Something is missing from the year's Best Picture nominees. Well, yes, The Woman King, Till and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. We know the black-themed films didn't register. But something even more elemental than race was shut out of the nominations for Hollywood's top award, the Best…

Melissa Yandell Smith, who helped steer San Francisco’s esteemed American Conservatory Theatre for 25 years and made a notable late-career film debut opposite her longtime friend Frances McDormand in the Oscar-nominated 2020 film Nomadland, died September 7 of cancer at her home in San Francisco. She was 64. Showb…

Paws for applause: dogs featured in the documentaries The Truffle Hunters and Stray have shared the top prize at the annual Fido Awards, presented today in London, which recognize the best canine appearances in cinema. The pair picked up the “Best in the World” collar and also shared the “Dog Dox” prize at the…

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: What’s upsetting about this weekend is how these two movies, Mortal Kombat and Demon Slayer, which had very notable openings and further revived the domestic B.O. last weekend, dropped precipitously this weekend, respectively at -73% and -70%. Funimation/Aniplex is calling Demon Slayer‘s weekend…

UPDATED, 10:10 AM: Downtown Los Angeles’ Union Station is pretty much back to normal after hosting the 2021 Oscars on April 25, and now the final and far from normal numbers are in for 93rd Academy Awards. No surprise, the ambitious affair from ABC and producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh…

Although it was the streamers in this Oscar Year of the Pandemic that had hoped to break through in the big categories, in the end it was the traditional major studios — mostly thanks to their specialty divisions — that ruled the day at the 93rd annual Academy Awards. Netflix has with the most wins with seven…

The 93rd annual Academy Awards spread the wealth more than usual on Sunday night, with Nomadland scoring a leading three wins over two each for The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Mank, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Soul and Sound of Metal.  Oscars TV Review: Unconventional, Intimate Ceremony Reinvigorates Hollyw…

No thanks to the pandemic, it was a longer Oscar season than originally planned. Even though the Oscar ceremony was late this year, Searchlight fired off its campaign for Nomadland at the traditional starting point of early September, with the multi-festival debut of Nomadland at Venice, Toronto and a…

The 93rd Academy Awards had no host, no masks, no Zoom, and almost no audience. There's a lot of things the Oscars weren't tonight, but lackluster thankfully wasn't one of them overall. Hollywood's biggest night wasn't exactly the movie unto itself that producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh…

Frances McDormand picked up her third Best Actress Oscar tonight for her performance in the Chloé Zhao-directed drama Nomadland. This ties McDormand with the now-retired Daniel Day Lewis for the second-most highest amount of wins in the lead actress/actor category. Katharine Hepburn won Best Actress four…

Seventy women representing a record 76 Oscar nominations translated to a record number of female wins Sunday with 17 awards, beating a previous high of 15 set in 2019 and running the gamut from Best Director and Best Picture to Original Screenplay, Animated Film and Original Song. The 2019 Oscars, for films out…

The 93rd annual Academy Awards were handed out tonight, and in a departure from Oscar history, the Best Picture category was not saved for last. Instead, Searchlight’s Nomadland went home with the night’s marquee prize, and its star Frances McDormand took Best Actress, hours after the film’s Chloé Zhao made…