The Oscars are never just about the movies
This year, off-screen tweets may end up swaying the Oscars race. But real-world events and people have been shaping the awards for decades.
The 2025 Oscars’ best original song nominees, cruelly ranked
This year’s race — which includes beloved stars, up-and-coming talents and a pair of songs from a successful but controversial musical — feels wide open. That doesn’t mean all the songs are equally worthy.
How ‘Anora’ breakout star Yura Borisov crafted a sensitive ‘brute’
Borisov, who plays the hired henchman Igor in Anora, is the first Russian actor to be nominated for an Oscar in decades. The film has a total of six nominations, including for best picture.
What women want: to embrace their inner monsters
What do The Substance, Nosferatu, and Babygirl have in common? They externalize the characters’ inner feelings – self-loathing, guilt, shame – in the most grotesque ways possible.Ahead of the Academy Awards, Brittany Luse sits down with IBAM producer A…
Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of all time. He’s the director of the movies Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown and, most recently, The Room Next Door . He chats with us about his dramatic endeavor Julieta, his new wave band, and his unseen ailment.
‘Conclave’ triumphs at SAG Awards and Timothée Chalamet wins for best actor
The papal thriller and the lead in Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ were surprise winners on Sunday, adding a few final wrinkles to an unusually unpredictable awards season.
Our favorite actors who’ve never been nominated for an Oscar
The standard line for awards season goes: “It’s an honor just to be nominated.” But when it comes to the Oscars, there’s quite a long list of great performers who have never received this honor. Today, we’re talking about some of our favorites who should have at least one Oscar on their mantle — including Pam Grier, John Goodman, Oscar Isaac, and Regina Hall.
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Amazon’s James Bond takeover is met with outrage by British fans of the spy franchise
News of Amazon’s takeover of the 007 franchise has shaken and stirred James Bond fans in the secret agent’s homeland of Britain.
Young, Black actors in Hollywood — how do their careers compare to their peers?
Why is it that a list of young A-list stars contains so few Black actors?
In ‘The Monkey’ the goring is never boring
In the new horror-comedy The Monkey, Theo James plays a pair of identical twin brothers who get saddled with a cursed wind-up toy monkey that causes people around them to die freakish, gory deaths. It’s based on a Stephen King short story, and directed…
Amazon has acquired creative control of the ‘James Bond’ franchise
With new producers, a new studio, and a new 007 on the way, change is expected for the next James Bond.
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