Without all of these events, this might be the purest award season, said Dave Karger, a veteran award expert and a personality on the cable network TCM. It also might be the strangest.
The lack of in-person gatherings already has had a surreal effect on the Globes. When the award show s winners (decided by the roughly 90 journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association) are announced Sunday, they will come from a list that includes such top nominees as the Kate Hudson drama
Music, a movie few pundits had even heard of before it was nominated. With muted campaigns, no industry events and very few seeing print trades, the usual consensus-building is gone, and voters are left to what they actually think, tweeted Matthew Belloni, the former editor of the Hollywood Reporter, after the Globes announcement. The Oscars might be equally shocking.
Chadwick Boseman makes Oscars history
If Boseman were to win the award, he would be only the third actor to win posthumously
The late
Chadwick Boseman has made Oscars history as the first African American to be posthumously nominated for an Academy Award.
Boseman was nominated for Best Actor for his portrayal of Levee Green in the 2020 film
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
August Wilson, debuted in December on Netflix and also starred
Viola Davis, who earned her fourth Oscar nomination for her portrayal of the title character, Ma Rainey.
Davis is now the most Oscar-nominated Black actress in history.
Hollywood public relations firms are organizing a mass action against the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, warning that if the group behind the Golden Globes does not diversify, their celebrity clients will be off-limits to the group.
Posted on Monday, March 15th, 2021 by /Film Staff
The day of the Academy Awards nominations is a day of celebration for Hollywood. It’s also a day of rage and annoyance, as entertainment writers remind themselves and others that “Oscar nominations don’t mean
that much.” And yet it’s also a day of surprise and joy, as those same entertainment writers remind themselves and others that “Oh yeah, occasionally the Oscar nominations really get it right!”
As is tradition around these parts, we’ve rounded up this year’s biggest Oscar surprises and snubs. Here are the nods that made us fist-pump with joy and the snubs that made us want to punch our walls.