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October 15, 2026
With ‘Obsession,’ Is the Golden Globes’ Comedy Race the New Home for Category Fraud?
“Category fraud” is having a crossover moment. It happens every year, in awards cycles for both film and television. Campaigners submit films, shows and individual performances in categories they h...
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October 9, 2026
Olivia Wilde Eyes Oscars History With ‘The Invite’ as the First Woman to Direct Herself to an Acting Nomination
The actor-turned-director is hardly a new Hollywood phenomenon, but women who wear both hats have rarely received the same invites to the Oscars. Men have earned 20 Oscar acting nominations for fil...
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October 9, 2026
‘I Play Rocky’ Star Anthony Ippolito on Sylvester Stallone’s Reaction, Drinking Raw Eggs and Why Hollywood Needs ‘More Raw, Human Stories’
The first time you hear Anthony Ippolito’s voice in the trailer for “I Play Rocky,” you can’t help but gasp. The unmistakable Sylvester Stallone drawl is there, but something harder to convey than ...
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October 8, 2026
David Corenswet Proves He’s More Than Superman in ‘Mr. Irrelevant,’ a Potential ‘Blind Side’-Style Oscar Vehicle Following NFL Legends Screening in NYC
Football teams are always looking for an edge. This Oscar season, Paramount may have found one in David Corenswet. The New York Giants took John Tuggle with the 335th pick of the 1983 NFL Draft and...
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October 8, 2026
Ava DuVernay’s Doc ‘14th’ to Submit New Original Song by Brittany Howard and Robert Glasper for Oscars Consideration (EXCLUSIVE)
Ava DuVernay’s nonfiction sequel “14th” is set to world premiere as the closing-night film of the New York Film Festival on Friday, Oct. 9, and Variety can exclusively reveal that the film will fea...
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October 7, 2026
Inde Navarrette, Jaafar Jackson and More: Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch Spotlights ‘Obsession,’ ‘Michael,’ ‘La Bola Negra’ and Beyond
Awards and festival seasons are officially underway. The Newport Beach Film Festival will return for its 27th year, showcasing more than 100 feature films and 250 shorts from 21 countries. The fest...
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October 6, 2026
Andrew Garfield Could Win an Oscar for ‘Artificial’ and His Norman Bates-Inspired Turn as Sam Altman
Andrew Garfield found the Norman Bates of Silicon Valley, and he could win an Oscar for it. The Academy gave “Psycho” (1960) four nominations at the 33rd Oscars, and none of them were for the motel...
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October 5, 2026
Neon Sets ‘Artificial’ Oscar Campaign With Andrew Garfield in Supporting Actor, Yura Borisov in Lead (EXCLUSIVE)
Sixteen years ago, Andrew Garfield played the Facebook co-founder who was pushed out of the company he helped create in “The Social Network” and came up short in the supporting actor race. Now, he’...
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October 5, 2026
Mike Leigh’s ‘Tender Loving Care’ to Compete as Comedy at Golden Globes (EXCLUSIVE)
Mike Leigh is bringing love and care to the Golden Globes’ comedy race. Bleecker Street will submit “Tender Loving Care,” Leigh’s likely final film, in the musical or comedy categories at the upcom...
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October 4, 2026
Pedro Pascal in ‘Behemoth!’: The Oscar-Worthy Role That He (and Latinos) Have Been Waiting For
Pedro Pascal makes his Oscar case with a cello. “Behemoth!,” Tony Gilroy’s first feature as a director since “The Bourne Legacy” in 2012, world-premiered on Friday night at Alice Tully Hall as the ...
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October 1, 2026
Oscars: International Feature — ‘La Bola Negra,’ ‘Fjord’ and ‘Woman Unknown’ Lead Early Contenders
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...
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October 1, 2026
10 Animators to Watch on AI, Animation’s Future and Why the Human Hand Still Matters: ‘Nobody Else Has Your Point of View’
On the final day of the 10th annual SCAD AnimationFest in Atlanta, 10 animators and an Oscar-nominated director took the stage to talk about the future of their craft and why the human hand still m...
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October 1, 2026
Middleburg Film Festival Sets ‘Being Heumann’ as Closing Night Film, Martin McDonagh, Seth Rogen and Rosalind Eleazar Lead Honorees
“Being Heumann,” Oscar winner Siân Heder’s Apple Original Film, will close the 14th Middleburg Film Festival, which runs Oct. 15-18. The festival has also set Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s “La...
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September 30, 2026
Golden Globes Predictions: Let the Genre Games Begin for ‘Obsession,’ ‘Michael,’ ‘Wildwood’ and More
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...
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September 29, 2026
Variety’s ‘Pixels and Pencils’ Animation Panel Returns to SCAD Savannah Film Festival With Directors of ‘Wildwood,’ ‘Ray Gunn’ and More
Variety’s “Pixels and Pencils” panel returns to the SCAD Savannah Film Festival for a fifth year, spotlighting the directors behind the year’s standout animated features. Six filmmakers will join t...
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September 28, 2026
Julianne Moore to Receive Icon Award at SCAD Savannah Film Festival With ‘The Debut’ Set as Centerpiece Selection
The Savannah College of Art and Design will present Julianne Moore with the Icon Award at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, as it sets her film “The Dead Donkey,” Jesse Eisenberg’s musical comedy fr...
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September 22, 2026
5 Things the Fall Festivals Told Us About the Oscar Race, From Julianne Moore and John Malkovich to ‘La Bola Negra’ and ‘I Play Rocky’
The fall festival triple crown ended the way it always does, with a Toronto audience getting the last word. On Sunday, those words were in Spanish. “La Bola Negra,” the sprawling Netflix epic from ...
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September 21, 2026
SCAD Savannah Film Festival to Open With ‘A Talent for Murder’ and Legend of Entertainment Honor for Helen Mirren
The SCAD Savannah Film Festival will open its 29th edition with the Anton Corbijn thriller “A Talent for Murder” and will honor Helen Mirren with its Legend of Entertainment Award. The nation’s lar...
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September 21, 2026
Anne Hathaway to Campaign in Supporting Actress for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Support the Queen of Ithaca! Universal Pictures will campaign Anne Hathaway in the supporting actress category for her turn as Penelope in Christopher Nolan’s billion-dollar sensation “The Odyssey,...
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September 18, 2026
Oscar Predictions: Best Adapted Screenplay — Epics, Trilogies and a Wild Dinner Party Could Define the Race
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...
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September 16, 2026
TIFF Takeaways: A Chris Rock Crowd-Pleaser, Peter Farrelly’s ‘Rocky’ Standing Ovation and Market Growing Pains
After a flurry of fall festival activity in Venice and Telluride, the curtain is coming down on another year at TIFF. Careers were boosted, dark horses gained traction and blades were sharpened. He...
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September 15, 2026
Emmys So White Part 2: No Actors of Color Win Major Acting Prizes on TV’s Biggest Night
Sequels can be just as bad as their predecessors, and we’re in the midst of another unfortunate one. On Monday at the 78th Emmy Awards, in the lead and supporting races for drama and comedy, in add...
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September 15, 2026
‘Widow’s Bay’ Wins Most Emmys Ever for a Comedy Series in a Year, Breaking ‘The Studio’s’ Record
“Widow’s Bay” is the most awarded comedy season in Emmy history. Apple TV’s horror-comedy closed the weekend with 14 Emmys — eight banked at the Creative Arts ceremonies and six more on Monday’s te...
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September 15, 2026
Hiro Murai Becomes First Asian Director to Win Emmy for Comedy Directing With ‘Widow’s Bay’
Hiro Murai has made Emmy history. Murai on Monday won outstanding directing for a comedy series for the “Widow’s Bay” premiere, “Welcome to Widow’s Bay!,” becoming the first Asian director ever to ...
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September 15, 2026
Matthew Rhys Makes Emmy History as First Person to Win Two Lead Acting Emmys in One Night and First Man to Win All Three Top Acting Prizes
Matthew Rhys did something no actor had done in 78 years of the Emmy Awards. Rhys won two lead acting Emmys on the same night at Monday’s ceremony. Earlier in the night he shockingly took home the ...
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September 13, 2026
Chris Rock’s Hollywood Send-Up ‘Misty Green’ Hits TIFF With Rosalind Eleazar’s Knockout Lead Performance
Roughly two-thirds through “Misty Green,” Rosalind Eleazar takes a breath and lets a rendition of “One Night Only,” from the musical “Dreamgirls,” rip. The characters around her go quiet, and the c...
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September 13, 2026
‘I Play Rocky’ Premieres at TIFF: A Movie About a Best Picture Winner That’s a Best Picture Contender?
Yo Adrian, Rocky did it … again! Only this time, the famed character is at TIFF in biopic form, thanks to director Peter Farrelly, screenwriter Peter Gamble and a star-making turn from Anthony Ippo...
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September 11, 2026
Sebastian Stan on Why ‘Fjord’ Is Being Called a ‘MAGA Movie’ and How Making ‘The Batman 2’ Feels Like ‘F—ing Godfather Part 2’
Sebastian Stan has been running around the city of Toronto. We’re sitting in a restaurant, having lunch between his multiple studio visits for various publications. It’s busy and bustling around us...
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September 11, 2026
TIFF Opens With Siân Heder’s Crowd-Pleasing ‘Being Heumann’ — and Apple Has Its Next Oscar Contender
“Being Heumann” opens on a New York sidewalk that doesn’t allow Judy Heumann to climb it. There’s no curb cut or ramp. Just a woman and her wheelchair. Director Siân Heder holds on it — and then Ju...
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September 9, 2026
Telluride Takeaways: From Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti’s ‘Debut’ to Nathan Fielder’s Audacious Dare to the Doc Branch
On my last morning in Telluride, halfway through breakfast at Butcher & Baker, Kenneth Branagh stopped at the table on his way to a Q&A for “Into the Breach,” the National Theatre documenta...
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