#Will Big Ensembles Clog the Supporting Oscar Categories?

#Will Big Ensembles Clog the Supporting Oscar Categories?

In 2023, a number of outstanding ensembles dominated the year’s most celebrated films. As such, this season has delivered Oscar-worthy performances from two (or more) supporting actors and actresses in each film — which could result in the Academy nominating more than one supporting actor and/or actress from their respective features. Frontrunners include Danielle Brooks…

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#Will the Best Picture Race Have Two Animation Contenders?

#Will the Best Picture Race Have Two Animation Contenders?

In 2002, the Academy Awards first honored animated features with their own Oscar category — the inaugural winner was DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek. Before then, the stance on rewarding animated features was that there were too few to warrant a separate category; honorary Oscars were given to groundbreaking films like the animated/live-action hybrid Who Framed Roger…

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#How Rosamund Pike Prepared for ‘Saltburn’: 2007 Vogues, New Cocktails and a Vacation

#How Rosamund Pike Prepared for ‘Saltburn’: 2007 Vogues, New Cocktails and a Vacation

In Oscar-winning writer-director Emerald Fennell’s twisted thriller Saltburn, Rosamund Pike is the deft comedic counterbalance.  Her character, Elspeth Catton, a wealthy former model and mother to Jacob Elordi’s character, Felix, breaks up the drama with head-turning quips often delivered while lounging around the family’s estate. One such example: “I was a lesbian for a while, you…

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#Producers of ‘American Fiction,’ ‘Maestro,’ ‘Origin’ and More Oscar Contenders Talk the Toughest Tasks Behind the Scenes of Their Films

#Producers of ‘American Fiction,’ ‘Maestro,’ ‘Origin’ and More Oscar Contenders Talk the Toughest Tasks Behind the Scenes of Their Films

Erika Alexander and Jeffrey Wright in Orion/Amazon MGM Studios’ American Fiction. Claire Folger/MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection Producer Jermaine Johnson worked primarily as a literary manager for clients like first-time movie writer-director Cord Jefferson (whom he’s represented for close to a decade) before the pair collaborated on Jefferson’s darkly comic adaptation of the novel Erasure by Percival…

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#Oscars: The Leading Men Leading the Race

#Oscars: The Leading Men Leading the Race

Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario Nicolas Cage A24 / Courtesy Everett Collection Cage is at his Cage-iest in this dark comedy, playing a boring husband, father and academic who suddenly starts appearing in the dreams of strangers, making him world famous — for better and worse. The performance evokes memories of his Oscar-nominated turn in Adaptation….

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