Awards
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How One ‘Barbie’ Dance Song Turned Into a Giant Job for Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
TheWrap magazine: “Everything influenced everything else,” Mark Ronson says of the film’s mixture of songs, score and dance numbers
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How an Existential Crisis Led to Singaporean Oscar Entry ‘The Breaking Ice’
TheWrap magazine: “When you’re stuck, you look to find a new direction,” says director Anthony Chen of the movie that came out of his pandemic melancholia
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Sterling K. Brown Says ‘American Fiction’ Flexes How He’s ‘Much Sillier Than People Give Me Credit For’
TheWrap magazine: Brown, who won Emmys for “This Is Us” and “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” says “I guess I fool them into thinking that I am a serious actor
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‘Godland’ Director Says Keeping Production ‘Low-Key and Homemade’ Maintained a ‘Feeling of a Time and Place’
TheWrap magazine: Hlynur Pálmason’s Icelandic Oscar submission follows a priest’s journey through 1800s Iceland
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Jennifer Fox Will Produce Film Academy’s Governors Awards for the 5th Time
Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks, editor Carol Littleton and the Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter are this year’s honorees
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How Estonian Documentary ‘Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’ Helped a Broken Woman Heal
TheWrap magazine: “I could wash my shame off and accept my vulnerability, my imperfections,” says first-time director Anna Hints
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‘Barbie’ Dominates Critics Choice Award Nominations, Breaks Record With 18 Noms
Greta Gerwig’s comedy leads a field that also includes “Oppenheimer,” “Poor Things,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro” and “The Holdovers”
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How ‘Four Daughters’ Turned a Family’s Tragedy Into Therapy
TheWrap magazine: Kaouther Ben Hania explains how her genre-blending documentary about a Tunisian mother and her daughters helped them cope with trauma
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‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’ Wins Top Prize at IDA Documentary Awards
The International Documentary Association also crowned “The Mother of All Lies,” “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” and “Four Daughters” on Tuesday
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How Israeli Wedding Drama ‘Seven Blessings’ Worked in the ‘Real Essence’ of Its Stars, Writers | Video
TheWrap Screening Series: Actresses and cowriters Reymonde Amsallem and Eleanor Sela reflect with director Ayelet Menahemi on crafting their Oscar submission
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Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard’s Experience on ‘Memory’: No Trailer? No Makeup? No Problem
TheWrap magazine: Mexican director Michel Franco says he warns his actors before filming to make sure “they know how I work”
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’20 Days in Mariupol,’ ‘American Symphony,’ ‘Beyond Utopia’ Lead PGA Awards’ Documentary Nominations
“The Disappearance of Shere Hite,” “The Mother of All Lies,” “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood,” and “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)” round out the entries
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Willem Dafoe Is Adamant About His ‘Poor Things’ Character: Don’t Call Him a Mad Scientist!
TheWrap magazine: “Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!” Dafoe says. “That’s being lazy. That’s not what he is”
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‘Society of the Snow’ Director Explains How a Famous Survival Story Was Finally Depicted ‘Using Real Names’
TheWrap magazine: “We used all local actors with Uruguayan accents, which was so important to us and to the survivors,” says director J.A. Bayona
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‘The Delinquents’ Director Rodrigo Moreno Makes You Wonder if You’d Like to Rob a Bank
TheWrap magazine: Argentina’s Oscar submission interrogates the prison of a jail cell vs. an office cubicle
