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You can sing this with a cry in your voice: The Publicists of the International Cinematographers Guild said Tuesday that Song Sung Blue Oscar nominee Kate Hudson will receive its 2026 Motion Picture Showperson of the Year Award. The Running Point star and Almost Famous alum will be feted…

UPDATED with latest: It’s a new calendar year, and film awards season is in full swing — time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows and nominations dates ahead, starting with Saturday’s Palm Springs Film Festival awards gala and Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards…

American Cinema Editors has stitched together the nominees for its 76th annual Eddie Awards next month. See the full list below. Vying for the marquee Best Edited Feature Film (Drama, Theatrical) prize are the editors for Best Picture Oscar nominees F1, Hamnet, Sentimental Value and Sinners…

Laura Adler, an Emmy-nominated casting director and former administrator of Casting Society, died Thursday in Los Angeles following a brief illness. She was 65. A Casting Society rep confirmed the news to Deadline. Adler was set to receive the Casting Society’s Rosalie Joseph Humanitarian Aw…

Nessa Hyams, a groundbreaking casting director of the New Hollywood whose work on such 1970s masterpieces as Peter Bogdanovich's screwball comedy What's Up, Doc?, William Friedkin's The Exorcist and Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles, died January 9 at her home in Manhattan. She was 84. Her death was…

It has been a whirlwind of a Thursday morning for costume designer Ruth E. Carter. Not only has she been nominated for her work on Sinners, but the film itself broke a record when it received 16 nominations. As a veteran in the business, Carter says she planned on sitting through the…

After many years, casting directors are finally getting their accolades at the Oscars with the new Achievement in Casting category. While this category is new, it’s not surprising who was nominated when you also look at the Best Acting categories. Hamnet‘s Nina Gold, Marty Supreme‘s Jennifer…

There are a few Oscar categories where the winners tend to overlap with Best Picture, most notably Achievement in Directing, but there’s also a craft category with a significant overlap – Film Editing. Since the Oscars started, there have been 36 years where the film that won Achievement in…

Ang Lee has made the cut. The two-time Oscar-winning director is set to receive the American Cinema Editors’ 2026 Filmmaker of the Year honor at the Eddie Awards next month. Lee earned Best Picture and Best Director Oscar nominations for his 2000 martial arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon…

Society of Camera Operators has focused in on the nominees for its 2026 SOC Awards, which honor the craft of camera operation and celebrate the role camera operators and crews play in storytelling. See the full list below. Vying for the movie prize are the camera pros behind Apple Original…

Hear that? It’s the nominees for the Cinema Audio Society’s 62nd annual CAS Awards. See the full list of seven film and TV categories celebrating excellence in sound mixing below. Vying for the marquee Motion Pictures: Live Action statuette are the sound-mixing teams behind F1, Frankenstein, Mis…

The Art Directors Guild has its newest Hall of Famer. Production designer Thomas E. Sanders, a two-time Oscar nominee for Saving Private Ryan and Bram Stoker’s Dracula who also worked on Braveheart and many other films, will be inducted posthumously into the ADG Hall of Fame at the 30th annual…