The Academy Awards is introducing an Oscar for casting, the ceremony’s governing organization announced Thursday, making it the first new category in more than 20 years. Casting directors have been pushing for the category for decades, arguing that their work is critical to the success of a film, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts … Read more
Ken he get a do-over? Ryan Gosling is again addressing how he feels about the Oscars snubbing Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig in the respective Best Actress and Best Director categories for the “Barbie” movie. “Look, I heavily edited that statement,” Gosling told Variety about the memo he released Jan. 23, stating his counterparts’ “work … Read more
Smells like success. Emily Blunt earned her first-ever Oscar nomination for her work as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer in the Christopher Nolan biopic “Oppenheimer.” While the 40-year-old is ecstatic over her nod, she was in kind of a stinky position when she heard of the nomination. The “Devil Wears Prada” actress revealed that she was actually … Read more
Most post-nomination Oscar chatter focuses on surprises and snubs connected to the fiction nominees. But I’m a nonfiction nerd, so for me the documentaries are where it’s at, and in recent years, the picks have grown delightfully unpredictable. This year, two seeming slam dunks were left off the list: “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie” … Read more
The year’s first possible Oscar contender — well, for 2025 — is Saoirse Ronan as a tortured alcoholic who seeks refuge in nature in “The Outrun.” The actress is gutsy and raw, and doesn’t overplay a single second like so many accolade-hungry actors in addiction movies do. Director Nora Fingscheidt’s tough drama, which premiered at … Read more
Not good Kenough. Ryan Gosling is showing his support for his “Barbie” co-star Margot Robbie and the film’s director Greta Gerwig after they were both snubbed in the Best Actress and Best Director Oscar categories respectively. “I am extremely honored to be nominated by my colleagues alongside such remarkable artists in a year of so … Read more
America Ferrera is ecstatic about her “Barbie” Oscar nomination but admitted it’s “disappointing” that her co-star, Margot Robbie, and the hit film’s director, Greta Gerwig, were snubbed by the Academy. Ferrera, 39, reacted to her best actress in a supporting role nomination in a statement to The Post on Tuesday, saying, “I’m stunned and so … Read more
Dua Lipa won’t be dancing the night away at the Oscars. When the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday morning, you would’ve expected the pop diva to be as much of a sure thing as Emma Stone (Best Actress for “Poor Things”), Paul Giamatti (Best Actor for “The Holdovers”) and pretty … 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
How does it feel to be an Oscar nominee? It’s like getting the M.V.P. at the Super Bowl. Crazy. It’s what I always just hoped and dreamed would happen, but for it to actually happen, I’m in shock! It’s like what it says in “The Color Purple”: “Look what God has done.” What did you … Read more
Nobody pulled a Riseborough. Last year, the actress Andrea Riseborough employed a new kind of Oscar bid: Instead of waging a costly, monthslong awards campaign for her performance in the microbudget indie “To Leslie,” her team waited until the weeklong Oscar-voting window opened, then leveraged a group of famous friends that included Edward Norton, Gwyneth … Read more
Lily Gladstone, a star of the Martin Scorsese epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” was nominated for the best actress Oscar on Tuesday, making her the first Native American person to contend for a competitive acting Academy Award. In the film, she plays Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman whose white husband is part of a … Read more
Colman Domingo joined a rarefied club on Tuesday: With an Oscar nomination for his performance as the civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in “Rustin,” he became only the second openly gay man to be nominated for playing a gay character. Ian McKellen was the first, in 1999, for “Gods and Monsters” and his portrayal of … Read more
And the Oscar goes to … Nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards were announced Tuesday. The categories were announced by actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, mere weeks after the star-studded Golden Globes and Emmy Awards aired. This year’s ceremony will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, … Read more
The nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards might finally answer the definitive movie question of the season: Is this the year of “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer?” Or, if both films get a similar amount of Oscar nominations, it will just be another excuse for us to use the term “Barbenheimer.” Nominees for the 2024 Oscars … Read more
The Q. and A.’s and cocktail parties are a wrap. The votes have been cast. And on Tuesday, we’ll find out which movies and artists will have a chance at Academy Awards when the Oscar nominations are announced. It was an unusually strong year for films, meaning that members of the Academy of Motion Picture … Read more
Rounding out a busy awards-season week that included the Golden Globes and nominations from Hollywood’s directors and actors guilds, the Producers Guild of America announced the 10 films nominated for its best feature award on Friday. As expected, the group included “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie,” twinned box-office behemoths that have so far dominated awards season just … Read more
The Italian actress Marisa Pavan never achieved the fame of her twin sister, Pier Angeli, a film ingénue of the 1950s who graced national magazine covers, and whose romance with James Dean and subsequent marriage to the singer Vic Damone became the stuff of Hollywood lore. Ms. Pavan — analytical, at times defiant and, in … Read more
No weenies allowed. As the US economy continues to sizzle with thousands of new job openings this month, one prestigious new opportunity is going a-bun and beyond. Hot dog maker Oscar Mayer is recruiting a dozen drivers to take the beloved, 27-foot-long Wienermobile on several cross country, promotional journies so that Americans from coast to … Read more
Nicole Kidman remembers the hours after her Oscars 2003 win, which weren’t pleasant. The 56-year-old actress won her first Academy Award for her role as Virginia Woolf in “The Hours” opposite Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore in 2003, but despite taking home the statuette for “Best Actress,” Kidman felt at her worst. At the time, … Read more