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It has been a strange two days for the 91st annual Academy Awards aka the Oscars. After announcing actor Kevin Hart as the host of the televised event, some not-so-great things came to light. Namely, his history of what some critics are calling hate speech; derogatory jokes about the LGBTQ community on social media. There was […]

A pretty damn impressive crop of animated films, 25 to be exact, are entering into Academy Awards / Oscars competition for the 2018 season. The list is pretty diverse, which is nice.  You can see the list of 25 hopefuls here: Ana y Bruno Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Early Man Fireworks Have a Nice Day […]

In a not truly surprising move, the Academy of Motion Pictures has chosen to drop the newly minted “popular film” category from the 91st Annual Academy Awards oscars ceremony. The announcement initially of this new category was met with outright disbelief by many in the industry; why the need to present such a one-sided award […]

Mere days after The Academy announced major changes coming to the 2019 and 2020 Oscars, The Razzies have written a letter to the awards ceremony. The Razzies of course are the Golden Raspberries, the antithesis of the Oscars, celebrating the worst in Hollywood fare over the cinema year. They’re meant to be enjoyed in good […]

Hope everyone likes awards shows, because the Academy has announced some big changes to The Oscars are coming. Namely, we’re getting a three-hour broadcast of the annual ceremony — a surprising announcement considering 2018’s ceremony had some of the lowest ratings in modern televised history for the event. There was also the reveal of a […]

The 90th Annual Academy Awards ceremony has come and gone, the Oscars have been handed out, and thankfully host Jimmy Kimmel didn’t have to weather another EnvelopeGate storm. That said, on Monday morning it was widely reported that the ceremony had brought in the lowest Oscars ratings since the Nielsen ratings had been utilized. There’s a simple […]

Best Actress winner Frances McDormand had an interesting night after the 90th Annual Academy Awards. She picked up her second Oscar last night (she’d also won for Fargo back in 1997) for her role in Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri after sweeping the category across multiple awards shows, but the excitement didn’t stop there. Post awards show, the winners […]

Even if you’re not a fan of the Academy Awards Oscars ceremony, you have to admit: their stages are always gorgeously decorated. Although this year, I will say it would take something truly spectacular to overshadow the hall of faces style of the BAFTAs stage. Ahead of the 90th annual awards on Sunday, Variety tweeted […]

It really does seem like someone at the Academy Awards was listening to the complaint that the Oscars really lacked in diversity. At least on the presenter side of things — not a whole lot to be done about nominees without a bigger conversation and drastic change, although this year’s big nominees sort of reflect […]

Awards season is drawing to a close, and the Oscars are right around the corner. Taking place this year on Sunday March 4th, it seems like the Academy is attempting to be more inclusive with their show this year — at least when it comes to the presenters list. The official Academy Twitter account posted […]