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Academy Says Oscars Will “Honor Los Angeles” Amid Wildfire Crisis
This year's ceremony will also "move away" from live performances and will instead focus on the songwriters.
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Oscars: Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang to Announce Nominees
The noms for the 97th annual Academy Awards will be unveiled Thursday.
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Predicting This Year’s Oscar Nominations Using Just Math
At least six movies are nearly locks for best picture, per a mathematical formula that factors in awards season data and historical trends.
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Veteran Hollywood Insider Pushes Back on Event Cancellations: “People Need to Get Back to Work”
Ashlee Margolis, founder of Beverly Hills-based The A List, said if the wave of cancellations continue it could have a dire impact on the town: "To have events canceled now is going to crush all of us."
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Oscar Predictions via Feinberg Forecast: Scott’s Final Nominations Projections as Voting Closes
Anticipated nominations tallies: 'The Brutalist' and 'Emilia Pérez' with 10 each; 'Conclave' and 'Dune: Part Two' with nine each; and 'Anora,' 'A Complete Unknown' and 'Wicked' with six each.
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Stephen King Urges Oscars to Cancel, Prompting Backlash
"No glitz with Los Angeles on fire," says the horror author.
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Film Academy Donates $250,000 From Canceled Oscar Nominees Luncheon to Fire Relief (Exclusive)
This brings the nonprofit organization's total contributions to the Motion Picture & Television Fund over the past week to $1 million.
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How the 2025 Oscars Could Save Los Angeles (and Themselves)
Awards shows are in a frenzy trying to figure out how to meet this fast-changing fires moment. Here's one way.
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Oscars: Nominations Voting Extended and Announcement Delayed Again, Nominees Luncheon Canceled
Four members of the film Academy's board of governors and its former CEO have lost their homes in the fires.
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‘The Remarkable Life of Ibelin’: How Norwegian Filmmakers Turned Mats Steen’s Online Life into a Netflix Oscar Contender
In Benjamin Ree's documentary, Steen's parents learn about their son's rich social life as an avid 'World of Warcraft' gamer after he dies of a degenerative neuromuscular disease.
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Mohammad Rasoulof Sees Hope for Dissident Directors in ‘Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Oscar Campaign
The filmmaker's drama on the Women, Life, Freedom movement, banned in Iran, was submitted by Germany in the best international feature race: "It gives hope to all filmmakers working under repression."
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Which International Films Will Rival ‘Emilia Pérez’ for the Oscar?
French director Jacques Audiard’s audacious transgender-crime-musical-drama is the clear international favorite, but a handful of other buzzy contenders will be hard for the Academy to ignore.
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