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Carpet Check

Awards season is already overwhelmingly busy, so I’ll briefly account for other awards from last week before looking ahead, starting with the European Film Awards, at which Emilia Perez took Film, Director, Screenwriter and Actress. Matt’s rounded up the winners, including some inspired picks from the year’s best international cinema such as Souleymane’s Story, Armand and Bye Bye Tiberias. The LA Film Critics Association also announced its 50th annual selections, crowning Anora as its top film while honoring The Seed of the Sacred Fig director Mohammad Rasoulof with Best Director. Matt, awards legend, has the full list of winners.

This week is a big one for voters, with Oscars voting for shortlist categories closing as Golden Globes final round voting opens tomorrow. Next Monday, three major guilds—SAG, DGA and WGA—open their voting, and on Tuesday we’ll get the Oscars shortlists for ten categories including documentary and international film, while Critics Choice Award nominations drop tomorrow.

To celebrate Kneecap’s BIFA sweep, I’ve gathered several lists of Irish-language cinema, highlighting the likes of The Quiet Girl and The Wind that Shakes the Barley. BIFA’s HQ also has a complete collection of Sophie Okonedo roles, including her scene-stealing part in this year’s Janet Planet. To follow Marianne Jean-Baptiste telling us about the secret to her lasting collaboration with Mike Leigh (“trust, a shared sense of humor”), take a look at Travis Lytle’s list of 25 Favorite Actor-Director Collaborations, celebrating the likes of Tony Leung/Wong Kar-wai and Liv Ullman/Ingmar Bergman. And with that, I’m off to collaborate with my housemate on what we want to watch tonight; I showed her Beats last week (one of my four faves), and she loved it—which I think we can all agree is probably the best feeling in the world.