Eric Kohn
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How Many Oscars Does ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Actually Deserve to Win?
The Daniels’ sophomore feature is up for 11 Oscars, and it deserves to win many of them. → Read More
Jenny Slate Explains Why It Wouldn’t Take Another 7 Years to Make the Next ‘Marcel’ Movie
Slate and Dean Fleisher Camp explain how they figured out their unique approach to the animated Oscar nominee. → Read More
The Best Picture Race Got a Lot More Confusing This Week
Two awards shows, the DGA and BAFTAs, have left us scratching our heads about the real odds this season. → Read More
‘Everything Everywhere’ Producer Jonathan Wang Unlocks the Secret of the Daniels’ Success
The Oscar nominee explains how he became the "third leg" of the Daniels. → Read More
Sorry, Spielberg: Tom Cruise Didn’t Save Hollywood All By Himself (Column)
If a major Hollywood star really wanted to save its ass, he’d champion a much wider array of release strategies over just one. → Read More
Oscars 2023: The Best Live Action Shorts Nominees, Ranked
This year’s category is entirely international — and loaded with worthy contenders. → Read More
Movies and TV Need More Sex, Not Less — Opinion
Penn Badgley is uncomfortable with sex scenes in “You,” but his solution highlights the need for collaborating in their creation. → Read More
Life After ‘Seinfeld’ AI: Questions, Answers, and Opportunity (Column)
Can you sue an AI program? Will writers rooms go obsolete? These and other burning questions from a busy week for artificial intelligence. → Read More
These Oscar Categories Are the Hardest to Predict
With one month to go until the end of the season, several major categories could be tossups. → Read More
Meet the Unsung Heroes of ’80 for Brady’: Two Indie Filmmakers with No Studio Experience
The team behind Cannes hit “The Climb” explain their unexpected journey to a big-budget comedy featuring the biggest name in sports. → Read More
‘Knock at the Cabin’: Did M. Night Shyamalan’s Latest Big Twist Work?
Spoilers: The master of the twist makes some major changes to his latest film’s source material, but do they actually pay off? → Read More
Documentary Filmmakers Need to Stop Saying They Make Documentaries — Column
As big distributors avoid the most exciting documentaries out there, the word “documentary” itself seems to be part of the problem. → Read More
No, the Andrea Riseborough Drama Won’t Upend the Best Actress Race
Did the Academy make the right move with its investigation? This week’s Screen Talk explores the fallout of the Oscar season’s most unexpected nominee. → Read More
The Best Autobiographical Movie of the Past Year Is the One the Oscars Forgot
Whereas Steven Spielberg spent decades building up to “The Fabelmans,” Mia Hansen-Løve perfected the art of autobiographical filmmaking early on. → Read More
Memo to Distributors: Buy These Sundance 2023 Films
This year’s festival played home to plenty of big buys, but if we had our way, these 14 gems would get snapped up ASAP. → Read More
Sundance Winner A.V. Rockwell on Her Gentrification Drama ‘A Thousand and One’: ‘New York Broke My Heart’
The newly acclaimed filmmaker shares her long journey with IndieWire and where she expects to go next. → Read More
Sundance Proved That American Movies Can Take Big Risks for Under $10 Million (Column)
Is it still possible to launch bold, dangerous movies at America’s most revered film festival? An investigation. → Read More
Here Are the Sundance 2023 Films You’re Going to Want to See
As the festival returned to in-person viewing after two mostly virtual years, audiences were treated to a variety of gems. Here are our favorites. → Read More
IndieWire Party Diaries: Sundance Film Festival 2023
Get an intimate look at this year’s Sundance Film Festival parties with dispatches from IndieWire’s editors. → Read More
‘Cassandro’ Gave Gael García Bernal a Different Superhero Experience from His Marvel Work
García talked about playing the unconventional lucha libre icon, and hearing “Andor” secrets from Diego Luna, inside the IndieWire Studio at Sundance, presented by Dropbox. → Read More