Sunday, Mar. 10, 2024

“Oppenheimer,” a solemn three-hour biopic that became an unlikely billion-dollar box-office sensation, was crowned best picture at a 96th Academy Awards that doubled as a coronation for Christopher Nolan.

After passing over arguably Hollywood’s foremost big-screen auteur for years, the...

Friday, Feb. 23, 2024

It’s been an auspicious directing debut for Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp as their Bobi Wine: The People’s President (National Geographic) has earned assorted honors, including nominations for a couple of high-profile awards--the Best Feature Documentary Oscar, as well as the...

Friday, Feb. 16, 2024

While a Best International Feature Film Oscar nomination for Perfect Days (Neon) is a high honor, director Wim Wenders cited another bit of recognition earlier on in the process which he found quite gratifying and unexpected. Wenders related that as a German director, he was surprised...

Monday, Feb. 12, 2024

The casts of " Barbie " and " Oppenheimer " gathered Monday at the annual Academy Award nominees luncheon alongside dozens of less famous and first-time Oscar hopefuls for handshakes, hugs, a huge group picture and instructions on nailing an acceptance speech.

The event at the Beverly...

Friday, Feb. 9, 2024

Even with a successful festival run which saw his narrative short directorial debut, Invincible, win awards at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, the Chicago Children’s Film Festival and Rendez-vous Quebec Cinema, director Vincent René-Lortie never dreamt that an Oscar nomination for...

Friday, Feb. 2, 2024

Willie D. Burton, CAS has an extensive awards history--and has contributed to industry history--in a storied ongoing career.

Burton just earned his eighth career Oscar nomination--for Best Sound as production sound mixer on Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures). He is going for his...

Friday, Jan. 26, 2024

The awards season norm has seen the nearly annual occurrence of at least one difference between the lineups of Best Director Oscar and the DGA Award nominees. In only five of the 76 years of the DGA Awards have the Guild nominations exactly mirrored their Academy Award counterparts.

This...

Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024

Lily Gladstone knew she wanted to be somewhere special when the Oscar news came. And that somewhere was not home, watching on TV, but in Oklahoma with the Osage community, where the real-life version of her character lived and where Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon" is centered....

Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024

Cue all the "did 'Barbie' direct itself" snark. But Greta Gerwig not being among the five best director nominees for this year's Oscars is one of the biggest shocks in recent memory. Here are some other major "snubs" and "surprises" from Oscar nomination morning.

GRETA GERWIG SHUT...

Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024

After a tumultuous movie year marred by strikes and work stoppages, the Academy Awards showered nominations Tuesday on Christopher Nolan's blockbuster biopic, "Oppenheimer," which came away with a leading 13 nominations.

Nolan's three-hour opus, viewed as the best picture frontrunner,...

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