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It’s finally here: The nominations for the 93rd annual Academy Awards will be unveiled Monday morning, and here is a guide on how to watch the announcement live. Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas will reveal the Oscars nominations in all 23 categories during a two-part presentation starting at 5:19 a.m. PT/8:19 a.m. ET. The

The Grammys awarded Billie Eilish’s theme song for the upcoming James Bond movie No Time to Die its Best Song Written for Visual Media on Sunday, a highlight of the pre-primetime Grammy Awards recipients. Eilish co-wrote the song for the film with brother Finneas. The tentpole franchise pic has moved several times during the pandemic,

Chloé Zhao won top honors Saturday night at the 33rd annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards for Nomadland, her adaptation of Jessica Bruder’s nonfiction book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. “This is so beautiful,” Zhao said, holding up the trophy, and thanking Bruder for her book and for her “love of the road and

As James Cameron’s Avatar once again became the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide today, a long-held Hollywood tradition of the previous record-holder paying homage continued. Marvel Studios, whose Avengers: Endgame was just eclipsed by Avatar, tweeted congratulations to Cameron, as well as producer Jon Landau and “all of the Na’vi Nation” for “reclaiming the

UPDATED: Albert Dupontel’s dark comedy Adieu Les Cons (Bye Bye Morons) was the big winner at tonight’s César Awards, scooping Best Film along with Director, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Cinematography and Production Design, during a muted in-person ceremony that nevertheless provided some notable moments. Chief among them was when actress Corinne Masiero stripped down to

Los Angeles County will officially move into the state’s less-restrictive “red” tier Monday, with the state achieving a milestone of 2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in hard-hit communities and prompting an easing of requirements for counties to advance in the economic- reopening blueprint. Los Angeles County officials said the move out of the “purple” tier

The Bird Box universe is expanding with a Spanish-language spinoff, we can reveal. The movie will reunite Netflix with Bird Box producers Dylan Clark (The Batman) and Chris Morgan (Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw), but it will also have a distinctly Spanish flavor. Writer-directors will be Spanish duo Alex and David Pastor, best known

At the 25th annual Art Directors Guild Awards, production designer Stuart Wurtzel will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award, the guild announced today. The award comes in recognition of the “exceptional spectrum” of designs Wurtzel has created for film, TV and theater over the course of six decades. “From…Hannah and Her Sisters to his iconic

When it comes to diversity, inclusion and representation, Hollywood is far from where it needs to be, but we are seeing progress. However, there are many blind spots that have been overlooked and cracks in the foundation that are growing bigger and bigger each day. If it doesn’t fix them, the industry will have more

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a busy 2021 for Adrian Younge so far, and now the acclaimed musician is leaping into a new realm with his film directorial debut T.A.N. Constructed as a companion piece to Younge’s poignant ‘The American Negro’ album that came out earlier this year, the piercing short film premieres on Amazon Prime Video

Los Angeles Unified School District campuses will resume in-person instruction in mid-April for preschool and elementary students. By the end of April for secondary students will be on campus. That, under a tentative agreement announced tonight between the district and the teachers’ union. “The agreement provides for the reopening of schools when Los Angeles County

From The Deuce to Random Acts of Flyness to The Hate U Give to Project Power, Dominique Fishback has built an acting career that has a strong foundation of perspective and point of view. With her most recent role in Judas and the Black Messiah, Fishback takes her career to a new level. The film directed by Shaka King, who co-wrote the script with Will

Thanks to decreased case numbers and changes implemented by the state in response to vaccination efforts, Los Angeles County officials said Monday that they are preparing to advance to a less-restrictive tier of the state’s Covid-19 economic reopening blueprint as early as next week. But whether the county will approve all the reopenings permitted in

For some time there has been a symbiotic relationship between Hollywood and Washington during award season in the form of publicity and prestige. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), though, said that he had no contact with the team behind Judas and the Black Messiah before he and other lawmakers reintroduced a bill to strip J. Edgar

Last week, Chadwick Boseman won a posthumous Golden Globe for his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and the celebration of the late, great actor’s great work continued on Sunday night as he, once again, won for his performance in the George C. Wolfe’s adaptation of the iconic August Wilson play. Boseman’s wife Taylor Simone

The 26th annual Critics Choice Awards are set for Sunday in a hybrid virtual and in-person program, with Taye Diggs returning to host for the third consecutive year. Opting for a mix of on-site and virtual appearances due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Critics Choice awards will see presenters announce winners live from the

UPDATE 6:54 P.M.: Literally Minutes after the HFPA announced more details of their plans to be a more diverse and inclusive organization, Time’s Up responded with “the right words are not enough. The clock is ticking.” In a statement released Saturday night, Time’s Up president and CEO Tina Tchen blasted the HFPA in a case

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s big spending at the virtual EFM is continuing with a mighty worldwide pre-buy of around $55M for Christian Bale Gothic horror-thriller The Pale Blue Eye, which will reunite the actor with director Scott Cooper. By our calculations, the deal marks a record for a worldwide deal at the European Film Market. The streamer

New York City, the nation’s leading movie market along with still-shuttered Los Angeles, springs back to life Friday after being flattened by Covid-19 for nearly a year. A pulse was detected in advance ticket sales with a handful of shows selling out at AMC Entertainment’s flagship Empire 25 theater in Times Square including a 4:30

On Mank, VFX supervisor Wei Zheng paired state-of-the-art technology with old-school filmmaking techniques, to help David Fincher craft a singular portrait of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Marking Zheng’s sixth collaboration with the director, the Netflix drama follows alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman), as he finishes the script for Citizen Kane. By implementing matte painting and