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Tom Hanks says he’s made four ‘pretty good’ films, here are the ones we think would make the cut

Narrowing down Hanks’s films to a top four is like having to choose a favourite pet

Evening Standard

And the Oscars go to... why Steven Spielberg and Cate Blanchett are among the frontrunners for awards in 2023

As awards season starts, our expert reveals what the recent film festivals in Venice, Telluride and Toronto tell us about the front runners for next year’s big film prizes in Los Angeles

Evening Standard

From The Whale to The Fabelmans: where does this year’s Oscar race stand?

With fall festivals coming to a close and with most of the big films having premiered, this year’s potential winners and losers are starting to take shape

The Guardian - US

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'The Fabelmans' looks like this year's Oscar front-runner, but here's why that's complicated

Steven Spielberg was onstage at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre, talking about the End or, more precisely, how his new movie memory piece, "The Fabelmans," isn't quite the End or a signal that he's retiring, but simply an acknowledgment that the clock is ticking.

Los Angeles Times

Spielberg’s The Fabelmans wins Toronto film festival People’s Choice award

Director’s most autobiographical film to date picks up audience prize generally seen as indicator of awards success to come

The Guardian - UK

Steven Spielberg's 'Fabelmans' wins Toronto audience award

Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical coming-of-age drama “The Fabelmans” won the Toronto International Film Festival’s top prize, the People’s Choice Award, solidifying its early status as Academy Awards frontrunner

The Independent UK

Toronto film festival 2022 roundup – Spielberg, Mendes and a deep, joyous love of cinema

Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes offered paeans to the silver screen, Viola Davis dazzled as a gung-ho warrior and Daniel Craig brought the house down

The Guardian - UK

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Here are the breakthrough films that premiered at this year's Toronto Film Festival

The first fully reopened edition of TIFF concludes this weekend. But with a film industry still reeling from box office declines and changing audience habits, the award season remains in flux.

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Life through a lens: Spielberg’s latest leads triple-whammy of movies about movies

It’s the subgenre beloved by insiders but often shunned by audiences. Can new films from Sam Mandes, Damien Chazelle and Steven Spielberg satisfy cinemagoers and awards voters?

The Guardian - UK

From Spielberg to Inarritu: Evaluating the season's many styles of personal filmmaking

TORONTO — There's a terrifically self-reflexive gag in Steven Spielberg's new picture, "The Fabelmans," that is hard to imagine anyone but Steven Spielberg pulling off. This might not be saying much, since the entire movie, a rollicking and ruminative look at the director's childhood and teenage years, could hardly have…

Los Angeles Times

Empire of Light movie review: you’ll fall for Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward in Sam Mendes’ ode to cinema

This nostalgic film celebrates the unmatched power of the cinematic experience

Evening Standard

Magic of Cinema in Focus as Mendes Celebrates Toronto Festival Comeback

As crowds finally flocked back to the Toronto film festival after two years thwarted by Covid-19, Hollywood's top directors from Sam Mendes to Steven Spielberg put the escapism and collective experience of cinema in the spotlight with their latest films debuting at the event. "American Beauty" and "1917" director Mendes…

Asharq Al-Awsat

What you need to know about Spielberg's 'The Fabelmans': 'This was my way of bringing my mom and dad back'

"The Fabelmans" is being billed as Steven Spielberg's most personal film, tracing (through a fictional version of his family) his cinema-sotted youth in Arizona and Northern California. But just how "personal" is it, really? How true is it to Spielberg's formative experiences, including encounters with antisemitism and his parents' profound…

Los Angeles Times

TV tonight: a new series of Bake Off is exactly what we knead

Will Carole with the candy-floss hair, salsa-dancing Abdul, or nuclear scientist James take the judges’ (fondant) fancy? Here’s what to watch this evening

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The Independent UK

A big break comes with a big task: Playing Steven Spielberg

What’s more intimidating than being a young actor cast in a Steven Spielberg movie

Evening Standard

The Fabelmans movie review: Spielberg’s cinematic superpower gets its origin story at Toronto

The semi-autobiographical self-portrait premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to rapturous applause

The Guardian - US

The Fabelmans review – Steven Spielberg’s sweet but sanitised personal drama

Toronto film festival: the director goes back to his childhood for an endearing, if overlong, film with an Oscar-tipped Michelle Williams as his mother

Asharq Al-Awsat

Steven Spielberg Debuts His Movie Memoir ‘The Fabelmans’

Steven Spielberg premiered his much-anticipated "The Fabelmans" to thunderous applause at the Toronto International Film Festival, debuting his most autobiographical film and one the 75-year-old filmmaker said he's been building toward his whole life. "The Fabelmans," which Spielberg wrote with Tony Kushner, draws extensively from the director's own childhood —…

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The Independent UK

Steven Spielberg debuts his movie memoir 'The Fabelmans'

Steven Spielberg premiered his much-anticipated “The Fabelmans” to thunderous applause at the Toronto International Film Festival, debuting his most autobiographical film and one the 75-year-old filmmaker said he’s been building toward his whole life

The Guardian - US

Steven Spielberg, Viola Davis and Daniel Craig head to Toronto film festival

Star-packed lineup, including Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain and Harry Styles, greets full return of event after Covid disruption

Los Angeles Times

‘Knives Out’ sequel, Spielberg’s latest and 19 more major premieres at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival

After two years of severely scaled-back, pandemic-era editions, the Toronto International Film Festival looks to make a full-throttle return this year. The festival — long known as a key platform for awards season titles as well as a launch pad for celeb-friendly commercial films in addition to more esoteric arthouse…

The Independent UK

Toronto fest roars back to life with Spielberg, 'Knives Out'

When the 47th Toronto International Film Festival unfolds beginning Thursday, it will follow two editions that were much diminished by the pandemic

The Independent UK

Richard Dreyfus shares rare post explaining why he originally turned down Jaws

‘Eventually I came to my senses,’ actor said

Inverse

Star Wars doc reveals 5 ways the prequels were almost wildly different

The new VICE TV documentary series 'Icons Unearthed: Star Wars' reveals a lot you probably didn't know about the prequels.

The Independent UK

GCSE results: Fifteen famous people who prove you don’t need good grades to be successful

Sir Richard Branson, Drew Barrymore, Carey Mulligan, Steven Spielberg and Cameron Diaz among the celebrities who went on to triumph after exam disappointment

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