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3 Reasons Why ‘Parasite’ Really Could Win Best Picture – And 1 Reason Why It Can’t
After winning the SAG ensemble award and the ACE Eddie Award, can Bong Joon Ho’s black comedy become the first non-English film to take home the top Oscar?
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How the 5 Oscar Front-Runners Can Win
Several films have separated themselves from the pack, but each faces a different path to victory
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Oscars 2020: Fewer Movies (and Nonwhite Actors) Get More Nominations, and That’s No Joke
Even as the Academy tries hard to create a more diverse body of voters, awards season itself automatically and perhaps unfairly narrows the field of movies that are seen as contenders
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Why the Oscars Could Be Walking Into a Diversity Minefield This Season
Golden Globes voters took heat for snubbing female directors, and SAG did the bare minimum for diversity
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10 Lessons Ahead of Monday’s Oscar Nominations, From the Emerging Top 5 to a ‘1917’ Achilles Heel
After a dizzying week of awards, parties and nominations, who has the upper hand and who needs a little help?
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Oscar Nomination Predictions 2020: Look for ‘Once Upon a Time,’ ‘1917,’ ‘The Irishman’ and White Men to Dominate
By our reckoning, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” “The Irishman,” “1917” and “Joker” will have the most nominations
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Oscars 2020: We Predict the Nominations in All 24 Categories (Photos)
TheWrap awards editor Steve Pond picks all of this year’s nominees
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How ‘1917’ Composer Thomas Newman Avoided Adding ‘Gloom on Gloom’ to WWI Film Score
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “Any time I tried to write music that commented on what was happening, it didn’t make the movie as exciting,” the 14-time Oscar-nominated composer says
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How ‘1917’ Editor Lee Smith Cut a ‘One-Shot’ Feature Film
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I kept thinking to myself, ‘I have no idea how this is going to work,’” Smith says
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Go Into the Trenches With ‘1917’ Production Designer Dennis Gassner
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “The studio said, ‘Impossible — how are you going to do this?’” Gassner said of the enormously complicated design and shoot
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How ‘1917’ Cinematographer Roger Deakins Pulled Off Sam Mendes’ One-Shot WWI Film
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s a single shot, but does that force us to just follow them down a trench all the time?” Deakins says
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Golden Globes Have a Prime Position on the Awards Calendar, but Do They Matter?
The Academy’s shortened season has helped, not hurt, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual bash — but there’s a difference between perception and reality
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How Oscar Voting Really Works: Critics’ Top 10 Lists Would Produce These 7 Best Picture Nominees
We tabulated more than 200 Top 10 lists as if they were Oscar ballots, and came up with a smaller-than-usual slate of nominees
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How Many Votes Does It Take to Get an Oscar Nomination in 2020?
We have the category-by-category breakdown, ranging from a high of 424 to a low of 26
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5 Awards Shows on One Night! Inside the Most Crammed Awards Season Ever
It’s gonna rain awards stuff for the next 40 days and 40 nights
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