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After Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall powered its way to five Oscar nominations, it was a common feeling that the film's MVP was short-changed on the big night. Though the film went home with Best Original Screenplay, Messi — the seven-year-old border collie who plays Snoop, the family dog who becomes…

Non-English-language movies stormed the Oscars this year, with five films taking home statuettes — the most ever in one ceremony. Justine Triet and Arthur Harari's Best Screenplay Academy Award for French-language courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall followed three past non-English-language winners…

Messi the dog, a breakout star of the 2024 awards season, wrapped the season in style at the 96th Academy Awards. The 7-year-old border collie from Anatomy of the Fall in his formal best, wearing a stylish bowtie, made it to the Dolby Theater where he got prime seating in the front alongside the top…

Justine Triet and Arthur Harari recalled how very different their lives were a few years ago, stuck at home in the midst of Covid, when they first started to write. “This is a crazy year, in contrast with what it started out as, before. Stuck in the house with two kids. It was lockdown, and we…

Sandra Hüller (a Best Actress nominee) and Christian Friedel, stars of Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest — nominated for Best Picture, Best International Picture, Director, Sound, and Adapted Screenplay — are familiar with Shakespeare's famous verse from Hamlet: "All the world's a stage, and all the…

Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers won Film of the Year and LGBTQ Film of the Year honors from the Dorian Film Awards, the annual honors bestowed GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. The Searchlight drama starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal as two troubled souls who fall for each…

Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall won Best Film and Best Director at the 49th edition of the French César awards Friday. Triet is only the second women to clinch the Best Director prize in the near 50-year history of the César Awards, after Tonie Marshall for Venus Beauty in 1976. The director…

Palme d'Ors don't grow on trees, so it's small wonder that the world has fallen for Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall, and the outstanding lead performance of Sandra Hüller, since it won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize. Hüller's turn dominates the 'sort of' courtroom drama of the film, in which her…

Anatomy of a Fall French producer Marie-Ange Luciani put in a flying appearance at the Berlinale this week with Claire Burger's coming-of-age drama Langue Étrangère which received a warm reception in competition. With the Berlin premiere taking place the day after the Baftas in London (where Anatomy o…

EXCLUSIVE: TV and film writers will want to circle this one in their calendars: Poor Things and The Favourite producer Element Pictures is launching Storyhouse, a new Dublin-based screenwriting festival that will celebrate storytellers and storytelling. Speakers at the first edition include Poor Thing…

When real-life couple Justine Triet and Arthur Harari set out to write Anatomy of a Fall, about a woman on trial for the murder of her husband, they built the story on relationships first and foremost. "The first embryo was the relationship between the son and the mother and the idea of the son…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. This week, Helen Mirren at the American Cinematheque Awards, the history-making connection between Godzilla Minus One and Stanley Kubrick, plus live on stage with Maestro and Anatomy of…