https://www.scmp.com/rss/523336/feed The latest news and top stories on Guillermo del Toro, a Mexican filmmaker, author and artist best known for his work in horror and dark fantasy. His work includes *Pan’s Labyrinth*, *The Shape of Water* and *Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio*. He won three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Associated Press Associated Press Politically charged thriller One Battle After Another took six prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards (Baftas) on Sunday, building momentum ahead of the Oscars next month. Blues-steeped vampire epic Sinners and gothic horror story Frankenstein won three awards each, while Shakespearean family tragedy Hamnet was named best British film. Jessie Buckley, as widely predicted, won the best actress prize for playing a grieving mother and wife of William Shakespeare, Agnes... https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/3344282/one-battle-after-another-wins-6-prizes-including-best-picture-uk-baftas?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/3344282/one-battle-after-another-wins-6-prizes-including-best-picture-uk-baftas?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:02:46 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Ryan Coogler’s blues-steeped vampire epic Sinners led all films with 16 nominations to the 98th Academy Awards on Thursday, setting a record for the most in Oscar history. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters showered Sinners with more nominations than they had ever bestowed before, breaking the 14-nomination mark set by All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land. Along with best picture, Coogler was nominated for best director and best screnplay, and double-duty star Michael B. Jordan... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340894/sinners-breaks-all-time-oscars-record-16-nominations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340894/sinners-breaks-all-time-oscars-record-16-nominations?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:43:16 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another scored a leading nine nominations to the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on Monday, adding to the Oscar favourite’s momentum and handing Warner Bros a victory amid Netflix’s acquisition deal. In nominations announced from Beverly Hills, California, One Battle After Another landed nominations for its cast – Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn and Chase Infiniti – and for Anderson’s screenplay and direction. It is competing in the comedy and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335655/golden-globes-one-battle-after-another-leads-9-nods-amid-netflix-warner-bros-deal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335655/golden-globes-one-battle-after-another-leads-9-nods-amid-netflix-warner-bros-deal?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:00:29 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa At only 25 years old, American actress Chase Infiniti has already worked alongside some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. She made her debut in the Apple TV+ series Presumed Innocent alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Negga just last year, and now she’s set to make the leap to films. She stars opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio Del Toro in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest action thriller One Battle After Another. As the film hits cinemas, here’s everything you need to know about the... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3327015/meet-rising-star-chase-infiniti-whos-one-battle-after-another-leonardo-dicaprio?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3327015/meet-rising-star-chase-infiniti-whos-one-battle-after-another-leonardo-dicaprio?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Sep 2025 10:00:15 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Hamnet, a devastating period drama about the life of William Shakespeare and his family, won the top prize on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival. The heart-wrenching film stars Paul Mescal as Shakespeare, who tries to forge a career as a playwright while his wife Agnes – played by Jessie Buckley – contends with the perils of plague and childbirth in Elizabethan England. It comes from Beijing-born director Chloé Zhao, who directed 2020’s Oscar-winning Nomadland. Securing the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325517/chloe-zhaos-shakespeare-family-tragedy-hamnet-wins-top-toronto-film-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325517/chloe-zhaos-shakespeare-family-tragedy-hamnet-wins-top-toronto-film-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:08:48 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press On the first day of shooting Frankenstein, Mexican-born filmmaker Guillermo del Toro held up a drawing of the creature he had made when he was a teenager. “He said, ‘This is like Jesus to me,’” recalls Oscar Isaac, who plays Victor Frankenstein. For del Toro, Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel and the 1931 film starring Boris Karloff are his personal surtexts, the origin of a lifelong affection for the monsters he has breathed into life throughout his career ever since. For a misunderstood kid... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3324422/jesus-me-what-frankenstein-means-guillermo-del-toro?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3324422/jesus-me-what-frankenstein-means-guillermo-del-toro?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Sep 2025 11:15:08 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A gentle study of dysfunctional families by veteran American director Jim Jarmusch clinched the top prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, while a harrowing docudrama about the Gaza war took second. Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver and Tom Waits, drew mostly positive reviews for its humorous portrayal of awkwardness and guilt. The Broken Flowers director, who wrote the script for three family get-togethers in upstate New York, Dublin and Paris,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3324625/us-indie-film-beats-out-gaza-war-docudrama-venice-top-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3324625/us-indie-film-beats-out-gaza-war-docudrama-venice-top-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:30:23 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service Even with the film and streaming industries in an upheaval, and too few new titles finding their under-marketed way to theatres this year, the movie summer of 2025 stayed alive. Job one: done. Autumn comes next, and this lovely season has a way of raising our quality expectations. We have the usual quotient of critical successes coming soon, having premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. More of these prestige titles will follow suit after first-look appearances at the Venice, Telluride... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/lifestyle/leisure/article/3323867/10-films-watch-fall-anemone-nuremberg-and-springsteen-biopic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/lifestyle/leisure/article/3323867/10-films-watch-fall-anemone-nuremberg-and-springsteen-biopic?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Sep 2025 02:00:08 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse British actor Jude Law on Sunday said he became an “obsessive” watcher of Vladimir Putin as he prepared for his role as the Russian leader in his new film The Wizard of the Kremlin which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Law, 52, bears an uncanny resemblance to Putin, aping his scowl and distinctive walking style in the film by French director Olivier Assayas, which charts the rise of the former intelligence officer. “There’s a lot of footage one could watch and, personally, when I start... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3323841/jude-law-became-obsessive-putin-watcher-role-russian-leader?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3323841/jude-law-became-obsessive-putin-watcher-role-russian-leader?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:07:56 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Thousands of people protested on Saturday against Israel’s siege of Gaza on the sidelines of the Venice Film Festival, seeking to move the spotlight from movie drama to real-world trauma. Organised by left-wing political groups in northeast Italy, the demonstration began in the early evening a few kilometres from the festival where top Hollywood talent from George Clooney and Julia Roberts to Emma Stone have walked the red carpet in recent days. The protesters, whose numbers Agence France-Presse... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3323787/thousands-protest-against-israeli-siege-gaza-near-venice-film-festival?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3323787/thousands-protest-against-israeli-siege-gaza-near-venice-film-festival?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:13:34 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Many fled when wildfires devastated Los Angeles earlier this year, leaving precious and beloved items behind, but Guillermo del Toro was determined to save his lifelong collection of horror memorabilia. It is the same loyalty that finds him making another tough decision to protect the items he loves like family: letting some of them go. Del Toro partnered with Heritage Auctions for a three-part auction to sell a fraction of a collection that is bursting at the seams. Online bidding for the first... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3323621/what-guillermo-del-toro-auctioning-his-legendary-horror-collection?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3323621/what-guillermo-del-toro-auctioning-his-legendary-horror-collection?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:15:08 +0000 Reuters Reuters Vampires, zombies and the Grim Reaper are killing it at the box office. At a time when superheroes, sequels and reboots have grown stale among audiences, horror has emerged as an unlikely saviour, entertainment industry veterans say. This year, scary movies account for 17 per cent of North American ticket purchases, up from 11 per cent in 2024 and 4 per cent a decade ago, according to US-based data analytics firm Comscore. Thanks to the box office performance of Sinners and Final Destination:... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3317187/killing-it-box-office-horror-movies-become-unlikely-cinema-saviours?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3317187/killing-it-box-office-horror-movies-become-unlikely-cinema-saviours?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:15:08 +0000