Oscars
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‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Leads Pre-Oscar Guild Awards – but ‘Soul’ Dominates
“The Trial of the Chicago 7” does best among Best Picture nominees, but Pixar’s latest animated hit sweeps the table at the guilds and professional organizations
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Oscars Producers Hint at How Masks and Satellite Hookups Will Make a Different Kind of Awards Show
“We want to see something that does feel like a potential future,” Steven Soderbergh says Saturday
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Oscars: Andra Day, Maria Bakalova and More at TheWrap’s Virtual Nominees Luncheon (Exclusive Photos)
Since the official gathering got canceled, we asked the nominees to send selfies having a meal or raising a glass.
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Emerald Fennell on Being Part Of an Oscar’s First: ‘It Just Takes a While To Turn Around a Big Ship’
TheWrap awards magazine: Fennell is nominated for Best Director along with “Nomadland’s” Chloé Zhao, the first time two women are competing in the same year
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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
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‘Collective’ Director Explains Why Romanian Officials ‘Were Not Happy’ About Oscar Attention
TheWrap awards magazine: Alexander Nanau discusses his searing film about a nightclub fire, nominated for both Best Documentary and Best International Feature Film
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5 Oscar Burning Questions With Voting Underway, Including That Crazy Best Actress Race
And can anything stop the Best Picture momentum for “Nomadland”?
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‘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
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‘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
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How ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’ Mixed the Art World and a Refugee Crisis
TheWrap magazine: “I wanted to see this luxurious world through his gaze,” director Kaouther Ben Hania says of the desperate refugee who becomes a contemporary-art commodity
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Maria Bakalova on Why That Rudy Giuliani Scene Still Makes Her Nervous
TheWrap awards magazine: “He called the police and we were running away from the police, and we left the state, and the next day we even left the country,” the Bulgarian actress says
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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
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8 Times Oscar Got It Wrong – From ‘Crash’ to Kevin Costner (Photos)
Some examples, from the major Academy Awards categories, of the voters backing the wrong horse
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How the Largely Improvised ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Landed an Oscar Screenplay Nomination
TheWrap awards magazine: “We were able to take beats we already wanted to get in the movie and shape them to what the world had become,” director Jason Woliner says
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Diane Warren on Which of Her 12 Oscar-Nominated Songs She Absolutely Thought Would Win
TheWrap awards magazine: The prolific songwriter, who has yet to win, also revealed whom she was “happy to lose to”
