This year’s Oscars event, which will be held in Los Angeles on March 10, should have more viewers: The members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have pitted two of 2023’s highest-grossing movies— Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer from Universal Pictures and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie from Warner Bros.—against each other in the best picture […]
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What you need to know about Oscars 2023
t’s looking like the year of “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” The head-spinning multiverse smash from the directing duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (a.k.a. Daniels) has already swept the top prizes at the four major Hollywood guild awards, and the only other films to ever do that — “Argo,” “No Country for Old Men,” […]
Five ways the Academy is trying to keep the Oscars relevant in 2022
The 94th Academy Awards take place this Sunday. But with last year’s viewing figures at an all-time low, organisers are under pressure to make the ceremony relevant again, particularly to younger audiences. There used to be a hundred reasons to sit down and watch the Oscars. In a pre-social media age, it provided a rare […]
Oscar Chaos: Wrong Movie Announced As Best Picture
The 89th Academy Awards will likely be remembered not for the night’s big winners, but for a massive mistake, after presenter Faye Dunaway awarded “La La Land” the best picture Oscar that should have gone to “Moonlight” instead. But it wasn’t her fault. The official accountant of the Oscars, Price Waterhouse Coopers, gave her the […]