Meryl Streep was six months pregnant when she struggled to fit into her seat at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the 55th Academy Awards in 1983. Her dress, which she bought off the rack in the basement of Saks, was ill-fitting. It was too short in the front to hide her protruding belly, so she … Read more
You can’t forgive the Academy for passing up “Brokeback Mountain” or omitting Amy Adams in “Arrival,” among other oversights that still sting. Source link #Oscar #Snubs #Rile #Readers
Christopher Nolan’s prestige epic that remarkably grossed nearly $1 billion will be the big winner. But the award show will have its share of hot races, too. Here, Post critic Johnny Oleksinski picks who will win and who should win at the 2024 Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday, March 10 at 7:00 p.m. … Read more
Snubbed! Every year since the Academy Awards were invented, somebody has been overlooked, ignored, passed over, disregarded or brushed off. You know what they say about beauty and beholders. But perceived Oscar omissions — snubs, as we have come to call them — have grown into a frenzied annual conversation, with people left off the … Read more
It’s that time of the year when red carpets unfurl, cleavage heaves and the academy recognizes and gilds the cinematic achievements of the year past. The list of nominees in the Best Picture category is ten deep in 2024, including such sunny subject matter as the holocaust, the atomic bomb, domestic violence, patriarchal oppression, systematic … Read more
The term, borrowed from gaming culture, means trying too hard, to the point of desperation. Source link #Whos #Sweaty #Oscar
Helen Mirren’s life in plastic just got a little more fantastic. Dame Helen Mirren received her own Barbie doll in honor of National Women’s Day — and it comes with a miniature Oscar. “I am absolutely blown away by my Barbie,” Mirren, 78, said in a statement posted to her website on Wednesday. “To be … Read more
Hi I’m Bradley Cooper. I co-wrote and directed ‘Maestro.’ It was very important to me, at the onset of this scene, that she be in a position of power. So, her on the windowsill, the light haloing her behind, waiting for whoever was gonna come in to be scolded. And then he’s sort of like … Read more
If you’ve watched this year’s Oscar-nominated films — actually, if you’ve been in a movie theater at all recently — you’ve almost certainly seen the work of a choreographer. Some of the most prominent dances have earned critical praise: Constanza Macras’s delightfully unhinged duet for “Poor Things.” Justin Peck’s ardent dream ballet for “Maestro.” Fatima … Read more
Viewers are not raving about Bradley Cooper’s performance … on “CBS Sunday Morning.” The Oscar-nominated “Maestro” star and director got emotional on the show when asked about his film’s subject, the “West Side Story” composer Leonard Bernstein, by one of the late musician’s children. “Do you miss him?” daughter Nina Maria Felicia Bernstein asked the … Read more
There’s simply no stopping “Oppenheimer.” On Sunday night, the Producers Guild of America gave its top film award to Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic about the father of the atomic bomb, completing a clean sweep of major industry prizes that suggests “Oppenheimer” will cruise to a best-picture victory at the Oscars next month. “We’ve never won … Read more
So much for the fake industry outrage over Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie being left off the director and actress Oscar nominations lists. A gigantic sector of that very same industry — actors — shut out the peppy, pink movie entirely during the 2024 SAG Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Saturday … Read more
They’re like an Oscars crystal ball. The Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best of the previous year’s movies and TV shows, have long been the best predictor of which films are likely to win Academy Awards each year. Follow along with the Post’s live coverage of the 30th annual SAG Awards, airing live from … Read more
He’s going from the atomic bomb to an outer space thriller. “Oppenheimer” actor James D’Arcy co-stars in “Constellation” (Apple TV+), which follows an astronaut who returns home from space — only to find her reality seemingly changed. “I found it a really unique piece of writing,” D’Arcy, 48, told The Post. “It seems to me … Read more
Everything went out the window. I couldn’t remember the notes to the song. I was so terrified and nervous that I actually walked out. I said, “I’m sorry, but this is not the best of me. I would hate for you all to think this is how I am as an artist.” As soon as … Read more
After Sandra Hüller learned that two movies she stars in — “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest” — had been selected for the competition at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, she was a little apprehensive about what it might mean for her anonymity. The German actress has always had a prickly relationship … Read more
As the film editor overseeing movies coverage for The New York Times, I follow Oscar races for a living, so I knew that Greta Gerwig wasn’t a shoo-in for a best director nomination for “Barbie.” Still, when she was snubbed, I was surprised, then somewhat miffed, then truly annoyed as I thought more about it. … Read more
This year’s Oscar-nominated animated shorts — sobering tales of war, assault, trauma, identity and regret — ask the question, what tools can filmmakers use to tell a poignant, but not exploitative or gratuitous, story about trauma? The novel technique the directors Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess use in “Ninety-Five Senses” is the story structure: An … Read more
At the annual Oscar nominees luncheon, there is always a top dog that even a ballroom full of A-listers will clamor to meet. Last year, that honor went to the “Top Gun: Maverick” producer Tom Cruise, a star so huge that the other nominees began to orbit him, biding time until they could dart in … Read more
The Directors Guild of America on Saturday night handed its top prize for feature-film directing to Christopher Nolan for his hit biopic, “Oppenheimer,” starring Cillian Murphy as the physicist who helped design the atomic bomb. This is the latest major trophy Nolan’s film has won, after taking top honors from the Golden Globes and Critics … Read more