One other weekend, one other slate of awards ceremonies to attend, cowl, and predict. This weekend brings the 2025 Movie Impartial Spirit Awards to Santa Monica on Saturday. Then, now we have the Display screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, which may even be broadcast reside on Netflix.
On this week’s episode of “Display screen Discuss,” Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio preview the Spirit Awards and predict who will win every of the most important classes, with “Anora” and beloved indie filmmaker Sean Baker poised to take house a couple of prizes. Will Demi Moore or Mikey Madison win the Greatest Lead Efficiency prize? It’s a equally anxious race for the Greatest Actress Oscar, the place one in all these girls will take house the gold statue.
In the meantime, we additionally undergo the Oscar-nominated brief movies this yr within the Stay Motion, Documentary, and Animated classes. Anne and Ryan disagree on movies, together with Invoice Morrison’s bodycam documentary “Incident,” concerning the police killing of a Black Chicago barber in 2018, and Nina Gantz’s animated “Wander to Surprise,” which ingeniously shoots in stop-motion together with inside a pickle jar. Within the animation class, look to both the lovable French farce “Yuck!” or Iran’s “Within the Shadow of the Cypress,” whose filmmaking crew of Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi haven’t been capable of safe visas to attend the awards, to win. Within the documentary class, control Paramount+’s “I Am Prepared, Warden,” a documentary concerning the final days of a loss of life row inmate who was executed in 2022.
The one we each admire is Nebojša Slijepčević’s Croatian movie “The Man Who May Not Stay Silent,” set throughout an episode of the Bosnian bloodbath in 1993 on a practice, and fantastically shot. The filmmaker already has a characteristic lined up, as this movie actually proves his expertise as a director. This could take house the Stay Motion brief movie prize. However there’s additionally the immigration drama “A Lien,” which speaks its feelings in franker (and well timed) phrases as a narrative of a household asunder by ICE.
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