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Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards…

AFI Conservatory Alumni are once again in the spotlight, with their remarkable projects featured at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, running January 22–February 1, 2026, in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah. This year’s slate of…

Michael Mann used Jules Dassin’s gripping noir Rififi as a template when he directed Thief. Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven borrowed its studied cool from the existential gaze of Alain Delon in Le Cercle Rouge. But one modern heist film…

Three weeks after Amy Chozick had her first child, Anna Wintour called with an assignment. The then-Vogue editor-in-chief wanted Chozick, who rose to journalism fame covering Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, to write the first…

The Golden Globes® has unveiled the Nobu menu for the 83rd annual ceremony on Jan. 11, including innovations for guests at the Beverly Hilton, as well as for viewers at home. After the Dec. 8 announcement of nominations, members of the press…

Jim Ward, the wildly versatile, Emmy-winning voice actor and impressionist known for his work on The Fairly OddParents, Ratchet & Clank and scores of other animated projects, has died. He was 66.
Ward died Wednesday at a memory care…

The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor has been chosen as the Irish Book of the Year 2025.
The novel was among six titles competing for the accolade, all of which were category winners at the recent Irish Book Awards, including Ninety-Nine Words…

Peacock’s All Her Fault saw its viewing spike in its second week, scoring the best single-week total ever for an original scripted show on the NBCUniversal streamer.
The series, starring Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning, drew 867…

A music venue in London has apologised after antisemitic imagery was allegedly displayed on stage during a Primal Scream gig.
A video appearing to show the Star of David entwined with a swastika appeared to be screened during the Scottish band’s…