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Print Earning an Academy Award nomination is always a big deal. Yet on the morning they were announced in March this year, Amanda Seyfried — who earned her first ever nod for “Mank” — was far from glued to the TV set. “I was absolutely sleeping,” says Seyfried, who adds that she’d agreed to let her mom wake her with any good news when this year’s nominations were announced. And she’s not alone — first-timer Andra Day (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday”) was also zonked out when the nominations were read. Meanwhile, fellow first-timers Vanessa Kirby (“Pieces of a...

Print It takes a fully embodied performance to earn an Academy Award nomination. But deep inside those heightened performances lies one critical moment that stays with viewers and voters alike — and elevates the actor into being worthy of the industry’s greatest honor: The Oscar. We pinned down the producers and directors from the films that gave us this year’s lead actor and actress nominees to ask them: What was the most key moment for you? Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Key scene: Ma Rainey (Davis) goes through a rainbow of emotions while declaring that the white peop...

I Care A Lot This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Marla Grayson is a bad person. Her nine-to-five consists of convincing the legal system to grant her guardianship over well-off, healthy senior citizens and then depositing them into care homes where they are administered unnecessary, dissociative medication and separated from society. Then she sells off their homes and assets. The craziest part? The whole scam is (mostly) conducted within the letter of the law. It’...

*** Every time I mention my wife and I have had five homebirths, I get the strangest silence. It takes the opposing human brain a few seconds to hear, catalogue, and respond with: “Oh…that’s cool.” Now, the modern brain only has so many “boxes.” When the word “homebirth” is uttered, it is hesitantly put in the box with “horse-drawn carriages,” “bonnets,” and “fetch me some water from the well, Amos, and boil it. I’m fixin’ to take me a warsh.” Believe me, that box is a scary place to find yourself. I am then usually met with questions like: “Are you Amish?”...

This awards season is shaping up as a veritable “Year of the Woman.” But amid the beautiful bounty of films boasting women front-row center — on either side of the camera — could a few similarly titled movies be causing confusion for both viewers and awards voters? Sure, with almost 80 years of branding behind its beloved titular character, “Wonder Woman 1984” — brought to us by writer-director-producer Patty Jenkins and producer-star Gal Gadot — is probably not being confused with other, smaller releases. But consider the confusion that “I’m Your Woman,” “Pieces of a ...