Academy Shakes Things Up for More Inclusive Oscars
Perhaps #OscarsSoWhite wasn’t such a bad thing, because it has forced big changes at the Motion Picture Academy, a longtime bastion of older white men. In addition to the concerted push to diversify its membership of nearly 10,000, the Academy just announced major moves to make the Oscars more inclusive, particularly the prestigious Best Picture category. To be eligible for the top prize, the Academy announced new representation...
Oscars Delayed Two Months Until April 2021
You could see this one coming, with coronavirus leaving its insidious, invisible handprints all over the world. Its latest victim, Hollywood’s biggest night – the Oscars. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that the 93rd Academy Awards will no longer take place on February 28, 2021 as planned. They’re being rescheduled to April 25 next year. And not only that, because of the current closure of movie...
Academy Awards Make History with Diverse Wins and Memorable Performances
The 91st annual Academy Awards will go down in the history books for a number of reasons. For the first time in 30 years there was no host. “Green Book” took the best picture crown when just about everyone predicted that “Roma” would win. Olivia Colman scored the best actress award against all odds, when again, everyone thought Glenn Close was going to win, as she had swept every other industry honor leading up to the big night. Rami...
‘Water’ Wins, McDormand Rules as 90th Annual Academy Awards Go Down in the History Books
The 2018 Oscars will go down in history for several reasons, notwithstanding the fact that the broadcast received the lowest ratings in a decade, with about 26 million people watching on ABC as Jimmy Kimmel hosted for the second year running. In her rousing acceptance speech for Best Actress, after she put her Oscar on the floor and asked all of the other female nominees to stand up, Frances McDormand brought a new phrase into the...
Oscar Nominations: The Shape of Change is the New Backdrop for This Year’s Academy Awards
Guillermo del Toro’s romantic fantasy The Shape of Water stopped just shy of breaking a record by coming away with 13 nominations for the 2018 Academy Awards, scoring nods in nearly all of the marquee categories. The World War II epic Dunkirk followed behind with eight nods and Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with seven. All three films earned best picture nominations. Meanwhile, all those efforts to make...
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