Steve Pond
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Oscar Nomination Predictions: Expect ‘Dune’ to Dominate in Another Weird Year
By our reckoning, “The Power of the Dog,” “Belfast” and “West Side Story” will also come on strong
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The Sundance Blues: Good Films Can’t Overcome a Muted Virtual Festival
Sundance 2020: This year was supposed to be a triumphant return to an in-person festival, but the pandemic other plans
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How Renee Elise Goldsberry Embraced Her Inner Diva for ‘Girls5Eva’
TheWrap magazine: “Every moment of my life, I can relate to the part of Wickie that craves stardom and the fulfillment of her dream,” says the “Hamilton” actress
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Why the Music Doc Series ‘1971’ Wasn’t Just About Music
TheWrap magazine: Director Asif Kapadia says. “It’s not, ‘Listen to this piece of music, and then this one’ — what’s the bigger picture around it?”
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Why Giancarlo Esposito Thinks His Career (and TV Itself) Got Better During the Pandemic
TheWrap Magazine: “Television has become much more personal because we finally learned how to use our remotes the last year,” says Esposito
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Fran Lebowitz Says Good Riddance to Trump: He ‘Never Deserved New York’
TheWrap magazine: “I wish that when he left, he’d have taken that big pile of junk on Fifth Avenue,” says the subject of the docuseries “Pretend It’s A City”
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5 Oscar Burning Questions With Voting Underway, Including That Crazy Best Actress Race
And can anything stop the Best Picture momentum for “Nomadland”?
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Which of the Oscars’ Special 2020 Rules Are Here to Stay?
TheWrap magazine: Online viewing? Streaming movies qualifying for film awards? Extended eligibility dates?
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What Will Make the Oscar Shortlists in Documentary and International Categories?
Here’s what might happen as doc and international contenders are narrowed to 15 semifinalists
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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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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
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Oscars International Entries Are Close to New Record, But Voters Can’t See Them All Yet
91 different countries are known to have made submissions in the category, but at the moment only 30 of those films are available to voters in the Academy screening room
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Grammy Nominations Analysis: Hip-Hop Is Up, Country Is Down and Women Rule
Voters gave us a full slate of powerful women, a handful of baffling surprises and a few more opportunities to have Beyonce lose in the top categories
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Grammy Nominations Preview: What to Expect in a COVID-Rocked Year, From Taylor Swift to Bob Dylan
The Recording Academy can’t pretend this was a normal year for recorded music, just as you can’t pretend it was a normal year for anything else
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Oscars: 10 Films That Could Dominate in Below-the-Line Categories, From ‘Tenet’ to ‘The Midnight Sky’
From “Mank” to “The Prom,” these films could attract the attention of artisans, craftspeople and tech wizzes
