Subscribe here to receive the newsletter in your inbox every other Friday.Well, 2024 is coming to an end, and what a year it’s been. So many things happened! Most of them were very, very bad — like “Madame Web.” But some of them were also kind of incredible and worth cherishing...
It took 95 years, but Michelle Yeoh is now the first person who identifies as Asian to be nominated for best actress at the Oscars for 2023 show.
Based on the real-life exploits of British runners Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell at the 1924 Paris Olympics, period dramaChariots of Firewon Best Picture at the 1982 Oscars. But it’s the titular number fromVangelis' anachronistic synth-based score that remains its crow...
but during a production, it literally touches all other departments on set. David and I felt it was crucial to highlight the artistic and technical aspects of this craft. We proposed the addition of the word ‘designer’ to the role to properly define the job and reflect Chris’ creative...
I never imagined everything I'm living right now, that a film would be based on me." How did Roma make history at the Oscars? Roma was the first Mexican entry into the Foreign Language Film category to come home with a victory. In 2013, Alfonso Cuaron became the first Mexican director...
every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards. A notable example a couple of years ago was The Interrupters which played at Sundance in a version close to three hours before getting re-edited and having ...
Universal have already started the push on the film, though it doesn’t screen until the middle of November, and given Jolie’s status as Hollywood royalty (she has two Oscars already, including her humanitarian award), she could well be set for a Robert Redford/George Clooney-style nod if...
I definitely feel like the Pulitzers probably owe a few authors--not that I have ever been struck with the notion that the panel feels compelled by any sense of indebtedness the way, say, the Oscars at times seem to--in particular, Doctorow (who continues to get nominated), Kingsolver, ...
…but the “Nicest People” campaign has always been the highlight, arguably peaking with TV ads during the 1964 Oscars. Honda snagged some commercials and in the process became the first foreign company to sponsor the Academy Awards. Because of the popularity of the awards show, the ad was...
That this didn’t expand nearly as wide as “Promised Land” (which ended up with a so-so tenth place gross for the weekend) comes from Lionsgate knowing it has an Oscar push ahead and suggests confidence in upbeat word of mouth (the first two limited weeks’ st...