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Marvel wins big at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards

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MTV put a pop culture spin on awards season this past weekend with the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards, with Marvel Studios and Disney+ dominating proceedings with six awards: four for WandaVision (Best Show, Best Performance in a Show – Elizabeth Olsen, Best Villain – Kathryn Hahn, and Best Fight) and two for The […]

Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland leads winners of the 93rd Academy Awards

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Having firmly established its credentials during a hugely successful awards season, Nomadland led the winners of the 93rd Academy Awards this Sunday with the film picking up the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Chloe Zhao) and Best Actress (Frances McDormand). Zhao – who next directs Marvel’s cosmic superhero adventure Eternals – became the first woman […]

Razzies 2021: ‘Winners’ of the 41st Golden Raspberry Awards revealed

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As is traditional on the eve of the Oscars, The Golden Raspberry Foundation has announced the recipients of this year’s Razzie Awards, with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s election fraud film Absolute Proof fending off competition from 365 Days, Dolittle, Fantasy Island and Music to claim the award for Worst Picture. Lindell was also named Worst […]

Marvel’s WandaVision leads 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards nominations

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MTV has announced the nominations for this year’s MTV Movie & TV Awards, with Marvel Studios’ first foray into television, the Disney+ series WandaVision, leading the field with nods in five categories: Best Show, Best Performance in a Show (Elizabeth Olsen), Best Hero (Teyonah Parris), Best Villain (Kathryn Hahn) and Best Fight (Wanda vs. Agatha). […]

Six More Great Performances That Should Have Been Oscar Nominated (But Weren’t)

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Graeme Robertson on six great performances which deserved to be Oscar-nominated… The Oscars are almost upon us in what will surely be, given the state of the world, a very unusual ceremony. The acting nominations for this year are a strong line-up of Oscar veterans, first-time nominees and, of course, the late great Chadwick Boseman […]

Chloe Zhao wins the 2021 DGA Award for Nomadland

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The BAFTA Awards for Best Film and Best Director weren’t the only gongs that Nomadland and its director Chloe Zhao picked up this past weekend, as the filmmaker was also honoured with the DGA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film at the 2021 Directors Guild Awards. Chinese-born filmmaker Zhao is the first woman […]

Nomadland continues its march to the Oscars with British Academy Film Awards success

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It was another fruitful night for Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland at the British Academy Film Awards, with BAFTA honouring the awards favourite with Best Film, Best Director (Zhao), Leading Actress (Frances McDormand) and Best Cinematography. Other winners from this year’s awards include Promising Young Woman (Outstanding British Film, Original Screenplay), The Father (Leading Actor – Anthony […]

2021 SAG Awards sees big wins for Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, and The Trial of the Chicago 7

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It was a huge win for diversity at the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night, with the late great Chadwick Boseman winning Best Leading Male for his performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a feat matched by his co-star Viola Davis, who took home female actor for her role in the Netflix […]

Nomadland claims top honour at the 2021 PGA Awards

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If it hadn’t done so already with its numerous victories along the road to the Oscars, Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland installed itself as a firm favourite for Best Picture at the Academy Awards last night when it received the top prize, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award, at the 2021 Producers Guild of America Awards. Along with […]

Borat, Promising Young Woman, and Ted Lasso win big at the WGA Awards

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The 73rd Writers Guild of America Awards took place on Sunday night and the results have gone some way to cementing Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and Promising Young Woman as the screenplay favourites as far as the Academy Awards are concerned. In a virtual ceremony hosted by Kal Penn, Amazon Studios’ Borat took the adapted screenplay […]