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Oscars 2021: Best Actor Predictions
Pandemic or no pandemic, the show must go on, and thus the Oscars will be held two months late, on April 25, 2021. Back in January 2020, Sundance launched a few movies, including Lee Isaac Chung’s jury...
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As we head toward the Oscars, Netflix is trying to win a few of its 35 nominations. The streamer boasts two Supporting Actress contenders in a wide open category that does not include Globe winner...
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Oscars 2021: Best Actress Predictions
In this strange pandemic year, with folks watching more at home, theater dates uncertain, and more than 9,000 slightly younger and more diverse Oscar voters, nobody knows anything. A raft of stars are...
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Oscars 2021: Best Picture Predictions
As the awards calendar hurtles toward the delayed Oscars on April 25, we have a clear frontrunner for Best Picture. Last year, Bong Joon Ho’s dark drama “Parasite” rode the Palme d’Or from May through...
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Writers Guild Awards Show Oscar Momentum for ‘Promising Young Woman’
This year’s Writers Guild Awards were an efficient pre-taped affair (with the two coasts united in one show) perfunctorily hosted by new member Kal Penn. A smattering of Oscar contenders such as Riz...
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PGA Awards Winner ‘Nomadland’ Heads for the Best Picture Oscar
Every year Hollywood looks to the Producers Guild Awards winner to forecast the Best Picture Oscar. That’s because in the 12 years since both groups expanded their top award list (the PGA mandates 10,...
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Sundance Loses a Leader: Institute CEO Keri Putnam Will Step Down in August
After 10 years running the Sundance Institute, CEO Keri Putnam told her staff and the Board of Trustees that she will step down later this year. In an interview this week, Putnam said the decision was...
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Why Didn’t Warner Bros. Support a ‘Tenet’ Oscar Campaign? Christopher Nolan
In a year with no competition for big-budget spectacles, Christopher Nolan’s $200-million infinity loop thriller “Tenet” should have been able to nab more than two Oscar nominations. Instead, the...
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How Larry McMurtry’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Writing Partner Diana Ossana Saved...
Diana Ossana is flat on her back, wracked with grief. She’s just lost her best friend and writing partner, Larry McMurtry, a man she nursed through open heart surgery in 1991 and a couple of other...
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Banning Zoom at the Oscars Didn’t Work Out: Producers Accommodate Overseas...
As this elongated awards season lurches toward the 93rd Oscars on April 25, the operative mantra from the Academy is “fluid” as the pandemic disrupts the best-laid plans. On March 18, rookie Oscar...
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Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2021 Launches with Oscar Panels —...
Under executive director Roger Durling, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (March 31 through April 10) has thrived by surfing the awards season wave, programming tons of onstage interviews...
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SAG Awards Film Predictions: How the Winners Could Shift the Oscar Race
It’s tradition to scrutinize the SAG Award winners as an Oscar-race bellwether — the acting branch dominates Academy voting — but this year the SAG nominations are out of sync. Final SAG film voting...
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SAG Awards Film Winners Analysis: What the Night of Upsets Means for the Oscars
With tight races for Best Ensemble and Lead Actress, suspense was running high before the pre-taped hourlong SAG Awards show Sunday night — at least for those insiders who did not hear leaks of...
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From Sundance to the Oscars: How ‘Minari,’‘Promising Young Woman,’ and More...
The pandemic heated up the long-simmering romance between January’s Sundance Film Festival and the Academy Awards: For the first time, the Oscar race showcases four Best Picture contenders that were...
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‘My Octopus Teacher’ Will Win the Best Documentary Oscar — Here’s Why
Many of your friends have seen “My Octopus Teacher,” which registered frequently among the top 10 movies on Netflix in the U.S., Israel, South Africa, and Australia. Until it proved a global hit,...
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Less Predictive BAFTAs Boost Oscar Hopes for ‘Nomadland’ and Anthony Hopkins
The BAFTAs are a crucial marker in the Oscar race, because there’s an actual overlap between the British Academy and Oscar voters. But the outcome of this weekend’s BAFTA races, split into two virtual...
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How ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Started as a Conventional Biopic and...
Somehow, writer-director Shaka King, the Lucas Brothers, and Will Berson wrote one movie, “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Disparate perspectives on Fred Hampton meant that outcome was by no means...
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Anonymous Oscar Ballot 2021: This Publicist Never Logged on to the Academy...
With Oscar ballots heading into Academy voters’ hands on April 15, we’re forging ahead with our fourth annual series of interviews with Academy voters from different branches for their candid thoughts...
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Anonymous Oscar Ballot 2021: The Executive Who Missed Socializing and Binged TV
With Oscar ballots heading into Academy voters’ hands on April 15, we’re forging ahead with our fourth annual series of interviews with Academy voters from different branches for their candid thoughts...
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Oscars 2021 Producers Press Conference: What We Know About the Show
On Saturday morning, first-time Oscar producers Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher, and Jesse Collins gave an LA press conference to fill in the gaps on the looming Oscar show. Details have been coming...
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