Oscar

One of the most awaited nights of the year is just round the corner. The Academy Awards is scheduled for March 10, 2024 (EST). Comedian Jimmy Kimmel is all set to host the show for the fourth time. While the red-carpet celebrations and the award gala itself will take place on Sunday night in the US, owing to the time difference, it will be early Monday morning in India by then. Here's everything about where you can catch the live telecast and streaming of the Oscars in India. (Also read: Oscars 2024: Barbie and…

If there’s one thing the Oscars are usually sniffy about, it’s a mainstream blockbuster. They may garner nominations but winning is a different matter altogether. But Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, an effervescent comedy about the world’s most famous doll that wraps up a zingy dissection of the patriarchy, women’s lack of power and mortality in a bright bow, is not your standard blockbuster. And that’s exactly why it deserves that best picture Oscar.Meryl Streep wasn’t being hyperbolic when she credited Barbie for saving the film…

Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletterStay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter An underrated quality of this year’s Oscar contenders? How many of their characters would be fun to party with! Poor Things’ Bella Baxter? A riot! Maestro’s Leonard Bernstein? Did you see his moves on the dance floor? Kitty Oppenheimer? Sozzled at all hours! It’s a shame that Anatomy of a Fall’s Samuel Maleski plummeted to his death before…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIs it all Oppenheimer’s to lose? Over the past few months, the race for the Academy Award for Best Picture has gone from a crowded field to a seemingly foregone conclusion. Following wins at the Baftas, Golden Globes and Critics Choice awards, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biopic has all the momentum: Cillian Murphy looks set to take home Best Actor, for his haunted…

Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in Dune: Part Two.Image: Warner Bros.Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movies are visually striking—cinematographer Grieg Fraser and production designer Patrice Vermette already have Oscars from Dune: Part One. But Dune: Part Two is even bolder, and includes a black-and-white sequence that leaves a lingering impact.Denis Villeneuve on Ending Dune: Part Two That WaySpeaking with Variety, Fraser explained how the interlude—the climax of which showcases the gladiatorial prowess of Feyd-Rautha…

When Kazu Hiro first started experimenting with makeup as a teenager in the 1980s, one face leapt out at him from books and magazines he saw in shops: legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein. Four decades later, the two-time Oscar winner has come full circle with Maestro, in which he transformed Bradley Cooper into the towering musical great. And the makeup effects artist has another Academy Award in his sights. (Also read: Maestro review: Carey Mulligan delivers the performance of her career in Leonard Bernstein biopic)…

This year’s field of best picture nominees includes epic explorations of mass violence (likely winner Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon), achingly emotional tales of human connection (Past Lives, The Holdovers), sharp satires of race and gender (American Fiction, Poor Things) and an obligatory blockbuster (Barbie).And then there’s The Zone of Interest, a British-Polish-American production directed by Jonathan Glazer, operating in its own lane. Its plot isn’t so much a story as icy submersion via observance, its…

A lot has changed in Hollywood since Annette Bening was nominated for her first Academy Award, for The Grifters in 1990.  “I went to the Academy Awards with Ed Begley in his electric car. At the time, no one knew what an electric car was, basically. Ed was so far ahead of the curve,” Bening says with a smile. We’re talking in a quiet, dark corner of a hotel bar in the Langham Pasadena, and the 65-year-old actress is the epitome of cool in a black leather jacket and a gold snake ring wrapped around her finger.…

Oscar season always seems to feel a bit endless, but it seems even more so this year, when the Best Picture race has been all but locked up since July. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer will win. The rest is just a formality at this point.For the past couple of months, Nolan’s staggering biopic about the conflicted father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, has been decisively cutting through the field of contenders like a hot knife through butter. It won at the Golden Globes, the Critics’ Choice Awards, and the…

Things are going really, really well for Denis Villeneuve right now. Dune: Part Two—the sequel to his six-time Oscar-winning 2021 Dune—has gotten rapturous reviews and is on track for massive box-office success. And his career pre-Dune was also full of acclaim. But one film in particular carried so much weight, he still feels its heft from time to time.Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 Interview“Blade Runner is one of my favorite films, and it’s absolutely a masterpiece,” Villeneuve said in a new…