Oscars
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Oscar Nomination Predictions: It’ll Be a Big Year for Barbenheimer and More
“Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Poor Things” should also rack up lots of noms
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How ‘They Shot the Piano Player’ Made the Journey From ‘Stupid Idea’ to Oscar Contender
TheWrap magazine: “This was very complicated — making it real in three languages, working with documentary material but keeping the strategies of fiction storytelling,” says director Fernando Trueba
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How ‘The Peasants’ Used 40,000 Oil Paintings to Make an Animated Movie
TheWrap magazine: “We are doing this because we want to push the boundaries of film,” says director Hugh Welchman
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Martin Scorsese on Why He Never Fit in Hollywood: ‘I Was Always an Outsider’
TheWrap magazine: “I wanted to belong, but I never belonged,” the “Killers of the Flower Moon” director says of the studio system
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One Big Thing Is Missing From Awards Season So Far: Voters Who Make Movies for a Living
“Oppenheimer,” “Poor Things” and “Past Lives” have been winning awards, but we have yet to hear much from industry voters
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Academy Promotes Teni Melidonian and MaryJane Partlow to Exec Oscar Roles
Melidonian will become chief Oscars officer while Partlow is instated as executive VP of awards production and special events
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How Honorary Oscar Winner Carol Littleton Fought to Make Film Editing More Diverse
TheWrap magazine: “I was not happy being sidelined because of nepotism and strict rules, and I was bound and determined it wasn’t going to happen to anybody else,” she says
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Only 265 of the 321 Oscar-Qualifying Films This Year Are Eligible for Best Picture
“Dumb Money,” “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” are among those not in the running for the top prize
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Why Wim Wenders Blurred the Lines Between Reality and Fiction in ‘Anselm’ and ‘Perfect Days’
TheWrap magazine: “I think the real is something very beautiful in fiction, and the fictional is very beautiful in the real,” the director says
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Emma Stone’s ‘Poor Things’ Journey: Why a Stripped-Down Approach Was Key to the Strangest Role She’s Played
TheWrap magazine: “She doesn’t shy away from any life experiences, whether it’s food, or politics, or philosophy, or sex, or dancing, or travel or science,” Stone says
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With ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Maestro’ and ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ This Is the Year of Female Editors
TheWrap magazine: It’d be only the third time in Oscar history for three female editing nominees
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‘The Taste of Things,’ ‘The Zone of Interest’ Make Heavily European Shortlist in Oscars International Category
Other films on the list include “The Teachers’ Lounge,” “Io Capitano,” “Society of the Snow” and “20 Days in Mariupol”
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How Many Votes Does It Take to Get an Oscar Nomination in 2024?
In 15 of the 23 categories, the magic number to land a nom is within two of last year’s number
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Oscars Gain More Than 200 Voters – but Actors Branch Keeps Shrinking
For the third year in a row, the Academy’s biggest branch drops in size
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Meet the Teenage Actors Who Make Italian Oscar Entry ‘Io Capitano’ So Powerful
TheWrap magazine: “It was a big pleasure and pride to represent what immigrants go through,” says Moustapha Fall, who joins Seydou Sarr in Matteo Garrone’s brutal drama
