Academy Awards

From British royalty to the mighty Meryl Streep, our updated list of the female performers who've nabbed Academy Awards in the 21st century What’s both gratifying and infuriating about the Oscars is encapsulated in who’s received Best Actress statuettes over the last two decades. On the one hand, this category has honored plenty of Hollywood’s current acting royalty, including Helen Mirren, Cate Blanchett, Olivia Colman, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard — and even a few Americans…

From French comics to Method-acting chameleons, our updated list on the gentlemen who have taken home the 21st-century gold On March 10th, five men will square off at the Academy Awards for Best Actor — only one of them is walking away with the gold. The past two decades have seen a wide variety of performers claim this particular prize, everyone from French comic actors to veteran American stars, newcomers to established Hollywood names resurrecting their careers. Some of those…

The 96th Academy Awards ceremony will have its fair share of stars in the crowd — and on stage. On Monday, the Oscars announced that Zendaya, Nicolas Cage, Michelle Yeoh, and Michelle Pfeiffer are among the actors confirmed to present trophies at the March 10 awards ceremony. The first cohort also includes the four acting winners from 2023’s show: Brendan Fraser from The Whale, along with the Everything, Everywhere All at Once winning trio Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Also joining the list of…

Olfa Hamrouni doesn’t know much about her granddaughter; not her favorite toy nor food — is it the pasta the child’s mother loves, or something else? Four Daughters is nominated for Oscars this year. The Tunisian grandmother doesn’t even let her mind go there. “I don’t want to know. What for but more heartache?” she said. Hindustan Times - your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. For now, she just fights for 8-year-old Fatma. The child has spent virtually all her life with her mother and aunt —…

This year’s Academy Award nominees for best original song include previous winners — Billie Eilish/Finneas, Jon Batiste, Mark Ronson/Andrew Wyatt — and a songwriter with a record-making 15th nomination, honorary Oscar recipient Diane Warren.  The fifth nominee? An Osage Nation tribal member who works as a housing director accommodating low-income Native Americans and is also a skilled musician who has spent 40 years performing Osage ceremonial dances.  Scott George scored a nom for composing…

The Academy has released a new promo for the upcoming 96th Academy Awards on March 10 (March 11 in India). The ceremony will once again be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and he also features in the new promo along with the cast of this year's awards season darling, Barbie. Ryan Gosling and Jimmy Kimmel in a new promo for the Oscars. 'Kimmy Jimmel' in BarbielandThe promo video shows Jimmy in a tuxedo, as he lands up in Barbieland and takes help from Kate McKinnon's Weird Barbie. She shows him a map of all the films he…

You may know Kōji Yakusho as the oyster-slurping mystery man from the noodle-Western extraordinaire Tampopo (1985). Perhaps you remember him as the depressed suburbanite who ballroom-dances his blues away in the international feel-good hit Shall We Dance? (1996). He’s the reformed felon in the Cannes-winning character study The Eel (1997), a former muse to filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa in the late Nineties and early aughts, the familiar face who graced Hollywood fare like Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and Babel (2006), and —…

Now that the 2024 Oscar nominations have been announced, and the voting window for eventual winners is around the corner, awards season has kicked into high gear. Moviegoers had a lot of thoughts, feelings, opinions, and reactions to this year’s nominations, including how Greta Gerwig wasn’t nominated in the Best Director category despite Barbie being a bona fide cultural phenomenon, the highest-grossing movie of the year ($1.4 billion worldwide), and receiving eight other nominations, including Best Picture. Now,…

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer has secured its position as the most-nominated film of the season, earning an impressive 13 nods at the 96th Academy Awards nominations. Contrary to expectations of Barbie being the runner-up with at least ten nominations, Poor Things claimed second place with 11 nominations, followed closely by Killers of the Flower Moon with 10. Oscar Nominees 2024(Instagram) (Also Read: Oprah Winfrey marks 70th birthday celebrations by reflecting on old Journals, photos, and memory boxes)…

Christopher Nolan has expressed his admiration for smaller-scale dramas like Aftersun and Past Lives in contrast to his own extensive portfolio, in a conversation with Time magazine. However, he suggested that despite his deep sense of appreciation, he is unlikely to venture into creating such films himself. Christopher Nolan at the 29th Critics Choice Awards on January 14, 2024,(AP) Having commenced his directorial journey with modest indie films, the director acknowledged the challenges of assembling…