The new sci-fi adventure "Project Hail Mary" is predicted to be the monster hit of the season. Lionel Boyce, who is in Chicago shooting his hit series "The Bear," is part of the space extravaganza.

New projects from Asmae El Moudir and Kathryn Ferguson, as well as a project about how the Russian school system is designed to groom children for war are among the honorees.

In their two decades making movies together, Phil Lord and Chris Miller have shown a particular talent in making inanimate objects come alive.

He wakes up alone on a spaceship, barely able to speak, and somehow ends up Earth’s last, nerdy hope — armed with a dry-erase marker, a useless AI, and the kind of scrappy optimism that makes the end ...