Oscars
Oscars: Film Academy Updates Rules and Campaign Protocols, Announces Changes to Special Awards
As the film awards industrial complex reemerges from a brief hibernation following the 96th Oscars and begins thinking about the 97th, which will take place on March 2, 2025, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ board of governors has announced updated awards rules and campaign promotional regulations — as well as changes to some […]
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Kevin Hart Sets the Record Straight on His Height and Whether He’s a Billionaire
Kevin Hart wants people to know that some of the stories of his height have been greatly exaggerated. The actor appeared on Sunday night’s edition of CBS’ 60 Minutes, where he spoke with Anderson Cooper and set the record straight. Cooper noted that GQ reported his height as 5-foot-5, while The Los Angeles Times put […]
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Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert Fire Back at Donald Trump Over Renewed Oscars Criticism
Former President Donald Trump was roundly mocked on late night television for an error-laden social media post in which he confused Jimmy Kimmel and Al Pacino as the presenter of this year’s best picture Oscar. On Wednesday, the presumptive Republican nominee for president drew some attention away from his hush money trial, which is now in […]
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Awards Season Calendar: Key Dates for Oscars, Emmys, Tonys and Other Major Events
With the 2024 Oscars now in the rearview mirror, Hollywood’s focus turns to Emmy season. A number of TV awards shows are set to take place over the next few months, including the BAFTA TV Awards, the newly announced Gotham TV Awards, the Critics Choice Real TV Awards and, of course, the Primetime Emmys, which […]
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Ryan Gosling on Why He Originally Turned Down “I’m Just Ken” Oscars Performance
Despite Ryan Gosling’s Oscars performance of “I’m Just Ken” being a highlight of the 2024 show, the actor admits he originally did not want to perform the nominated song. During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, the Barbie actor said his answer was “100 percent no” when he was first […]
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Jonathan Glazer’s Controversial Oscars Speech Backed by Group of Jewish Creatives
Nearly a month after Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech reverberated across Hollywood and caused a wave of controversy, 455 Jewish creatives (and counting) have signed a letter in a show of support. “We were alarmed to see some of our colleagues in the industry mischaracterize and denounce his remarks. Their attacks on Glazer are a dangerous […]
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Oscars: 2025 Ceremony Will Take Place a Week Earlier Than 2024’s, Other Key Dates Announced
The 97th Academy Awards ceremony in 2025 will take place a week earlier than the 2024 Academy Awards ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday. Oscar statuettes will be handed out Sunday, March 2, 2025, as opposed to Sunday, March 10 — although, for the second year in a row, the festivities […]
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Tim McGovern, Visual Effects Veteran and Oscar Winner for ‘Total Recall,’ Dies at 68
Tim McGovern, a visual effects veteran who earned an Oscar for his work on 1990’s Total Recall, died Saturday. He was 68. His wife, Reena NeGandhi, posted the news on Facebook. “Today is the saddest day of my life,” she wrote. “My Husband Tim McGovern, an Oscar winner for the VFX in 1990’s for Total Recall […]
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Ang Lee Says Stage Manager Told Him ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Would Likely Win Best Picture Before Oscars Loss
Ang Lee is once again looking back at Brokeback Mountain‘s memorable best picture loss to Crash at the 2006 Academy Awards. Speaking with IndieWire, the filmmaker shared that after he won best director for the queer, modern-day Western, he was told by a stage manager to stick around backstage, as the film was expected to […]
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Rambling Roundup: Oscar Parties Were Full of Phonies (But Some Got Kicked Out)
Oscar Parties Are Full of Phonies (But They’re Getting Kicked Out) Winning an Academy Award opens a lot of doors, especially at Oscar-night afterparties. One of Hollywood’s sacred red carpet rules is that merely holding an Oscar can be a golden ticket to just about every swell soiree in town. But in recent years, some […]
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Who Won This Year’s Red Carpet?
Rebecca Selva, creative director for jewelry houses Kwiat and Fred Leighton, remembers texting one of her company’s execs on Oscar night, saying, “ ‘Stay awake until the end’ — because I knew if Oppenheimer won best picture, that would be a great opportunity for us,” she tells THR. Minutes later, Selva celebrated the moment she’d been […]
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Mark Wahlberg Reflects on Filming ‘The Departed’: “I Was a Little Pissed About a Couple Things”
Mark Wahlberg has admitted he wasn’t entirely happy while filming Martin Scorsese’s 2006 film The Departed. Wahlberg played Sergeant Dignam, who worked in the Special Investigation Unit of the Massachusetts State Police Department, in the Boston-set film, which also starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin and Vera Farmiga, among others. […]
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