Call Me By Your Name had its named called three times by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, including for its top prize of Best Picture. Willem Dafoe had his name called, too, as that respected veteran actor is now on a fast track to becoming an Academy Award winner. Call Me By Your Name, the 1980s set [...]
Saoirse Ronan is the Queen of New York. Well, of its film critics at least. Her movie Lady Bird was named Best Picture of the Year by the New York Film Critics Circle, and she was tagged as Best Actress. For the second time in three years, the 23-year-old starlet has won the top Actress citation, [...]
The first awards group of the 2017 Oscar season just went Post-al. The National Board of Review has announced its annual choices for the best achievements in filmmaking, naming Steven Spielberg's yet-to-be released The Post as the year's Best Film. Their list is hot off the press, as it were, the first one published just ahead [...]
The grace that the filmmakers of La La Land showed to those of Moonlight - in the midst of the biggest gut-punching "psyche" job to ever play out on a global stage - didn't end on Oscar night. Every year post-Oscars, Variety (the legendary Hollywood trade publication) puts the Academy Award winner for Best Director on its cover. This year, that honor goes [...]
Busted. In an exclusive pictorial essay, with timecodes, Variety shows the backstage photos that captured the subtle mistakes which led to the biggest Oscar blunder in the nearly 90-year history of the Academy Awards. To literally see the sequence of events, click here. PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants Martha Ruiz and Brian Cullinan were the only two people at the event in charge of envelopes and protocol (as is per usual), [...]
Barry Jenkins wasn't able to say what he'd hoped to, but who can blame him? The producer/writer/director of surprise Best Picture winner Moonlight was understandably flummoxed in the whirlwind of the biggest Oscars gaff ever. Everyone was in a state of shock following the envelope mishap that led to Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway erroneously naming La La Land as [...]
Glamour and class. That marks the style of the Vanity Fair portraits for the 2016 Academy Award Winners. Below is a gallery of those from the top categories. To see portraits of all who won, click here. Click on any portrait for a larger image gallery
It was bound to happen. Here are a few of the memes that are riffing off of - or responding to - the real ballot image (above) of Moonlight's Best Picture Oscar win. https://twitter.com/thisjenlewis/status/836089977763061761 https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/836214008969637891 https://twitter.com/thisjenlewis/status/836086154491416576 https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow/status/836094568202448896 And my favorite: https://twitter.com/Deshasuxx/status/836239368301916160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
A La La Land slide turned into a Moonlight blindside. In what was the most bizarre ending in Oscar history (or possibly the most bizarre Oscar moment, period), and right up there with any live event ever, Moonlight was named Best Picture of 2016 at the 89th Annual Academy Awards after La La Land had already been announced as the [...]
So, tell us what you really think. Six anonymous Academy voters do just that, thanks to The Hollywood Reporter's annual Awards Season tradition "Brutally Honest Oscar Ballots". This year's crop of mystery Academy members includes an unnamed Actress, Producer, Publicist, Executive, Actor, and Director, all who've either been nominated before or have been a part of [...]
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