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Paddington 2 has dethroned Citizen Kane as the top-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes. And it’s all thanks to an unearthed negative review from 80 years ago, The Wrap reports. Orson Welles’ 1941 film has been widely considered the greatest movie of all time—a view that has been long supported by its Rotten Tomatoes score; however, that all […]
A member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association took to Twitter Monday to apologize and explain what led many viewers to think she mistook Daniel Kaluuya with another Black actor. “I’ve been following you since the beginning of your career, and I was wondering what it meant for you to be directed by Regina, what this means for you […]
Diddy is now a two-time Academy Award winner, and Joey Badass just scored his first. The two MCs earned the Oscar together on Sunday night, with Diddy executive producing and Joey starring in the short film Two Distant Strangers, which came out victorious in the best live-action short category. The film, directed by Free and Martin Desmond Roe, follows a […]
Anthony Hopkins wasn’t expecting to bag his second Oscar on Sunday night. With his win in the Best Actor category for his performance in The Father, Florian Zeller’s devastating exploration of the continual heartbreaks of dementia, Hopkins made history as the oldest winner in the show’s history. Previously, Hopkins—83—won in the same category for his […]
For his performance as Fred Hampton in Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya has been awarded the Best Supporting Actor distinction at the 2021 Oscars. Kaluuya delivered an emotional acceptance speech, in which he thanked “the gift that is LaKeith Stanfield.” He also shouted out Hampton and the Black Panther party for showing him […]
Nomadland director Chloé Zhao made history on Sunday night. With her Best Director win at the 93rd Academy Awards, Zhao became the first woman of color to win in the category. She’s also only the second woman to ever win the award, with Kathryn Bigelow having become the first—and prior to Sunday, the only—woman to have […]
An official teaser for Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Questlove’s documentary on 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival, which was also known as the Black Woodstock, has been released. Searchlight Pictures and Hulu also announced that the doc will hit both movie theaters and the streaming platform on July 2. It will stream internationally on […]
Glenn Close might not have won Best Supporting Actress at the 93rd Oscars for her role as Bonnie “Mamaw” Vance in Hillbilly Elegy but she did win audiences over with her seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of movie soundtrack history. Close showed off said knowledge when Questlove played Experience Unlimited’s 1988 track “Da Butt” from the soundtrack for Spike Lee’s film School Daze […]
Lin-Manuel Miranda took a moment during this year’s Oscars ceremony to introduce his upcoming film In the Heights, which tells the story of a first-generation Dominican-American bodega owner named Usnavi de la Vega, who is living in New York’s Washington Heights. After inheriting his grandmother’s fortune, Usnavi becomes caught up in an emotional tug-of-war over closing his store and […]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom has just made Oscar history. The hairstyling and makeup team— consisting of hairstylists Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson and makeup artist Sergio Lopez-Rivera— earned the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at Sunday’s ceremony, with Neal and Wilson becoming the first two Black women to win the award. Neal, who created 100 wigs for the film, with […]
