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Hollywood legend Al Pacino, who didn’t name all the 10 nominees for Best Picture at the recently held 96th Academy Awards before announcing the winner, has issued a clarification detailing what led to the awkward moment on stage. He issued a statement amid questions surrounding his appearance during the 2024 Oscars ceremony, where he awkwardly presented the best picture category, reports ‘Variety’. The actor, who won an Academy Award for best actor in ‘Scent of a Woman’, simply opened the…

David Seidler, best known for his Oscar-winning writing on The King’s Speech, has died aged 86, according to reports.The London-born screenwriter, who had a stammer growing up, was inspired to write about the true story of how King George VI overcame his speech impediment with a speech and language therapist.US outlets reported that the British writer died on Saturday, during a fly-fishing trip in New Zealand, according to his manager, Jeff Aghassi.Aghassi said: “David was in the place he loved most in the world – New…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — What were Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell made for? Winning awards, apparently. The sibling duo’s “Barbie” blockbuster ballad “What Was I Made For?” won the Academy Award for best original song on Sunday night. In doing so, Eilish, 22, has become the y oungest person by far to have won two career Oscars. (Also read: Oscars 2024 full list of winners: Oppenheimer wins Best Picture, Christopher Nolan named Best Director) Finneas O'Connell, left, and Billie Eilish accept the award for best…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Christopher Nolan has fulfilled his award show frontrunner status, winning his first Oscar on Sunday night for directing Oppenheimer. The 53-year-old British visionary has garnered critical acclaim throughout his career, but had never won an Oscar until now. He was nominated for directing Dunkirk in 2017 and for original screenplay in 2010 for “Inception” and in 2001 for Memento. (Also read: Oscars 2024 full list of winners: Oppenheimer wins Best Picture, Christopher Nolan named Best Director)…

Cillian Murphy came away with his first Oscar for portraying the man who created the atomic bomb in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer. (Also read: Oscars 2024 full list of winners: Oppenheimer wins Best Picture, Christopher Nolan named Best Director) Cillian Murphy poses with the Oscar for "Best Actor" as " J. Robert Oppenheimer" in "Oppenheimer" in the Oscars photo room at the 96th Academy awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria(REUTERS)…

Cinema's biggest night is over! The Oscars were quite eventful, and fortunately there were no shock situations or damage control involved. Even though the last presenter of the evening, Al Pacino, did announce the final award in a rather anticlimactic fashion that… surprised many. Regardless, the 96th Academy Awards consisted of memorable acceptance speeches, a Ryan Gosling performance for the ages, and a big sweep for Oppenheimer. (Also read: Oscars 2024 full list of winners: Oppenheimer wins Best Picture, Christopher…

With the conflict in Gaza looming large over Sunday’s Oscars ceremony and sparking a pro-Palestinian protest outside the venue, director Jonathan Glazer gave the evening’s most politically charged speech on the subject when he took the stage to accept the international film award for his Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest.” Glazer, who is Jewish, directly linked his film’s chilling depiction of a Nazi commandant’s family blithely living just outside the walls of Auschwitz to the current crisis unfolding in Israel…

By Brian Lowry | CNN The Oscars can extend some additional thank-yous to “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie,” as the awards continued to claw back viewers lost during the pandemic with the highest rating in four years, averaging 19.5 million viewers on Sunday night based on Nielsen data released Monday. That figure represented a 4% gain over 2023. Last year’s Oscars added more than a million viewers on a seven-day basis thanks to delayed playback of the show, so the final audience will grow beyond the same-day figures reported by…

Image: Studio GhibliGreat news if you missed The Boy and the Heron during its initial theatrical run, and felt serious FOMO when it picked up an Oscar for Best Animated Feature last night: Hayao Miyazaki’s (possibly final?) movie is coming back to North American theaters soon. Alex Winter on His Character in Destroy All Neighbors This news was bundled in with a message on X from Studio Ghibli co-founder and film producer Toshi Suzuki, as well as New York-based distributor GKIDS. Director Miyazaki, who is 83 years old,…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNicolas Cage was one of five previous Oscar winners to present the award for Best Actor at the 2024 Academy Award ceremony.Cage appeared alongside Matthew McConaughey, Forest Whitaker, Brendan Fraser and Sir Ben Kingsley to introduce the five nominees: Cillian Murphy, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Giamatti, Colman Domingo and Bradley Cooper.It was Giamatti, nominated for his role in the drama…