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Forecasts, campaigns, deep dives
Feinberg Forecast: Oscar Race Standings Post-Globe and Critics Choice Noms
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Critics Groups and ‘SNL’ Shake Up the Oscar Race
THR’s awards analyst takes a look at which films and performances got an Oscar boost in the past week.
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PGA Awards: Martin Scorsese Tapped for David O. Selznick Award in Recognition of Producing Achievements
Scorsese, who has been not only directing but also producing films for more than six decades, will be feted on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024.
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Feinberg Forecast: Thanksgiving Revs Up the Oscar Race
THR’s executive editor of awards coverage notes how the flurry of holiday activity changed some films’ chances.
Feinberg Forecast: Emmys Projections With Two Weeks Until Nomination Voting
PLEASE NOTE: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s awards columnist Scott Feinberg, reflects his best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and strategists, analysis of marketing and campaigns, results of awards that […]
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Tony Awards Hang in Balance as Organizers Petition Striking Writers Guild for Waiver to Televise Show, Consider Alternate Courses of Action
The 76th Tony Awards are scheduled to celebrate the best work of the 2022-23 Broadway season on June 11 — but, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, a number of decisions over the next few days will determine if the ongoing writers strike will force the ceremony, which is supposed to air on CBS and stream on […]
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Shari Redstone Tapped for Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Humanitarian Award (Exclusive)
Shari Redstone, the chair of Paramount Global and president and CEO of National Amusements, will be honored at the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance’s National Tribute Dinner — an annual gathering of many of the most powerful and influential people in Hollywood — with the organizations’ highest honor, the Humanitarian Award, The Hollywood Reporter has learned […]
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‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — Natasha Lyonne (‘Poker Face’)
Natasha Lyonne, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a self-described “oddball” who has been in the business for more than 30 years, experiencing many personal and professional ups and downs along the way, but emerging a respected actress, writer, director and producer with four Emmy nominations to her […]
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Oscars Producers Talk Jimmy Kimmel, Will Smith, Absent A-Listers and Next Year’s Show (Exclusive)
On Monday morning, Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, the veteran live TV and awards show specialists who served as executive producers of Sunday night’s 2023 Oscars telecast, spoke exclusively with The Hollywood Reporter about the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted show — how they feel it went; how they hope people interpret its forthcoming ratings; what they made of […]
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Oscars Analysis: Why ‘Everything Everywhere’ — and the Academy — Won
Go figure: The ugliest Oscars ceremony ever was followed a year later by perhaps the warmest celebration ever. The 95th edition — which was held Sunday night, at a perilous moment for the motion picture industry and the Academy, the latter now under the new management team of CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang — […]
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‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast [LIVE] — Martin McDonagh (‘The Banshees of Inisherin’)
Martin McDonagh, the British-Irish Tony-nominated playwright and Oscar-nominated filmmaker who often sets his work in Ireland, is the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded in front of an audience at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February. The 52-year-old was being honored by the fest as one […]
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‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast [LIVE] — Ke Huy Quan (‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’)
Ke Huy Quan, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded in front of students at Chapman University, is a fantastic actor whose journey from 1980s child stardom, in films like 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and 1985’s The Goonies, to a best supporting actor Oscar […]
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Oscars: Rihanna Will Perform on Telecast
What a month: hot on the heels of her Feb. 12 Super Bowl halftime performance, pop superstar Rihanna will perform on the 2023 Oscars telecast on March 12, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday. The Barbadian singer-songwriter, who is the second-best-selling female music artist of all time, will presumably perform “Lift […]
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‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — Angela Bassett (‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’)
Angela Bassett, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is widely regarded as one of the greatest actresses of her generation. She was nominated 29 years ago for the best actress Oscar for her portrayal of Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It, making her the only […]
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Oscar Nominees Luncheon: Tom Cruise the Center of Attention, Malala Supports Short Film and ‘Everything Everywhere’ Cheered
If there was any doubt that Tom Cruise is the biggest movie star in Hollywood, that was eradicated on Monday afternoon at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 41st Oscar Nominees Luncheon, where the producing nominee for Top Gun: Maverick — making his first appearance of the season on the awards circuit — was […]
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Oscars: Film Academy Declines to Take Punitive Action in Response to Divisive Andrea Riseborough Campaign
No punitive action will be taken by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences against best actress Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough or those who lobbied for her to receive recognition for her portrayal of a spiraling alcoholic in To Leslie, the organization announced Tuesday. “The Academy has determined the activity in question does not […]
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Oscar Nominations Analysis: The Biggest Winner of All Is — Wait for It — the Academy
On Tuesday morning, seven years after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last announced its Oscar nominations in front of press and publicists (that announcement turned out to be the second consecutive one without any Black acting nominees, aka #OscarsSoWhite), the in-person gathering returned to the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. And this time, Academy […]
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‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — S. S. Rajamouli (‘RRR’)
S. S. Rajamouli, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a filmmaker from India whose consistent track record of massive critical and commercial success in Telugu-language cinema might lead one to call him the James Cameron of Tollywood. Described by The New Yorker as “an artist of distinctive temperament […]
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‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — Michelle Yeoh (‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’)
Michelle Yeoh, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recently recorded in front of an audience of students at Chapman University, is a Malaysian-born actress who has been in the game for 40 years. She has been described by NPR as “the leading lady of Hong Kong’s action […]
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AFI Awards: Hollywood’s Biggest Names in Film and TV Return to Luncheon Where Everyone’s a Winner
Hollywood’s biggest names in film and television returned to the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills for a celebration of the American Film Institute’s picks of the year’s top 10 offerings from those media. The ballroom for the AFI Awards luncheon was crowded with top executives like Disney’s Bob Iger and Dana Walden, Warner Bros. Discovery’s […]
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