Sam Mendes

‘Parasite’ director Bong Joon Ho wins best director Oscar

LOS ANGELES — Writer-director Bong Joon Ho made Oscar history Sunday night, capturing Oscars for best director and best international feature with his...
4:40 10 February 2022

Oscar Predictions: Can ‘Parasite’ upset ’1917′?

NEW YORK — Ahead of Sunday’s 92nd Academy Awards, Associated Press Film Writer Jake Coyle shares his predictions for a ceremony with a lot of locks bu...
19:31 5 February 2022

Best picture ’1917′ is big winner at British Academy Awards

LONDON — Gut-wrenching World War I epic “1917” was the big winner at Sunday’s British Academy Film Awards, winning seven awards including best picture...
22:02 2 February 2022

‘Bad Boys,’ ’1917′ best ‘The Gentleman’ at box office

PARK CITY, Utah — “Boys” trumped “Gentlemen” in movie theaters over the weekend as Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s “Bad Boys for Life” easily remaine...
17:24 26 January 2022

‘Parasite’ wins at SAG Awards, so do Pitt and Aniston

“Parasite” has officially infected Hollywood's award season. Bong Joon Ho’s Korean class satire became the first foreign language film to take top hon...
4:19 20 January 2022

’1917′ takes top honor at the Producers Guild Awards

LOS ANGELES — If the Producers Guild Awards are a true predictor of the Oscars' best film category, then the World War I film “1917” is poised to come...
9:34 19 January 2022

‘Joker’ leads Oscar noms; ‘1917,’ ‘Irishman’ close behind

Todd Phillips’ much-debated supervillain origin story and R-rated box-office smash “Joker” topped all films with 11 Academy Awards nominations, while ...
15:43 13 January 2022

Riding Globes, ’1917′ ends ‘Star Wars’ box-office reign

LOS ANGELES — It took the Great War to finally take down “Star Wars.”
19:23 12 January 2022

Producers, directors guild nominations winnow Oscar field

NEW YORK — An unusually busy day in a truncated awards season for Hollywood left five films — Quentin Tarantino's “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,”...
19:32 7 January 2022

‘Joker’ tops nominations for British Academy film awards

LONDON — The film “Joker” has topped the nominations for the British Academy film awards announced Tuesday.
11:00 7 January 2022

‘Joker,’ ‘Parasite,’ ’1917,′ ‘Little Women’ land WGA noms

NEW YORK — Sam Mendes' World War I tale “1917” followed up its big night at the Golden Globes with a nomination for best screenplay from the Writers G...
19:15 6 January 2022

A list of the final Golden Globe Award winners for film, TV

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The winners at the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards, presented Sunday in Beverly Hills, California, by the Hollywood Foreign Pr...
4:28 6 January 2022

“1917,” “Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood” win Golden Globes

The 77th Golden Globes were meant to be a coronation for Netflix. Instead, a pair of big-screen epics took top honors Sunday, as Sam Mendes’ technical...
4:25 6 January 2022

Review: A technical feat, ’1917′ is great storytelling, too

It's been a good time for World War I buffs — especially if they're also movie buffs. A year ago director Peter Jackson applied state-of-the-art techn...
16:16 23 December 2021

Q&A: Sam Mendes on making ’1917′ in one long take

NEW YORK — After the juggling act of two Bond films, with their cadre of characters and armory of gadgets, Sam Mendes had something cleaner in mind fo...
14:35 20 December 2021