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Mary Zophres, costume designer of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (right) Costume designer Mary Zophres had created some of the most iconic looks in modern movie history. From The Dude’s robe and sweater in The Big Lebowski to the simple but strikingly effective dresses in La La Land (for which she won a Costume Designers Guild award earned one of …

Roma (Netflix)The Favourite (Fox Searchlight) Alfonso Cuarón intimate epic Roma, which he directed, wrote, edited and shot, has won the 2019 BAFTA for Best Film. It also picked up wins for Director, Cinematography and Film Not in the English Language. Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite was the big winner of the evening though, taking seven wins of its field-best 12 nominations …

Not long after it was leaked (intentionally?) that only two Original Songs would be performed at this year’s Oscars and encountered tons of backlash, the Academy did an about face and now Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) will be performing the song “I’ll Fight” from the Oscar-nominated documentary feature of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, RBG, and written by 10-time …

Our weekly Foreign Language Oscar race analysis pieces continue after a short hiatus. This week, we take a look at a region that rarely gets represented in the FLF race: the Middle East and Africa. Even though this region is usually a no-show in this category, things have been slightly improving in the past few years. Just last year we …

Kevin Hart has stepped down as the host of the 91st Academy Awards, a job he held for two days.  When The Academy pressed the comedian to apologize to the LGBTQ community for his past comments or step down, the actor/comedian refused. When Hart announced in an Instagram post that he was going to host the Oscars, I took Twitter to …

With over 150 films to his name, Hans Zimmer is one of the most prolific and most recognizable name in film composing. From his Oscar and Grammy-winning score for The Lion King to the often used pieces from The Thin Red Line and of course, the ‘BRAAMM’ from Inception, Zimmer’s scores are a cultural touchstone, a zeitgeist that reaches beyond …

Netflix, which broke through the Oscars last season with above-the-line Academy Award nominations for Mudbound (and also establishing two pieces of Oscar history in the process) and a win in Documentary Feature with Icarus, is aiming much higher this year and it’s got the films to do it. From major Best Picture contenders to Foreign Language Film to Documentary, the …

Scripts to be performed at live read in November Three individuals and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2018 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.  The fellows will each receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read on Thursday, November 8, …

The Peter Farrelly race relations road comedy Green Book, starring Academy Award winner Mashershala Ali (Moonlight) and Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises, Captain Fantastic) has won the top prize at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, the Grolsch People’s Choice Award. The win gives the film a massive boost in the Oscar race, where for many people it …

All Winning Films Now Eligible for Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film or Documentary Short Subject Oscars  The Academy has voted 19 students as winners of the Student Academy Awards®45th competition.  This year, the Student Academy Awards competition received a total of 1,582 entries from 278 domestic and 122 international colleges and universities, which were voted upon by a record …