Sean Baker‘s Palme d’Or-winner dramedy Anora won the 97th Oscars, taking home five statues for Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Director, Best Actress for Mikey Madison, and Best Picture. In his acceptance speech for Best Director, Sean Baker called for preserving the theatrical movie viewing experience. Movie theaters, especially independently owned theaters, are struggling,…
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was the big winner at the 96th Academy Awards, winning 7 of its 13 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr. The runner-up was Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, which won four Oscars. This includes a surprise Best Actress win…
Daniels’ sci-fi action-comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once was the big winner at the 95th Academy Awards, winning 7 of its 11 nominated categories, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, Best Supporting Actress for Jamie Lee Curtis, Best Supporting Actor for…
Source: Variety The 94th Academy Awards happened last night and Sian Heder’s CODA ended up being the big winner of the night, winning all three awards it was nominated for, including Best Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur, Best Adapted Screenplay for Heder, and Best Picture, the first time the award has been presented to a…
Source: Variety Revisiting a controversial plan from a few years ago, the Academy has made the announcement that there will be 8 categories that will not be presented during this year’s Oscars telecast. Instead, the awards will be presented during a ceremony prior to the telecast, clips of which will be edited into the broadcast….
Source: Variety (H/T Indiewire) For years, the Academy Awards have been accused of being out of touch with the tastes of mainstream moviegoers, with probably one of the most notable examples being a lack of a Best Picture nomination for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. In the latest example of Academy tastes versus popular opinion,…
Source: Oscars.org The nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were made this morning in a video announcement hosted by Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross. Jane Campion’s Power of the Dog led the nominations with 12, which includes nods for Best Picture, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Supporting Actor for both Jesse Plemons and…
Source: The Hollywood Reporter As is typical on the eve of the Academy Award nominations, the Razzie Awards released their nominations for the worst of the worst of 2021. Usually, I don’t like to give the Razzies the time of the day, since I think it’s in poor taste to publicly mock films as bad,…
