Oscars
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Is It Time for the Oscars to Add More Acting and Directing Nominees?
Best Picture can go up to 10, but what about other deserving folks?
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‘Bardo,’ ‘Close,’ ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Make Oscars’ Entirely Predictable International Shortlist
New voting rules made it harder for dark horses to advance and helped almost all the favorites make the 15-film shortlist
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‘Fire of Love’ Makes Oscars Documentary Shortlist, But ‘Good Night Oppy’ Snubbed
Other nonfiction films on the list include “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “All That Breathes,” “Navalny” and “Moonage Daydream”
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As Holidays Arrive, Oscars Screening Room Fills Up With Everything But ‘Avatar’ and ‘Babylon’
178 films are now available for voters to stream, including almost all of the main Best Picture contenders
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Why the Academy Needs to Give ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ the Best Picture Oscar
If AMPAS wants to save the Oscars, it can start by handing a trophy to Tom Cruise
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Can Dark Horses Survive Under the Oscars’ New International Voting System?
Rule changes in the Best International Feature Film category might make it difficult for smaller films to advance to the upcoming shortlist
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‘Bardo’ and ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Could Break the Language Barrier in Sound Design Oscars Categories
The Netflix films from Mexico and Germany have intricate sound design worthy of awards attention
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How Canada’s Animated Doc ‘Eternal Spring’ Aims to Follow ‘Flee’ Path to Oscar Glory
TheWrap magazine: “I wasn’t concerned that people would think, ‘Someone did an animated doc last year,’” says director Jason Loftus
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Oscars Visual Effects Race Heats Up With a Multiverse of Movie Magic at Every Budget
“Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” present extreme examples of VFX styles
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Why ‘Freedom on Fire’ Director Evgeny Afineevsky Felt He Had to Make a 2nd Doc About Ukraine
TheWrap magazine: “If we close our eyes to the crimes and the Russian leadership goes unpunished, then who knows what is next?” he says
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How ‘Three Minutes – A Lengthening’ Turns 1 Family’s Vacation Movies Into a Startling Look at the Holocaust
TheWrap magazine: “As soon as I saw these images, I realized that these are almost certainly the only moving images of this community,” says Glenn Kurtz of his grandparents’ 1938 film
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‘The Blue Caftan’ Faces Morocco’s Ultimate Taboo in Portraying a Queer, Closeted Craftsman
TheWrap magazine: Director Maryam Touzani says that shooting a film that talks about homosexuality was “a big, big risk”
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‘Hallelujah’ Directors Explain How They Turned Leonard Cohen’s Song Into a Whole Movie
TheWrap magazine: Dayna Goldfine said they wanted to answer one question: “What is it about Leonard Cohen that made him the only person in the universe that could written a song like Hallelujah’?”
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How ‘Memory Box’ Turns a Stack of Teenage Notebooks Into a Movie
TheWrap magazine: “I had this strange personal archive, and we thought it would be interesting to do something with it,” says co-director Joana Hadjithomas
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How Ukraine Oscar Entry ‘Klondike’ Tells a Timely Story Set in the Past
TheWrap magazine: “We made this film to very carefully ask the international audience: ‘What do you think about the situation on the border of Russia and Ukraine?’” says director Maryna Er Gorbach
