Oscars

There were a few surprises at the Academy Awards on Sunday night, but very few genuine shocks. A year ago and the biggest surprise would have been Everything, Everywhere, All at Once – a wacky tale about Michelle yeo’s character being pinballed through the multiverse – being in the...

Yes, it’s that time of the year when we’re in the midst of nominations and awards – with the ‘daddy’ of them all  – the Academy Awards, aka the ‘Oscars’ being handed out on 12th March.  The nominations were announced Tuesday and you can see the full list below....

After last year’s abridged event due to COVID, the Academy Awards were back in the Dolby Theater for what seemed like a more ‘normal’ event this weekend – though it still managed to generate complaints and concerns in advance by selecting a whole range of categories to be recorded...

The world is still grappling with variants of COVID and the cinematic output may be a shadow of its usual self, but the Academy Awards will still be going ahead – so the nominations were announced early Tuesday morning. There are some interesting choices and some prominent talent still...

This year’s Oscars were unique in a number of ways, most of them rarely positive – though it was never going to be their grandest year. 2020 was, of course, the year that was almost devoid of mainstream cinema – either films were forced to stop production or there...

You might have been forgiven for thinking there wouldn’t be an Academy Awards in 2021. For much of 2020, cinemas were closed and film production either slowed down or ground to a halt. Most films couldn’t be made and even the ones that were completed couldn’t be seen easily....

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has formally announced that they will be moving the Academy Awards ceremony into April next year. Though it’s happened a few times in its history ( due to flooding in 1938, due to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968...

Yes, it’s that time of year again. Here’s the list of the major category nominees announced this morning ahead of the 9th February Academy Awards themselves… Joker may have the most nominations but it’s quite a diverse line-up with some other major contenders in the mix, so it could...

Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuarón, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Kerry Washington, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Guillermo del Toro and Frances McDormand  are just a handful of the latest talent who have added their names and support to an open letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...