If the Oscars No Longer Care About the Public, Why Should the Public Care About the Oscars?
Watching the debate rage over the Best Popular Film category for the past month has been almost as frustrating as ...
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Academy Bluffs on Popular Film Category, as Predicted
For a minute there it looked like big trouble in Oscar city. For a while it was going to ruin ...
The Academy Can Satisfy Everyone by Expanding to Ten Best Picture Nominees
If you follow this site, you know that since 2011 we've been pushing for the Academy to expand the number ...
Top Six Factors That Prompted Evolution in the Best Picture Race and the Hard Choices the Academy, and Those Who Cover Them, Must Make
The first thing to know is that it's not all bad. In fact, there is much to celebrate about the ...
All the Films in the Past Ten Years That Might Have been Nominated with Popular Film Category
When animated films began to flourish, the Academy addressed that with an additional category, Best Animated Feature. With that category, ...
The Academy Adds New Category! But Also Must Compromise…
Scott Feinberg reports that the Academy has decided to only feature select wins on the telecast to keep the show ...
The Academy Invites 928 New Members To Join With A Push on Diversity
The Academy announced today that they have invited 928 new members breaking its record of 2017's 774 invitees. As the ...
Academy’s New Membership Continues Objective for Inclusion
The Academy's invites from last year resulted in some interesting and unpredictable choices, including the Best Picture win for Moonlight. ...
Oscar Ratings Took a Hit – There are Many Theories as to Why
Deadline is reporting that the Oscars telecast had the lowest ratings in 9 years. There are several reasons for this ...
Jan Chapman and Janet Patterson Mix-Up was Understandable
It's an easy mistake to make because both women worked on Bright Star. If you do a search for Janet Patterson ...
13 Hours’ Greg Russell’s Name Removed from List of Nominees for Rule Violation
Per the Academy: ACADEMY RESCINDS SOUND MIXING NOMINATION FOR GREG P. RUSSELL ON "13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI" ...
Oscar Ballots Sent out Today – Dear Oscar, Hear my Plea!
It's a tradition round these parts to send out our pleas to Oscar voters who will be receiving their ballots ...
Steve Pond Reports on Changes to Academy Membership, Could Shake up the Great White Male Wall of AMPAS
The Wrap's Steve Pond writes up the latest changed to the Academy's membership after the big wave of muggles immigrated ...
A Quick Primer on Ballots, Membership Counts and Why That Matters for Best Picture
Critics Choice - roughly 200-300 members, ten choices for Best Picture, ten Best Pictures named. National Board of Review - ...
The State of the Race: Why the Oscar Demographic Matters and Why it Doesn’t
If you've been watching the Oscar race for as many years as I have, and indeed dove into their quirks, ...
Cheryl Boone Isaacs Re-Elected as Academy President
The dust has at last settled and the Academy's Board of Governors has decided on its president - the re-election ...
Key Dates for Academy and Oscar Season 2016-2017
Saturday, November 12, 2016 , Governors Awards Thursday, January 5, 2017, Nominations voting opens (December 30 last year) Friday, January 13, ...
Academy Makes Bold Move to Diversify Membership, adds 683
The Academy announces its new class of membership which raises the number of women and people of color significantly. This ...
Academy Makes Dramatic Changes to its Voting Membership Rules in Light of Diversity Controversy
Just posted by the Academy - this is pretty big! There is no change to the Best Picture voting procedure, ...
The Academy Elects 2015–16 Board of Governors
Runoff election required for Writers Branch LOS ANGELES, CA (press release) – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ...
Interview: Roma’s Production Designer Eugenio Caballero “We didn’t start by looking at images, we started with conversations.”
While watching Alfonso Cuaron's visual masterpiece, we are transported back to his childhood, back to 1970s Mexico. The details in...
Berlin Dispatch – That’s a Wrap
Another Berlinale, another set of surprise winners/bad predictions! I did slightly better than last year by nailing at least one...
Thank You, Bill Maher — When Will the Madness End?
Bill Maher draws a parallel between the mass hysteria and purity tests afflicting the Democrats (we're doomed, folks) and the...
Interview: Jake Johnson Steps Into The Spider-Verse
Jake Johnson wasn't a comic book fan as a young boy, but when he received the script for the Oscar-nominated...
Bruno Ganz: The Angel Hits The Ground
Bruno Ganz was of Swiss descent, but he became a titan of German cinema. His film debut came all the...
From Fargo To Buster Scruggs, Mary Zophres On Costuming For The Coen Brothers
Mary Zophres has been the head Costume Designer on every Coen Brothers film for nearly 25 years. From Fargo to...
Interview: Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Matthew Price and Ron Bochar On The Sounds of The Show
Production Mixer Mathew Price and Re-recording Mixer Ron Bochar Discuss The Sounds Of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel The sounds...
Academy Reverses Its Decision and Will Air All 24 Categories on Air
The Academy has capitulated on all of their own proposals to shorten the Oscar broadcast and boost ratings: the host,...
Predictions Friday — Last Looks Before Tuesday’s Ballot Deadline
This grim and fretful Oscar season, which should be much more of a celebration than the fear and panic in...
Berlin Dispatch – Will Win / Should Win
So here we are, all 16 films in competition at the 69th Berlinale have screened. By all accounts it’s...