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You can probably sum it all up in just one word: Barbenheimer. It’s not a word found in Webster's, but one that's instantly recognizable to movie fans and everyone in all areas of the entertainment industry. Now it's probably your key entry into the…

In a category that included legends, relative newcomers and the director of the biggest hit of the year , Christopher Nolan came out on top. Nolan, who’s been nominated for the Hollywood foreign press six times, began his acceptance for Best Director, Motion Picture with a…

The 75th annual Directors Guild Awards have been handed out at the Beverly Hilton, and the night’s big award brought a bit of a surprise as Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, directors of Everything Everywhere All at Once, beat out Steven Spielberg for the top prize. HBO had a big night, sweeping the drama…

Iranian director Jafar Panahi remains behind bars in Tehran but his cinema continues to travel. In a fresh sales announcement, Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S rights and Films We Like has taken all Canadian rights to Panahi's Venice Special Jury Prize winner 'No Bears'. Celluloid Dreams handles…

A Best Picture nomination this morning for West Side Story makes producer Steven Spielberg the only person in history to receive 11 nominations in the Academy’s top category. The film’s other nominated producer is Kristie Macosko Krieger. The achievement puts Spielberg above Scott Rudin, who has 9, and the director’s…

Even in a world as volatile as the film industry, Thomas Vinterberg has had some serious ups and downs. After becoming the toast of Cannes in 1998 with his Dogme film Festen, the Danish director fell sharply from grace with the follow-up It's All About Love and endured several commercial flops before returning to…

Since 1928, the Oscars’ Best Director category has illuminated the exceptional talents driving memorable and influential cinematic history. From pioneers like Frank Borzage and Lewis Milestone to visionaries such as Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese, each winner has indelibly marked the art of…

UPDATED with video: After a series of wins including the directing prize at the Golden Globes, BAFTA and the top DGA Award, Guillermo del Toro has converted his season-long favorite status into a Best Director Oscar for The Shape of Water.  “I am an immigrant, like Alfonso and Alejandro my compadres,” he said in his…

UPDATED with video: An emotional Guillermo Del Toro celebrated his first Golden Globes win for Best Director (The Shape of Water) by thanking the monsters who made him. Known for his work on such monster movies as Hellboy, Pacific Rim and Blade, Del Toro is an acknowledged master of the genre. In The Shape of Water…

As usual, the five directors nominated for Best Directing did so with unconventional projects that did not exactly scream commercial success. In the case of the science fiction drama Arrival, director Denis Villeneuve took the alien genre and turned it inside out. For Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson came back from being a…

This issue of AwardsLine went to press moments before Alejandro G. Iñárritu took the top DGA Awards prize last weekend, but without question the big shocker in the AMPAS list—and isn't there always at least one of those in this category?—was the omission of veteran Ridley Scott for his superb work on The Martian…