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Shortly after actor-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas and her husband and singer Nick announced the nomination for the 93rd Academy Awards, Chopra couldnt...

CinemaBlend Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (or Borat 2). The highly anticipated sequel more than lived up to the legacy of its predecessor, and some may argue that it actually surpassed it. When the film came out, many were likely pegging it for awards buzz, though it was too early to call at that. But since the start of awards season, the film has received acclaim and a few notable honors. Now, Borat 2 is getting some Oscars love, as the film has picked up a couple of massive nomination that hav...

(Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File) The pandemic has brought a variety of challenges for The Oscars and also provided more opportunities. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been grappling with a couple of challenges over the past years. One has involved getting more inclusiveness and diversity in both its membership and the recognition at The Oscars, and the other has been how to deal with the mounting challenge brought by the streaming services. The crater-inducing impact...

15 03 2021 Just a few years ago, it seemed the Academy was in a tussle with Netflix – the young-buck streaming service determined to break its way into the age-old institution that is the Oscars. Now, the streamer has the most-nominated film at the 2021 Oscars with David Fincher’s Mank – which bagged ten nods for the upcoming ceremony, leading the pack by a considerable margin. Fincher’s loving (but barbed) recreation of Hollywood’s Golden Age – and the story behind Citizen Kane �...

YOUTUBE The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Minari, Nomadland, Sound of Metal and The Trial of the Chicago 7 earned six noms apiece. David Finchers Mank led the pack with 10 nominations as the 93rd Oscars were announced Monday morning. The 1930s-set film, which centers on alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish Citizen Kane, will compete against The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Minari, Nomadland, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal and The Trial of...

For a while, the biggest film story of 2020 was what movies weren’t coming out, as the pandemic closed theaters and bumped release dates for some of the year’s biggest would-be blockbusters (see you later, Black Widow and No Time to Die, hopefully) and buzziest awards-bait (or is there another reason Spielberg directed a remake of West Side Story?). But no more, because it turns out a lot of good movies were still released last year—and lots of them have just been nominated for Oscars...

Possible snub: “Sound of Metal” Possible surprise: “News of the World” Linda May, left, and Frances McDormand in “Nomadland.” (Searchlight Pictures) Analysis: The Producers Guild dropped its list of 10 best picture nominees on Monday. The Oscars is in its final year of its fluctuating slate that has always numbered either eight or nine movies. So that’s bad news for at least one PGA nominee, probably “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” as the academy owns a dispiriting history of i...

Print We’re probably looking at a historic set of Oscar nominees for director this year, and the news could go several different ways. There could be two women — or possibly three. There could be two nominees of Asian descent. The slate could have a majority of nonwhite nominees. For the record: 5:47 PM, Feb. 22, 2021An earlier version of this post omitted Preston Sturges and Joan Harrison from a list of screenwriters nominated for two Oscars in the same year. Any one of these outcomes w...

Borat 2 Will Be Sacha Baron Cohens Final Undercover Movie or TV Show Borat 2 Will Be Sacha Baron Cohens Final Undercover Movie or TV Show Sacha Baron Cohen declares he will no longer make movies playing undercover characters. Sacha Baron Cohen is a Hollywood actor unlike any other. While other performers work on movie sets with tightly controlled environments, Cohen made his name playing "undercover" characters like Ali G and Borat, to film himself taking part in real-world, frequently disturbi...

Making the Borat sequel was extremely stressful for producer due to the high levels of secrecy involved.