The award-winning drama "The Brutalist", which received seven Golden Globe nominations this week including Best Picture, Best Director (Brady Corbet), Best Male Lead Performance (Adrien Brody), and Best Male and Female Supporting Performances (Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones).
• The dark comedy "Old Guy" starring Christoph Waltz, Lucy Liu and Cooper Hoffman. The film is directed by veteran action helmer Simon West ("Con Air", "The Expendables 2", "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider").
• The thriller "Like Father Like Son" starring Dylan Flashner, Ariel Winter, Vivica A. Fox, Mayim Bialik and Dermot Mulroney.
• The crime noir "Laws of Man" starring Jacob Keohane, Jackson Rathbone, Dermot Mulroney, Harvey Keitel, Graham Greene and Keith Carradine.
• The Paramount+ movie "Star Trek: Section 31" starring Michelle Yeoh.

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New Trailers: MARIA, THE BRUTALIST, SEPTEMBER 5, THE MERRY GENTLEMEN, MEET ME NEXT CHRISTMAS and HOT FROSTY

Today we have new trailers for:

• The biopic "Maria" starring Angelina Jolie as iconic American-Greek opera singer Maria Callas. The film is directed by Pablo Larrain ("Jackie", "Spencer") from a script by Steven Knight ("Peaky Blinders").
• The acclaimed post-war epic "The Brutalist" starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce. Co-written and directed by Brady Corbet ("Vox Lux").
• The docudrama "September 5" starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Ben Chaplin.
• The Christmas romantic comedy "The Merry Gentlemen" starring Britt Robertson, Chad Michael Murray, Marla Sokoloff, Beth Broderick, and Michael Gross.
• Another Netflix Christmas romantic comedy "Meet Me Next Christmas" starring Christina Milian, Devale Ellis, Kofi Siriboe and Kalen Allen.
• And here's one more Netflix Christmas romantic comedy "Hot Frosty" starring Lacey Chabert. Netflix is like the new Hallmark.

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Venice Film Festival 2024 Awards Winners - The Complete List

After a week and a half, we now have the winners of the prestigious Venice Film Festival awards. The Golden Lion award for Best Film went to Pedro Almodovar's "The Room Next Door", the filmmaker's first English-language feature, which received a 17-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the festival. The film is an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez's novel "What Are You Going Through", and it stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.

The Silver Lion best director prize went to Brady Corbet for "The Brutalist" starring Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones. Nicole Kidman took home the best actress actress award for her role in the erotic thriller "Babygirl" opposite Antonio Banderas and Harris Dickinson, while Vincent Lindon won best actor for his performance in "The Quiet Son". The Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize went to "Vermiglio" by Maura Delpero, and The Special Jury Prize went to "April", directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili.

The Venice Film Festival's 81st edition jury was presided over by Isabelle Huppert and comprised filmmakers James Gray, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Abderrahmane Sissako, Giuseppe Tornatore, Julia von Heinz and actress Zhang Ziyi.

Read the complete list of 2024 Venice Film Festival awards after the jump.