Oscars
Venice 2024 Lineup Set to Kick-Start Awards Season
Alberto Barbera, it must be said, has done it again. The long-running director of the Venice Film Festival, who successfully repositioned the august Italian cinema event as an awards-season launchpad, on Tuesday unveiled another top-shelf lineup for the 81st Biennale (Aug. 28-Sept. 7). And, as Kendall Roy would say, it’s “all bangers, all the time.” […]
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Robert Downey Jr., Da’Vine Joy Randolph Land Emmy Nominations in Same Year as Oscar Wins
Robert Downey Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph continued getting good news this year, thanks to the 2024 Emmys. After winning Oscars earlier this year, Downey and Randolph both received 2024 Emmys nominations Wednesday. Downey was nominated for best supporting actor in a limited series for HBO’s The Sympathizer, in which he plays multiple characters, while […]
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Oscars: Submissions Now Open for 97th Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ website for submissions to be considered for the 2025 Oscars is now open, the Academy announced Friday. The Academy is currently accepting general entries (best picture and other categories), animated features, animated shorts, documentary features, documentary shorts, international features, live action shorts, original scores and original songs. […]
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Producer With Checkered History Eyes Purchase of Dolby Theatre, Home to Oscars
[Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Elie Samaha as once detained in a Lebanese prison over a family dispute. That dispute and detention concerned a different Elie Samaha, not the one eyeing the Dolby Theatre. We regret the error.] The home of the Oscars telecast may soon be purchased by a producer […]
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Film Academy Invites 487 to Join Including Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, Lily Gladstone, Chris Silbermann and Celine Song
Four hundred and eighty-seven members of the global film community — among them Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone, Past Lives filmmaker Celine Song, CAA managing partner Chris Silbermann, and SAG-AFTRA national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland — are receiving invitations on Tuesday to become members of the Academy of Motion Picture […]
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Ed Begley Jr. Teams Up With Daughter Hayden to Raise the Environmental Alarm on TikTok
Ed Begley Jr. has been Hollywood’s most famous environmentalist for nearly four decades, and now his daughter Hayden is helping him bring his message to Gen Z. Starting in 2020, Hayden Begley began posting funny videos of her mom (actress Rachelle Carson-Begley) and dad on her TikTok account, which currently has more than 200,000 followers. […]
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Governors Awards: Academy Taps Bond Producers for Thalberg, Richard Curtis for Hersholt and Quincy Jones and Juliet Taylor for Honorary Oscars
The sibling Bond movie producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli have been tapped to receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, writer-director Richard Curtis will be feted with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and composer-producer Quincy Jones and casting director Juliet Taylor will receive honorary Oscars at the 2024 Governors Awards, the Academy of […]
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John Mulaney Weighs the Possibility of More Talk Shows and Hosting the Oscars: “I’m Open”
John Mulaney isn’t saying no to anything. The comedian said this week he was open to the idea of more talk shows, and the much-discussed Oscars hosting gig. “I used to have strong opinions: ‘I’ll only do this’ or ‘I’ll never do this.’ And ‘I don’t want to get pigeonholed like this.’ And I think […]
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Jacqueline Stewart Exits and Amy Homma Enters as Academy Museum Chief, Randy Haberkamp Retiring
There is a big change at the helm of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday. Jacqueline Stewart, the distinguished academic and TCM host who has led the museum since July 2022, guiding it through the ups and downs of its first few years (it opened […]
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Lily Gladstone Says “It’s Irrelevant Whether or Not” She Won the Oscar for ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
Lily Gladstone is opening up about the reaction to her Oscars loss once she went back home to the Blackfeet Nation following her busy awards season with Killers of the Flower Moon. The actress was nominated for best actress during the March ceremony, but the Academy Award ultimately went to Emma Stone for Poor Things. […]
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Academy Foundation Workers Ratify First Union Contract
Nearly a year and a half after their union was voluntarily recognized, workers at the Academy Foundation — a nonprofit dedicated to protecting film history — have ratified their first labor contract. In results that were tallied on Wednesday, 64 workers voted “yes” to passing the new three-year agreement, while none voted against the deal. […]
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Awards Season Calendar: Key Dates for Oscars, Emmys, Tonys and Other Major Events
With the 2024 Oscars now in the rearview mirror, Hollywood’s focus turns to Emmy season. A number of TV awards shows are set to take place over the next few months, including the BAFTA TV Awards, the newly announced Gotham TV Awards, the Critics Choice Real TV Awards and, of course, the Primetime Emmys, which […]
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