Oscars April News Today

The Plugged In Show, Episode 75: A Journey into ‘Nomadland’ Paul Asay seeing movies. It’s being able to talk about them. Take the film Nomadland, which just cleaned up at the Oscars April 25. It took home three of the evening’s biggest awards: Best Actress (Francis McDormand), Best Director (Chloe Zhao) and Best Picture. And in some respects, it looks just like the sort of movie that gets Oscars: artsy, pensive, some might even say a little slow. And yet dig a little de...

Halifax’s Ben Proudfoot’s documentary short gets Oscar nom. It’s a good week to be Ben Proudfoot: The Halifax-raised filmmaker co-directed the 2021 documentary short A Concerto is a Conversation, which is now up for an Oscar, as announced Monday by The Academy. (Arguably, though, Proudfoot has already won the ultimate prize by working alongside the Oscar-winning filmmaker Ava Duvernay, the genius behind 13th, When They See Us, as Duvernay has an executive producer credit on the...

EGOTs are nice. But when the 2021 Oscar nominations were unveiled Monday morning, screen veteran Glenn Close achieved a rare feat of her own. For the eighth time in her illustrious career, the actress picked up an Oscar nomination for her latest star turn. But get this — she also landed a Razzie nomination for the same role. At both the Academy Awards, which honor the best in filmmaking, and the Golden Raspberry Awards, which honor the worst in filmmaking, Close has been recognized for her...