Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” an unsettling look at the dawn of the atomic era, dominated the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, winning seven prizes, including best picture and best director.Read More
After breaking a 62-year-old tradition by swapping the red carpet for a champagne-colored one, the show kicked off with Jimmy Kimmel hosting for the third time.Read More
While there were many expected recognitions during the 2023 Oscar nominations reveal on Tuesday (looking at you Angela Bassett, Ruth Carter, Rihanna and Brian Tyree Henry), there were also a plethora of stunning upsets—chief among them, the lack of recognition for The Woman King.Read More
Since the Nigerian Oscars Selection Committee announced that it won’t be submitting a Nigerian film for the 2023 Academy Awards, it has been embroiled in one controversy or the other.Read More
This snippet of Merv Griffin’s interview with Francis Ford Coppola, from 1979, a few months after the release of “Apocalypse Now” touches on some pretty crucial issues regarding moviemaking, then and now. The first thing that Griffin asked him—quite logically—concerned the grand scale of Coppola’s filmmaking (“You’ve always done things in a very big way”).Read More
Going off script. Chris Rock‘s joke about Jada Pinkett Smith during the 2022 Oscars didn’t land well with the actress or her husband, Will Smith. “Jada, I love you. G.I. Jane 2, can’t wait to see it. Alright?” Rock joked during the awards show on Sunday, March 27, adding, “That was a nice one.”Read More
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