Despite resigning his membership in the wake of his on-stage slapping of Chris Rock, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that King Richard Best Actor winner Will Smith has been banned from attending the Oscars for a ten-year period. Here’s the full statement from AMPAS President David Rubin and CEO Dawn […]
Sony reportedly puts Bad Boys 4 on pause after Will Smith’s Oscars slap
It may have taken the best part of a decade to make it to the screen, but Bad Boys for Life proved to be a bigger-than-expected hit for Sony Pictures, with the buddy cop threequel grossing $426.5 million upon release – the most for any Hollywood movie in a pandemic-stricken 2020. As you might expect […]
Will Smith offers apology for Chris Rock slap at the Oscars
The beleaguered Academy Awards found itself grabbing headlines across the globe yesterday, although not for the reasons that the Academy would have liked as the soon-to-be-Oscar-winning Will Smith “smacked the shit out of” presenter Chris Rock live on stage less than an hour before picking up his Best Actor gong for King Richard. While the […]
Yes, Will Smith open-palmed Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards. No, violence is not the answer
Robert Kojder on the Will Smith and Chris Rock controversy from the 94th Academy Awards… Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the 94th Oscars ceremony last night. This is not scripted professional wrestling. It was real. It all went down as the Best Documentary-presenting Chris Rock was cracking some jokes before getting to the nominees, […]
Oscars 2022: CODA makes history with Best Picture win at 94th Academy Awards
Apple TV+ made history at the 94th Academy Awards last night as CODA became the first streaming film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, scooping the top prize ahead of frontunner The Power of the Dog and fellow nominees Don’t Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley and West […]
Oscars 2022: The Power of the Dog leads nominations for the 94th Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has today announced the nominees for the 94th annual Academy Awards, with Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog (Flickering Myth’s #1 movie of 2021) leading the field with 12 nominations overall including Best Picture and Best Director. The latter is a history-making nomination, with Campion becoming […]
Spider-Man: No Way Home becomes Sony’s highest-grossing movie ever as Marvel prepares Best Picture push
Having smashed “pandemic-era” records with one of the biggest openings of all time and went on to become the first film since 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to break the $1 billion mark at the box office, Sony Pictures is popping the champagne corks once more with the news that Spider-Man: No Way […]
Oscars: Four Great Films That Should Have Been Nominated For Best Picture (But Weren’t)
Graeme Robertson with four great films that should have been nominated for Best Picture… The Oscars draw ever near and, even with the pandemic doing its best to screw things up, this year has been gifted with a very strong line-up. However, we’re not talking about those films, instead, as we did last year, we’re […]
Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland leads winners of the 93rd Academy Awards
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 […]
Oscars 2021: Best Documentary Short Film Nominees Reviewed
Shaun Munro reviews 2021’s Oscar-nominated documentary short films… The final instalment of our three-part series delving into this year’s short-form Oscar nominees tackles the Best Documentary Short field. Of the three short film categories, this collective is by far the most pervasively upsetting and difficult-to-watch, but their journalistic, humanistic value absolutely speaks for itself. Several […]
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