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The time has finally come to put an end to this year's arduous, and frustratingly unpredictable, awards season with tonight's 2019 Academy Awards. And while we still have no idea which film will win the night's most coveted Oscar — will it be Alfonso Cuarón's intimate cinematic achievement Roma, the crowd-pleasing preference Bohemian Rhapsody, or the critically acclaimed Marvel blo..
Read MoreThe Marvel Cinematic Universe is nobody's idea of a underdog, with its 20 blockbuster films having made a combined $6.8 billion at the box office (and that's just in the U.S. Alone). Yet before the 2019 Oscars, Marvel Studios had never won a Academy Award, manifesting the unspoken-but-established idea that superhero flicks don't hold a place among end-of-year cinematic prestige. (The ..
Read MoreImmediately following the most wide-open Best Picture race in modern history, the Academy has finally crowned a winner, and if you've been paying attention to awards season at all this year, then it could have been a little bit of a surprise. Peter Farrelly's Green Book won the coveted Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday night (February 24), ending awards season and putting Bra..
Read MoreSoon after a fiasco-ridden begin, the 91st Oscars finally seem to have hit their stride. The Academy reported the opening round of presenters on Monday (February 4), just 20 days before the live ceremony will be broadcast to TVs across the nation, and so they are actually — surprisingly — pretty fun. the initial presenters confirmed for show are a mix of young and middle-aged Hol..
Read MoreSoon after per year of movie-watching, months of speculating, and weeks of hyping, the 2019 Academy Award nominations are finally here, and so they brought good news for Lady Gaga and Black Panther fans! A Star Is Born is listed among the most-nominated features with eight nods, just falling short of the 10 Netflix's Roma and Emma Stone-starrer The Favourite both obtained. Of these e..
Read MoreLudwig Göransson's morning was relatively chill for a first-time Oscar nominee. He woke up at the somewhat reasonable hour of 5:15 a.M. To watch Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross announce the initial wave of Academy Award nominations from the comfort of his own bed, streaming it on his wife's phone. Any time his name was read as one of the nominees for Best Original Score, the Bl..
Read Morein case you awoke this morning anticipating that today's Academy Award nominations should make some sense of the most wide-open Best Picture race in years, then think again. Alfonso Cuarón's intimate, black-and-white film Roma leads this year's Oscar nominations with 10 nods — a large achievement for Netflix — alongside Yorgos Lanthimos's lushly absurd The Favourite. Yet fan-fa..
Read MoreBy Ural Garrett Following his Oscar-winning turn with 2016’s breakout film Moonlight, director Barry Jenkins managed to deliver best follow-up by means of the cinematic adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk. Starring KiKi Layne, Stephan James, and Regina King (who recently acquired a Golden Globe for best supporting actress), the motion picture has g..
Read MoreThe Popular Oscar was the initial strike. For roughly three weeks this past summer, the world wide web — or, anyone who cares about the Oscars and/or the future of cinema — collectively lost their minds any time the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reported a new Oscars category for "outstanding achievement in popular film." The backlash was swift, and the idea was repo..
Read MoreThe 2019 Oscars hosting saga has reportedly come to an end. There will be no host for the 91st Academy Awards. At least, that's what the story is at this point in time — nevertheless soon after over one month of back-and-forth reports involving the matter, it's hard to believe that any conclusion is actually final. The decision comes immediately after over one month of will-he-won'..
Read MoreThe momentum in back of A Star Is Born has been strong ever since it premiered to a standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival in August. Critics and crowds alike are raving for Bradley Cooper’s first turn as a director, and for Lady Gaga’s first starring role in a major motion picture. Since then, the film has picked up nominations at the Critics’ Choice Awards, SAG Awards, ..
Read MoreEvery awards season there really are winners and losers, and some days the stars who walk away with the heavy hardware aren't the ones you would have awarded if given the power. With red-carpet season officially over (for right now, we're taking a look at the celebs who won us over with their charisma, talent, and grace — from exuberant newcomers like Tiffany Haddish and Timothée..
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