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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is going virtual, at least that seems to be the message in an email sent to the entire membership Friday night from president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson. The measures have actually been taking place since Wednesday, including all scheduled screenings for membership…

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Friday that it is postponing the 41st annual Sports Emmy Awards and 71st annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards dinner, both of which had been scheduled for April. The organization said it will look to move both events to a later date this year, and comes as…

The TV Academy said Thursday that it has suspended its live Emmy For Your Consideration events and instead move to a live-streamed or pre-recorded model for the full TV awards season as the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact Hollywood business. “FYC events will be livestreamed or recorded without an audience,&#8221…

The 31st GLAAD Media Awards in New York is the latest Hollywood event that has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns. The event was set for March 19. As announced on GLAAD’s website and social media channels, the event “will no longer occur next week following new guidance from the New York State Governor Andrew…

EXCLUSIVE: This week was supposed to be a great and promising one for all the filmmakers who had seen their films accepted into SXSW, a great majority seeking distribution after premiering in front of the usually highly enthusiastic audiences that storm the Austin festival every March. That was before the fear of the c…

Suddenly, 2020 is a year of imponderables. Will there be a Cannes Film Festival? Given the coronavirus-induced cancellation of SXSW, MipTV, and the AFI Life Achievement Gala, who knows? Is Marvel's Black Widow the big spring-summer hit, now that No Time To Die is bumped to November? Maybe, if an April/May release…

The American Film Institute (AFI) is postponing the 48th annual AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute in celebration of Julie Andrews. The event was originally scheduled for April 25 and AFI said it will be rescheduled for a date in early summer. The new date and the air date for the premiere of the Tribute special…

UPDATED with NCAA report: The NCAA's worst-case scenario for staging its March Madness tournaments in the time of coronavirus would be barring spectators from games, with players screened for illness before competing, the association's chief medical officer Brian Hainline told The Wall Street Journal Saturday. The…

Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences CEO? Dawn Hudson is staying on at the home of Oscar. The Academy’s Board of Governors on Thursday announced a 3-plus-year renewal of her contract, extending her stay through at least May 2023. Hudson joined the organization in 2011. Among accomplishments during her tenure has…

James McAvoy, Andrew Scott, Wendell Pierce and Toby Jones are going head-to-head for best actor in this year’s Olivier Awards, while Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Hayley Atwell, Juliet Stevenson and Sharon D Clarke have been nominated for best actress. New musical & Juliet has nabbed nine nominations, Trevor Nunn's Fiddler on…

UPDATE, writethru: The 70th Berlin Film Festival, and the first under new leadership team Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian, drew to a close this evening with the Golden Bear awarded to Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil. Rasoulof is currently banned from leaving Iran for participation in social and political…

There were bound to be some pin-drop moments during tonight’s César Awards, but for the most part things ran smoothly until Roman Polanski was named Best Director for his Dreyfus Affair drama, An Officer And A Spy, late into the evening. The film had already taken Best Costumes and Best Adapted Screenplay, yet when it…