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Deadline Below the LineCinema2026-27 Awards Season Calendar: Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, Tonys, Guilds & More UPDATED with latest: With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences setting its dates for the 2027 and 2028 Oscars (the latter the ceremony’s 100th anniversary), the rest of the awards docket…

Deadline Below the LineCinemaNewsom’s November Surprise: Boost CA Film & TV Tax Incentives To $1B ASAP, Says Exiting Governor The day before his successor as California’s governor is elected in the high stakes midterms, Gavin Newsom is going out with a bang.

Deadline Below the LineCinemaHollywood Music In Media Awards Nominations: ‘Michael,’ ‘The Odyssey’ & More The nominees for the 2026 Hollywood Music in Media Awards are cued up. Films vying for HMMAs include three pics that crossed the billion-dollar milestone this awards-season: Spider-Man: Brand New…

Deadline Below the LineCinemaJohn Carpenter Carves Out ACE Eddie Awards’ Top Honor; Two Others Set For Career Nods From Editors Group John Carpenter getting a major honor from the ACE Eddie Awards is a Thing. In a move perfectly timed for Halloween week, American Cinema Editors said Wednesday that celebrated horrormeister will…

Deadline Below the LineCinemaCasting Society Reveals Artios Awards Non-Film Nominees List: ‘The Pitt’, ‘Heated Rivalry,’ ‘Pluribus’ & More Casting Society is out with the non-film nominees for its 42nd annual Artios Awards. See the full list below.

Deadline Below the LineCinemaJohn Grover Dies: Film Editor On Several James Bond Pics Whose Credits Include ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ & ‘Doctor Zhivago’ Was 87 John Grover, an English film editor who worked on a half-dozen James Bond pics, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth and many others, died…

Deadline Below the LineCinemaASIFA-Showcase Set For November, New FYC Event From Annie Awards Group As we draw closer to another awards season, ASIFA-Hollywood has penciled in a new FYC campaign. The group behind the Annie Awards has revealed ASIFA-Showcase, a two-day event of screenings, panels…

Deadline Below the LineCinemaProduction Agent Louiza Vick Joins WME After 16 Years At WPA EXCLUSIVE: Veteran production agent Louiza Vick has joined WME following a 16-year run at below-the-line agency WPA, where she most recently served as Partner and Co-Head of the Motion Pictures…

Deadline Below the LineCinemaCostume Designers Guild Dresses Up Its 2027 Awards Date & Timeline Start dressing that set: The Costume Designers Guild said Friday that its 29th annual CDG Awards is set for Thursday, February 25, in Los Angeles.

Deadline Below the LineCinemaMacGuffin Awards Winners: Property Masters Guild Honors ‘Widow’s Bay,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ & More – Full List The Property Masters Guild handed out its third annual MacGuffin Awards on Saturday night in Hollywood, celebrating significant artistic achievements of property masters in film and TV.

Deadline Below the LineCinemaVES Awards 2027 Date, Venue & New Categories Revealed The Visual Effects Society revealed a slew of news Wednesday, setting a date and venue for its 2027 VES Awards along with some new categories and rules.

Deadline Below the LineCinemaProperty Masters Guild Sets 2026 MacGuffin Awards Career Honorees The Property Masters Guild has set a trio of honorees to be feted for their career achievements. Luis Castro, Trish Reilly and Barry Wilkinson will pick up their accolades during the third annual…

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The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo