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Photo: The Oscars Here we go again. Just days after the most recent controversy by the Academy and 91st Oscars producers Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss, last year’s acting winners – Sam Rockwell, Frances McDormand (both of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Allison Janney (I, Tonya) and Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) will be back to present after all. Reps for …

Coming off his first Academy Award nomination for film editing (BlacKkKlansman), Barry Alexander Brown will next direct his first feature film Son of the South, with principal photography in Montgomery, Alabama beginning this March. Brown also wrote the screenplay. Spike Lee executive produces the film with Brown, his longtime editor. Their last collaboration, BlacKkKlansman, recently garnered six Academy Award nominations including Best …

The 90th Oscars, hosted by Jimmy Kimmell In the face of dwindling ratings and a huge yearly cost to put on the Academy Awards, New ABC president Karey Burke doubled down at the 2019 TCA (with statements that range from historically inaccurate to patently untrue) on yesterday’s demand at the Oscars luncheon by producers Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss that …

Avengers: Infinity War and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse were the big winners at last night’s 17th Visual Effects Society (VES) awards, each winning four trophies. Avengers took the top award, Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature. The event was hosted by Patton Oswalt, his eighth go round. That win puts Avengers in clear frontrunner status for the Visual Effects …

Madonna (photo via Twitter @James_Moore10) The 30th GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Association Against Defamation) Awards will honor music legend and LGBTQ+ ally Madonna with the Advocate for Change Award for her continued advancement of accelerating acceptance towards the LGBTQ+ community through her music and personal endeavors. “Madonna always has and always will be the LGBTQ community’s greatest ally and it …

NNewly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York’s 14th district) in Knock Down The House by Rachel Lears (Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Rachel Lears) All 121 Features Screened Eligible for Award The Sundance Institute today announced Knock Down the House as the winner of the Festival Favorite Award, selected by audience votes from the 121 features screened at the 2019 …

Green Book (Universal)Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight) The 18th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards were handed out last night and nomination leader Green Book came out on top as the Best Picture/Movie for Grownups. Viggo Mortensen also won Best Actor for his role in the film. Can You Ever Forgive Me? was also a double winner: Best Supporting …

First 2019 Oscar presenters announced: Awkwafina, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Tina Fey, Whoopi Goldberg, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lopez, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Amandla Stenberg, Charlize Theron, Tessa Thompson, Constance Wu Awkwafina, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Tina Fey, Whoopi Goldberg, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lopez, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Amandla Stenberg, Charlize Theron, Tessa Thompson, Constance Wu                Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic to PerformDuring the “In …

Lucrecia Martel’s Zama Better than a bandit’s ears. Zama, the brilliant satire of Spanish colonialism, captured four top prizes at this year’s ICS Awards, taking home best picture, best director for Argentinian maestro Lucrecia Martel, non-English language film, and lead actor for Daniel Giménez Cacho as the clueless corregidor. Formed in 2003, the International Cinephile Society is an online group made …

The Favourite won the Production Design for a Feature Film – Period. Four of the last 7 Oscar winners have first won this category first (Hugo, The Great Gatsby, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water). Black Panther’s Hannah Bleacher won for Fantasy Film and Nelson Coates took home the Contemporary win for Crazy Rich Asians. The Favourite and …