The Prize

Dec 3, 2018 — Born in 1981 in Fiesole, Italy, Alice Rohrwacher studied in ­Turin and ­Lisbon. She has worked in ­music and ­documentary projects, and has also worked as an editor and composer for theatre. Her first feature, Corpo Celeste, made its world...

Nov 29, 2017 — Tracy Letts is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play August: Osage County and a Tony Award for his portrayal of George in a revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia...

Oct 13, 2016 — This morning, we were delighted to learn that Bob Dylan has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature for creating “new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

Aug 19, 2016 — Born and raised in Los Angeles, Andrew Ahn is a Korean-American filmmaker whose debut feature, Spa Night, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and won the US Grand Jury Prize at Outfest. The film’s lead actor, Joe Seo, won...

Jun 30, 2015 — Annie Baker is the writer of the play The Flick, the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which is playing at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York until January 10, 2015. Her other plays include Body Awareness...

Justin Chang is a film critic at the New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air. He won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work at the Los Angeles Times.

A. L. Kennedy has won a variety of UK and international book awards, including a Lannan Literary Award, the Costa Book of the Year Award, and the Heinrich Heine Prize. She has written nine novels, six short-story collections, three books...

A staff writer at the New Yorker, Hilton Als won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and is the author of The Women, White Girls, and My Pinup: A Paean to Prince. He teaches in the English department at the...

Jan 21, 2026 — New films by Angela Schanelec, Lance Hammer, and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun will premiere in the competition.

Nov 14, 2024 — BAM revisits the culture wars in a series that includes films by Martin Scorsese, Todd Haynes, and David Cronenberg.