academy-awards
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As expected, Laura Dern—whose turn in Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story as attorney Nora Fanshaw was indeed great—took home the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 2020 edition of the Oscars. The win is not only the first Oscar victory for Dern, but also make history for the Netflix platform. Dern’s Marriage Story distinction gives […]
Eminem made a surprise appearance at this year’s Academy Awards where he performed “Lose Yourself,” which he won the award for Best Original Song in 2003. Before taking the stage, Lin-Manuel Miranda introduced a video package of previous winners in the Best Original Song category. It seemed like something was up when there was an extended clip of “Lose Yourself” from the […]
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite won big at the 2020 Oscars—despite purported opposition. And it did it in historic fashion. The South Korean black comedy/thriller ended the night with four prizes: Best Original Screenplay (Joon-ho and Han Jin Won), Best Director (Joon-ho), Best Foreign Language Film, and the top award of the night, Best Picture. “We never imagined this […]
Joaquin Phoenix earned his first Academy Award on Sunday night for his titular role in Todd Phillip’s Joker. The 45-year-old won the Best Actor category against Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Adam Driver (Marriage Story), Antonio Banderas (Pain & Glory), and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes). “I do not feel elevated above any of my […]
On Sunday, we’re going to find out if the Academy will award Parasite with Best Picture, a feat that has never been accomplished before by a non-English language film at the Oscars. However, if one member of the 8,469-member voting body clues us into a majority of the group’s overall thinking, then it’s clear that we sadly have a long […]
As people were trying to make sense of this year’s Academy Awards regressing back towards the #OscarsSoWhite 2015 controversy, author and Academy member Stephen King tried to address the ongoing issue earlier this month in a series of tweets. King claimed that, personally, when he voted for the nominees in the categories of Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Screenplay, […]
Sam Mendes’ 1917 and Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood took home the top prizes at the Ricky Gervais-hosted Golden Globes throwdown earlier this month, but will they fare as well among the 2020 class of Oscar nominees? With the unveiling of the 92nd Oscar nominations on Monday morning, we gota look at […]
On Monday, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released Oscar shortlists for several categories, including: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Song), Music (Original Score), International Feature Film, Live Action Short Film, Visual Effects and Animated Short Film. *Stares at screen for several minutes* Oh, here’s who survived the latest huge cut to […]
As part of their promotion to get as much Oscar consideration as possible for Avengers: Endgame, Disney has released the full script for the record-setting film so that members of the Academy may read through it. You can do it too if you want, but it’s 149 pages, and also you unfortunately don’t get a […]
When news broke that Disney wouldn’t push Robert Downey Jr. for Best Actor at the Oscars for his portrayal of Iron Man, fans started a petition to change that. It’s clear Downey’s appearance in Avengers: Endgame connected deeply with the audience, but in an interview with Howard Stern he has expressed next to zero interest in bagging the […]
