Oscars
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Oscars Best Picture Screening Room for Voters Hits 200 Movies – But Not ‘Tenet’
Christopher Nolan’s mindbending drama is the most notable absence from a viewing platform that has now earned the Academy $2.5 million
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Iranian Oscar Entry ‘Sun Children’ Cries Out Against Child Labor
TheWrap magazine: “If we don’t make the kids’ lives easier, we are destroying our own future,” says director Magid Magidi
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Why ‘Beginning’ Director Filmed Sexual Assault Scene Quietly, From a Distance
TheWrap magazine: “Everyone can feel the terror of this moment, and I thought as a director I don’t need to emphasize anything,” says director Dea Kulumbegashvili
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How a Weird Oscar Season Might Depress the Number of Best Picture Nominees
Tastes could be fragmenting and votes might be spread out in a way that potentially impacts the Oscars’ top category
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Why Cristin Milioti Never Liked Calling ‘Palm Springs’ Just a Romantic Comedy
“It was this beautiful allegory for depression and anxiety and the inability to escape yourself,” actress says
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Sienna Miller on the ‘Wander Darkly’ Scenes She Found ‘Really Difficult to Execute’
“I don’t know that I’m capable of much more vulnerability in a scene than I showed in that,” actress says
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How India Whipped Up the Year’s Wildest, Craziest Oscar Entry With ‘Jallikattu’
TheWrap magazine: “I wanted you to compare the film to what the world actually is,” says director Lijo Jose Pellisserry of his film that descends in rampaging chaos
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‘Charlatan’ Director Explains Why Films Need to Deal With Politics
TheWrap magazine: “We have so many challenges and dangers with authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, and filmmakers cannot pretend that it is not going on,” says Agnieszka Holland
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From Battling Brain Cancer to Directing an Oscar Contender: Maria Sodahl’s Dramatic Journey to ‘Hope’
TheWrap magazine: “I hate sentimental cancer movies, and I didn’t want to do something like that,” Sodahl says of turning her own diagnosis into art
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How a Severed Hand Led to Taiwan’s Oscar Contender ‘A Sun’
TheWrap magazine: “I imagined that the incident happened on a rainy day, and the hand dropped into a hot pot,” says director Chung Mong-hong
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How Guatemalan Horror Film ‘La Llorona’ Used Genre to Examine Genocide
TheWrap magazine: Director Jayro Bustamante says his Oscar entry was a way to use horror elements to examine issues that viewers don’t want to talk about
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Oscars Animated Feature Race Gets a Big, Late Boost From International Contenders
Thanks to films from around the world, the category grew from 13 to 27 competitors overnight
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Oscars Obliterate Old Record With 238 Qualifying Documentaries
A final batch of 25 films pushed the total well past the old record of 170
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Oscars Eliminate Executive Committee Picks for International Feature, Expand Shortlist
The change, made partly because of the uncertain security of virtual meetings, will boost the Phase 2 field from 10 to 15 films
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As Oscar Race Drags Into 2021, Who Are the Front Runners for Best Picture?
It’s hard to have any certainty in this strangest of years, when the race has brought us more hopefuls than sure bets
