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UPDATED with latest: The 2023 Oscars are history, and as Hollywood gets a brief respite from awards madness — though Emmy season looms — it’s time to look ahead at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a shortened list of awards shows, events and the like as we look ahead to warmer climes and Emmy…

Comedy doesn’t always have the easiest time being taken seriously come Oscar season. Movies based on established toy brands don’t, either. But, based on reaction to Sunday night’s huge world premiere at the Shrine in downtown Los Angeles, as well as my own…

Jeanell English is leaving the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences less than a year after being named to the newly post of EVP Impact & Inclusion. She had been with the group since joining as VP Impact & Operations in 2020. Word of English’s exit comes hours after news broke that Warner Bros…

It’s that time of year again — the break between Cannes and the fall festivals, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences makes its membership invitations. The Oscars group said today that it has extended offers to 398 artists and execs — one more than last year — who have distinguished…

The newest Academy Award winners have been announced. Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks, and veteran film editor Carol Littleton have been voted Honorary Oscars, and the Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. All will be…

There it was in my email, right on the dot, at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning– the digital equivalent of a dreaded question that follows every industry screening. As the old joke puts it: "How did you love my movie?" I had (finally) visited the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Tuesday afternoon…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. The final hours are upon us. This isn’t meant to be some sort of bleak apocalyptic statement, but rather a catchy reminder to my fellow Emmy voters that time is fleeting when it…

UPDATED with NATO statement: Long in the works, and indicating stronger support for theatrical exhibition in the increasing age of streamers, the Board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has approved a landmark change in eligibility rules for…

Glenn Farr, whose work on The Right Stuff won the 1984 Academy Award for editing, died May 25 at Cedars Sinai from complications from a brain tumor, according to several friends’ Facebook posts. He was 77. Farr brought his touch to Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff. He shared the win with fellow…

Navigating the frenzied Cannes Film Festival scene can prove perilous for a first-timer, even if he's boss of the Oscars. Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is in Cannes to meet with his expanded covey of overseas members, now a quarter of Oscar voters. He also has…

Although Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro take top billing in Martin Scorsese's harrowing drama, one might say the real star of Killers of the Flower Moon is a relative unknown: Lily Gladstone, who plays Mollie, wife to DiCaprio's Ernest. Mollie is the film's conscience, a rich Osage woman who is…

EXCLUSIVE: In 2016, the hottest book in Hollywood hadn't even been published yet. Circulating in galley proofs, it was the latest non-fiction work from author David Grann, whose 2009 book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon had recently been filmed by James Gray and produced by…