![]() ![]() Its program is filled with more comedies and genre films than your typical dramatic festival fare, and studios often use it as a soft launch of their spring releases. SXSW has long been seen as consumer-facing. Stars like Evan Longoria, who was at the fest with her feature debut Flamin’ Hot, and Elisabeth Olsen, who premiered HBO Max miniseries Love & Death, were on the Oscars stage as presenters a day after their respective Austin premieres. It’s not the traditional Oscars film,” said Godfrey.Ĭoincidentally, the first weekend of this year’s SXSW conflicted with Oscars weekend, leaving some talent and executives with particularly chaotic travel schedules. “It’s been such an exciting thing to have a film that was a fan favorite get this much attention and get actually what it deserves. Kwan and Scheinert have a long history with the festival, having premiered their music videos at the SXSW, including for Lil Jon’s “Turn Down for What”, which won the SXSW 2015 grand jury award for music videos. “That film popping is more of a surprise to other people than it is to us, because we have been having the Daniels work so long,” Godfrey continued. (It is also the first Oscar winner to have popularized the phrase “hotdog fingers.”) ![]() A genre-bending drama that is equal parts absurdist and sentimental, It stood out among a field often populated with historical dramas, adaptions, dramatic social critiques, and biopics. Of course, the A24 movie was never the typical Oscars fare. Everything Everywhere‘s rowdy SXSW premiere - where the audience was near-manic and Michelle Yeoh cried on stage - became one of the biggest stories out of a festival that also included the movie where Nicolas Cage starred as a version of himself ( Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent) and Sandra Bullock announced an acting sabbatical. We have a lot more stuff that pushes the edges of what is allowed,” said SXSW film and TV fest programmer Claudette Godfrey ahead of the 2023 fest of the festival’s future awards potential in the wake of Everything Everywhere. “We are not known for picking Oscars films, obviously. ![]() William Shatner Explains How He Landed 'Star Trek' Role as Captain Kirk
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