Motion Picture Academy Announces 53rd Student Academy Awards Winners; Ceremony Moves To Toronto International Film Festival

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced this year’s Student Academy Award winners and, for the first time, the honors will be presented in correlation with the Toronto International Film Festival. 16 students have been selected as winners of the 53rd Student Academy Awards competition out of 2,972 e

Additional features set to screen in New York include 'Clarissa' and 'The Man I Love,' both of which premiered at Cannes, as well as Chris Rock's Toronto-bound 'Misty Green.'

The Princess Grace Foundation-USA announced 18 Princess Grace Award winners and 11 Honoraria recipients, joining over 1,000 previously recognized artists including Tony Kushner and Leslie Odom Jr..  This year’s recipients include dancer India Hobbs, who was nominated by previous Princess Grace Award winner Andrea Mille

05 August 2026 The film You Don’t Belong Here, directed by Florin Șerban, will premiere at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, where it has been selected in the International Competition. The film explores the complex relationship between a father and his son. It follows a physician as he learns the police suspect his t

The inclusion of this film is is a significant step in breaking through an unofficial but real international boycott of Israeli cinema, particularly for films that tell an explicitly Israeli sto.

Among a crowded field, Australian photographer Callie Soden took top honours at the 2026 International Pet Photography Awards.