Oscars’ Best Picture Category Needs Fixing – Here’s an Easy Way to Do It
OscarWrap magazine: At a time when the Academy wants to embrace inclusion and diversity, it’s sticking to a system that narrows voters’ focus
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Spike Lee on the New Wave of Hit-Making Black Filmmakers: ‘I Hope This Is Not a Trend’
OscarWrap magazine: “I hope this is steady, that it’s not just like a blip,” the “BlackKklansman” director says
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Inside ‘Green Book': Read Tony Lip’s Real Letters From the Road Tour With Donald Shirley
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Nick Vallelonga, son of the man played by Viggo Mortensen, says his father’s reaction to the movie would be, “Why the hell weren’t you making movies about me a long time ago?”
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‘Ben Is Back’ Writer-Director Peter Hedges on Why the Drug Addiction Drama Hits Close to Home
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I started exploring why heroin and opioids were impacting so many many people I love,” Hedges says
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Why ‘Vice’ Director Adam McKay Doesn’t Think Dick Cheney Shouldn’t Be Compared to Donald Trump
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “Dick Cheney really understands the system, and I get the feeling that the people in the White House now aren’t interested in government,” the writer-director says
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Yes, ‘On the Basis of Sex’ Screenwriter Wrote Those Love Scenes About His Aunt Ruth Bader Ginsburg
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I was not on the set that day, which was not an accident,” Daniel Stiepleman says
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Zoe Kazan on Her Wildly Productive 2018: 2 Movies and a Baby
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Zoe Kazan wrote and produced “Wildlife” and starred in “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” — but that was just the start of her eventful 2018
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How Paul Greengrass’ ’22 July’ Shows the ‘Right-Wing, Populist Typhoon Blowing Through the West’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: The British director’s film is set in 2011, but he says, “It’s the story of where we are today — how do we fight for our democracy at a time when it’s under profound challenge”
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‘Private Life’ Star Kathryn Hahn on Her Onscreen Chemistry With Paul Giamatti: ‘A Soupy Mystery’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s hard to even talk about our process, but I didn’t have to look anywhere but into his eyeballs,” actress says of her work with her co-star
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Why ‘Leave No Trace’ Breakout Star Thomasin McKenzie Isn’t Gunning for a Marvel Movie Anytime Soon
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I was really attracted to the fact that there weren’t any villains or antagonists or bad guys,” the 18-year old New Zealand-born actress says
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‘Buster Scruggs’ Star Tim Blake Nelson on How James Franco Taught Him the Secret to Acting
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “There was a coherence and a solidarity in the filmmaking that jarred me out of my complacency,” Nelson says of his work on a Franco-directed film
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How Natalie Portman’s Toxic Diva in ‘Vox Lux’ Hit Home
OscarWrap magazine: “It’s something I’ve been very interested in because of my personal experience of the separation between the public and the private,” Portman says of the film’s theme
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‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Director Barry Jenkins on Why Showing Vulnerability Is ‘a Sign of Strength’
OscarWrap magazine: “I had to get past some of my own hang-ups about what it means to be vulnerable,” star KiKi Layne says
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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Fact Checks: How Much Is Real Life? How Much Is Fantasy?
TheWrap Oscar magazine: We speak to screenwriter Anthony McCarten about where the filmmakers took creative liberty — and why
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Fake Teeth, Crash Diets and High Notes: How Rami Malek Nailed Freddie Mercury in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
OscarWrap magazine: Rami Malek was surprised to be asked to play Freddie Mercury, but it turns out that the guy from “Mr. Robot” makes a pretty convincing rock ‘n’ roll icon
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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Star Rami Malek Portraits (Exclusive Photos)
The actor stops by StudioWrap for an interview and photo session
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Will ‘The Walking Dead’ Alum Steven Yeun Help Land South Korea’s First Oscar Nod for ‘Burning’?
OscarWrap Magazine: Lee Chang-dong’s quietly menacing drama about rage may snap the Asian nation’s cold snap with the Academy
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Diane Warren Explains Her Trilogy of Inspirational Movie Songs, From ‘The Hunting Ground’ to ‘RBG’
OscarWrap Songs Special: “I still have my fun songs — but when I can do songs that can have power and motivate someone, I want to do it,” says the nine-time Oscar nominee
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How ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Got Alan Menken to Write the Ultimate Alan Menken Parody
OscarWrap Songs Special: “It’s flattering when they say, ‘Give us something that’s like that thing you did before,'” says the eight-time Oscar winner
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Why Songwriter Keegan DeWitt Couldn’t Write Songs for Nick Offerman in ‘Hearts Beat Loud’
OscarWrap Songs Special: “I lost a whole week before I called the director and said, ‘I don’t know how to do that,'” Keegan DeWitt says of tailoring his music to the comic actor
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‘Roma’ Star Yalitza Aparicio Portraits (Exclusive Photos)
The actress stops by StudioWrap for an interview and photo session
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‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Songwriters on Facing the Pressure of Following a Classic
Oscar songs special: “How could we possibly be as brave or audacious or naïve as we needed to be to take on such a project?” says songwriter Marc Shaiman of his and Scott Wittman’s job on the Rob Marshall film
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How Alfonso Cuarón Brought His Memories to Life in ‘Roma’
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “You don’t choose projects, they choose you — it becomes a need, and you go for it,” the director says
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The Key to Israeli Oscar Entry ‘The Cakemaker': Making Someone Else’s Story Personal
TheWrap foreign magazine: “I took my friend’s story and the story of his widow, and I put my own life into it,” says director Ofir Raul Graizer
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How the Film School Director of ‘Yomeddine’ Turned 2 Illiterate Amateurs Into Actors
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I workshopped them a lot, preparing them about what it’s like to act and to stand in front of the camera,” says first-time director A.B. Shawky
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‘Donbass’ Director: My Film’s Grotesque Corruption Isn’t Just in Ukraine, It Reaches Around the World
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “In America, in Brazil, they elected a man because he was giving a performance and saying the kind of things you could never before say in a civilized society,” says Sergei Loznitsa
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How ‘Crystal Swan’ Told an Edgy Story in a Repressive Country
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “My creative friends in [Belarus] were like, ‘Wow, I’m really amazed that they let you show the film,'” says director Darya Zhuk
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How Palme d’Or Winner ‘Shoplifters’ Made ‘The Invisible People’ Visible
TheWrap foreign magazine: “I think there are many segments of every society that prefer that they remain invisible,” director Hirokazu Kore-eda tells TheWrap
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‘The Guilty’ Offers a Recipe for an Unconventional Thriller: One Location and Lots of Imagination
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “It’s always hard to make suspense work,” says director Gustav Möller of his film that rachets up the tension while never stepping outside a single room
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‘Village Rockstars’ Director Says Her Acting Struggles Helped Her Oscar Contending Film
TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I didn’t want them to feel what I was feeling when I was looking for jobs in Bollywood,” says director Rima Das of the young stars of her film
