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Foreign-Language Oscar Nominees Release Joint Statement Denouncing U.S. “Climate Of Fanaticism,” Asghar Farhadi Sending Representatives To Ceremony

February 25, 2017 12:36 pm

The tone has been set, and you can bet Donald Trump's circle of enablers are going to do everything they can to keep him away from the TV this weekend. A politically charged Oscar ceremony is highly expected, a...

The 15 Best Oscar-Nominated Performances In Foreign-Language Films

Jessica Kiang

February 23, 2017 3:34 pm

Features, News

We only have a few more days to wait before we'll see if any film or person can pull off a major upset (in any category) and beat out "La La Land" which, last time we checked, was tracking to pick up more Oscar...

Seth Meyers Parodies Awards Season With ‘Oscar Bait’

Kevin Jagernauth

February 22, 2017 12:38 pm

News

While the term Oscar Bait is problematic — Vulture has a great discussion of that topic — it's a useful shorthand for the kind of movies we'll see at the Academy Awards on Sunday: namely, they're serious, drama...

Honest Trailers Takes On The 2017 Best Picture Oscar Nominees

Kevin Jagernauth

February 21, 2017 1:29 pm

News

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Hollywood's annual celebration of themselves arrives on Sunday with the Oscars, which will undoubtedly be a star-studded, glitzy, evening of hardware being handed out, braced by an array of political speeches. ...

Where To Watch All The 2017 Oscar Nominees

Will Ashton

February 20, 2017 3:18 pm

Awards, Features

We're less than a week away from the big show. On February 26, first-time host Jimmy Kimmel will lead us into another night of surprises, upsets, disappointment, elation, fancy suits, lovely dresses, golden sta...

Explaining How The Oscar Voting Process Favors Mediocrity

Kevin Jagernauth

February 15, 2017 2:03 pm

Awards, News

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We're at that point in the Oscar process, where the backlash is full swing against frontunner "La La Land" (see Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's op-ed in THR about the film's "bigoted message"), we're a bit tired of the e...

Kate McKinnon Is Presenting At The Oscars And Did Faye Dunaway Just Give Away A Big Secret?

Gregory Ellwood

February 7, 2017 3:09 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

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Keeping with tradition, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is slowly revealing the presenters for the 89th Academy Awards. Last week. they confirmed that 2016 winners Leonardo DiCaprio, Alicia Vika...

John Cho And Leslie Mann Hosting Academy’s 2017 Sci-Tech Oscars Ceremony

Gregory Ellwood

February 3, 2017 3:40 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has found two stars willing to spend a Saturday night handing out Oscars to the winners of the 2017 Scientific and Technical Awards. Leslie Mann ("This is Forty...

Why Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar Ban Should Provoke A Flashpoint Of Protest At This Year’s Ceremony

Oliver Lyttelton

January 30, 2017 1:17 pm

Features, News

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If he wasn’t already — and there was a good argument that he was — Iranian director Asghar Farhadi became the most important filmmaker alive this weekend. Farhadi became a favorite of festival-goers starting ne...

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Oscar-Nominated Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi Says He Won’t Attend Ceremony

Rodrigo Perez

January 29, 2017 5:56 pm

Awards, News

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It’s high time we stop using terms like we’re “through the looking glass” or in “uncharted waters,” as we're way beyond unconventional territory, and in the midst of a constitutional crisis of virtually unprece...

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