Oscars 2021: Five years since diversity debate, is The Academy likely on the verge of making award-season history?
3 years, 8 months ago

Oscars 2021: Five years since diversity debate, is The Academy likely on the verge of making award-season history?

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From Riz Ahmed becoming the first Muslim nominated for best actor, to Chloé Zhao’s nomination as the first woman of colour in the directing category, this year’s eclectic mix practically ensures Oscar history will be made. Best Actor and Best Actress Chadwick Boseman’s best-actor victory for _Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom i_s so assured that you’d be forgiven for forgetting how rare a posthumous Oscar win actually is. Dual wins for Davis and Boseman would also make _Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom t_he eighth movie to take both lead-acting Oscars — a feat not managed since 1997’s As Good as It Gets — and the first to ever do it without a best-picture nomination. That snub feels especially egregious now since the film is well-positioned for two other wins, both of which would also make history: Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson may become the first Black women to win the Oscar for makeup and hairstyling, while the 89-year-old costume designer Ann Roth is poised to become the oldest woman to ever win an Oscar.

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Ji Chang Wook, Kim Go Eun and others crowned winners at Korean Film Producers Association Awards: How to watch the show
1 week ago

Ji Chang Wook, Kim Go Eun and others crowned winners at Korean Film Producers Association Awards: How to watch the show

Hindustan Times  

Days ahead of the December 17 ceremony of the 11th Korean Film Producers Association Awards, K-media unveiled the roster of deserving winners who will receive their glistening trophies at Indie Space in Mapo-gu, Seoul, today. Ji Chang Wook snagged the Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 Korean Film Producers Association Awards on December 17. Award-winning films and filmmakers for The …

2024 Baeksang Arts Awards winners: Kim Soo Hyun and IVE's Yujin are Popular choices, Lee Do Hyun crowned Best New Actor
7 months, 2 weeks ago

2024 Baeksang Arts Awards winners: Kim Soo Hyun and IVE's Yujin are Popular choices, Lee Do Hyun crowned Best New Actor

Hindustan Times  

The well-established MC trio of Shin Dong Yup, Bae Suzy and Park Bo Gum returned to host one of the most prestigious South Korean awards night on Tuesday, May 7. Held at COEX in Seoul, the 2024 Baeksang Arts Awards marked the 60th anniversary of the annual ceremony that celebrates artists from various walks of the Korean entertainment industry. Kim …

Standout moments from the 96th Academy Awards, from the red carpet through the show
9 months, 1 week ago

Standout moments from the 96th Academy Awards, from the red carpet through the show

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — There are few events as glamorous as the Oscars. Cillian Murphy, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for “Oppenheimer,” left, poses with Mstyslav Chernov, winner of the award for best documentary feature film for “20 Days in Mariupol” at the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, …

9 Years after #OscarsSoWhite, here's what diversity looks like at the 2024 Academy Awards
9 months, 2 weeks ago

9 Years after #OscarsSoWhite, here's what diversity looks like at the 2024 Academy Awards

BBC  

9 Years after #OscarsSoWhite, here's what diversity looks like at the 2024 Academy Awards Getty Images Seven actors of colour were nominated at the 2024 Oscars 2024 saw the very same number of acting nominees of colour as last year. More Getty Images New diversity requirements for Best Picture were announced just this year This year, the 96th Oscars seemed …

Oscars 2024 predictions: Who will win and who should win at this year’s Academy Awards
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Oscars 2024 predictions: Who will win and who should win at this year’s Academy Awards

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Bombs away: Cillian Murphy and Christopher Nolan on the ‘Oppenheimer’ set …

SAG Awards 2024: Will the winners go on to repeat at the Oscars?
10 months ago

SAG Awards 2024: Will the winners go on to repeat at the Oscars?

LA Times  

Kenneth Branagh delivered the acceptance speech for the cast of “Oppenheimer,” after winning the top film prize. Emma Stone won the British Film Academy’s lead actress honor last weekend for her gonzo turn in “Poor Things.” If she had taken SAG, the race would effectively be over. MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Winner: Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer” The past: This …

Oscar 2023: Did MM Keeravani, Ruth Carter, Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh make the event the most inclusive in history?
1 year, 9 months ago

Oscar 2023: Did MM Keeravani, Ruth Carter, Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh make the event the most inclusive in history?

Firstpost  

The 95th Academy Award was historic in many ways. MM Keeravani, Ruth Carter, Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh, all made their respective nations and people proud. Ruth Carter Ruth Carter Carter became the first Black woman in history to win two Academy awards. I endured.” She added, “So I feel that this win opens the door for other young costume …

SAG Awards 2023: The Complete Winners List
1 year, 9 months ago

SAG Awards 2023: The Complete Winners List

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards kicked off Sunday night in Los Angeles as the city recovered from historic weather with high winds and hail, raging rainstorms and rare blizzard warnings rocking Southern California over the weekend. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” dominated at the ceremony, taking home the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in …

Oscars 2021: Film critics chip in on ceremony's 'desperate' need for approval in a post-pandemic atmosphere
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Film critics chip in on ceremony's 'desperate' need for approval in a post-pandemic atmosphere

Firstpost  

On the morning after a very odd Oscars, we asked AO Scott, co-chief film critic, and Wesley Morris, critic at large, to discuss what they made of it all. Meanwhile, Chadwick Boseman — all of that unbridled zeal in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom came down to a promise that the academy couldn’t keep. And there he was last night helping …

Oscars 2021: Chloe Zhao, Anthony Hopkins' historic wins, and all the other records that were broken
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Chloe Zhao, Anthony Hopkins' historic wins, and all the other records that were broken

Firstpost  

This year’s Academy Award nominees were historically among the event’s more diverse lineups: Seventy women earned nods across 23 categories and nine people of colour were nominated for their acting. “Maybe,” she said Sunday in her speech, “it’s American hospitality for the Korean actor.” Honours for ageing winners: Anthony Hopkins, at 83, became the oldest actor to win the best …

Oscars 2021: ’Nomadland’ wins Best Picture, Director, Actress
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: ’Nomadland’ wins Best Picture, Director, Actress

Live Mint  

It’s only right that a year as strange as this gets a strange Oscar ceremony. Nomadland was the odds-on favourite – and it won Best Picture and Best Director for Chloe Zhao. Anthony Hopkins beat off a strong field – including a terrific Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal – to win his second Best Actor trophy for The Father, …

Oscars 2021: ’Nomadland’ wins Best Picture, Director, Actress
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: ’Nomadland’ wins Best Picture, Director, Actress

Live Mint  

It’s only right that a year as strange as this gets a strange Oscar ceremony. Nomadland was the odds-on favourite – and it won Best Picture and Best Director for Chloe Zhao. Anthony Hopkins beat off a strong field – including a terrific Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal – to win his second Best Actor trophy for The Father, …

Oscars 2021: Minari's Youn Yuh-jung becomes first Korean performer to win Best Supporting Actress
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Minari's Youn Yuh-jung becomes first Korean performer to win Best Supporting Actress

Firstpost  

Youn plays Soon-ja, a card-playing grandmom with a knack for swearing, who’s moved from Korea to join her daughter and stepson in his seemingly quixotic quest to trade dispiriting work in California for farming in Arkansas. Youn, a prominent film and TV actor in her home country of South Korea, won the best supporting actress award at Sunday’s Oscars. The …

Oscars 2021: Yuh-Jung Youn Becomes first Korean Actor to Win Academy Award with Best Actress Gong
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Yuh-Jung Youn Becomes first Korean Actor to Win Academy Award with Best Actress Gong

News 18  

Yuh-Jung Youn has become the first Korean actor to win an Academy Award. She claimed the Oscar for best supporting actress Sunday night for her performance in “Minari" as a grandmother who moves from South Korea to live with her daughter’s farming family in Arkansas. "— OscarInterviews April 26, 2021 Last year the South Korean film “Parasite" won best picture …

Oscars 2021 winners: Best Actress Frances McDormand HOWLS as Nomadland wins at 93rd Academy Awards
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021 winners: Best Actress Frances McDormand HOWLS as Nomadland wins at 93rd Academy Awards

Daily Mail  

Nomadland triumphed as the drama earned Best Picture in addition to a historic win for Frances McDormand as Best Actress at perhaps the wokest Academy Awards ever - which was virtually mask free amid the COVID-19 pandemic - in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Interesting: The award show - which was celebrating its 93rd annual event - broke tradition as …

Oscars 2021: Chloé Zhao, Frances McDormand, Anthony Hopkins and Other Winners
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Chloé Zhao, Frances McDormand, Anthony Hopkins and Other Winners

News 18  

Veteran Hollywood star Anthony Hopkins won the best actor award at the 93rd Academy Awards for his role in The Father. The other winners at the Oscars were Frances McDormand, Nomadland, Sound of Metal, Mank Yuh-Jung Youn, Chloé Zhao, Daniel Kaluuya, Soul, My Octopus Friend, Another Round, Sound of Metal and Colette. The presenters — including Brad Pitt, Halle Berry, …

Oscars 2021: Full list of Academy Award winners
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Full list of Academy Award winners

Al Jazeera  

Chloe Zhao made history as she became only the second woman to win best director at the Oscars. The Academy Awards, or Oscars, have been handed out at a ceremony in Los Angeles and were broadcast live on ABC television. The 93rd annual ceremony, held at Union Station on Sunday, was stripped back to its bare essentials as a result …

Oscars 2021 tomorrow! Will Priyanka Chopra's The White Tiger, Riz Ahmed score a trophy?
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021 tomorrow! Will Priyanka Chopra's The White Tiger, Riz Ahmed score a trophy?

Hindustan Times  

The pandemic-delayed Academy Awards ceremony takes place at a Los Angeles rail station on Sunday on what could be a historic night packed with surprises, not just around the winners but the event itself. Hollywood's drive for diversity over the past five years could lead to all four acting prizes, as well as the best director trophy, going to people …

Oscars 2021 predictions: Who will take home top honours at 93rd Academy Awards?
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021 predictions: Who will take home top honours at 93rd Academy Awards?

Firstpost  

The New York Times expert has been closely tracking the various awards races all this season. BEST PICTURE The Father Judas and the Black Messiah Mank Minari ✓ Nomadland Promising Young Woman Sound of Metal The Trial of the Chicago 7 Nomadland has won nearly every major award this season, including top honours from the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild …

Oscars 2021: Fewer stars, no audience and no Zoom appearances amid Covid-19 restrictions
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Fewer stars, no audience and no Zoom appearances amid Covid-19 restrictions

Daily Mail  

An Oscars unlike any before will get underway Sunday night with a telecast retooled for the pandemic. Covid-19 precautions: The Oscars are adapting to the coronavirus pandemic by having only 170 attendees at LA's Union Station this year, while Zoom appearances are banned; Union Station seen being prepared for the ceremony on Friday In contrast with the largely virtual Golden …

Here’s the complete list of 2021 Oscar winners
3 years, 8 months ago

Here’s the complete list of 2021 Oscar winners

LA Times  

Chloé Zhao and “Nomadland” were the big winners at the 93rd Academy Awards, winning best picture, director and lead actress honors in a ceremony that also presented some historic firsts. And the 2021 Academy Award winners are: Lead actor Anthony Hopkins, “The Father” | WINNER Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal” Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Gary Oldman, “Mank” Steven …

Oscars 2021: Minari, Nomadland leading noms indicate shift in focus on underrepresented communities, stories
3 years, 8 months ago

Oscars 2021: Minari, Nomadland leading noms indicate shift in focus on underrepresented communities, stories

Firstpost  

As spring settles in over Hollywood, this year’s awards season is getting set for a delayed Academy Awards later this month. The differences between the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Academy in terms of approaches to diversity are stark, said Mark Young, a professor at USC’s Marshall School of Business. Especially in the last year, I think every institution …

Has the Oscars really faced up to its race problem?
3 years, 8 months ago

Has the Oscars really faced up to its race problem?

BBC  

Has the Oscars really faced up to its race problem? In 2015, lawyer-turned-activist April Reign took aim at that year's overwhelmingly white Academy Awards nominations with a jokey tweet "#OscarsSoWhite they asked to touch my hair." Progress v setbacks The past five years have certainly seen a broader range of stories and people celebrated: in 2017, there was Moonlight's historic …

SAG Awards Make History With All 4 Film Acting Awards Going To People Of Color
3 years, 8 months ago

SAG Awards Make History With All 4 Film Acting Awards Going To People Of Color

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING History was made by people of color at the 27th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards: All four film acting categories went to people of color for the first time ever. This year, the statues for the four film acting categories were won by Daniel Kaluuya, the late Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, and Youn Yuh-jung, making it the …

Oscar nominations 2021 full list: Priyanka Chopra's White Tiger scores a nod, Mank leads with 10
3 years, 9 months ago

Oscar nominations 2021 full list: Priyanka Chopra's White Tiger scores a nod, Mank leads with 10

Hindustan Times  

Priyanka Chopra and her husband, Nick Jonas, on Monday announced the nominations for the 93rd annual Academy Awards. Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas announced the 2021 Oscar nominations on Monday. For the first time, two women — Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell — were nominated for best director. Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Supporting Actor Supporting Actress …

Oscar nominations 2021: Complete predictions in all 23 categories
3 years, 9 months ago

Oscar nominations 2021: Complete predictions in all 23 categories

LA Times  

Oscar nominations arrive Monday, and you can feel the anticipation. BEST PICTURE “Judas and the Black Messiah” “Mank” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” “Minari” “Nomadland” “One Night in Miami.” “Promising Young Woman” “Sound of Metal” “The Trial of the Chicago 7” Possible snub: “Sound of Metal” Possible surprise: “News of the World” Analysis: The Producers Guild dropped its list of 10 …

From streaming dominance to diversity volume, what to expect from Academy Awards 2021 nominations
3 years, 9 months ago

From streaming dominance to diversity volume, what to expect from Academy Awards 2021 nominations

Firstpost  

In a normal year, we would have had the Oscars by now. Over the last two years, every best-picture nominee was also nominated by the Producers Guild of America, so the remaining spots could be claimed by the same films nominated for a PGA Award, picks like Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, One …

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