What Really Happened to That Oscar Statue That Marlon Brando Refused?
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Former Academy executive director Bruce Davis tells the strange and tangled saga of Brando’s “Godfather” Oscar
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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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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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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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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
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Bradley Cooper, Regina King and More Portraits From Palm Springs Film Festival (Exclusive Photos)
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Glenn Close, Rami Malek, Melissa McCarthy and more also posed for TheWrap at the desert festival
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Oscar-Nominated Documentary Directors on the Importance of Truth in ‘Broken’ Times
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “We consider ourselves journalists as well as filmmakers — and right now, journalism in America is in a perilous situation,” “RBG” director Julie Cohen says
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Penélope Cruz Says She Spent Months in ‘Terrifying Pain’ for ‘Everybody Knows’
TheWrap Cannes magazine: “It was the most difficult character I’ve ever had to play,” says the actress of her role as a desperate mother in Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish-language drama
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‘Ruben Brandt, Collector’ Director Talks About All the High Art Shout-Outs He Crammed In
Oscar Wrap magazine: Animated film is loaded with references to Velazquez, Botticelli, Warhol, and…Tarantino?
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Why Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’ Shoot Required a Lot of Trips to the ‘Puppet Hospital’
Oscar Wrap magazine: Filmmaker’s animation partners discuss making and toying with the 1,105 puppets used in “Isle of Dogs”
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How ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Gave the Classic Disney Princesses a Makeover
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “Every single one of them is a little weird,” co-director Rich Moore says
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How Brad Bird Overcame Superhero Fatigue to Make ‘The Incredibles 2’
Oscar Wrap magazine: “I thought, ‘There’s already too many superhero films — is the public going to be sick of them by the time this comes out?'” says Bird
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‘Black Panther’ Stars Chadwick Boseman and Michael B Jordan on ‘Broadening People’s Bandwidth’
Oscar Wrap magazine: “Over the years Hollywood has not put its resources behind movies like this,” Boseman says
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‘The Rider': Chloé Zhao Explains How Brady Jandreau Shaped Her Quiet Masterpiece
Oscar Wrap magazine: At every stage of filming, Zhao’s tale of a rodeo cowboy forced into early retirement was shaped by its lead actor
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Regina Hall Explains Why ‘Support the Girls’ Isn’t Your Typical #MeToo Movie
Oscar Wrap magazine: “I kept waiting for this studio-engine plot to reveal, and it didn’t,” actress says of Andrew Bujalski’s film
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‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Team on the High Tech Needed for the Hit Film’s Lo-Fi Look
Oscar Wrap magazine: “Every single day, we had a roadblock in our way,” co-director Bob Persichetti says
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Anime Master Mamoru Hosoda on Why ‘Mirai’ Could Be the Last of Its Kind
Oscar Wrap magazine: “I have been creating animation films using paper and pencil, paper and paint,” Hosoda says as the anime landscape continues to shift
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Ethan Hawke on Paul Schrader’s ‘Life or Death’ Approach to ‘First Reformed’
Oscar Wrap magazine: “He was trembling the way a young artist trembles with anticipation, anxiety, fear, electrical current,” the star says of the veteran writer-director
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‘First Reformed’ Star Ethan Hawke Portraits (Exclusive Photos)
The actor stops by StudioWrap for an interview and photo session
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‘The Favourite’ Director on Finding ‘Synchronicity’ in a Period Drama About a Mad Ruler
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s always going to be present wherever there are people with power that have gone crazy,” Yorgos Lanthimos says of the film’s relevance in the Trump era
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Emily Blunt on How Mary Poppins’ Adventures Are ‘Like Heroin to Her’
Oscar Wrap magazine: “She’s like an adrenaline junkie,” the actress says of her character in “Mary Poppins Returns”
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‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Stars and Director Portraits, From Emily Blunt to Lin-Manuel Miranda (Exclusive Photos)
Emily Mortimer, Ben Whishaw and Rob Marshall join Blunt and Miranda at StudioWrap for an interview and photo session
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Lin-Manuel Miranda on Why a ‘Puerto Rican Dude’ in ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Is Such a Breakthrough
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “We’re not only playing the ‘Latino’ roles, but also playing great roles where race is just a part of it — it’s a step forward for representation,” the actor says
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‘Black Panther’ Stars Chadwick Boseman and Michael B Jordan Recall Playing the Same Role on ‘All My Children’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “They said, ‘You are too much trouble,'” Boseman says the soap told him when he was fired for voicing objections to the part — that Jordan then took over
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‘The Death of Stalin': Armando Iannucci Explores the Nature of Power Through Black Comedy
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “Veep” creator tells TheWrap about the improvisational nature of the film’s kangaroo court climax
