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Penelope Milford, who was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1979 for her role in Hal Ashby’s "Coming Home," died Oct. 14 at 77.

Former Variety editor Steven Gaydos looks back at the achievements of Jiri Bartoska, president of Karlovy Vary Film Festival, who died on Thursday.

June 20th marks the release of Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws,” one of the most impactful American films ever released. 

After 75 years, the Berlin Film Festival retains its reputation and the vitality of its programming and operations.

In the '60s, booking music acts in the South was a dicey affair due to horrific Jim Crow-era laws discriminating against minority artists

Donovan’s latest creative musings can be seen in a “visual essay,” “Tale of the Gael,” a photographic history of the ‘60s music revolution.

‘Day of the Jackal' and 'Manchurian Candidate' make one wonder, are there shadowy forces directing the hands of today’s political assassins?  

Variety names 10 of this season’s most fascinating examples of excellence in ensemble acting, from 'Anora' and 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' to 'Conclave'

David Foster’s genius combined with his compassion gave birth to a philanthropy that is as beautiful as the greatest songs he’s brought to life.

The 2024 Golden Globes and Oscars race is a stampede of creatively ambitious film directors that would make a great A-list festival lineup. 

Need to break post-presidential election tension that surfaces its ugly head at the Thanksgiving table? Here's watch/listen lists to ease the anxiety.

Eckhart Schmidt, German director best-known for the cannibalistic groupie horror thriller, “The Fan,” passed away on Oct. 25 at the age of 85.

Once known as COLCOA, the American French Film Festival will hit Los Angeles Oct. 29 - Nov. 2 and feature such awards contenders as "Emilia Perez."

Today marks the debut of our first edition of the Variety 10. Our goal is to focus on a specific field or discipline and highlight the 10 individuals we feel are the most important and consequential leaders of the moment. It’s entirely appropriate that we begin by looking at the world of brand marketing, where […]

They say, “If you remember the ’60s, you weren’t there,” but newly minted Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree Sammy Hagar not only remembers the ’60s, but the ’50s as well. As someone who grewup in that same era in Hagar’s hood, the former hometown of America’s biggest steel mill west of the Mississippi and birthplace […]

The Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on Oct. 7 inflamed the Middle East region, igniting yet another war with thousands of victims, both Jewish and Palestinian. The repercussions of the conflict are now felt all over the world, signified by massive demonstrations from Paris to Caracas, for and against both sides of the conflagration. And […]

Just as she emerged as one of the brightest lights of Latin American cinema, actor Pina Pellicer died by her own hand 60 years ago. Only 30, she had in a short time co-starred opposite Marlon Brando in his only directing effort, the epic Western “One-Eyed Jacks,” and also appeared in one of the most […]

Since the beginning of the Academy Awards in the late 1920s, Hollywood filmmakers have been making socially conscious films. Many of the best of those have scored the film town’s top honor — Oscar best picture. This year, that winner could be “Oppenheimer,” a film that boldly and starkly dramatizes the creation of man’s most […]

With the 2023 Oscar nominations now in hand, it’s clear that Margot Robbie’s exclusion from the best actress race, along with “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig’s director snub, has outraged the blockbuster film’s massive global fanbase. Oscar nominations for supporting players America Ferrera and Ryan Gosling haven’t calmed the social media fury over what is perceived by Robbie fans as […]

In 2012, the world’s film critics considered Federico Fellini’s 1963 Oscar-winning “8 ½” one of the 10 greatest films of all time. By 2022, Fellini’s landmark film had fallen out of the top 30. Once upon a time, director/screenwriter/producer Martin Scorsese had reportedly cited it as his favorite film of all time. More recently it’s […]