Nomadland won three top prizes, including Best Picture, at an extremely unique 93rd Academy Awards Sunday, April 25th. Along with the night’s biggest prize, the film made history when director Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color to win Best Director, and the first woman to win the prize …
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Mere hours after the conclusion of the Grammys, the organizers of the Academy Awards have announced five more songs worthy of a golden statuette. The nominees for Best Original Song are a fun mix of highbrow and lowbrow tunes, spanning H.E.R.‘s soulful anthem from Judas and the Black Messiah to …
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The Justice Department warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in a letter that potential rule changes to hinder the Oscar eligibility of Netflix and other streaming services could violate antitrust and competition laws, Variety reports. The letter follows reports that Steven Spielberg, an Academy board member, was …
Read More »Oscars 2019: Queens, Spikes and the 'Green Book' Best Picture Blues
It was hostless yet somehow the wheels stayed on. It played that “Bohemian Rhapsody” guitar riff roughly 60 gajillion times in a little over three hours — and boy, did the Oscars producers keep their promise about keeping the show way below the Satantango-running-time length. It gave the stage over …
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