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In the six years since the film academy’s music branch first incorporated 15-candidate shortlists into their annual Oscar nominations voting process, a total of 24 films have each been named semi-finalists for both Best Original Score and Best Original Song. This includes five 2023 releases – “American Symphony,” “Barbie,” “The Color Purple,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” – which constitute one of the largest groups of double dippers so far. Whether each will ultimately be nominated for both, one, or neither of the music awards remains to be seen, but some insight can be gained by analyzing the fates of their 19 predecessors.

Last year, the roster of dual music shortlist entrants grew by four with the inclusion of “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” and “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.” Those films all subsequently became Oscar nominees in some capacity,...

Stars: Mãdãlina Ghenea, Ibrahima Gueye, Ed Westwick, Macarena Gómez, Stany Coppet, John-Paul Pace, Shane Rowe | Written by Robert Capelli Jr., Sophia Eptamenitis | Directed by Marcus Adams

Deep Fear, not to be confused with last year’s film about monsters under the streets of Paris (which is probably why they added the “Sharks vs Narcs” subtitle to the film for its digital release), is a call back to the shark films of the past. Not to Jaws or its imitators but to something earlier, like Shark!, Shark’s Treasure, and The Deep where the sharks were a secondary plot element, an added threat for the protagonists to face in addition to other humans.

In the case of Deep Fear that would be Naomi whom we first see showing her co-worker Barney how easily a reef shark can be steered away from people. When she surfaces her partner Jackson that he’s booked another tour.

Sophia Loren is recovering well following surgery, a rep for the 89-year-old actress relayed to the press on Tuesday. “I thank everyone for the closeness and affection that they are showing me,” Loren said through her agent, according to The Associated Press. “I am better, just have to do rehabilitation and give myself a period of rest.”

Earlier this week, she underwent surgery to repair several fractures to her hip and femur after she fell in her bedroom in Geneva, Switzerland, where she has lived for decades. “Sophia underwent surgery...

Iconic Italian actress Sophia Loren has undergone emergency surgery after sustaining a fall from her home in Geneva.

Loren, who turned 89 less than a week ago, sustained several fractures while falling in her bathroom, including one to her femur. She is currently in post-operation recovery and will have to “undergo a short period of convalescence followed by a rehabilitation process,” according to a statement from her agent, Andrea Giusti.

The news of her fall was announced by a restaurant she was set to open in Bari, Italy. Loren was also going to receive honorary citizenship from the city, but the event has now been postponed.

Her last public appearance was at an Armani fashion show in Venice, which coincided with the 80th Venice Film Festival.

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Loren’s sons, Carlo and Edoardo Ponti, are at the hospital with her. Edoardo directed the 2020 Netflix film The Life Ahead,...

Sophia Loren is hospitalized and in recovery after a severe fall on Sunday, which led to several fractures, including her hip and femur.

The incident, which occurred in her Swiss home and was confirmed by an Instagram post from a restaurant she was due to open in Bari on Sept. 26, required surgery. The legendary Italian actress, who turned 89 on Sept. 20, “will now have to undergo a short period of convalescence followed by a rehabilitation process,” the announcement read.

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Translated to English from its Italian text, the post in full reads: “Today, a fall at her home in Geneva caused Mrs. Loren to suffer hip fractures. Having undergone a successful operation, she will now have to undergo a short period of convalescence followed by a rehabilitation process. Fortunately everything went well and the Lady will be back with us very soon.

Italian actress Sophia Loren was rushed to the hospital for an emergency surgery for a fractured hip following a fall in her home in Switzerland’s Geneva.

Italy’s most famous living movie star, who turned 89 on September 20, suffered multiple fractures after accidentally falling at home on Sunday morning, reports ‘Variety’.

She fell in her bathroom and suffered multiple fractures to her hip, as well as a serious fracture to her femur, which required surgery.

News of the accident was broken by a restaurant she was set to open in the Italian city of Bari on September 26 — the fourth such restaurant bearing her name.

As per ‘The Hollywood Reporter’, the actress was also set to receive honorary citizenship from the city, but now all her engagements for the foreseeable future have been cancelled.

Sources say the actress’ sons Carlo and Edoardo are by her side at the hospital.

Edoardo directed...

Italian actress Sophia Loren was rushed to the hospital for an emergency surgery for a fractured hip following a fall in her home in Switzerland’s Geneva.

Italy’s most famous living movie star, who turned 89 on September 20, suffered multiple fractures after accidentally falling at home on Sunday morning, reports ‘Variety’.

She fell in her bathroom and suffered multiple fractures to her hip, as well as a serious fracture to her femur, which required surgery.

News of the accident was broken by a restaurant she was set to open in the Italian city of Bari on September 26 — the fourth such restaurant bearing her name.

As per ‘The Hollywood Reporter’, the actress was also set to receive honorary citizenship from the city, but now all her engagements for the foreseeable future have been cancelled.

Sources say the actress’ sons Carlo and Edoardo are by her side at the hospital.

Edoardo directed...

Sophia Loren is recovering after undergoing emergency surgery on Sunday. The 89-year-old Italian actress suffered several fractures after a bad fall at her home in Geneva. According to reports, Loren fell inside her bathroom and sustained several fractures to her hip and a fracture to her femur.

On Sunday afternoon, “Sophia underwent surgery with a positive outcome and will now have to undergo a short period of convalescence followed by a path towards complete rehabilitation,” announced Sophia Loren Restaurant on their Instagram.

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Sophia Loren is recovering from emergency surgery for a fractured hip following a fall on Sunday in her home in Geneva, Switzerland.

Italy’s most famous living movie star, who turned 89 on Sept. 20, suffered several fractures after accidentally falling at home on Sunday morning, according to multiple reports. On Sunday afternoon, “Sophia was operated with positive outcome and will now have to undergo a brief period of convalescence followed by a complete rehabilitation,” said Italian national news agency Ansa.

She sustained “serious fractures” to different parts of her hip and femur, according to her agent Andrea Giusti who confirmed that both Loren’s sons, Carlo and Edoardo Ponti, were at her bedside. “The surgery went perfectly and we only need to wait,” Giusti told Variety in an email.

News of Loren’s hospitalization was first announced by a restaurant bearing her name that she was set to inaugurate on Tuesday...

Iconic actress Sophia Loren was hospitalized on Sunday following a fall at her home in Geneva. The Italian star reportedly sustained fractures to her hip and femur, and underwent surgery with what has been described as a positive outcome.

Loren, who turned 89 on September 20, was due in Bari, Italy on Tuesday to receive honorary citizenship while also inaugurating the fourth outpost of her Sophia Loren Restaurant chain.

The restaurant posted on Instagram that Loren will have to observe a short period of convalescence, followed by rehabilitation.

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Loren, an Oscar winner for 1960’s Two Women, was recently seen in the 2020 Netflix movie The Life Ahead, returning to the screen following an 11-year absence to be directed by her son Edoardo Ponti. The film was an adaptation of Romain Gary’s The Life Before Us, which relocated the novel to Bari,...

Sophia Loren underwent emergency surgery Sunday after suffering several fractures, including one to her femur, after a bad fall at her Swiss home.

The Italian acting icon, who turned 89 on Sept. 20, fell in her bathroom and sustained several fractures to her hip as well as a serious fracture to her femur, which needed surgery, a source close to the actress told The Hollywood Reporter. The source added that there is cautious optimism about the outcome of the operation and Loren’s recovery, which will include a short convalescence and then a long rehabilitation.

News of Loren’s fall was broken by a restaurant she was set to open in the Italian city of Bari on Sept. 26 — the fourth such restaurant bearing her name. The actress was also set to receive honorary citizenship from the city, but now all her engagements for the foreseeable future have been canceled.

Sources say the...

Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti made it clear why he was making fun of Netflix in his latest Cannes film entry, A Brighter Tomorrow.

There’s a moment in the film when Moretti’s doppelganger filmmaker is debating with a Netflix streaming exec: The suit wants him to establish his story in two minutes. But the director refuses to budge: What about the first 10? The first 37 minutes? There’s also a snark in the scene about there being no Italian film stars anymore.

At today’s press conference for A Brighter Tomorrow, Moretti expounded that he wasn’t just jabbing specifically at Netflix, but he was knocking all streamers in their encroachment on cinema. Moretti happens to also be a cinema owner.

“There’s something that displeases me: A number of directors and screenswriters just give way to the platforms, they bow to the platforms,” Moretti said at this Am’s...

Los Angeles, March 13 (Ians) Singer-actor Sofia Carson and 14-time Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warren performed their nominated song ‘Applause’ from the film ‘Tell It Like a Woman’ at the Academy Awards.

Carson urged the women of the world to “give themselves an applause” during the simple, stark performance of the ballad.

Carson wore a bejeweled gown over a bodysuit, as seen in silhouette in the spotlight at the Dolby Theatre, and walked over to the piano at song’s conclusion to embrace the much-decorated Warren, who accompanied the vocal performance in a white suit, reports Variety.

Prior to her collaboration with Warren, Carson starred in Disney’s ‘Descendants’ and contributed to the franchise’s three soundtracks. Since ‘Descendants’, she starred in the hit Netflix summer flick, ‘Purple Hearts’ and recorded eight original songs for the romance film.

In addition to her musical contributions to film and television, Carson released her self-titled...

Singer-actor Sofia Carson and 14-time Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warren performed their nominated song “Applause” from the film “Tell It Like a Woman” at the Academy Awards Sunday night. Carson urged the women of the world to “give themselves an applause” during the simple, stark performance of the ballad.

Carson wore a bejeweled gown over a bodysuit, as seen in silhouette in the spotlight at the Dolby Theatre, and walked over to the piano at song’s conclusion to embrace the much-decorated Warren, who accompanied the vocal performance in a white suit.

Prior to her collaboration with Warren, Carson starred in Disney’s “Descendants” and contributed to the franchise’s three soundtracks. Since “Descendants,” she starred in the hit Netflix summer flick, “Purple Hearts” and recorded eight original songs for the romance film. In addition to her musical contributions to film and television, Carson released her self-titled studio album in 2022.

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Diane Warren is heading back to the Dolby Theatre. The legendary songwriter garnered her 14th Oscar nomination on Tuesday recognizing her work on “Applause” — an original song penned for the Samuel Goldwyn Films anthology, Tell It Like a Woman.

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While Warren was recognized in November with an Honorary Oscar, she has somehow not yet taken home a statuette for Best Original Song. Her most recent nominations from the Film Academy have come for the songs “Somehow You Do” from Vertical Entertainment’s addiction drama, Four Good Days; “Io Si (Seen)” from Netflix’s Sophia Lorren starrer The Life Ahead, co-written by Laura Pausini; “I’m Standing With You” from Twentieth Century Fox...

The Oscar category of Best Original Song seems to have a concrete group of four tunes anticipated to be selected as nominees for Tuesday’s announcement. They include Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award winner “Naatu Naatu” from “Rrr” (M.M. Keeravani and Chandrabose), plus “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick”, “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”, and “Ciao Papa” from “Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio”. That leaves at least one spot potentially open for a surprise nominee. When predicting the song category, it is best to keep in mind that the music branch clearly has their favorites, and that usually tends to fill up a couple uncertain slots. This year, two of those songwriters may have a better shot at another Oscar nomination than most people think: perennial nominees Diane Warren for “Applause” from “Tell It Like A Woman,” and J. Ralph for “Dust & Ash” from the documentary...

The 14 Oscar nominations Alex North received for his film scores between 1952 and 1985 make him one of the most-recognized composers in academy history, but also one of the most overlooked, as all of his outings were unsuccessful. He did, however, earn the organization’s esteem in 1986 as the recipient of an honorary Oscar – the first given to an artist in his music field. Now, the academy’s board of governors have chosen to fill in another blank space by making Diane Warren the first songwriter on their list of honorary awardees. After 13 unfortunate Best Original Song losses, the time has finally come for the perennial contender to have her day in the sun.

Along with Michael J. Fox, Euzhan Palcy, and Peter Weir, Warren is set to be honored at the upcoming 13th annual Governors Awards. The 65-year-old has earned this accolade because her “music and lyrics have magnified the emotional...

For much of the season the Oscar race for Best Original Song has appeared to be a head-to-head duel between Billie Eilish and Finneas‘s “No Time to Die” theme song and Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s “Encanto” ballad “Dos Oruguitas.” But there’s a chance we’re underestimating Beyonce‘s empowerment anthem “Be Alive” from “King Richard.” She reminds me of H.E.R., who upset to win this award last year for “Fight for You” from “Judas and the Black Messiah.”

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The similarity isn’t just that both artists are R&b singer-songwriters. It’s also a matter of the films they were nominated for and the films they were up against. Last year the front-runner was Leslie Odom Jr. for “Speak Now” from “One Night in Miami,” for...

“Deep Fear,” the upcoming shark thriller starring “Gossip Girl’s” Ed Westwick and “House of Gucci’s” Madalina Ghenea, has gone into production in Malta.

The feature has also added Stany Coppet (“Vikings: Valhalla”) and Macarena Gomez (“Shrew’s Nest”), who will play drug traffickers Jose and Maria, as well as Ibrahima Gueye (“The Life Ahead”) who will play a boat hand called Barney.

“Deep Fear” sees Ghenea star as accomplished yachtswoman Naomi who embarks on a solo trip through the Caribbean to meet her boyfriend Jackson (played by Westwick) in Grenada.

When a storm forces Naomi of course, she encounters survivors of a shipwreck who, it soon transpires, are actually drug traffickers. They force Naomi to dive into the hull of their sunken ship to retrieve their shipment of cocaine, where she encounters a frenzy of vicious tiger sharks, whom she must outwit to survive.

The feature will shoot over...

Award winning film director and historian Mark Cousins (“The Story of Film: A New Generation”) is at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios making a doc titled “March on Rome” that will explore the roots of fascism by analyzing films, photographs, and other documents found in Italian archives.

The high-profile documentary — pegged to the centennial of the infamous late October 1922 insurrection by which Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy — will take its cue from the Fascist propaganda film “A Noi” by director Umberto Paradisi, produced in 1923 as an official Fascist party document celebrating the March on Rome.

Italian writer and director Tony Saccucci (“The Duce’s Boxer”), who originated the project and did meticulous research for it, serves as a co-writer with Cousins. Saccuci cross-checked Paradisi’s film with other sources of the time to reveal details of the pic that provide a completely new take on the history of those dramatic days,...

Diane Warren today landed her 13th Oscar nomination for her original song “Somehow You Do,” from Vertical Entertainment’s film, Four Good Days.

Warren’s latest nomination for the song performed by Reba McEntire is her fifth in as many years. Her most recent noms came for the songs “Io Si (Seen)” from Netflix’s The Life Ahead, co-written by Laura Pausini; “I’m Standing With You” from Twentieth Century Fox’s Breakthrough; “I’ll Fight” from Magnolia Pictures’ Rbg; and “Stand Up for Something” from Open Road Films’ Marshall, co-written by Common.

While the prolific songwriter has also previously been recognized for the tunes “Til It Happens to You” from The Hunting Ground, “Grateful” from Beyond the Lights, “There You’ll Be” from Pearl Harbor, “Music Of My Heart” from Music of the Heart, “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing” from Armageddon, “How Do I Live” from Con Air,...

“What I love to do is go to the video and look at the comments,” acclaimed songwriter Diane Warren admits about reading feedback about her songs on social media. “The comments are mind-blowing,” she exclaims.

“There’s a lot of comments,” she says, from people at “the end of their rope, where the song gave them hope and made them stronger. There’s thousands and thousands,” she sighs. “One night I just stayed up almost all night, reading them and I was crying. The fact that I wrote the song for this movie, sitting in my room and somehow it got through to people going through a hard time, it’s just crazy.”

We talked with Warren as part of Gold Derby’s special film songwriters “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with key Oscar contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.

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Diane Warren is of course no stranger to film songwriting. The Grammy and Emmy winner has received 12 Best Original Song Oscar nominations, including one earlier this year for “Io Si (Seen)” from “The Life Ahead.” So how does she decide which films gets the honor of boasting a trademark Diane Warren ballad? “I either read the script or I see like a rough cut of the movie and it has to be something I feel inspired by, to be honest, something that makes me wanna write a song for it,” Warren tells Gold Derby (watch above). “It has to move me in some way.”

That was what happened with “Four Good Days.” The drama stars Mila Kunis as Molly, an addict who’s embarking on her 15th attempt at sobriety. Seeking help, she goes to her mother Deb (Glenn Close), who’s unsure about her daughter’s commitment after seeing...

Casting director and producer Don Phillips, who helped launch the careers of such actors as Sean Penn, Matthew McConaughey and Mary Steenburgen, passed away on Thanksgiving Day from natural causes. He would have turned 81 on Dec. 21.

Phillips received his first break when he landed an entry-level job in the casting department of filmmaker Otto Preminger’s 1971 movie Such Good Friends. Impressed by Phillips, Preminger took an ad in Variety and Backstage to praise the novice’s work on the film.

The acknowledgement led to Phillips getting hired to do extras casting on Sidney Lumet’s Serpico starring Al Pacino with his job subsequently expanding to casting the entire film. Lumet then tapped him as casting director on his next film, Dog Day Afternoon, also starring Pacino. Phillips is credited with holding out for actor John Cazale to be cast opposite Pacino as Sal.

Phillips went on to cast the cult...

Bestselling Italian writer-turned-director Donato Carrisi has started shooting near Lake Como on his third feature film “I Am the Abyss.”

Vision Distribution is launching international sales at the online American Film Market on the pic, which based on his new thriller by the same title.

Carrisi, who has penned 11 international bestsellers and sold over 3 million copies of his books worldwide, shot to the top of Italy’s book charts earlier this year shortly after “I Am the Abyss” was published in Italy in November 2020.

The psychological chiller involving a serial killer set in an atmospheric lakeside setting, has been translated in Germany, France and other countries and will be out in the U.K. this month.

Carrisi in a statement called his latest work “a thriller involving deep feelings in which the twists and the suspense are built around the characters’ narrative arcs.

“There is a visible story, but there...

Exclusive: Nathalie Seaver has been promoted to Executive Vice President at Jamie Wolf’s award-winning production company, Foothill Productions.

In her new role, she will continue to work closely with Wolf to expand Foothill’s presence in upcoming feature films and documentaries, while supporting filmmakers under the Foothill banner.

“Our goal has always been to support extraordinary films, and Nathalie has been crucial in expanding our ability to be a great partner to and resource for filmmakers,” said Wolf. “I’m thrilled to have her continuing this important work at Foothill.”

Seaver joined Foothill in 2018 as a Creative and Marketing consultant, and has worked there on projects including Emmy and Peabody-nominated documentary Be Natural; Jessica Earnshaw’s Jacinta, which won the Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival; and Mapplethorpe, The Director’s Cut, Ondi Timoner’s scripted portrait of the iconic photographer, among others.

After years of penning memorable hits for the likes of Cher, Celine Dion, Aerosmith, Lady Gaga, and LeAnn Rimes, Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warren will be releasing her debut album, The Cave Sessions, Vol. 1, on August 27th.

A number of hitmakers will be performing original songs for Warren on her debut, including Dion, John Legend, Maren Morris, Rita Ora, Ty Dolla $ign, and Luis Fonsi. Warren launched the LP with the single “She’s Fire,” featuring G-Eazy and Carlos Santana.

Warren’s career took off in 1985 due to the success of...

Amazon Studios has unveiled a new high-concept Italian original movie featuring pop star Laura Pausini, who recently collaborated with Diane Warren to perform the Oscar-nominated theme song “Io Sì” (Seen) for Sophia Loren-starrer “The Life Ahead.”

The still untitled film, which has begun shooting, is being helmed by Ivan Cotroneo, who is among Italy’s most innovative writer-directors, known for several hit Rai TV series such as “Crazy About Love,” which featured Bollywood-style musical numbers, as well as some indie feature films. Endemol Shine Italy is producing. The pic will drop exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 territories in 2022.

Pausini, who performs mainly in Italian and Spanish, is a 2006 Grammy Award winner for “Escucha” in the best Latin pop album category, one of 13 studio albums she has released, scoring more than 70 million album sales around the world.

She regularly tours internationally and has performed with the likes of Luciano Pavarotti,...

Palomar, the leading Italian production outfit that’s part of Mediawan Group, has optioned the adaptation rights to “Fresh Water for Flowers,” the best-selling novel by French author Valérie Perrin. Palomar will be making an internationally-driven TV series based on the book.

Founded by Carlo Degli Esposti in the 1980’s, the Rome-based Palomar is one of Italy’s oldest production banners and has delivered some of country’s top films and series over the years, including Edoardo Ponti’s Oscar-nominated “The Life Ahead,” “Piranhas” which won the Silver Bear at Berlin in 2019, as well as the series “Inspector Montalbano” and “The Name of the Rose” with John Turturro and Rupert Everett.

“Fresh Water For Flowers,” a global literary success translated into 28 languages with over 1.5 million copies sold in France and Italy, won several awards, including the Maison de la Presse prize.

The book revolves around Violette Toussaint, the beautiful, cheerful...

R&b singer-songwriter H.E.R. had an awards breakthrough just two years ago, winning a pair of Grammys in 2019. But she could already start rounding the corner of her Egot. In fact, she could end up winning three-quarters of that grand slam all in the span of one year since she has already claimed an Oscar and two more Grammys in 2021 and could next win an Emmy for writing the original song “Hold Us Together” from the Disney+ film “Safety” (watch the video above).

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Exclusive: Sony Pictures Television’s TriStar is adapting Laurie Fabiano’s bestselling 2010 historical novel Elizabeth Street for television, with Edoardo Ponti (The Life Ahead) attached to direct and executive produce. Tyler Hisel has written a pilot for the project, based on Fabiano’s own great-grandmother’s epic struggles.

Elizabeth Street is set in New York’s Little Italy at the dawn of the 20th century. It follows Giovanna Pontillo, an Italian immigrant reeling in the wake of personal tragedy. Arriving in America, her survival and success on the streets of Old New York soon draws the unwanted attention of the notorious Black Hand, the earliest form of the Italian-American Mafia. As the stakes grow higher, Giovanna desperately fights to save what is important above all else – family.

“Elizabeth Street brings together everything that inspires me: the journey of a strong female protagonist who faces insurmountable odds to bring justice to her family,...

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Sophia Loren just won her 7th Best Actress statue at home in Italy

Strangely we never saw any of the trades print a full list of Italy's David Di Donatello nominations this year, always just linking to the Italian site which does not have the list displayed in a way where you can copy and paste it easily. Alas. Hidden Away, a biopic of an obscure artist, led the nominations and came out the big winner too. Bad Tales was not far behind in the nomination count but won only one prize. Netflix's Italian original Rose Island had the third most nominations.

The awards were held a few days ago (oops) so it's past time to share the winners. Sophia Loren's Oscar hopes may not have panned out stateside but she won yet again in Italy for The Life Ahead. A few notes after the jump.

Italy’s David di Donatello Winners

Winners have been crowned for the 21 David di Donatello awards, the Italian film awards ceremony. Hidden Away, Giorgio Diritti’s drama about Italian painter Antonio Ligabue, won Best Film and Director. Sophia Loren picked up best lead actress for The Life Ahead, while Elio Germano picked up best actor for Hidden Away. Sam Mendes’ 1917 scooped best foreign film. Special awards were presented to Monica Bellucci Targhe, Diego Abatantuono and Sandra Milo. You can see the full list of winners here.

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Other winners include Italian star Sophia Loren and two Netflix features.

Giorgio Diritti’s Hidden Away was the big winner at Italy’s David di Donatello awards on Tuesday (May 11), winning seven awards including best picture, best director and lead actor for Elio Germano.

The drama, which chronicles the difficult life of Italian painter Antonio Ligabue, is produced by Palomar with Rai Cinema, and premiered at the 2020 Berlinale, where Elio Germano won the Silver Bear for best actor. The film, which was the frontrunner going into the night with 15 nominations, also picked up prizes for cinematography, hair artist and sound.

Giorgio Diritti’s biopic “Hidden Away,” about crazed primitivist painter Antonio Ligabue, was the big winner at Italy’s 66th David di Donatello Awards, the country’s top film prizes.

The Davids were held with an in-person ceremony aired from two venues amid a strong spirit of restart as Italian movie theaters gradually begin to reopen.

“Hidden Away,” which was the frontrunner with 15 nominations, scored seven statuettes including best picture, director and actor honors won by Elio Germano who tackles “the fiendishly difficult role” of the self-taught artist “with customary gusto,” as Variety critic Jay Weissberg noted in his review.

The best actress statuette went to Sophia Loren for her role as Madame Rosa, a former prostitute and Holocaust survivor, in Netflix Original “The Life Ahead,” directed by her son Edoardo Ponti. The Italian icon’s return to the big screen after a decade had been snubbed by the Oscars earlier this year.

Italy’s 66th David di Donatello Awards are set to celebrate on May 11 a year of resilience for Cinema Italiano that also looks likely to germinate some creative renewal, just as Italian movie theaters start to reopen and production is booming.

Giorgio Diritti’s biopic “Hidden Away,” about crazed primitivist painter Antonio Ligabue, Gianni Amelio’s wistful “Hammamet,” which reconstructs the Tunisian self-exile of scandal-plagued Italian leader Bettino Craxi, and dark drama “Bad Tales” by the D’Innocenzo Brothers lead the crowded field for Italy’s equivalent of the Oscars, with no clear frontrunner.

Significantly, “Hidden Away,” which scooped 15 nominations, and “Bad Tales,” which scored 13, both star actor Elio Germano. And Germano also plays the lead in another standout title in the Davids race, Netflix Italian Original “The Incredible Story of Rose Island,” which landed 11 noms, including one for the pic’s producer, multihyphenate Matteo Rovere, whose Groenlandia Group is having a banner year.

Diane Warren is getting the documentary treatment, courtesy of Xtr.

The doc, directed by Bess Kargman (Defying Gravity: The Untold Story of Women’s Gymnastics), will offer an intimate look at the life, career and process of one of the most accomplished songwriters of all time, revealing what has compelled her to write music continuously since the age of 14.

Bryn Mooser’s premium nonfiction film and TV studio announced on Wednesday that the untitled film is already in the works.

“With the popularity of music documentaries exploding, it’s finally time to tell the story of this prolific and legendary songwriter who has powered many superstars to the top of the charts. Diane Warren is one of the most prodigious, accomplished songwriters of our time,” said Justin Lacob, Head of Development at Xtr. “This documentary gives an intimate look at all aspects of her life and career to pay homage...

Bess Kargman will direct the untitled film from non-fiction studio Xtr

A documentary is in the works on the life and career of Diane Warren, the prolific songwriter behind countless hits with dozens of legendary artists.

The untitled feature film, which is currently in production, will chronicle how Warren came to cement her place in music history by looking at archival footage and intimate interviews from throughout her career. The documentary will be filmed in cinéma vérité style and will trace Warren’s process and work ethic dating back to when she was 14.

Bess Kargman, a PGA Award winner for her doc series “Defying Gravity: The Untold Story of Women’s Gymnastics,” is directing the film, with documentary studio Xtr producing.

“I know there are a lot of music documentaries, but this is the first one about me! I am looking forward to ‘turning back time’ (see what I did there) and sharing my story.

How could a movie be in contention for six Oscars and go home with nothing? Legendary Oscar shutouts include Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” which was zero for 10 last year, as well as his film “Gangs of New York” (2002), the Coens’ “True Grit” (2010), and David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” (2014). Losing a total of 11 categories were “The Turning Point” (1977) and “The Color Purple” (1985).

When most categories have five nominees, and Best Picture has more, snubs happen. But why did $35 million “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” which won the Golden Globe for Screenplay, the often-predictive SAG Ensemble, and Best Editing awards, lose so resoundingly to a series of lower-budget, less mainstream movies?

It’s not the fault of the Netflix awards team, who received a record 36 Oscar nominations and seven wins for “Mank,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “My Octopus Teacher,” and more. But why did their best efforts (and spending...

How could a movie be in contention for six Oscars and go home with nothing? Legendary Oscar shutouts include Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” which was zero for 10 last year, as well as his film “Gangs of New York” (2002), the Coens’ “True Grit” (2010), and David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” (2014). Losing a total of 11 categories were “The Turning Point” (1977) and “The Color Purple” (1985).

When most categories have five nominees, and Best Picture has more, snubs happen. But why did $35 million “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” which won the Golden Globe for Screenplay, the often-predictive SAG Ensemble, and Best Editing awards, lose so resoundingly to a series of lower-budget, less mainstream movies?

It’s not the fault of the Netflix awards team, who received a record 36 Oscar nominations and seven wins for “Mank,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “My Octopus Teacher,” and more. But why did their best efforts (and spending...

At the 93rd Academy Awards, songwriter Diane Warren made the wrong kind of history, losing out in her 12th bid for Best Original Song.

With her loss last night, Warren became the most-nominated woman in the history of the Oscars to have never won. But she is nonetheless taking it all in stride.

“Ok so I lost again but U know what was the hugest win?? Feeling more love and support than I have ever felt in my life,” she wrote on Facebook. “Thank U everyone in my movie music community who voted for this song, U are the best of the best and whenever U choose a song of mine it is huge huge honor that I don’t take lightly and that I am deeply grateful for. Thank U everyone for all the kind and lovely words of support, it means more than any statue.”

On Instagram, Warren...

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Don’t worry about Diane Warren. She’s doing just fine.

The superstar songwriter lost in the Oscars best original song category for a 12th time, making her the most-nominated woman in Oscar history to have none on her shelf. But come Monday morning, Warren had already found the silver lining. “Ok, so I lost again but U know what was the hugest win??” she posted on Facebook after not picking up the statue for “Io Si (Seen)” from The Life Ahead. “Feeling more love and support than I have ever felt in my life. Thank U everyone in ...

Don’t worry about Diane Warren. She’s doing just fine.

The superstar songwriter lost in the Oscars best original song category for a 12th time, making her the most-nominated woman in Oscar history to have none on her shelf. But come Monday morning, Warren had already found the silver lining. “Ok, so I lost again but U know what was the hugest win??” she posted on Facebook after not picking up the statue for “Io Si (Seen)” from The Life Ahead. “Feeling more love and support than I have ever felt in my life. Thank U everyone in ...

It’s been a good couple of months for R&b singer-songwriter H.E.R. She surprised us by winning Song of the Year at the Grammys on March 14 for her Black Lives Matter protest anthem “I Can’t Breathe.” Then on April 25 she followed that up by surprising us again: she won Best Song at the Oscars for “Fight for You,” another righteous song from the Black Panthers docudrama “Judas and the Black Messiah.”

SEE2021 Oscar winners list in all 23 categories

H.E.R. was a Grammy favorite from the moment of her career breakthrough, earning five nominations in 2019 including Best New Artist. And in just three years she has amassed 13 nominations and four wins, two of which were this year, and both of which surprised most of our users who made predictions at Gold Derby: Best R&b Song for “Better Than I Imagined” and Song of the Year for...

The 2021 Oscars were presented on Sunday night, April 25, and after such an unpredictable year, thousands of Gold Derby users actually did a pretty good job of predicting the winners. Our collective odds were correct in 18 out of 23 categories. That means our hive mind was only wrong five times. So let’s take a look at the races we got wrong, and check out the complete list of winners here.

SEE2021 Oscar winners list in all 23 categories

Best Actress: Frances McDormand (“Nomadland”) — ranked fourth with 4/1 odds

Normally it wouldn’t be surprising when the star of the Best Picture winner also wins for acting, but the way the awards season was going this was a somewhat confounding result. “Nomadland” won Best Picture at the Golden Globes, but McDormand Best Actress lost to Andra Day (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday”). Then “Nomadland” won at the Critics Choice Awards, but McDormand lost...

It has been another strange and uncertain year for Hollywood, with the pandemic hitting cinemas hard and streaming services rising to hold the fort. It has also been a year in which we’ve seen a growing diversity in front of, and behind the camera, with an increasing focus on new voices and new stories being told.

Last year saw Bong Joon-ho ‘s Parasite achieve Oscar greatness and, for a brief pre-covid moment, it seemed that the world of cinema was beginning to embrace a wider world. The 2021 BAFTAs showed signs this was continuing with Minari, Another Round and Promising Young Woman taking home a clutch of awards each.

This year’s American Academy Awards will be a strange affair, certainly one to remember.

Here is the full list of nominations with Winners in bold.

Best Picture

“The Father” (Sony Pictures Classics)

“Judas and the Black Messiah” (Warner Bros.)

“Mank...

The documentary “Collective” went home empty-handed, and Diane Warren continued her epic losing streak

Among the bigger surprises of the 93rd Oscars were the show’s length, it’s unusual structure and order of winners, that Very abrupt ending, and of course the reveal that Glenn Close knows all about the song “Da Butt.” But there were some surprises and snubs throughout the awards winners as well.

Surprise: “The Father” – Best Adapted Screenplay

Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton won the second award of the night for the adaptation of Zeller’s own play “The Father,” giving us a surprise early. The film beat the screenplays for “Nomadland,” “One Night in Miami” and the nine credited writers on “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Maybe the real surprise is that Regina King managed to get through the reading of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’s” full title without tripping up.

Snub: “Wolfwalkers” – Best Animated Film

Pixar...

Best Picture

Nomadland

The Father

Judas and the Black Messiah

Mank

Minari

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Actor

Anthony Hopkins – The Father

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Gary Oldman – Mank

Steven Yeun – Minari

Best Actress

Frances McDormand – Nomadland

Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

Best Supporting Actor

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah

Sacha Baron Cohen...