Golden Lion
Highest prize awarded at the Venice Film Festival
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| 2025 | Planned to direct 'Caught Stealing', highlighting his ongoing filmmaking career |
| 2025 | Potential Golden Raspberry Award nominations for 'Joker: Folie à Deux' in categories of Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay |
| 2025 | Bugonia is planned as another film directed and produced by Lanthimos |
| 2024 | Leigh reported struggling to secure funding for his next film project. |
| 2024 | Mike Leigh is set to write and direct the film 'Hard Truths', which will be distributed by StudioCanal |
| 2024 | Received Japan's Praemium Imperiale. |
| 2024 | Aronofsky is set to produce two films: 'Little Death' and 'Viktor'. |
| 2024 | Aronofsky and his sister Patti became Polish citizens, fulfilling his parents' wish through the assistance of a Polish lawyer. |
| 2024 | Announced as director for the crime thriller Caught Stealing for Sony Pictures, with Charlie Huston adapting his own novel and Austin Butler set to star. |
| 2024 | Emma Stone won an award for her role as Bella Baxter in 'Poor Things' |
| 2024 | Mark Ruffalo was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Duncan Wedderburn in 'Poor Things' |
| 2024 | Phillips directed, co-wrote, and co-produced Joker: Folie a Deux, the sequel to Joker, which added Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn. |
| 2024 | Todd Phillips was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival for 'Joker: Folie à Deux'. |
| 2024 | Sofia Coppola released a line of lip balms in collaboration with the skin care brand Augustinus Bader. |
| May 2024 | Announced Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons as cast for the remake, now titled 'Bugonia', set for a November 2025 release. |
| May 17 2024 | Premiered the anthology film 'Kinds of Kindness' at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, featuring frequent collaborators Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and new actors. |
| January 2024 | Announced as director for an English-language remake of the Korean film 'Save the Green Planet!', with Ari Aster as co-producer. |
| 2023 | Leigh began production on his film 'Hard Truths', starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, after delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2023 | Won the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for The Territory |
| 2023 | Brendan Fraser won an award for his performance in 'The Whale', directed by Darren Aronofsky |
| 2023 | Produced and filmed 'Postcard from Earth' exclusively for the Sphere in Las Vegas Valley, using a 16K resolution screen. |
| 2023 | Second screening of 'Bleat' at Alice Tully Hall during the New York Film Festival. |
| 2023 | Directs 'Poor Things' with Emma Stone, winning the Golden Lion at the 80th Venice International Film Festival and receiving Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Picture. |
| 2023 | Todd Phillips spent the weekend following the release of Joker: Folie à Deux in seclusion at his ranch. |
| 2023 | Published his first photography monograph 'Dear God, the Parthenon is still broken', documenting behind-the-scenes images from the shooting of 'Poor Things'. |
| 2023 | Sofia Coppola's film 'Priscilla' won 1 Golden Globe Award and 2 Cannes/Venice Film Festival awards. |
| 2023 | Sofia Coppola was involved in a Suntory Time 100th anniversary tribute for Suntory whiskey featuring Keanu Reeves. |
| 2023 | Priscilla received positive reviews, with Rolling Stone stating it to be Coppola's best work since Lost in Translation. |
| 2023 | Sofia Coppola collaborated with Barrie on a capsule collection featuring Margaret Qualley. |
| 2023 | The film Fairyland, adapted from a memoir, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival with positive reviews. |
| 2023 | Starred as Owen Lark in the film 'Baghead' |
| November 1 2023 | Sofia Coppola released her personal collection book titled 'Archive by Sofia Coppola', which includes behind-the-scenes content, scripts, photographs, and development details from all eight of her films. |
| September 2023 | Coppola's film Priscilla, based on the life of Priscilla Presley and her memoir Elvis and Me, premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. |
| 2022 | Directed the drama The Whale. |
| 2022 | Leigh participated in the Sight & Sound film poll again, choosing a slightly different list of ten favorite films, maintaining some selections from his 2012 list like 'Barry Lyndon' and 'Tokyo Story', while introducing new entries such as 'The Death of Mr. Lazarescu' and 'Some Like It Hot'. |
| 2022 | Darren Aronofsky appeared as himself in the film 'Night of the Coconut' |
| 2022 | Aronofsky produced two films: 'The Territory' and 'The Good Nurse'. |
| 2022 | Aronofsky revealed he practices Transcendental Meditation, describing it as a helpful exercise. |
| 2022 | First screening of 'Bleat' at the Stavros Niarchos Hall in Athens. |
| 2022 | Directed the 16mm black and white silent short film 'Bleat', starring Emma Stone and Damien Bonnard, co-commissioned by the Greek National Opera and NEON cultural foundation. |
| 2022 | Coppola guest-starred as herself in an episode of the FX horror comedy series What We Do in the Shadows, alongside her husband Thomas Mars and fellow director Jim Jarmusch. |
| 2022 | Joined the cast of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' as King Durin III, appearing in 9 episodes across series 1 and 2 until 2024. |
| November 2022 | Announced he is working on a biopic about the life of Bruce Lee, starring his son Mason Lee. |
| November 2022 | Created and executive produced Limitless for National Geographic, a six-part series featuring Chris Hemsworth exploring the science of longevity. |
| September 4 2022 | The Whale premiered at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, receiving a six-minute standing ovation and leading to Brendan Fraser winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. |
| August 19 2022 | The Territory was released theatrically by National Geographic and was later awarded a 2022 Peabody Award and shortlisted for an Academy Award in the Documentary Feature Film category. |
| January 22 2022 | Produced The Territory, a documentary about the Indigenous Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people's struggle against deforestation, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. |
| 2021 | Aronofsky produced the film 'Catch the Fair One'. |
| 2021 | Relocated from London and now primarily resides in Athens with his wife. |
| 2021 | Sofia Coppola directed an advertisement for the New York City Ballet for the 2021 Spring Gala. |
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