Miky Lee, executive producer of “Parasite” and “Past Lives,” will deliver the USC School of Cinematic Arts 2024 Commencement address, announced Elizabeth M. Daley, dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA). Director, writer and SCA alumnus James Gray (“The Immigrant,” “Armageddon Time”) will also receive the Mary Pickford Alumni Award at the in-person graduation ceremony held on Friday, May 10, at the Shrine Auditorium.
“Miky Lee is a true pioneer and ambassador of collaborative global filmmaking, and we are so happy to have her share her insight and expertise with our graduating students,” Daley said. “Miky works across borders, cultures and genres, and champions the kinds of projects our students aspire to creating. We are so pleased she agreed to be this year’s graduation speaker.”
As commencement speaker, Lee joins a recent list of entertainment figures including Brian Grazier and Ron Howard, Matt Reeves, Ryan Coogler, Jon M. Chu, Paul Feig, Jim Gianopulos, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Donna Langley, Barry Meyer, Ron Meyer, Sumner Redstone, Jay Roach, Stacey Sher and Laura Ziskin.
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SAG Awards 2025 Announces Key Dates, Live Stream on Netflix
The Screen Actor Guild Awards announced that its 31st annual telecast will be streamed live on Netflix on Feb. 23, 2025 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Last year’s SAG Awards were also streamed live on the platform, marking the award show’s live debut to the streamer.
The SAG Awards has traditionally run on cable networks, Netflix struck a deal to televise the show in 2022, when the award show ran on the streamer’s YouTube page. The SAG Awards previously had a longstanding deal with TBS/TNT that expired the same year.
The SAG Awards also announced eligibility dates and a calendar for the next awards season.
Submissions for nominations will open on Aug. 29 and close on Nov. 1. and must be sent in at sagawards.org/submissions. Eligible performances must air or premiere between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024 to be considered for the 2025 award.
Actors can submit their own performances, or give permission to producers, studios/networks, agents, managers or publicists to do so.
Nominations will be announced Jan. 8, 2025. Key dates are as follows:
MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2024
Submissions Open at sagawards.org/submissions
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Submissions Close at 5 p.m. PT
MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2024
Nominations Voting Opens
SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 2025
Nominations Voting Closes at 5 p.m. PT
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2025
Nominations Announced
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2025
Final Voting Opens
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Final Voting Closes at 12 p.m. PT
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2025
31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Live on Netflix
Cinespia Reveals Lineup for Pride Month Hollywood Forever Cemetery Screenings
Cinespia has revealed the lineup for its Hollywood Forever Cemetery Pride Month film series. The screening lineup includes “Se7en” on May 26, “Legally Blonde” on June 1, “Dazed and Confused” on June 8, “Across The Universe” on June 15, “D.E.B.S.” on June 22 and the Bette Davis and Joan Crawford classic “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” on June 29 in partnership with LA Pride.
“We’re so excited to be back at the Cemetery with some incredible, Cinespia fan-favorite films to kick off the summer,” said John Wyatt, founder of Cinespia. “As June ushers in a vibrant celebration of love and diversity, we’re thrilled to continue our annual tradition of partnering with LA Pride.”
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.cinespia.org
Baloji and Emmanuelle Béart to lead Cannes’ Caméra d’Or Jury
The 77th Cannes Film Festival will feature French actor Emmanuelle Béart and director and songwriter Baloji heading the Caméra d’Or Jury.
The Caméra d’Or award is presented to the best first feature film. The goal of the award is to reveal and highlight the importance of a director’s first movie, whose qualities imply that the they should undertake another project. The prize is awarded during the festival’s closing ceremony by the jury.
“Being a self-taught filmmaker and a filmmaker from the Congolese diaspora,” confides Baloji, “it’s a great honour to be able to witness the vitality of first-time directors, to discover their strong singularities and their inaugural work, which will have a lasting impact on the identity of their filmography.” Baloji, who recieved the New Voice Prize at Un Certain Regard last year for his debut feature “Omen,” said in a statement.
Béart added in her statement: “A first film is about the impossibility of doing anything other than delving into the depths of one’s being to find out what we can’t keep quiet about. A deeply moving and terribly free birth: no one is waiting for you yet. We will honor our duty with wonder and respect.”
Béart and Baloji will be aided on the jury by representatives of the industry, including press, industry and filmmakers associations. Last year’s Caméra d’Or was awarded to Pham Thien An for “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” by the Jury presided over by French actor Anaïs Demoustier.
Greta Gerwig, writer and director of “Barbie,” will be the festival Jury president this year. The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will take place May 14-25.
