Shortlist

Booker-shortlisted author Jonathan Escoffery and Guardian Ireland correspondent Rory Carroll and are among those shortlisted for this year’s Gordon Burn prize, which aims to champion the year’s “boldest and most innovative” books.Quick GuideThe Gordon Burn prize 2023-24ShowThank you for your feedback.Novels, short stories, memoirs and history books appear on the list, with stories that range from the IRA’s efforts to kill Margaret Thatcher to an Inuk girl growing up in the Arctic.The shortlist features seven titles for…

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When hitmaking producer The-Dream got the call to write an original song for the remake of The Color Purple, he almost couldn’t do it. He was busy — busy with Beyoncé. “We were working on the Renaissance film, and I got a call from Larry Jackson. He was like, ‘Yo, man, I need a record and I don’t know if you could do this,’” The-Dream tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And I was like, ‘Ah, man, I’m in the middle of this Renaissance thing and I’m doing more.’ I think people have an idea of what they think I…

Zadie Smith, Paul Murray and Naomi Klein are among the authors who have been shortlisted for the Writers’ prize, the award previously known as the Rathbones Folio prize.Smith’s first historical novel The Fraud and Murray’s Booker-shortlisted tale The Bee Sting are joined on the fiction shortlist by The Wren, the Wren, Anne Enright’s story of an unhappy family that Elizabeth Lowry called “intimate and ambiguous” in her Guardian review.Meanwhile in the nonfiction category, Thunderclap by the Observer’s art critic Laura…

The excitement for Oscars 2024 is at an all-time high, with audiences wanting to know about every detail as possible. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday announced the shortlists in 10 categories for the upcoming 96th Oscars. Actor Margot Robbie`s meta-comedy film `Barbie` had the most mentions with five including sound, original song for its three submissions from Billie Eilish ("What I Was Made For?"), Dua Lipa ("Dance the Night") and Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt ("I`m Just Ken"), and original…

The Academy Awards has recently unveiled the shortlist for 10 categories ahead of the 96th Oscars ceremony. Notably, Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie,’ Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer,’ and Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ stood out prominently among the finalists across multiple categories. However, the Indian entry, the Malayalam film ‘2018: Everyone is a Hero,’ did not secure a spot in the shortlist of 15 films for its category. In the race…

The Barbie power ballad I’m Just Ken and AP and Frontline’s documentary 20 Days in Mariupol just got one step closer to an Oscar nomination. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday shortlists in 10 categories, including best original song, documentary feature, international feature, original score, and crafts like hair and makeup, visual effects and sound. Also read: Tovino Thomas says ‘appreciation is my fuel’ after 2018 gets selected as India's official entry for Oscars Oscar…

Hollywood has a strong presence on the shortlist for Time‘s 2023 Person of the Year. The magazine and global media brand announced the finalists for its annual Person of the Year Monday morning. The 2023 honoree will be officially announced Wednesday morning. Among the finalists this year are the Hollywood strikers at the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, Barbie, and Taylor Swift. Time notes that the Person of the Year is the “individual, group, or concept that has had the most influence on the world…

The Brit awards will double the number of nominees for gender-neutral categories, it has been announced, after widespread criticism over a lack of diversity.Organisers of the annual music ceremony said the artist of the year and international artist of the year prizes would have 10 nominees from next year, up from five.There was criticism in January when it was revealed that no women had been shortlisted for the best artist prize, which had replaced the best male and female categories two years ago.The extended…

Apple has announced the shortlist for its App Store Award finalists, revealing three apps in each of the ten categories that have been recognized for their impact on Apple’s eco-system.For those unaware, the App Store Awards originally began way back in 2012 as a ‘Best of the App Store’ list in the iTunes Store. Since then, due to the great apps that have been released for Apple TV, Apple Watch, and more, the Awards have expanded to include apps from all of these products.“These finalists are all incredibly talented and…