Trailblazer honoree James Mangold says now is the time for storytellers to lean into "sincerity and earnestness" more than ever: "We shouldn’t be embarrassed to feel shit and show it."

James Mangold misses the era when movies weren’t embarrassed to make audiences feel something. The director of the Bob Dylan musical biopic “A Complete Unknown” and comic book adaptation “Logan” believes there’s a growing hostility to films that wear “their hearts on their sleeve.

Michelle Satter, the founding director of the non-profit's filmmaker labs, was showered with praise at the festival's annual gala.

While we have a positive update on James Mangold's plans for Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, it sounds like it could be a while before the filmmaker is able to make time for DC Studios' Swamp Thing

Oscar nominees Cynthia Erivo and James Mangold were honored at the Sundance Film Festival a day after they landed Oscar nominations for starring in "Wicked" and directing "A Complete Unknown."

Oscar-nominated filmmakers James Mangold, Cynthia Erivo and "Sugarcane" directors are being honored with awards presented at Sundance Film Festival.

James Mangold, who was nominated for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for A Complete Unknown, told Variety, “I was in my house with no power [because of the L.A. wildfires], with my wife looking at a cellphone on a single bar of data watching an infinitesimally small telecast.”

Coralie Fargeat and Brady Corbet are also among those in the running for more than one category at the 2025 Academy Awards.

For James Mangold, Thursday morning was a day like any other, aside from the fact he woke up to three Academy Award nominations for his Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown – for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay (shared with co-writer Jay Cocks) and Best Picture.

Filmmaker James Mangold says that his upcoming Swamp Thing film for DC is being crafted as a standalone story.

Oscar-nominated director James Mangold directs Timothée Chalamet as the Nobel-Prize winning Musician Bob Dylan in 'A Complete Unknown'. Starring Chalamet with Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo,

On the morning of the 2025 Oscar nods, Variety spoke to this year’s contenders about getting recognized by the Academy.