Ayala Malls Cinemas continues to celebrate the awards season with multi-award winning film, “The Brutalist”

Out in PH cinemas on March 5 exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas

Don’t miss checking off another multi-award winning film off your list just in time for the 2025 Academy Awards, as Ayala Malls Cinemas exclusively brings The Brutalist to the Philippines on March 5. The film has bagged a significant number of awards and nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and more for the upcoming Academy Awards..

Academy Award-nominated "A Real Pain" opens January 29, exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas

Ayala Malls Cinemas exclusively brings another award-winning film to Philippine cinemas with “A Real Pain,” the Jesse Eisenberg-directed comedy-drama that has been racking up multiple accolades this awards season, opening January 29.  

Written and directed by Eisenberg, the movie stars Eisenberg, Jennifer Grey, Will Sharpe, and Kieran Culkin, who won the Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor award for his performance in the film. Besides the Golden Globes, other accolades received by “A Real Pain” include nominations for the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), Screen Actors Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards and the recently announced Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Culkin and Best Original Screenplay for Eisenberg. “A Real Pain,” co-produced by Emma Stone’s Fruit Tree (“Poor Things,” “I Saw the TV Glow”), is part of Ayala Malls Cinemas’ lineup of critically acclaimed awards-season films, which this year also includes “Anora.”  

REVIEW: A Real Pain

Written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, this comedic drama has a simple plot of cousins going on a tour to Poland to see where she grew up and survived the holocaust.  With an intimate group going through different historical spots, the fact and brutal history of those day was indeed a very sensitive topic to depict in film. However, they did give justice on how to show them without giving way to their own story.

It was good that they kept the group small yet each having unique charm and stories, yet it also paves way for the cousins David and Benjie (Jesse & Kieran) to shine in times of tension and calmness. Both show polar opposite personalities which causes conflict and mishaps in their trip.

Yet we also see the bond between family which leads them to forgive and connect with each other. There is also the feeling on how moving the remnants of the genocide was, even with silence speaks out the horrors of those days and should never happen again.

Here are the Winners for Oscars 2024!

For this year's Academy Awards, there has been a number of great nominees (and snubs) which got the interest of many for this year's awards. Also, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting the awards, many hope that it will not be a dumpster fire like Jo Koy did. And indeed, there are expected wins with some are monumental like Godzilla Minus One and RDJ's first Oscar win. 

The big winner for this year is Oppenheimer, which bagged 7 awards, while Poor Things came in second with 3. Emma Stone also received her second Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Though some are divided with "The Boy and the Heron" win over "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" though both films do deserve their spot in the nominees.

With a lot of great moments and less to no controversy, the Oscars this year was indeed a success and another year of passing the torch to the people who creates great movies for our entertainment.

Catch the 95th Academy Awards Live on Disney+ on March 13

Oscarsⓒ Pre-Show will begin at 6:30am followed by the Award Show at 8:00am

Catch Hollywood’s biggest night with the 95th Academy Awards, streaming live on Disney+, on March 13 with the Pre-Show Red Carpet at 6:30am and the Award Show at 8:00am.

As we wait for the highly-anticipated awards show, you can refresh and catch up on all the Oscar-nominated titles anytime, anywhere on Disney+. 

From adrenaline-pumping superhero action to coming-of-age stories, here are the movies you should watch before the Oscars roll around: 

Wickedly Funny "The Favourite" Dominates 2019 Academy Awards Opens February 20 At Ayala Malls Cinemas

Bagging the most nominations in major categories in this year’s Academy Awards, “The Favourite” vies for Best Picture, Best Director (Yorgos Lanthimos), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Olivia Colman), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best in Costume Design, Best in Film Editing and Best in Production Design.  “The Favourite” stars a pool of strongly talented cast led by Olivia Colman along with Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult and Joe Alwyn that brings us to the much-overlooked period of British monarchy during Queen Anne’s (Colman) reign, the last of the Stuart line of rulers, has perhaps in history has been unfairly dismissed.

Nominated for six major Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor, Focus Features' historical drama Darkest Hour will be shown exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas (Trinoma, Greenbelt 1) starting February 14.

Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), Darkest Hour is the dramatic and inspiring story of four weeks in 1940 during which Winston Churchill’s courage to lead changed the course of world history.

Oscar Best Picture Nominee "The Post" in PH Cinemas Feb 24

Fresh from receiving a Best Picture nomination in the 90th Academy Awards, Univeral Pictures' timely thriller The Post is headed to Philippine cinemas on February 24, a week before the actual Oscars.

Marking their historic, first-ever on-screen collaboration, Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post, a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned three decades and four U.S. Presidents.

Academy Award Nominated Film “ROOM” Opens In PH Cinemas February 17

The highly-acclaimed tearjerker film “Room” where the audience rooted for the mother and son’s chance at freedom who were imprisoned in a sound-proof shed for seven years will now open in local cinemas on February 17 from Pioneer Films.

Based on the international bestselling book written by Emma Donoghue of the same title, director Lenny Abrahamson brings the highly suspenseful and emotional story “Room” to the big screen.  “Room” is a unique and unexpectedly tender exploration of the boundless love between a mother and her child under the most harrowing of circumstances.

Redmayne Aims for Back-to-Back Oscars with "The Danish Girl"

He already won the Best Actor Oscar last year for “The Theory of Everything,” and this January, Eddie Redmayne has racked up Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nominations for his role as a transgender woman in the 1920s love story “The Danish Girl,” opening Feb. 3 exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas.

Pundits are wondering if he could be the first actor since Tom Hanks to win back-to-back Academy Awards. (Hanks won for 1993's “Philadelphia” and 1994's “Forrest Gump.”)

(Watch the featurette “Who is the Danish Girl?” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99YdQQ_oAI4.)

86th Academy Award Winners!

It's OSCARS day again, and as the most awaited award giving event for movies, many are excited who will bag the coveted oscar that has been talked about worldwide. Hosted by the charming and witty Ellen Degeneres has made it very interesting to see. With suprize wins and even wishful for Leonardo to win his first oscar, Benedict Cumberbatch photobombing and the most epic oscar selfie happened on that night. Now let take a look at the winners, and  I would consider watching the nominees to see if they live up to their triumph.

Lifestyle Network: The Philippines' Newest Home of the Oscars

What is considered to be the movie industry’s most prestigious award has found a new home for its annual ceremony’s broadcast on Philippine television, as the 86th Academy Awards—popularly known as the Oscars—now reaches out to eager viewers via the Lifestyle Network, airing live as it happens.

From its historical introduction in 1929, the Academy Awards has since become known as the organization behind the world of film’s most prestigious honor, coming in the form of the Oscar statuette. This statuette has now reached the status of an internationally admired symbol that stands as proof and recognition of the very highest level of achievement in movies, bearing significance of a caliber entirely its own.