GOTHAM AWARDS NOMINATIONS START THE SEASON
The Independent Film Project announced their lost of nominees for this year on Thursday. Jordan Peele's Get Out led the way with four mentions for Best Picture, Direction, Actor and Screenplay.Actress.
TFF #44 film Lady Bird was next on the list with three nominations for Breakthrough Director, Screenplay and Actress for Saoirse Ronan.
Call Me By Your Name and The Florida Project also were nominated for three awards apiece.
The complete list of nominees is here at The Gotham Awards website.
I have also linked analysis from Indiewire's Anne Thompson as well as Ioncinema's Eric Lavallee.
NEW POSTER FOR THE SHAPE OF WATER
The Film Stage reported over the weekend that Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water had released a new poster which you can see above. The film is scheduled to open on Dec. 8th.
AI WEIWEI AND HUMAN FLOW
Human rights activist and film maker Ai Weiwei's Human Flow was featured at this year's Telluride Film Festival and opened this past weekend. Indiewire's David Ehrlich interviewed Weiwei recently about the documentary which is headlined as the definitive film about the global refugee crisis. That interview is here.
HOSTILES AND WORMWOOD NAMED TO THE AFI FEST
The American Film Institute announced their centerpiece galas and a tribute this week. Scott Cooper's Hostiles was named as one of three centerpiece galas. Hostiles was a part of the TFF #44 lineup and recently was acquired for distribution by Entertainment Studios.
The other galas are Call Me By Your Name and The Disaster Artist.
AFI also announced that there will be a tribute screening of Errol Morris' Wormwood which also played Telluride.
The announcement from The American Film Institute can be found here.
That's a wrap for this Monday. I'll have another update on Thursday.
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