An Oscar-Night Diary: The Kenergy Was Palpable

It’s an hour after “Oppenheimer” has won Best Picture, the all but preordained climax of the ninety-sixth Academy Awards, and I’m trying to find my way from the red carpet to the street. When people ask me what’s different about attending the Oscars in person, versus watching them on television, I tell them that the … Read more

2024 Oscar winners: See who took home a trophy

2024 Oscar winners: See who took home a trophy – CBS News Watch CBS News “Oppenheimer” scored some of the top categories at the 96th Academy Awards, including best director, best actor and best picture. But there were several other big winners of the night. Here’s a list. Be the first to know Get browser … Read more

And the Oscar Goes To … The Movie Most People Have Seen 

The Oscars are poised to do something on Sunday that they haven’t done in a very long time: Hand its top award to a blockbuster. After years of favoring smaller movies such as “The Shape of Water” and “Nomadland,” the clear best-picture favorite “Oppenheimer” — with just shy of $1 billion in tickets sold — … Read more

The Oscars: Who’ll Win, Who Should Win, and Who’s Overdue

Will win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”Should win: Danielle Brooks, “The Color Purple”Should’ve been nominated: Hong Chau, “Showing Up” BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Sterling K. Brown, “American Fiction”Robert De Niro, “Killers of the Flower Moon”Robert Downey, Jr., “Oppenheimer”Ryan Gosling, “Barbie”Mark Ruffalo, “Poor Things” Everything is coming together beautifully for Robert Downey, Jr., a three-time Oscar nominee … Read more

Bank of Canada holds key interest rate at 5% again, saying it’s still too soon for rate cuts

The Bank of Canada has held its key interest rate at five per cent again, saying that it’s still too soon to consider rate cuts while underlying inflation persists. Economists were widely expecting the central bank to hold the rate. The bank said in a note on its website that it was still concerned about underlying inflation, which strips … Read more

Barry Blitt’s “Slappenheimer” | The New Yorker

The 2024 Academy Awards, which will take place on March 10th, will almost certainly extend the friendly feud that has existed between “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” ever since their same-day release last summer. For the cover of the March 11, 2024, issue, the cartoonist Barry Blitt transposed the rivalry between the blockbuster films of 2023 onto … Read more

Who masterfully transformed Bradley Cooper into Leonard Bernstein in Maestro?

Shortly after that, the Kyoto native saw Bernstein in a documentary on Japanese television. “I was really inspired by what he was talking about,” Hiro said. “I thought, you know, ‘Someday, I want to work on a film about Leonard Bernstein’.” Then, in 2020, he got a call from Cooper, who directed, cowrote and stars in … Read more

Saint Laurent to Co-produce, Costume Next Jacques Audiard Movie

CHANGE MAKERS: Anthony Vaccarello, who just unveiled one of the most talked-about collections in Paris for Saint Laurent, will soon be designing more film costumes, too. Saint Laurent Productions will coproduce French director Jacques Audiard’s next film, “Emilia Perez.” Described as a “melodrama musical,” it stars Karla Sofía Gascón, an up-and-coming Argentinian trans actor, who … Read more

Two African Migrants’ Fantastical, Harrowing Odyssey in “Io Capitano”

At one point in “Io Capitano,” a deeply moving drama about an odyssey through unknown lands, the Italian director Matteo Garrone undermines his own realism, to startlingly lyrical effect. Seydou (Seydou Sarr), a sixteen-year-old from Senegal, is one of several African migrants who have been walking for hours across a great stretch of the Sahara … Read more

Naruto movie will be written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton

The heyday of live-action anime adaptations continues unabated as the Naruto movie is finally moving forward. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Destin Daniel Cretton – director and co-writer of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – is on board to write and direct the live-action Naruto movie for Lionsgate. The movie will … Read more