Critics Groups Split Between 11 Different Films as 2017’s Best
But “Get Out” leads the pack, with seven film of the year recognitions and 15 best screenplay nods
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Why Oscars Could Produce Only 7 Best Picture Nominees This Year
TheWrap’s analysis of Critics’ Choice Award ballots according to Academy rules shows wide but shallow support for this year’s contenders
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Academy Adds 571 New Oscars Voters, Tops the 7,000 Mark
Every one of the Academy’s 17 branches grew in size, but the huge Actors Branch didn’t have the biggest increase
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15 Most-Watched TV Specials of 2017: From Oscars to AMAs (Photos)
Sorry, “A Christmas Story Live!” — you weren’t even close
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Oscars Original Score Category Gives John Williams a Shot at 51st Nomination
Other past winners in the mix include composers Alexandre Desplat, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, Mychael Danna and Dario Marianelli
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Taylor Swift, Elvis Costello and Mary J Blige to Compete in Oscars Song Race
List of 70 eligible songs also includes new work from Diane Warren and Common, Ryan Tedder and T Bone Burnett, Alan Menken and Pasek and Paul
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‘Star Wars,’ ‘Blade Runner,’ ‘Shape of Water’ Advance in Oscars VFX Race
“Dunkirk” and “War for the Planet of the Apes” also make the list, but “Beauty and the Beast” and “Thor: Ragnarok” are eliminated
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Oscars Foreign Language Shortlist Includes ‘The Square,’ ‘A Fantastic Woman’
Angelia Jolie’s “First They Killed My Father” does not make the list of semi-finalists, which were chosen from a record-breaking 92 eligible films
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Netflix Aims to Go Back-to-Back as ‘Heroin(e)’ Makes Oscars Short-Doc Shortlist
The streaming service is in the running again this year, after the documentary short “The White Helmets” gave it its first Oscar earlier this year
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‘Star Wars,’ ‘Thor,’ ‘Planet of the Apes’ Advance in Oscar Visual Effects Race
The 20 films will be cut to 10, and then narrowed down to five nominees
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‘Dear Basketball’ Makes the Shortlist — Will Kobe Bryant Get to the Oscars?
The short film from Bryant and animator Glen Keane is one of the 10 semifinalists in the Oscars’ Best Animated Short category
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Oscars to Start Half Hour Earlier, May Finally End Before Dawn (Video)
Jimmy Kimmel will master 2018 ceremonies beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT
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Oscars 2018 Party Report: Contenders From Emma Stone to Jake Gyllenhaal Hit the Scene (Photos)
Go inside and backstage early-season awards bashes with The Party Report’s Mikey Glazer
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Angelina Jolie Decries Hate Speech and the ‘Failure of Democracy': ‘We Have to Pay Attention’
Star says she wanted to make her Oscar-contending film “First They Killed My Father” not about Cambodia, but with Cambodia
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Oscars’ Governors Awards Party in the Shadow of Hollywood’s Dark Times
Agnes Varda, Donald Sutherland and Alejandro G. Inarritu are among the honorees on a night that was a moment of truth in an odd awards season
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Pixar’s ‘Coco,’ 2 Lego Movies Top List of 26 Oscars Animation Contenders
The number of submitted films is large enough to trigger a full slate of five nominees in the category
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170 Films Enter Oscars Documentary Category, Setting New Record
The previous high was 151 eligible films in 2013
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Oscars to Invite More Voters for Foreign Language Nominees, Allow International Streaming (Exclusive)
Second phase of voting will now be open to hundreds more members, with international members getting a special break
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Motion Picture Academy Expels Harvey Weinstein
AMPAS Board of Governors sets new precedent by kicking out Weinstein for actions not related to his Academy membership
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What Will It Take for the Academy to Expel Harvey Weinstein?
Here’s the procedure the Academy’s Board of Governors will have to use when they meet on Saturday to consider Weinstein’s fate
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NYU, Berkeley, Ringling College Win Top Student Academy Awards
Two schools from Germany and one from China take the gold medals in the international categories
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Seth MacFarlane Says His Harvey Weinstein Oscars Jab Came From ‘a Place of Loathing and Anger’
“Family Guy” boss says he made the joke after learning that Harvey Weinstein made “attempted advances” on his friend
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Motion Picture Academy to Discuss Harvey Weinstein’s ‘Repugnant’ Actions at Special Meeting
AMPAS says its board will consider action against Weinstein, whose actions it also calls “abhorrent and antithetical to the high standards of the Academy”
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Harvey Weinstein and the Oscar Race: He’s Gone But Not Forgotten
The ousted Weinstein Company chief revolutionized Oscar campaigning, and his influence will outlast him
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Oscars Foreign Language Chief Hints at ‘Dramatic Changes’ in the Works
Mark Johnson says that changes “in the very near future” could affect the rule that requires voters to see the contending films in a theater
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Oscars Break Another Record With 92 Foreign Language Contenders
The biggest field ever will include Ruben Ostlund’s “The Square” and Angelina Jolie’s Cambodian-language film “First They Killed My Father”
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Could Trump’s New Travel Ban Affect the Oscar Race Again?
Two countries on the banned list, Iran and Venezuela, have already submitted entries in this year’s Oscar foreign-language race
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Oscars Overhaul and Open Up Foreign Language Voting Process
AMPAS eliminates the color-coded voting groups from past years, and drops its longstanding conflict-of-interest rules in the category
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The Oscars Race After the Festivals: Are We Still Just Waiting for Spielberg?
“The Shape of Water,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and “mother!” were among the contenders that screened in Venice, Telluride and Toronto — but who’s on top?
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Angelina Jolie Joins Oscar Foreign-Language Race as Entries Near 50
If Jolie’s “First They Killed My Father” qualifies under Academy rules, it will join films by Michael Haneke, Ruben Ostlund, Joachim Trier and more
