Booksmart (2019)
NAME OF FILM: BOOKSMART
DIRECTOR(S): Olivia Wilde
STARRING: Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Will Forte, Lisa Kudrow, Jason Sudeikis
GENRE: Comedy Film
SYNOPSIS: On the eve of graduating high school, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more. Determined to not fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.
Indie films Booksmart, and Rafiki are among the winners of the 31st GLAAD Media Awards held for the first time as a virtual ceremony. Booksmart won the award for Outstanding Film – Wide Release and Rafiki won for Outstanding Film – Limited Release. The award for Outstanding Documentary went to State of Pride.
Indie films The Farewell, Uncut Gems, The Lighthouse, Marriage Story, Judy, Booksmart and See You Yesterday, along with Give Me Liberty, American Factory and Parasite won awards at the 35th Film Independent Spirit Awards ceremony.
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and Parasite lead the nominations for the the 24th Annual Online Film & Television Association (OFTA) Film awards with 14 each including for Best Picture. Other Best Picture nominees include 1917, Little Women, The Farewell, Ford v Ferrari, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, and Marriage Story.
The 2020 Glasgow Film Festival will open and close with the UK premiere of major feature films directed by women. The 16th annual festival will open on February 26 with Alice Winocour’s Proxima starring Eva Green and close on Sunday March 8 with Coky Giedroyc’s How to Build a Girl.
GLAAD announced the 176 nominees in 30 categories for the 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards honoring ‘media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues.’
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced the nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2020 lead by Joker with 11 nominations.
Writers Guild (Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE)) announced nominations for outstanding achievement in screenwriting during 2019. Films nominated for Original Screenplay include Booksmart, Knives Out, Marriage Story, and Parasite. Films nominated for Documentary Screenplay include Citizen K, Foster, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People, and The Kingmaker.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Parasite led the film nominations for GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ 11th Dorian Awards given for the best in film and television of 2019. Portrait of a Lady on Fire and was nominated for Film of the Year, Foreign Language Film of the Year and LGBT Film of the Year.
Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood leads the nominations for the Music City Film Critics’ Association 2019 Film Awards with 9 nominations.
Former president Barack Obama shared his list of favorite movies of 2019 which included American Factory, a film from his own production company, Higher Ground, that was recently shortlisted for an Oscar. The list features primarily some of the most critically acclaimed indie films and documentaries of 2019 including Amazing Grace, Apollo 11, Ash Is Purest White and The Last Black Man in San Francisco.
Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women leads the nominations for the Chicago Indie Critics fourth annual film awards with eight nominations. The Irishman, Marriage Story, 1917, and Parasite followed with seven nominations.