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Weve Got Hollywood Covered ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Composer Calls Scoring War Movies a ‘Sonic Battle’ Between Guns and Music TheWrap awards magazine: Terence Blanchard breaks down the crucial scene between Chadwick Boseman and Delroy Lindo By Steve Pond | April 16, 2021 @ 10:41 AM A version of this story about Terence Blanchard and “Da 5 Bloods” first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. Quincy Jones may be the Black composer with the most Oscar mu...

Weve Got Hollywood Covered ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Director on Why Art Is Necessary to Confront Tragedy TheWrap awards magazine: “Without art and culture, our lives wouldn’t make any sense,” says director Jasmila Žbanić, whose film chronicles the 1995 Srebrenica massacre By Steve Pond | April 15, 2021 @ 5:00 PM This story about “Quo Vadis, Aida?” was drawn from an interview conducted for the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. Director Jasmila Žbanić s...

Collective Director Explains Why Romanian Officials Were Not Happy About Oscar Attention TheWrap 3 hrs ago © TheWrap Collective A version of this story about "Collective" first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWraps awards magazine. , there have been at least one, and often two, non-English-language titles among the nominees. Films like Italys "Fire at Sea," Frances "Faces Places," and Brazils "The Edge of Democracy" have told stories not with an outsiders eye, but from within ...

Weve Got Hollywood Covered Netflix’s Scott Stuber on Streamer’s Huge Haul of Oscar Nominations in a Very Strange Year TheWrap awards magazine: “I think people are recognizing that we’re here and we’re going to be part of this conversation about the best of the year,” says the company’s head of original films By Steve Pond | April 16, 2021 @ 1:39 PM A version of this story about Netflix first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. The stre...

Weve Got Hollywood Covered Will Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘Another Round’ Be Latest Foreign-Language Film to Win Best Director Oscar? TheWrap awards magazine: The first Danish filmmaker ever nominated in the category talks about the “hubbub” he’s caused in “the humble kingdom of Denmark” By Joe McGovern | April 15, 2021 @ 12:10 PM A version of this story about “Another Round” first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. When the Oscar no...

Weve Got Hollywood Covered How the ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Team Got Hollywood to Make a Movie About Black Socialism TheWrap awards magazine: “There was…apprehension in some pitch meetings about making a movie about an organization perceived as violent and militaristic,” writer Keith Lucas said By Jeremy Fuster | April 15, 2021 @ 11:08 AM This story about “Judas and the Black Messiah” first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. When...

Weve Got Hollywood Covered A Journal of the Weirdest Awards Season Ever, From Streams to Vaccines and Everything in Between TheWrap magazine: The COVID-19 pandemic and the recognition of systemic racism transformed this awards season into a marathon like no other By Steve Pond | April 14, 2021 @ 10:32 AM Last Updated: April 14, 2021 @ 12:54 PM Illustrated by Chris Morris A version of this story first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. T...