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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Following a year that challenged the film industry like no other, the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony—delayed by two months thanks to the ongoing pandemic—is upon us. Heading into Sunday’s ABC-broadcast ceremony, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland had been discussed as a likely contender to emerge as the night’s most awarded production. The film, based on Jessica Bruder’s 2017 nonfiction […]
ALL FACTS is Complex’s weekly Pop Culture column that aims to unpack the need-to-know pop culture news of the week. While most weeks will feature a collection of various headlines, this week, we are dedicating the column to all things Oscars. The 93rd Academy Awards are going down this Sunday, April 25, in Los Angeles, […]
Travon Free is an Oscar nominee. He wrote and directed the short film Two Distant Strangers, which was nominated in the Best Live Action Short category. After months of not being able to share their movie with the world, Netflix recently acquired the rights to distribute the film in March. Two Distant Strangers hit the streaming […]
Hollywood has taken a major step forward in recent years in terms of recognizing Latinx actors and filmmakers. However, there is still a long way to go. During a conversation with Variety, groundbreaking Latinx actor Rosie Perez revealed that she hadn’t been invited to the Academy Awards in over 25 years. “Not even to sit in the […]
The 2021 Academy Awards, like everything else for the past year or more, has been hit with wholly expected pandemic delays and additional complications that—among other things—resulted in an extension of the usual eligibility period. Film-centered award institutions face the added challenge of honoring cinema following a year of theaters mostly (and wisely) being closed or […]
Deepa Mehta took Canada to the Oscars in 2006 with Water and she could do it again with Funny Boy. The daring Indian-Canadian director delivers one of her best and most beautiful films yet with this adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s acclaimed 1994 novel. Funny Boy, which is Canada’s official selection in the Oscar race for […]
