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Minari Who Should Win? Its quite a feat to go from literal unknown to Oscar nominee, all while fending off Rudy Giulianis advances, but thats where we are with Bakalova. Holding your own alongside Sacha Baron Cohen is no mean feat, either. Who Will Win? However, all the momentum at this point favors Youn Yuh-jung, which is doubly hilarious considering how little the lifelong performer apparently cares. Who *Really* Wins? Not Glenn Close. Maybe next time dont hitch the wagon to a dude who su...

Multimedia Journalist With trademark cool, Bruce Dern gave the best summation of the Oscars experience when he received his second nod - 35 years on from his first - for Nebraska in 2014. Being nominated, Dern contended, was like being selected for an all-star team - it just meant people thought you could play. The 2020/21 all-star team played a blinder in helping us escape from the worst of years, however temporarily, and its fitting that so many of the films and performances celebrated the h...

Prediction: One year after Parasite’s historic victory, will the Academy have another uncommon spell of good taste? The stars appear to be aligning for Nomadland, which has won the top prize from the Hollywood Foreign Press, the British Academy, the Producers Guild, and the Directors Guild (the last three of which share lots of members with the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences). But don’t pop the bubbly for last year’s most critically acclaimed movie just yet. After all, 191...

This year the Oscars Awards ceremony promises to be one for the history books! Despite a mentally exhausting pandemic ridden year, the 93rd Academy Awards surprises us with of the most diverse years for nominations yet. Eight exceptional films stand out for the highly coveted Best Picture award this Sunday. While the Riz Ahmed, for his moving performance in Sound of Metal and one of the most acclaimed actresses of her generation, Frances McDormand, for her portrayal of one of the most ta...

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 ...

The Lucas Brothers wrote ‘Judas and the Black Messiah.’ The N.J. duo is just getting started. NJ.com 2 hrs ago Kenny and Keith Lucas thought they had a full education in Black history. When they were growing up in Newark, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were pillars of the school curriculum. “It never felt like Black history was a month while I was in Newark,” Kenny tells NJ Advance Media. “It felt like Black history was taught throughout the year.” Still, the...

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...

In this exclusive interview, the comedians examine racial justice both on and off screen Joshua Adams Apr 19, 2021 10:00AM ET Photo Credit: Loshak PR “Judas and the Black Messiah” follows the story of William “Bill” O’Neal, a petty criminal turned FBI informant who infiltrated the Black Panther Party in Chicago, led by Chairman Fred Hampton. Produced by Ryan Coogler, Shaka King, and Charles D. King, the film has garnered industry-wide praise and six Oscar nom...

British actor Daniel Kaluuya masterfully slips into the skin of Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah. Picture: Supplied Shaka King on his poignant capture of the betrayal of an activist in ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ “Judas and the Black Messiah” is without a doubt Shaka King’s magnum opus. Inspired by true-life events, the movie looks at the betrayal of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party. At 41, King, a former student of Spike Lee - he ...

BlogsCommunityMusicArtsScreenEat & DrinkLegals Oscars 2021: Picks and predictions after an ‘unprecedented’ year Our critics annual list of predictions for the nominees that will win the major categories, along with who deserves to win, at the Oscars on Sunday night Brad Keefe Its fitting after this past year that the Oscars aren’t going to be normal. This year’s awards take place Sunday, April 18, weeks after the normal late-February gala. The window for films to be eligible was exte...