The Academy Awards Archives

Oscars 2022: New “Fan Favorite” Award To Be Given Based On Social Media Voting

February 14, 2022 1:33 pm

This year, the Oscars decided to go fairly safe with its Best Picture nominees. Some people, namely superhero film fans, were hoping for a curveball with a “Spider-Man: No Way Home” addition to the category. A...

Viggo Mortensen Wonders Why David Cronenberg Has Zero Oscar Nominations: “That’s Inexplicable To Me”

Charles Barfield

February 3, 2021 1:12 pm

Awards, News

An Oscar nomination is a huge feather in the cap of any filmmaker. Even though many would never gauge their success based on awards recognition, there’s a reason why directors are always excited when they get ...

Sufjan Stevens Was Traumatized By The Oscars & Calls It “A Horrifying Scientology End-Of-Year Prom”

Charles Barfield

September 28, 2020 1:52 pm

Awards, News

Awards shows aren’t for everybody. There are some people (myself included) that get caught up in the pageantry and politics that go into each and every awards show in the realms of film and TV. And then there ...

‘Selma’ Cast/Crew Accused Of “Stirring Sh*t” By Academy Members After Wearing “I Can’t Breathe” Shirts in 2014

Charles Barfield

June 5, 2020 10:55 am

Awards, News

Half a decade ago, after the death of Eric Garner, the cast and crew of Ava DuVernay’s film, “Selma,” wore “I Can’t Breathe” shirts to show their support for the murdered Black man. The film would go on to ear...

Olivia Colman Becomes ‘The Favourite’ & Wins Best Actress [Oscars 2019]

Rodrigo Perez

February 24, 2019 10:59 pm

Awards, News

Glenn Close won the Golden Globe, the SAG award, last night’s Indie Spirit Award and nearly all of the precursor prizes, but tonight at the 91st Academy Awards, it was Olivia Colman who took home the Best Actre...

Snubs & Surprises Of The 2019 Oscar Nominations

Gregory Ellwood and Rodrigo Perez

January 22, 2019 12:16 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, Features, News

Well, that was certainly a WTF kind of morning for Oscar nominations, with a lot of snubs and definitely some surprises. The biggest omissions surely being the overall lack of “First Man” and “If Beale Street C...

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SAG-AFTRA Accuses The Academy Of “Graceless Pressure Tactics” To Force Presenters Away From SAG Awards In Favor Of Oscars

Charles Barfield

January 14, 2019 2:24 pm

Awards, News

We got a war coming between the Screen Actors Guild and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. According to a new statement from SAG-AFTRA, it would appear that the Academy is using some less-than-sa...

The Oscar “In Memoriam” Segment: Now With 100% More Queen Latifah Singing

Rodrigo Perez

February 10, 2009 4:12 pm

News

Everyone loves the Oscar "In Memoriam" section of the evening where a clip reel is shown of all the actors, filmmakers and talent that have died in the last year, right? In provides a lot of sighs, "I didn't kn...

Scary ‘Dark Knight’ Obsessives Launch Campaign For Further Domination: Now It’s Oscars

Spencer Martin

December 3, 2008 5:23 pm

News

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The grass-roots fanbase of this year's small, indie-film that could "The Dark Knight," are apparently not content with being the top grossing movie of the year and have launched an online campaign to get their ...

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