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Academy Awards to introduce ‘Achievement in Popular Film’ category

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For several years, fans and moviegoing audiences have bemoaned the fact the Academy of Arts and Sciences often neglects some of the industry’s biggest blockbusters for more serious and ‘artsy’ films. Instead, films such as The Dark Knight, Star Wars: The Force Awakens or Avengers have been relegated to the technical awards of sound editing and visual effects rather […]

Screeners of three Oscar contenders have leaked to piracy networks

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Piracy collective Hive-CM8 has leaked copies of three of this year’s Oscar contenders to file-sharing networks, reportedly ripping the movies from awards screener DVDs. Torrent Freak is reporting that Grega Gerwig’s Lady Bird, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name and Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya all appeared on online pirate sites, ready to be viewed illegally. The group […]

Oscars 2018: Biggest snubs and surprises from the Academy Award nominations

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Tom Beasley takes a look at the twists and turns provided by today’s Oscar nominations, including the biggest snubs and most shocking surprises… The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were dished out today and it’s fair to say that this was perhaps a more interesting crop of nominees than many expected. The big winners, […]

My Pure Land announced as Britain’s Foreign Language Film submission for the Academy Awards

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British-Pakistani director Sarmad Masud’s debut film My Pure Land has been announced as Britain’s selection for submission for an Academy Award in the category of Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, marking the first time an Urdu-language film has been Britain’s selection for the award. My Pure Land tells the true story of a […]

Logan is the first Academy screener sent to Oscar voters

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The 90th Academy Awards are still a while away, but with plenty of high quality movies already on voters’ radars, now is the time for studios to start making moves to ensure that their films are given the recognition they deserve. According to Deadline the first DVD screener sent to the Academy voters is the Fox […]

Director James Mangold discusses Logan’s Oscar nomination

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Director of Logan, James Mangold, has offered his thoughts on why the film received an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay. This is the first time that a comic book film has been nominated in the adapted screenplay category, giving further credence to the notion that Logan is more than just your average superhero movie. […]

David Ayer congratulates makeup and hairstyling team for Suicide Squad Oscar win, new behind-the-scenes image of Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn

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There are some things one must get used to in the year 2017, and one of them is referring to Suicide Squad as the Oscar-winning film Suicide Squad. The DC Extended Universe blockbuster won an award last night for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, an accomplishment that saw director David Ayer taking to Twitter to offer his […]

Oscars: And the winners of the 89th Academy Awards are…

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Let’s address the elephant in the room: there was Steve Harvey-reminiscent chaos last night during the Best Picture announcement at the Academy Awards as La La Land was somehow announced as receiving the Oscar… only for producer Jordan Horowitz to correct the mistake midway through his acceptance speech when he revealed that Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight […]

Why The Oscars Are The Most Important Event Of The Year

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Neil Calloway claims that the Academy Awards are more important than you might think… Tonight is the 89th Academy Awards, the industry prize giving ceremony that everyone knows as the Oscars (for obscure reasons – nobody is quite sure why they’re called that, with competing origin stories for the nickname). I would argue it’s the […]

Oscars: What Should Have Won – Good Night, and Good Luck. for Best Picture over Crash

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Graeme Robertson on why Good Night, and Good Luck. should have won Best Picture at the 78th Academy Awards… The Oscars celebrating the best of 2005 are probably among the most controversial and divisive on record. For it was Paul Haggis’s race-based ensemble drama Crash that received the Best Picture trophy, beating the favourite to win […]