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Leave it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to show the Golden Globes how it’s done. The nominees are a step up, but best of all, the Oscars are sweeping Zoom into the dustbin. The much-delayed 93rd Academy Awards convenes Sunday in pandemic style: the ceremony will be social-distanced and attendees will be maskless while on camera. The pandemic restrictions aren’t the only changes: Six years after the first #OscarsSoWhite tweet, the year’s pool is one of the most diverse ...

Has a Best Picture race ever felt like such a done deal? Even in years where theres been an obvious frontrunner, there was still some room for surprise come Oscars night. That doesnt seem to be the case this year, where Nomadland is so primed to win that if any other film were read off, we would say, " Why do they keep letting Warren Beatty present Best Picture?!" Chloé Zhaos resilient road movie became the first film to ever win both Venices Golden Lion Award and the Toronto International F...

JAKE COYLE This image released by Amazon Studios shows Sacha Baron Cohen in a scene from “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” (Amazon Studios via AP) NEW YORK — Screenplay writing, usually a fairly solitary, uneventful process, is more of a full-contact sport for a movie like “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Work for the nine Oscar-nominated writers of the “Borat” sequel began conventionally enough. Brainstorming, a draft, a table read. But as soon as shooting starts, there’s no te...

Promising Young Woman: Carey Mulligan– Photo: Courtesy of Focus Features After the long, strange trip of the past film year, could it be that Oscar voters might have gotten it right this time? The nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards are a high-quality roundup of films and performances that astutely reflect a lot of what we cared about more than movies in 2020. These aren’t frivolous times, and these aren’t frivolous films. Even the comedy about a clueless Kazakh reporter trying to pawn o...

Borat Supplemental Reportings Trailer Teases Never-Before-Seen Footage Coming off from the critical success of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Amazon Prime Video has released the official trailer for the comedy sequel’s multi-part special titled Borat Supplemental Reportings. It features never-before-seen footage that was cut from Sasha Baron Cohen-led  2020 mockumentary film. The video also teases extended scenes of Borat’s time with the two conspiracy theorists and Tutar’s babysitter Jea...

The gonzo art of writing for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer April 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5This image released by Amazon Studios shows Sacha Baron Cohen in a scene from "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm." (Amazon Studios via AP)Courtesy of Amazon Studios/APShow MoreShow Less 2of5This image released by Amazon Studios shows Maria Bakalova, left, and Sacha Baron Cohen in a scene from "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm." .(Amazon Studios via AP)Courtesy of Amazon S...

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (inset: head writer and producer Anthony Hines with a taxidermy animal that ultimately became the remains of Johnny the Monkey in the project.) Co-writer and producer Anthony Hines describes the massive amount of material the films eight screenwriters produced, preparing their actors for any situation. For the titular characters return to America in Amazons Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, 14 years after the smash success of 2006s Borat, satirist Sacha Baron Cohen recrui...

Has a Best Picture race ever felt like such a done deal? Even in years where theres been an obvious frontrunner, there was still some room for surprise come Oscars night. That doesnt seem to be the case this year, where Nomadland is so primed to win that if any other film were read off, we would say, " Why do they keep letting Warren Beatty present Best Picture?!" Chloé Zhaos resilient road movie became the first film to ever win both Venices Golden Lion Award and the Toronto International F...

Oscar Nomination for Borat Sequel Breaks One Specific Record ✖ Borat Subsequent Moviefilm got some love from The Academy. Sacha Baron Cohens follow-up had his co-star Maria Bakalova nominated in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role while the writers for the movie also nabbed a Best Adapted Screenplay. That later nod for the film has put the movie into very distinguished company in one record book while also shattering another record all its own in terms of credited writers in one nomination....

From Glenn Close nominations to animated sequels, we’re breaking down the math behind this year’s crop of Academy Awards hopefuls.