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Oscar Sunday was highlighted by the 97th Oscars but also numerous high-profile viewing parties, including Elton John’s renowned gala and the Vanity Fair celebration.

After the Oscars, the celebration continued as stars moved from the Governors Ball to exclusive after-parties hosted by Neon, Searchlight Pictures, Mubi, and Netflix.

Elton John’s legendary Academy Awards Viewing Party, now in its 33rd year and benefiting the Elton John AIDS Foundation, did not disappoint on Oscar day. This year’s star-studded event features a powerhouse lineup of co-hosts and guests, including Megan Thee Stallion, Hozier, Sharon Stone, Sean Penn, Mick Jagger, Jeffrey Wright (Benefit Chair), Jean Smart, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Neil Patrick Harris. Adding to the excitement, Chappell Roan will deliver a highly anticipated performance.

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Chef Wolfgang Puck and Wolfgang Puck Catering returned, for its 31st year, to create the menu for...

Diane Warren didn’t let her Oscar losing streak get in the way of having some fun Sunday night.

Despite not going home with a gold statuette for best original song for “Journey” from Netflix’s “The Six Triple Eight,” the prolific songwriter attended the Vanity Fair party in Beverly Hills. The loss marked her 16th time being snubbed for the Academy Award. (“El Mal” from “Emilia Pérez” won on Sunday.)

“I’m consistent as fuck,” Warren cracked when I caught with her on the Vanity Fair red carpet in Beverly Hills. “You know, it is what it is. I’m happy to be here.”

Warren’s ensemble at the Oscars included “Make It Fucking Happen” emblazoned on the inside of her jacket collar.

She said, “I’m the Terminator of the Oscars — I’ll be back. That’s in my Arnold Schwarzenegger voice. I’m coming back. You can’t get rid of me.

Kim Kardashian wows in a ball gown at the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday (March 2) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The 44-year-old All’s Fair actress wore a two-in-one dress for the annual affair, as the front and the back of her dress look like two different dresses!

The night before, Kim stepped out for the Chanel and Charles Finch pre-Oscars dinner.

If you missed it, see photos of Every celebrity on the red carpet at the 2025 Oscars earlier in the night!

Be sure to also check out our Best Dressed list.

Just a couple weeks ago, Kim was spotted on the set of her upcoming new legal series All’s Fair.

Fyi: Kim is wearing a Balenciaga dress with Lorraine Schwartz jewelry.

Browse through the gallery to see more photos of Kim Kardashian at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party…...

The Academy Awards presented its coveted Oscar statuettes for achievements in film at the 96th Academy Awards from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, Los Angeles, on Sunday, March 10th.

The red carpet at Hollywood’s Big Night was graced by Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Yeoh, Colman Domingo, Margaret Qualley, Monica Barbaro, Halle Berry, Zoe Saldaña, Jeremy Strong, Meg Ryan, Selena Gomez, Emma Stone, Blackpink’s Lisa, Brady Corbet, Boyd Holbrook, Denis Villeneuve, Bowen Yang, Jacki Weaver, Joan Chen, Laura Dern, and Isabella Rossellini, and more.

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Hosted by Conan O’Brien, presenters included Halle Berry, Sterling K. Brown, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Ana de Armas, Robert Downey Jr., Elle Fanning, Whoopi Goldberg, Selena Gomez, Goldie Hawn, Scarlett Johansson, John Lithgow, Cillian Murphy, Connie Nielsen, Amy Poehler, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, June Squibb, Ben Stiller,...

Exclusive: Shirley MacLaine wailed during her acceptance speech when she won her Oscar back in 1984 for Terms of Endearment, “I’m gonna cry because this show has been as long as my career!”

Spare a thought for three of this year’s Best Actress nominees, Demi Moore, Karla Sofia Gascón and Mickey Madison, because for them, awards season has been running since last May when their movies, The Substance, Emilia Pérez and Anora, respectively, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival.

“It’s been nearly a year,” Moore tells me helpfully, when we meet at the annual Charles Finch/Chanel pre-Oscars soirée in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Her face is a genuine picture of joy, that’s the word. “I am joyful,” she smiles.

“My mind and spirit is great,” Moore continues. “But my body says, ‘F— you.'”

In a phrase, Moore encapsulates a sentiment I...

H.E.R. is weighing in on Oscar producers’ decision not to include performances of this year’s best original song nominees during Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony.

The singer-songwriter would have performed Diane Warren’s “Journey” from the “The Six Triple Eight” soundtrack if the traditional performances took place.

“It’s kind of weird, but I’m just happy to be there,” H.E.R., who won the original song Oscar in 2021 for “Fight for You” from “Judas and the Black Messiah,” told me Saturday night at the Chanel and Charles Finch pre-Oscars dinner at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hill Hotel, “Performing or not, the song’s gonna live on, whether we perform it on the Oscar stage or not, I was a little bummed because I look forward to those performances, not just being in it, you know, but it’s totally fine. It’s still gonna be a great show,...

Charles Finch and Chanel are hosting their 16th annual Pre-Oscars dinner!

The 16th annual intimate dinner took place on Saturday (March 1) at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, just ahead of the 2025 Oscars on Sunday (March 2), featuring a star-studded guest list of this year’s nominees, actors, musicians, directors, producers, writers, and Hollywood influencers.

Keep reading to find out more…

Lily-Rose Depp, Lupita Nyong’o, Riley Keough, Phoebe Tonkin, Adrien Brody and Georgina Chapman, Al Pacino, Ava DuVernay, Colman Domingo, Danielle Deadwyler and Dakota Fanning were the many attendees of the dinner.

Stars like Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Demi Moore, Elle Fanning, Felicity Jones, Fernanda Torres, Harvey Keitel, H.E.R, Jeff Goldblum, Jeremy Strong, Judd Apatow, Julie Delpy and Kim Kardashian all met and mingled at the event.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Louisa Jacobson, Natasha Lyonne, Malcolm Washington, Maria Bakalova, Maude Apatow, Mick Jagger and Melanie Hamrick, Michael Keaton, Miguel, Molly Gordon,...

Charles Finch fixes his beady eyes on me in that sort of British professorial manner to make it clear that the cocktail soiree followed by dinner that he and Chanel are throwing Saturday night at the Beverly Hills Hotel’s Polo Lounge “is not about me meeting some famous people.”

Actually, Finch would’ve made an interesting choice to play James Bond back in the day, but I digress.

The event started out three decades ago as a celebration of international filmmakers and actors “who didn’t have anything to do on a Saturday night” before the Academy Awards “and they’d come and have a plate of pasta,” Finch explains.

However, as much Finch wants to play it down, the event has become a big deal, and every year there’s an unseemly scramble to be included on the guest list.

The trick, though, is that Finch and his...

A Rabbit’s Foot, the film and culture magazine founded by British producer Charles Finch, perhaps best known for throwing some of awards season’s most star-studded parties, has partnered with its sister production house Rabbit’s Foot Films on a short film division.

The announcement comes as the two unveil the winners of a short film competition they launched last year to help discover new filmmaking talent from around the world, with the ambition to work with them to develop both long and short-form content.

A Rabbit’s Foot will now distribute short films via its platform, while Rabbit’s Foot Films will produce a series of original shorts in partnership with the magazine.

Rabbit’s Foot Films is the new name for Finch’s Standalone Pictures, which rebranded in line with his magazine after the last feature he co-produced, Sofia Coppola’s Venice 2023 bowing “Priscilla” starring Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi.

Happy Oscars Week!

As Los Angeles gets ready for Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, here’s Variety’s ultimate party guide for all things happening before, during and after the 97th Academy Awards on March 2.

From Diane Von Furstenberg’s luncheon for women in film to Madonna and Guy Oseary’s annual late-night bash, as well as Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s Gold Party, red carpets are being rolled out all over town.

Tuesday, Feb. 25

Oscars Nominees Dinner

Event replaces the annual nominees luncheon, which was canceled due to the wildfires.

Academy Museum, Los Angeles

6 p.m.

Time Women of the Year

Honorees include Nicole Kidman, Anna Sawai, A’ja Wilson, Olivia Munn, Jordan Chiles and more. Performance by Laufey.

The West Hollywood Edition, West Hollywood

6 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 26

Lumen Awards

Honoring John Ridley, Lucy Walker, Avery Colvert, John Wells, Gregory Nava and Dolores Huerta and Participant.

Hotel Casa Del Mar,...

Attention industryites, the final stretch of awards season is here and it’s all leading up to Hollywood’s biggest night with the 97th annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre. It’s best to pace yourself as the momentum will be building in a big way with a packed schedule of soirees, celebrations and exclusive parties in the coming days. While the below roundup includes many of the typical events — Vanity Fair, Elton John, Madonna, Chanel and Charles Finch, Giorgio Armani and Women in Film are all back with bashes — agencies like UTA have opted to bow out of the party circuit in favor of making donations to L.A. wildfire relief. Here’s all the intel gathered thus far with updates to come throughout the week.

Friday, Feb. 21

Oscar Nominee Spotlight: Breaking the Ceiling — Casting Directors

Academy Museum, 6067 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 7 p.m.

Casting directors “discuss historic milestones,...

The Dune franchise, helmed by acclaimed director Denis Villeneuve, has been a huge success for Warner Bros., and while a third movie is now in the works, the studio is unlikely to want this particular IP cash cow to end. With this in mind, a new rumor claims that a director is being sought for Dune 4. And it’s a filmmaker well-known for big franchises...and even bigger monsters.

According to insider Daniel Richtman, Godzilla director Gareth Edwards is now the top choice for Dune 4, with Villeneuve having previously revealed that the third installment, Dune: Messiah, will be his final trip to Arrakis. Currently, this is just a rumor, so take it with a Godzilla-sized pinch of salt, but Edwards has become known for stepping into major franchises thanks to the likes of Godzilla, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and this year’s Jurassic World Rebirth. So, while...

The story of Dune: Part Two and Dune 3will be separated by a 12-year time jump, but thankfully, fans won't be waiting anywhere near that long for the next entry in Denis Villeneuve's groundbreaking sci-fi franchise, as the third film in the trilogy just got a major production update. Dune: Part Two was released less than 12 months ago, and is currently making its rounds (and being snubbed on) the awards circuit. But to some fans, it feels like a lifetime since the last entry. At one point, Villeneuve had fans worried when he speculated that he might film a different movie in between Part Two and Dune Messiah, but that rumor was put to rest last year. Now, not only is Villeneuve working on the script for Dune Messiah, but the film may move into production far quicker than anyone was expecting.

Per a new report from Deadline's Baz Bamigboye,...

Scout Willis inherited some of her mom Demi Moore’s style genes! The mother-and-daughter duo led the style pack at the glamorous Pre-bafta Party co-hosted by Chanel and Charles Finch at 5 Hertford Street in London.

Both Demi Moore and her daughter Scout Willis have unique, fashionable styles. Demi is known for her sophisticated approach, often choosing timeless and elegant silhouettes. Her daughter, Scout, meanwhile, usually wears vibrant colors and unique patterns, exhibiting a more adventurous and edgy aesthetic.

Scout Willis and Demi Moore show their impressive style sense at the Ee BAFTA Film Awards Nominees’ Party 2025 co-hosted by Chanel and Charles Finch at 5 Hertford Street in London (Credit: Pa Images / INSTARimages)

I appreciate how their clothing choices not only capture their distinct personalities but also exude a touch of sophistication and glamour. Despite their diverse fashion tastes, both ladies appear to agree on one thing: classic shoes are a wardrobe essential!

Exclusive: Tom Cruise was smack in the middle of a 360-degree crush at the annual Charles Finch and Chanel pre-bafta party on Saturday night and Sunday morning at the swanky 5 Hertford Street private member’s club Mayfair.

One moment he’s having an earnest conversation with The Wild Robot’s Lupita Nyong’o. “Come to the set, come visit us,” he’s telling her about the time he’s having working on director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s movie shooting at Pinewood Studios.

The Mission Impossible superstar moves to his right to welcome an incoming Demi Moore. They’re soon locked in a hug for the ages as they natter about her awards season success in filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (a big hit for Mubi and Working Title) as onlookers quickly calculate that Cruise and Moore worked together on Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men 33 years ago.

Lupita Nyong’o and Brady Corbet.

BAFTA weekend is upon us, and with it the annual flurry of pre- and post-awards cocktail receptions, dinners and swanky soirées to celebrate nominees, winners and the industry as a whole. (Scroll down for a list of events.)

The BAFTA Film Awards will be handed out on Sunday evening in London at a ceremony hosted by David Tennant and beginning at 5pm local time – Deadline will be on the red carpet and inside Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall to cover the proceedings. The ceremony will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 7pm local. In the U.S., Britbox is airing the Film Awards from 11am Pt/2pm Et.

On the road to Sunday, and through the wee hours of Monday morning, there will be champagne flowing in Central London with oodles of talent expected in town for a well-heeled weekend party crawl.

There was unsettling news on...

Exclusive: Dafydd Jones first went to Hollywood in the 1980s to take photographs for Vanity Fair. He would lurk, unfailingly polite and unobtrusive, and take pictures of the rich and famous.

The parties were truly glamorous then. Wall to wall megawatt stars. Jack Nicholson and Elizabeth Taylor (never ‘Liz!’) at Swifty Lazar’s last hurrah at Spago in 1993 is what I’m talking about.

The hordes of advertisers and folk who had zero affinity with movies except to rub up against film stars and Hollywood players came later.

It somehow feels strange to be raving on about swell parties in Hollywood at a time when so many people we’ve known for decades have had their lives upended by the fires that scorched Los Angeles County, leaving thousands homeless, and at least 29 people dead.

But Vanity Fair plans to go ahead with its Oscar-week events and will support two local...

An adaptation of Edith Wharton novel The Custom Of The Country by Mary Queen Of Scots director Josie Rourke is among 16 new projects backed by the Düsseldorf-based regional film fund Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw (Fms).

€600,000 in production funding was allocated by Fms to Rourke’s planned adaptation of Wharton’s 1913 novel.

The tragicomedy of manners about a Midwestern girl attempting to ascend in New York society is currently structured as a German-uk co-production between Cologne-based Mo Co-Production, a single purpose company set up by augenschein Filmproduktion, with Charles Finch’s Rabbit Foot Films.

Finch was recently a co-producer of the...

Mike Figgis has been shooting a behind-the-scenes documentary for the past 18 months about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. It’s called Megadoc.

Figgis told me Monday that it’s been edited but there’s allowance for the fact that the film played in competition here at the Cannes Film Festival. He recorded an interview with the cinema titan the other day.

Figgis, who was introduced into the Coppola clan back in the mid 1990s after directing Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, told me that the documentary is “very much a fly-on-the-wall” and also features conversations with various cast members — Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Shia Labeouf — and Coppola’s wife Eleanor Coppola, who shot the footage and directed her own study of her husband’s work for the acclaimed Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, about the making of 1979s Apocalypse Now.

He will go...

Sony brought together a multiverse’s worth of its filmmakers past and present together Friday at Cannes for a dinner celebrating the 100th anniversary of Columbia Pictures.

The attendees at Mamo Michelangelo included Cannes jury president and Barbie director Greta Gerwig (who made Little Women for Columbia), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Oscar winners Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Bad Boys: Ride or Die directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, Chloe Zhao, whose The Rider was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, Anyone But You director Will Gluck and Kraven the Hunter filmmaker J.C. Chandor.

Entrepreneur and film producer Charles Finch hosted the dinner with Tom Rothman, chairman & CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group.

During the dinner, Rothman gave a toast in which he wandered among the tables, pointing out specific talent and giving a nod to their contributions to the studio, name checking Ghostbusters: Afterlife director Jason Reitman...

Tom Rothman, the Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman and CEO, wined and dined a select few at a splendidly swish soirée Friday at Mamo Michelangelo in Antibes, hosted by Charles Finch as part of his annual Filmmakers Dinner honoring 100 years of Columbia Pictures, and there was something he said about why movies matter that has stuck with me.

Hours earlier, Rothman had introduced a gloriously restored print of Charles Vidor’s 1946 movie Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth as the eponymous nightclub temptress and Glenn Ford as the hardboiled gambler from her past.

They hate each other, but as we all know, that’s often a prelude on the road to love both in real and reel life.

Related: Cannes Film Festival 2024 Photos

Vidor also uses the vocabulary of dance to signal Gilda’s emotional temperature.

The great choreographer Jack Cole, who later coached Marilyn Monroe on her moves in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,...

On the eve of the 96th annual Academy Awards, the hottest party in town, returning for its 15th year, was the Chanel and Charles Finch pre-Oscar Dinner at the iconic Polo Lounge in the Beverly Hills Hotel.

IndieWire attended alongside stars including Margot Robbie, Kristen Stewart, America Ferrera, Robert De Niro, Chloë Sevigny, Colman Domingo, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Sandra Hüller, Willem Dafoe, Alexander Payne, Cord Jefferson, Celine Song, and Jonathan Glazer, to name a few.

Walking into the event, we were greeted by a festive band playing music along the hotel’s walkway. On an intimate patio outside of the Polo Lounge, hors d’oeuvres and champagne flowed as nominees, actors, musicians, directors, producers, writers, and Hollywood influencers celebrated and pre-gamed the biggest night in cinema.

“It’s just such a nice moment to celebrate before things get too crazy tomorrow night. It’s always such an eclectic and fun group of people,...

So many celebrities were in attendance at the Chanel and Charles Finch Pre-Oscar Dinner ahead of the 2024 Academy Awards!

The event was held on Saturday (March 9) at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Nominees spotted at the dinner include Margot Robbie, Colman Domingo, Robert De Niro, America Ferrera, Celine Song, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Sandra Huller, and Justine Triet.

Additionally, Kristen Stewart, Usher, Willem Dafoe, Tessa Thompson, Ava DuVernay, Maya Rudolph, Adrien Brody, Georgina Chapman, Daniel Kaluuya, Patrick Dempsey, Jillian Fink, Leslie Mann, Phoebe Tonkin, Chloe Sevigny, Gracie Abrams, Olivia Munn, Alexandra Shipp, David Oyelowo, Rebecca Hall, James Marsden, Dominic Sessa, Michael Keaton, Kerry Washington, Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, and Lily-Rose Depp were in attendance.

See the full list of 2024 Oscar nominees!

Browse through the gallery to see all the photos from the Chanel and Charles Finch pre-Oscars Dinner…...

Bye, Barbie.

Warner Bros. released Greta Gerwig’s Barbie last summer, on July 21, 2023, and it became an instant pop culture phenomenon before going on to end the year as the No. 1 movie of the year thanks to a $1.445 billion dollar finish. The pink-a-palooza continued with an awards season run — capped by eight Oscar nominations including one for best picture — that’s come complete with a high fashion promo tour thanks to producer and star Margot Robbie.

But now that the Oscars are just hours away, the A-lister revealed what her plans are come next week during a brief interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday night before heading into Chanel and Charles Finch’s 15th annual pre-Oscars dinner at Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills. But first, Robbie was keen to name two of her favorite Chanel looks she’s worn recently.

“I love the four-piece suit I wore to the Oscar nominees luncheon,...

The BAFTA Film Awards return this evening at the Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre, where this year’s nominees are lining the red carpet. Scroll down for pics.

This year’s awards ceremony is hosted by David Tennant (picking up the baton from Richard E. Grant).

Leading the noms this year is Christopher Nolan’s atomic biopic Oppenheimer, which snagged 13 noms, including best film, director, and adapted screenplay. Oppenheimer was one nomination away from equaling All Quiet on the Western Front’s record 2023 haul of 14 noms. Trailing Nolan is Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who clocked 11 nominations with his latest black comedy, Poor Things. Lanthimos’ haul also includes best film alongside outstanding british film and adapted screenplay for Tony McNamara.

Related: BAFTA Parties + Events Photos: From The BAFTA Dinner To Charles Finch & Chanel

Chasing the leading two is Martin Scorsese’s Osage epic Killers Of The Flower, which clocked nine nominations.

Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig and Caitriona Balfe are celebrating with Chanel!

The stars attended the Chanel and Charles Finch Pre-bafta Party on Saturday night (February 17) in London, England.

Chanel and Charles Finch held their 24th annual pre-bafta party at the Georgian townhouse 5 Hertford Street, a private members club in London’s Mayfair.

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Throughout the evening, a host of international guests from the worlds of film, fashion, design, art and music like Carey Mulligan, Emma Mackey, Sandra Huller, Justine Triet, Lucy Boynton and Bel Powley gathered for dinner to celebrate the 2024 BAFTAs, which is happening on Sunday (February 18).

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ellie Bamber, Nico Parker, Teo Yoo, Savanah Leaf, Lily Allen, Antonia Desplat, Gala Gordon, Alexa Chung, Vivian Oparah, George Mackay, Poppy Delevingne, Marisa Abela, Gwendoline Christie, Greta Bellamacina and Laura Bailey were all among the star-studded attendees.

Find out who is nominated for the 2024 BAFTAs!

BAFTA weekend has arrived, and with it the kickoff of key celebrations ahead of the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday night, which will then be followed by a host of glitzy afterparties well into the wee hours of Monday morning. The awards themselves will be handed out beginning at 5pm local time on Sunday at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.

The ceremony, hosted by David Tennant, will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 7pm local, a two-hour delay from the start of the live proceedings. Contrary to last year, the final four categories will not be broadcast in real time. Britbox is airing the Film Awards in the U.S.

In 2022, the Critics Choice Awards were held in Los Angeles on the same night as the BAFTAs, causing some disruption for nominees. Last year, the...

Prolific Italian producer Lorenzo Mieli is known for backing Luca Guadagnino (“Bones and All”), Paolo Sorrentino, and Angelina Jolie (“Without Blood”; she also stars in his Pablo Larrain production “Maria”). However, his first American film, Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” was a very different kind of challenge.

“I would have never thought of myself as someone able to put together financing,” Mieli said on the phone from Italy. “I understood that in this moment in time, as producers, we want to protect the job of filmmakers. This is what we need to do.”

Based on Presley’s memoir “Elvis and Me,” Mieli struggled to hold the project together: first against resistance from the Elvis Presley estate, and then having to find another international distributor after Sony fell out in response to the estate withholding rights to Presley’s music.

In the end, all of the sow’s ears became silk purses.

That Harrison Ford sure has some stamina for someone in their 81st year.

What’s the secret I ask him?

“You know what the secret is,” he responded.

“Rock ‘n’ roll and the other two things.”

What two other things?

“Sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. That’s the secret but now it’s not a secret,” a bad-boy twinkle in his eye as he spoke.

Ford and Calista Flockhart were guests at Charles Finch’s A Rabbit’s Foot annual Filmmakers Dinner in Cannes on Friday night.

Related: Cannes Film Festival 2023 In Photos

For as long as I can remember the event had been held at Eden Roc, but this year Finch and his partners switched to Fred L’écailler seafood restaurant, out on the eastern peninsula, past the Palm Beach. Always cracks me up when chef patron Fred Garbellini describes himself as “just a humble fisherman.”

Strictly speaking I guess he is.

Cannes is ready to party again with the likes of Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford, Alicia Vikander, Jude Law and Cate Blanchett all set for a Côte d’Azur hoedown. Here’s a (non-exhaustive) look at some of festival festivities on deck at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off Tuesday and runs through May 27.

The return of the Carlton Hotel following a whopping $380 million renovation is perhaps symbolic of the reemergence of shindigs at the festival following the pandemic. ”We were closed for 26 months,” sighed the Carlton’s general manager Carlo Stragiotto as he welcomed us in the opulent lobby.

“We have created new spaces and renovated old ones,” Stragiotto proclaimed, then boasted that the hotel has space enough “to host four or five parties at the same time each night, if needed.”

The A-list after-party on Tuesday for Cannes’ opening-night film Jeanne du Barry, a period costume drama starring Depp,...

Exclusive: Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to The Stones and Brian Jones, a documentary about the “lost creative genius” who launched – and named – The Rolling Stones.

Acclaimed filmmaker Nick Broomfield directed the documentary, which Magnolia plans to release in theaters later this year.

“Featuring revealing interviews with all the main players and unseen archive released for the first time, The Stones and Brian Jones explores the creative musical genius of Jones, the key to the success of the band,” a release about the film notes, “and uncovers how the founder of what became the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world was left behind in the shadows of history.”

The Rolling Stones in London, May 4, 1963. L-r: Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts.

Jones assembled the Stones in 1962 as a blues-infused unit, playing rhythm and lead guitar alongside Keith Richards,...

The 2023 Oscars week brought with it days of A-list celebrations leading up to Sunday night’s 95th annual Academy Awards. Parties returned in full force this year for the first time since before the Covid-19 pandemic, with studios, agencies, fashion houses and other organizations like Vanity Fair, Elton John and MPTF all hosting their own soirees.

Below are some insider highlights from the 2023 festivities.

Governors Ball

The Oscars’ official afterparty, held just upstairs from the Dolby Theatre, welcomed big winners including the Everything Everywhere All at Once team, Sarah Polley and Brendan Fraser, who had their new trophies engraved and posed for photos with their statues, as Ke Huy Quan’s excitement could be contained to the ground as he stood on the engraving station table. Harrison Ford, Angela Bassett, Ariana DeBose, Ava DuVernary, Brian Tyree Henry, Brendan Gleeson, Miles Teller, Riz Ahmed, Seth Rogen, Sigourney Weaver and Troy Kotsur...

The Champagne carpet officially rolled out at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood for the 95th Academy Awards, kicking off the final stretch of Oscar pre-parties and events as Hollywood gears up for March 12.

The food, beverages and décor of this year’s Governors Ball, the Academy’s official post-Oscars celebration, was revealed Tuesday at a press conference by Wolfgang Puck, who crafted this year’s menu with Eric Klein, VP of culinary at Wolfgang Puck Catering.

Nominees, winners and guests will be treated to a variety of tray-passed dishes, created by 120 chefs in the kitchen, from smoked salmon Oscars matzah and Wp signature pizzas to crispy Moroccan lamb cigars.

Related: Oscar Photos 2023: The Best Of The Red Carpet & Gala Ceremony

Elton John returned to hosting his annual 31st Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party on Sunday, March 12th and will be by joined by Eric McCormack and...

As the old saying goes, write what you know, and for Women Talking filmmaker Sarah Polley, who is up for an Adapted Screenplay Oscar on Sunday, she’s been through so much of the campaign process that her next movie is set around awards season.

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Speaking with Deadline on the red carpet, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen actress-turned-two-time Oscar nominee says, “I’ve been developing a project based on my experiences going through awards season — I’m not kidding.”

“I know all of your names and I have all of your numbers, you will be hearing from me,” Polley told Deadline, referring to the awards-season media...

Nicole Kidman arrives at the Chanel/Charles Finch Pre Oscars soirée and dinner at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills and makes clear that she’s just stopping by to say hello. ”I have two daughters at home, and they’ll be up all night unless I put them to bed!”

Kidman was referring to Sunday Rose, 14, and Faith Margaret, 12.

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“The 14-year-old wants to accompany me to parties, but I have to be strict about that,” Kidman tells me as we chat in the Polo Lounge garden.

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Jonathan Majors is making sure to keep his body in shape.

The actor has created quite a stir for his physique in “Creed III,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and the Sundance Film Festival favorite “Magazine Dreams.” Majors tells Variety that he’ll work out not once, but twice before the Oscars on Sunday.

“I’m going to get up and go to the gym, have a big breakfast, wash my face and then I’ll really scrub my face because I’ll be presenting tomorrow,” Majors said at the Chanel and Charles Finch pre-Oscar dinner at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Saturday night. “I’ll probably go to the gym twice. My pickup isn’t until four o’clock. It’ll be cool.”

His pre-Oscars breakfast? “I’m staying at this hotel with a really great steak so probably a wagyu steak. Protein is good.

A new episode of the Wtf Really Happened to This Horror Movie? video series has just been released, and in this one we’re looking into the real world crimes that inspired director Brian Yuzna’s 1996 horror film The Dentist (watch it Here). To find out all about it, check out the video embedded above.

Scripted by Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, and Charles Finch, The Dentist has the following synopsis: Dr. Alan Feinstone is a rich and successful Beverly Hills dentist. There’s only one problem, he’s insane. Dr. Feistone loves perfection, and he expects it of everyone. Unfortunately, no one is perfect. This unacceptable fact annoys the good doctor and leads him to commit his one small imperfection: murder.

The film stars Corbin Bernsen, Linda Hoffman, Michael Stadvec, Ken Foree, Tony Noakes, Molly Hagan, Patty Toy, Jan Hoag, Virginya Keehne, Earl Boen, Christa Sauls, Mark Ruffalo, Lise Simms,...

Exclusive: Toby Jones says he initially had concerns of being “bored out my mind” working on summer blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, but the actor tells Deadline that he’s “so relieved that I had done it” because “actually, I absolutely loved working on that film.”

The fifth instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise is “so different” from the flow of more recent films he’s appeared in such as Sam Mendes’ heartfelt drama Empire of Light and Sebastián Lelio’s thrilling Irish tale The Wonder. “It’s so massive!” he says.

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It’s BAFTA weekend here in London, and that means it’s time for our annual rundown of the festivities in store for nominees, execs and other well-heeled invitees. Notably in 2023, there’s a new venue for the Film Awards ceremony and dinner, while the roster of pre-awards events includes a new host. All will be capped off by celebrations of several key players on Sunday, from intimate to outsized bashes.

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For 25 years, Finch tells Deadline, “we have either represented studios in helping to promote their programming or we have brought enormous luxury deals to artists, and...

There’s something inherently unsettling about teeth, and the addition of someone prodding at them with sharp instruments is especially invasive. On the other side of that coin, the negative association with dentistry can impact the professionals. Cult filmmaker Brian Yuzna tapped into these fundamental fears with his 1996 direct-to-video film, The Dentist, and its 1998 sequel, The Dentist 2.

In fact, Yuzna knew he could sell the movie based on the title alone, so he solicited writers to pitch him on the concept. It was his old pals Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli — for whom Yuzna had produced Re-Animator and From Beyond — that cracked the script. Charles Finch (who went on to executive produce David Cronenberg’s Spider) was later brought in to punch it up.

Continuing the underlying social commentary Yuzna explored with Society, the film centers on hot-headed dentist Alan Feinstone. After catching his wife (Linda Hoffman) going down...

Exclusive: Charles Finch (Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love) is as English as they come, but Hollywood runs through his veins. Having written movies, produced a few, directed three; managed movie stars and built brands, and published high-end cultural magazines, he decided “smack in the middle of Covid, in my late fifties,” that he wanted to go back to making movies.

He has set up a small film company that he calls Standalone. Finch has a relationship with Columbia Pictures and he’ll formally announce a development deal with that studio next month. The entrepreneur also has a project with Netflix.

Finch told us that he has a slate of some 15 to 20 projects. Included in his group of filmmaking collaborators are directors Josie Rourke (Mary Queen of Scots), Tom Hooper (Les Miserables), Marina Zenovich (Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind), Simon Curtis (Downton Abbey: A New Era), and Florian Zeller (The Father...

Date night before the big show! On Saturday, March 26, Kristen Stewart and fiancée Dylan Meyer attended Chanel and Charles Finch's star-studded dinner celebrating the next day's 2022 Oscars. The held hands as they arrived at the event, held at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills, Calif. Stewart, who is nominated for her leading performance as Princess Diana in Spencer—her first Oscars nod, wore a strapless black and white patterned mini dress and matching lace-up pumps. Meyer sported a black button-up vest and matching mini skirt, paired with matching strappy heels. Stewart and Meyer have been spotted out together a few times since the actress announced on The Howard...

Hollywood is out and about in the days and nights leading up to the Oscars. Here, Variety reporters go inside the hottest parties and events.

Chanel and Charles Finch Dinner

Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, March 26

It sounds like “Belfast” director Kenneth Branagh and the film’s Ciarán Hinds will be at the Oscars. It was unclear if they could attend after both contracted Covid at the BAFTA Awards in London. “I know Ciarán is all clear,” Caitríona Balfe told Variety before heading into the Chanel and Charles Finch’s annual pre-Oscar dinner. “I think [Branagh] is, too. I think he’s good.”

Henry Golding said it was nice to see Hollywood reopening for Oscar festivities. “I think it’s great and it’s about time,” he told Variety. “Chanel has made sure everyone has had a Pcr test and that’s a step further than a...

Celebrate this year’s Oscars before, during and after the big night.

From Mindy Kaling to Beyoncé and Jay-Z, celerities and industry bosses will toast the nominees and winners of the 94th Academy Awards.

Pop that bubbly and shine those shoes because the fun is about to begin.

March 22

Emily’s List

9:30 a.m.

This year’s theme is “The Collective Power of Women.” Panelists include Gloria Calderón Kellett, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Robin Theade, U.S. Rep. Karen Bass. Moderated by Yvette Nicole Brown.

Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles

300 Doheny Dr., Beverly Hills

Oscar Week Events: Shorts

7 p.m.

Hosted by Academy Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Governor Jon Bloom.

Samuel Goldwyn Theater

8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills

March 23

South Asian Excellence in Film Party

5-8 p.m.

Hosts Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Mindy Kaling, Kumail Nanjiani, Anjula Acharia, Bela Bajaria, Maneesh K. Goyal and Shruti Ganguly toast “Flee,” “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom,...

London is getting ready to ring in the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday, returning to an in-person ceremony live from the Royal Albert Hall after a scaled-down hybrid format amid the Covid crisis last year. The weekend is rife with festivities planned to honor nominees and winners, but also has a slightly different look than in pre-pandemic times — most events require a lateral-flow test taken within 24 hours, for example.

Also, the awards ceremony, hosted by Rebel Wilson, will kick off at 5pm local time on Sunday (airing two hours later on BBC 1 and on Britbox in the U.S.). This is a start that’s earlier than usual, but is in line with 2021, while the entire Sunday schedule has shifted up this year versus 2020.

The Critics Choice Awards, which is airing live from Los Angeles that same night, is hosting a late soirée at London’s Savoy Hotel. It will...

Daphne Rubin-Vega’s face may be on an “In the Heights” billboard on 41st Street in Times Square, but her son isn’t so impressed. “He is 16, so I am not the coolest person at all on the planet,” Rubin-Vega tells me. “I’m like, ‘Just so you know, I’m the most badass mom you could ever have.’ He just gives me this look and goes, ‘Yeah, well, next time try for 42nd Street.’ My family keeps me on my toes.”

Joking aside, Rubin-Vega appreciates what seeing a film about a Latino community could mean to aspiring Brown performers. She says she had few role models to aspire to. For example, she loved watching “The Sound of Music,” but Julie Andrews was “the last person” she thought of when dreaming of becoming an actor. “I just wanted to achieve that feeling — whatever that was that she was doing when...

Andra Day is hosting a Covid-safe Oscar afterparty.

The singer-actor, who is nominated for a best actress statuette for her work as Billie Holiday in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” will hold court after the Academy Awards at Spring Place LA, a private members-only club in Beverly Hills. Director Lee Daniels and co-stars Trevante Rhodes and Rob Morgan are expected to join Day at the soiree, which will have a capacity of just 80 people.

An on-site rapid test will be mandatory for all attendees.

“No one can enter tonight unless they are Covid tested in our testing facility. Spring Place has secured the services of a company to build this on site and to specifically handle testing,” a Spring Place rep tells Variety. “Guests may enter with a negative test and then they are allowed to go into the restaurant, no matter if they’re in possession of a vaccine card or not.

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Chanel may not be throwing its annual pre-Oscar dinner with Charles Finch this week, but that doesn’t mean the legendary French fashion house won’t be celebrating the Academy Awards. I can exclusively reveal that about 150 VIPs will not only receive a Chanel gift box on April 24 filled with goodies to toast the Oscars, but the house will also make a donation to The Actors Fund to support the organization’s Covid relief efforts. The gift comes with a link to a video (watch it above) featuring images of past dinners and the starry guests, including Margot Robbie, Pharrell Williams, Carey Mulligan, Demi Moore, Cate Blanchett, Pedro Almodóvar, Chris Pine, Sienna Miller, Taylor Russell, Mick Jagger, Jessica Chastain, Tracee Ellis Ross, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Robert De Niro, Robin Wright. Keira Knightley, Kaitlyn Dever, Jessica Biel, Sofia Coppola and Sofia Boutella,...

It may be a stretch to refer to Lionel Atwill as a horror icon, but damned if he wasn’t a reliable utility player in the genre through the 1930s and ’40s. As a stage-actor-turned-film-star, he seemed to be the go-to for adding a dash of British gravitas to a supporting role. In fact, he starred in every Universal-produced Frankenstein movie after Bride as different characters ranging from inspectors, doctors, and other inspectors. In fact, Mel Brooks fans will be at least tangentially aware that his work as Young Frankenstein’s one-armed Inspector Kemp being a direct parody of Atwill’s Inspector Krogh from Son of Frankenstein. Atwill also dipped his toe into the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes universe, including a supporting part in Hound of the Baskervilles and even a turn as Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon.

Like most great character actors, Atwill found his niche in supporting roles,...