Oscars
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How the Oscars Bungled This Year’s Show So Badly, and Where the Academy Goes From Here
The Academy’s foolish plan was based on one giant, flawed assumption: that there’s a sensitive way to create a second-class group of categories
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Domee Shi Explains Why Toilet Paper Rolls Were Important to Pixar’s Oscar-Nominated Short ‘Bao’
TheWrap Oscar Magazine: “There were some non-Asian animators asking why we had that there,” Shi says about the household item in her animated short
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‘Into the Spider-Verse’ Director Peter Ramsey: ‘Growing Up I Never Had a Superhero Like’ Miles Morales
TheWrap Oscar Magazine: “It’s been amazing seeing how kids have embraced Miles,” Ramsey says
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Caleb Deschanel Got an Oscar Nod for Shooting ‘Never Look Away’ Even Though He Can’t Speak German
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “If you don’t know the language, you pay more attention to the actors’ facial expressions, their eyes, their movements, the rhythm of their speech,” says the six-time nominee
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How ‘Black Panther’ Designers Hannah Beachler and Ruth E Carter Built Wakanda With ‘a Root in Africa and Functionality’
TheWrap Oscar Magazine: “It felt like the next phase in inclusiveness, having not just people of color in charge of departments but women of color,” Carter says
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Why ‘Roma’ Star Marina de Tavira Had to Forget Her Acting Training for Alonso Cuarón’s Drama
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “For a trained actor, it’s hard not to want to analyze the character’s journey,” says the Oscar-nominated actress of Cuarón’s no-script rules
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The Academy Stands Firm on Off-Air Oscars Plan – Here’s How It Will Work
Four awards will be handed out during commercial breaks instead of live
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The Scene at TheWrap’s Oscar Party Honoring Women and Inclusion (Photos)
Oscar-nominated guests from “BlacKkKlansman,” “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” and more enjoyed a night of cocktails and conversation
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How Double Oscar Nominee Sandy Powell Tackled Both ‘The Favourite’ and ‘Mary Poppins Returns’
TheWrap Oscar Magazine: “It’s nice to have the freedom of expression and let your imagination run wild,” costume designer says of being the most nominated living designer
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‘Cold War’ Director Pawel Pawlikowski Is a First-Time Nominee Who Already Has an Oscar at Home
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I hope it’s a good sign that the Academy, which the whole world is interested in, is becoming more interested in the whole world,” director says
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Oscar Nominees Celebrate Most Inclusive Year Yet at TheWrap-WanderLuxxe Party
Women and diverse nominees raised a glass to inclusion at West Hollywood bash
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How ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Composer Nicholas Britell Found the Sound of Love
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I’m actually trying to make pieces that maybe feel the way you think the characters are feeling,” says the Oscar-nominated composer
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‘Oscar Mania Is a Post-Harvey Weinstein Thing,’ First-Time Nominee Paul Schrader Says
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I remember I went to the Oscars for ‘Taxi Driver’ and … I got up and left in the middle,’” the “First Reformed” writer-director says
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The Key to Winning the Best Picture Oscar: Stitching Together a Compromise
TheWrap Oscar magazine: The preferential system is designed to find a consensus favorite in the Best Picture category, but is consensus even possible in this wild, ugly year?
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Spike Lee’s Stance on Diversity Is the Same Since #OscarsSoWhite: ‘It’s Always Going to Be Iffy’
TheWrap Oscar Magazine: “The real power is behind the camera, not in front of it,” “BlacKkKlansman” director says following his first-ever nomination for Best Director