“I’m still blown away. It hasn’t hit me yet. It hit me like, ‘Holy shit, I can’t believe I’m getting an Oscar,’ but I think the night of the event, it’s gonna really be emotional. I mean, it was emotional when I found out. I cried when I heard about it,” said Warren during an interview with IndieWire in her Hollywood recording studio. The songwriter has built up enough of a reputation at the Oscars, famously going zero for 13 in the Best Original Song category....

The Directors Guild of America started to award a prize for first-time feature filmmaking beginning in 2015 and have done so again in 2021. The five winners of the DGA’s first-time prize are Alex Garland for “Ex Machina,” Garth Davis for “Lion,” Jordan Peele for “Get Out,” Bo Burnham for “Eighth Grade,” and Alma Ha’rel for “Honey Boy.” As previously announced this week, the Directors Guild of America nominated the following five movies for its Best Documentary prize: Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw for “The Truffle Hunters” (Sony Pictures Classics), Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed for “My Octopus Teacher” (Netflix), David France for “Welcome to Chechnya” (HBO Max), Benjamin Ree for “The Painter and the Thief” (Elevation Pictures), and Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss for “Boys State” (Apple / A24)....

“It is clear that this is not just an issue about a bill in Florida, but instead yet another challenge to basic human rights,” Chapek wrote in a staff memo distributed by Disney. “You needed me to be a stronger ally in the fight for equal rights and I let you down. I am sorry.” Read the letter in full here. To my fellow colleagues, but especially our LGBTQ+ community, Thank you to all who have reached out to me sharing your pain, frustration and sadness over the company’s response to the Florida “Don’t Say Gay” bill....

Many theorize the highly publicized drama is a result of friction between Wilde and Pugh that began on set, with Wilde’s attempts to cast Shia LaBeouf and subsequent relationship with Styles cited as potential catalysts. But Matthew Libatique, the film’s director of photography, sees things differently. In a new appearance on The Hollywood Reporter’s “Behind the Screen” podcast, Libatique denied witnessing any tension between cast and crew while shooting the psychological thriller....

Erin Strecker is our new Executive Editor, TV and Tony Maglio takes the brand-new role of Executive Editor, Business. Both are based in New York and report to Editor in Chief Dana Harris-Bridson. Strecker leads the TV vertical, directing and expanding our coverage at an essential moment for the medium. She comes to IndieWire from Mashable, where she most recently served as its Entertainment Editor. Prior to that, she worked at Billboard and at Entertainment Weekly....

While the mega-network makes ratings history and dominates the Emmys with juggernaut series like “The White Lotus,” “Euphoria,” and “Succession,” the platform has helped usher in an era of “peak bleak” TV. Now, “Euphoria” star Hunter Schafer is weighing in on the darker dramas of TV, including Sam Levinson’s controversial teen epic that Schafer stars in. “In the past couple of years, I’ve noticed I don’t want to watch things about good people,” Schafer told The Cut in conversation with “The Acolyte” actress Amandla Stenberg....

When Loy Cannon dies, he’s the only one who doesn’t see it coming. Standing on his porch, having just negotiated a peaceful (if far from advantageous) agreement with the Fadda crime family, Loy (Chris Rock) stops to silently admire his happy children playing inside. “He has this moment where he thinks, ‘Oh, I thought I needed more power to keep my family safe, but now that I’ve lost my power, I think we can be a happy, healthy family,’” showrunner Noah Hawley said....