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Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with Dìdi (弟弟), Focus Features’ comedic drama from writer and director Sean Wang. His narrative feature directorial debut, the coming-of-age story takes place in 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, as an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy Chris Wang (Izaac Wang), aka Dìdi, learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

The semi-autobiographical film world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic competition as well as the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble. It hit theaters in late July.

Speaking at the premiere of his movie at The Ray Theater in Park City, Sean Wang confessed, “I wish my adolescent self was kinder to myself. I wish...

The Sundance Institute announced today that Michelle Satter, Founding Senior Director of Artist Programs at Sundance Institute, will be honored at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival gala fundraiser, taking place at the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley in Utah on January 24, 2025.

The event, dubbed Celebrating Sundance Institute, will see Satter recognized for her decades-long commitment to nurturing artists and cultivating independent film through the Sundance Labs, where artists convene to develop groundbreaking projects through an in-depth creative process.

Other honorees will include Dìdi filmmaker Sean Wang, as well as the Sugarcane duo of Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, who debuted their latest films at this past year’s festival and will respectively receive the Vanguard Awards for Fiction and NonFiction.

The Vanguard Award recognizes emerging artists whose work highlights the art of storytelling and creative independence. Past recipients have included Celine Song, Maite Alberdi, W. Kamau Bell, Nikyatu Jusu, Ryan Coogler,...

“I never had the kind of rebellion that Chris the character had in ‘Dìdi,’” shares Joan Chen on how her adolescent years differed significantly from those depicted in the Sean Wang film. Unlike the protagonist, who grows up in 2008 and navigates friends and romantic feelings the digital age, Chen grew up in China during the cultural revolution, and her peers were fearful of “being sent down to remote areas to be reeducated.” Focused on “how to get enough nutrition,” the award-winning actress “never had the luxury” of acting out like her on-screen son, but she was lucky enough to be selected during her “first year in high school to star in a film,” which changed the trajectory of her life. Watch our complete video interview above.

In many ways, Chen’s personal experiences mirrored her character Chungsing’s own. The actress says the role felt like “an opportunity for me to express myself,...

Didi is finally streaming, and the 96% fresh coming-of-age drama is gathering plenty of hype as one of the years best movies. The story follows a young boy named Didi, who learns the importance of friendship, family, and accepting yourself during his final summer before high school begins. Its a powerful story of self-worth and individualism, which has plenty of relatable moments that make it a breezy and entertaining watch for all audiences. Just like the very best coming-of-age movies, it uses humor and relatability to explore several important, mature themes.

Didi is the feature-length debut of director Sean Wang, who became known for his successful short films Sunday and Hags (Have A Good Summer). The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it opened to excellent reviews and ultimately received the US Dramatic Audience Award. Didis portrayal of the Asian-American experience is a perfect reflection of many peoples lives,...

Chris Wang reminds us how annoying teenagers can be in this comedy-drama. The film's use of humor undermines its deep themes and emotional moments. The meaningful exploration of the themes lacks in Sean Wang's feature debut.

On the poster for Focus Features latest coming-of-age drama, Ddi (2024) , the tagline reads for anyone whos ever been a teenager. I have to wonder if that was meant as a nice dedication or a painful reflection on the annoyances of dealing with teenagers. Written and directed by Sean Wang, his feature-length directorial debut touches on these awkward years by centering on an Asian American boy growing up in the 2000s. With it comes commentary on identity, family, friendship, and more. Occasionally humorous but mostly irritating, Ddi requires great patience from those of us who've grown weary of this genre.

Ddi (2024)

Director Sean WangRelease Date August 16, 2024Writers Sean WangCast Chiron Cillia Denk, Aaron Chang,...

While trying to chat up classmate Madi (Mahaela Park) on Aim, Chris (Izaac Wang) skims her MySpace for an “in”. Then, beneath all the Paramore pictures and low-res GIFs is a list of her favorite movies. Oh, A Walk to Remember is one of them. He fakes loving it; “its helllllla good,” he says. Now he has to maintain that––at least for a few scenes. This sort of thing happens throughout Sean Wang’s feature directorial debut. The character moments flow on a moment-to-moment basis and the period detail is quite good beneath it. Ultimately, Dìdi (弟弟) works despite its untapped potential.

Summer 2008 is coming to an end. The youngest of his Taiwanese-American family, Chris gets ready for high school while his sister Vivian (Shirley Chen) prepares to go to college. Their mother, a painter named Chungsing (Joan Chen), exists in the script’s peripheries for stretches, while grandmother...

All coming-of-age movies essentially hit the same beats: the getting of wisdom, the loss of innocence, the passage from childhood to some hard-won form of adulthood. Only the names, regions, eras and cultures change. Trace a through line from The 400 Blows to Lady Bird, however, and you’ll notice the best of these stories don’t just look back — in anger, in sorrow, in a misty cloud of nostalgia — but spark recognition of the good, bad and very ugly of your own formative years. You can add Sean Wang...

If having your first feature premiere at the Sundance Film Festival is an accomplishment, being nominated for an Academy Award the same week is pretty much unheard of. Nonetheless, that’s what writer-director Sean Wang experienced last January when his coming-of-age narrative feature, Dìdi, premiered to glowing reviews (and a distribution deal with Focus Features) while his nonfiction portrait of his two grandmothers, Nai Nai & Wài Pó, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Short. Still in his 20s, Wang’s career has skyrocketed over the past year, and now Dìdi “younger brother” in Chinese) opens in theaters riding a […]

The post “Everybody Passed on It”: Sean Wang on Dìdi first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

If having your first feature premiere at the Sundance Film Festival is an accomplishment, being nominated for an Academy Award the same week is pretty much unheard of. Nonetheless, that’s what writer-director Sean Wang experienced last January when his coming-of-age narrative feature, Dìdi, premiered to glowing reviews (and a distribution deal with Focus Features) while his nonfiction portrait of his two grandmothers, Nai Nai & Wài Pó, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Short. Still in his 20s, Wang’s career has skyrocketed over the past year, and now Dìdi “younger brother” in Chinese) opens in theaters riding a […]

The post “Everybody Passed on It”: Sean Wang on Dìdi first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

With his 2008-set Dìdi, Sean Wang captures the intermingling of adolescent friendship and early social media through the lens of the Asian American diaspora, and with welcome specificity. The importance that a MySpace Top 8 and profile song carries in the world of Chris (Izaac Wang), a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy, cannot be overstated, nor can the significance of AOL Instant Messenger in sustaining and expanding his friend circle, nor his YouTube channel in allowing him to express his sense of humor.

When it homes in on the disparities and contradictions between Chris’s online and real-life interactions, emotions, and behavior, Dìdi feels nothing short of truthful. Chris is a typically insecure teen, but to such an extreme that he’s almost preternaturally self-sabotaging. And Wang admirably doesn’t shy away from depicting Chris at his most awkward or abhorrent and the myriad ways his behavior alienates him from family and friends,...

"Promise me you won't do anything stupid." Focus Features has unveiled the official trailer for Didi, the feature directorial debut of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sean Wang (of the short Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó) - who is one of my favorite new filmmakers from 2024. I love this film! At its premiere in competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival it received critical & audience acclaim, winning both the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award & also the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast. "For anyone who's ever been a teenager." In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom. A distinct coming-of-age story from Sean Wang. The film stars Izaac Wang as Chris "Didi" Wang, with Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua as Nai Nai,...

Dìdi () premiered at SXSW 2024 and marks Sean Wang's feature debut, drawing from his own immigrant childhood experience. Set in 2008, the film follows Chris Wang navigating adolescence & themes of shame, identity, and belonging as a Taiwanese American. The heart of the film lies in the mother-son relationship, showcasing immigrant mom dynamics rarely seen in storytelling.

A film about coming of age in the US as a first-generation teenager, Dìdi (弟弟) made its Texas debut at the 2024 South by Southwest Festival. The film marked the second year in a row the festival featured a premiere by Writer and Director Sean Wang, who won the 2023 SXSW Short Documentary Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for his Academy Award Nominated Short, Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó. Though the film drew from Wang's own childhood as the child of Taiwanese immigrants, but held back from telling a true memoir. Dìdi (弟弟) marks Wang's feature directorial debut,...

OppenheimerBEST PICTUREAmerican FictionAnatomy of a FallBarbieThe HoldoversKillers of the Flower MoonMaestroOppenheimer – WINNERPast LivesPoor ThingsThe Zone of InterestACTOR In A Leading ROLEBradley Cooper (Maestro)Colman Domingo (Rustin)Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) – WINNERJeffrey Wright (American Fiction)Actress In A Leading ROLEAnnette Bening (Nyad)Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall)Carey Mulligan (Maestro)Emma Stone (Poor Things) – Winneractor In A Supporting ROLESterling K Brown (American Fiction)Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon)Robert Downey Jr (Oppenheimer) – WINNERRyan Gosling (Barbie)Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)Actress In A Supporting ROLEEmily Blunt (Oppenheimer)Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)America Ferrera (Barbie)Jodie Foster (Nyad)Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) – Winneranimated Feature FILMThe Boy and the Heron – WINNERElementalNimonaRobot DreamsSpider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseCINEMATOGRAPHYEl CondeKillers of the Flower MoonMaestroOppenheimer – WINNERPoor ThingsCOSTUME DESIGNBarbieKillers of the Flower MoonNapoleonOppenheimerPoor Things – WINNERDIRECTINGJustine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall)Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon...

The 2024 Academy Awards ceremony just came to an end!

The event aired on Sunday night (March 10) on ABC, and was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, who previously led the awards show in 2017, 2018 and 2023.

Oppenheimer led the pack with 13 nominations, and certainly had a good night! The film took home Best Picture, among wins in several other categories.

Keep reading to see all the nominees and winners from the 2023 Academy Awards…

2024 Oscar Nominations & Winners:

Best Picture

Barbie

Maestro

Past Lives

Poor Things

Oppenheimer - Winner

The Holdovers

American Fiction

Anatomy of a Fall

The Zone of Interest

Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Actress

Emma Stone, ‘Poor Things’ - Winner

Carey Mulligan, ‘Maestro’

Lily Gladstone, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

Annette Bening, ‘Nyad’

Sandra Huller, ‘Anatomy of a Fall’

Best Actor

Cillian Murphy, ‘Oppenheimer’ - Winner

Paul Giamatti, ‘The Holdovers’

Bradley Cooper, ‘Maestro’

Colman Domingo, ‘Rustin’

Jeffrey Wright, ‘American Fiction’

Best Supporting Actress

Emily Blunt,...

Oscars 2024 Winners List ( Photo Credit – IMDb )

Oscars 2024: Jimmy Kimmel returns to host the 96th Academy Awards, and every nominee was hopeful that they might take home the gold statuette. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Yorgor Lanthimos’ Poor Things were the frontrunners for the night. Scroll below to see the complete list of winners.

Justin Triet and Arthur Harari won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Anatomy of a Fall. Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki won the 2024 Oscars for Best Animated Feature Film.

The first win for Oppenheimer came with Robert Downey Jr’s victory in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role. However, Emily Blunt lost the Best Actress in a Supporting Role to Da’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdover. The 96th Academy Awards was an eventful night, and many were acknowledged for their with an Oscar while others were inspired to do better in the future.

Oppenheimer was the big winner at the 2024 Academy awards, taking home best picture, best director, best actor for Cillian Murphy and a host of other prizes.

The ceremony took place tonight (March 10) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting for a fourth time.

Read our full report from the ceremony here.

Full list of winners

Best picture

American Fiction Anatomy Of A Fall Barbie The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Oppenheimer Past Lives Poor Things The Zone Of Interest

Directing

Justine Triet, Anatomy Of A Fall Martin Scorsese, Killers Of The Flower Moon Christopher Nolan,...

The 96th Academy Awards is taking place today (March 10) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

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The ceremony started at 4pm Pt/7pm Et (11pm UK time) and is expected to run for around three hours. It is broadcast live on ABC.

Jimmy Kimmel is hosting for a fourth time, with Raj Kapoor serving as executive producer and showrunner alongside executive producers Molly McNearney and Katy Mullan.

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Oppenheimer leads the nominations with 13 nods,...

Winners for the 96th Academy Awards were announced today. “Oppenheimer,” “Barbie” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” were all among the best picture nominations. Other nominees included “Poor Things,” “American Fiction,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Holdovers,” “Maestro,” “Past Lives,” and “The Zone of Interest.”

See the full list of Winners below.

Best Picture American Fiction Anatomy of a Fall Barbie The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Oppenheimer Past Lives Poor Things The Zone of Interest Best Actor Bradley Cooper – Maestro Colman Domingo – Rustin Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction Best Actress Annette Benning – Nyad Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon Sandra Huller – Anatomy of a Fall Carey Mulligan – Maestro Emma Stone – Poor Things Best Supporting Actress Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple America Ferrera – Barbie Jodie Foster – Nyad Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers Best Supporting Actor Sterling K Brown...

The most anticipated night in Hollywood is finally here!

On Sunday, the biggest names in film gathered for the 96th Academy Awards, marking the official end to awards season. Jimmy Kimmel returns to host the ceremony for the third time, which is airing live from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on ABC.

Check below for the full list of winners (in bold).

Best Picture

American Fiction

Anatomy of a Fall

Barbie

The Holdovers

Killers of the Flower Moon

Maestro

Oppenheimer

Past Lives

Poor Things

The Zone of Interest

Best Director

Jonathan Glazer,...

Photo: Emma McIntyre (Getty Images)

Despite two historic strikes, shifting release schedules, and the ongoing risk of coronavirus, Hollywood had a lot to celebrate at tonight’s 96th Academy Awards. If there was a message to take away from this year’s awards season, it’s that 2023 was a very good year for movies.

Refresh for updates: The votes are in, the tuxes are pressed, and the envelopes are sealed: It’s time for the 96th Academy Awards. Deadline is updating the winners list live as they are announced, so check it out below.

Christopher Nolan’s near-billion-dollar juggernaut Oppenheimer has been collecting trophies at nearly every stop this awards season and comes into the ceremony as the odds-on favorite for Best Picture, among other nods. It’s vying for the Big Prize on Hollywood’s Big Night against the No. 1 movie of 2023, Barbie, along with American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Past Lives, Poor Things and The Zone of Interest.

Here are the winners announced so far at the Oscars, followed by the remaining nominees:

Winners

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Nominees

Best Picture

American Fiction

Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson, Producers

Anatomy of a Fall...

In a strange reversal of a long-standing trend with the Academy, this year’s documentary short ballot is almost entirely domestic, while the feature doc category — where subtitles aren’t so common — is entirely international. Judging by the overall quality of the films in the 141-minute “2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary” lineup, that’s no sign of compromise. In fact, for Oscar completists, ShortsTV’s annual roundup is one of the most rewarding theatrical experiences audiences could hope for this year.

Director Sean Wang premiered his debut feature, “Dìdi,” at the Sundance Film Festival just four days before learning that his short, “Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó,” had been Oscar nominated. Both projects feature his paternal grandmother, octogenarian Chang Li Hua, who shares a house with his mother’s mother, 94-year-old Yi Yau Fuei (the title combines the two women’s nicknames). At times, Wang’s delightful, slightly freeform...

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Where I'm From: Now and Gen features in-conversation pieces between generations - like a younger woman and her grandmother - discussing a topic like beauty rituals, finances, or marriage. We sat down with filmmaker Sean Wang and his grandmothers, Yi Yan Fuei and Chang Li Hua, the subjects of Wang's Oscar-nominated documentary short, "Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó." Read their heartwarming chat about friendship below.

In 2021, in the wake of increased anti-Asian violence and the ongoing pandemic, filmmaker Sean Wang moved back home to San Francisco. There, he started observing - then filming - Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó, his 94-year-old paternal grandmother and 83-year-old maternal grandmother, respectively, who happen to be inseparable friends and roommates. As he captured the mundane moments and joys of their daily lives, he created "Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó," an Oscar-nominated documentary short that recently landed on Disney+.

"As...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:

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2023 Oscars Predictions:

Best Documentary Short Nai Nai & Wai Po, (aka Nai Nai And Wai Po), Zhang Li Hua and Yi Yan Fuei, 2023. © Disney+ / Courtesy Everett Collection

Weekly Commentary: In the documentary short category, the competition is notably fierce, featuring a lineup of powerful and thought-provoking contenders, and the best of the three shorts categories.

If you are aiming to win your Oscar pool you may feel relatively safe right about now predicting, as most are, a sweep by Oppenheimer — especially after its overwhelming showing last week winning seven BAFTA Awards, the DGA honor for Christopher Nolan the week before that, and on Saturday sweeping three of the five movie awards at SAG and winning the top prize last night at the PGA Awards.

However, key to actually winning your pool will not be those marquee feature film categories but rather the three shorts races that run under the radar, but can spell the difference in triumphing over all others in whatever pool you enter. So who could — or should, for these purposes — prevail in the Documentary Shorts, Animated Shorts and Live Action Shorts contests this year? Shorts TV in association with distributor Magnolia Pictures has, as usual, put all of them in theatrical release across the country,...

Disney+ Hotstar announced today that the 96th Oscars® will be live-streamed in India on Monday, March 11 at 4 Am Ist. Emmy Award-winning late-night talk show host and producer Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the live show for the fourth time.

Actor In A Leading Role (Nominees)

Bradley Cooper

Maestro

Colman Domingo

Rustin

Paul Giamatti

The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy

Oppenheimer

Jeffrey Wright

American Fiction

Actor In A Supporting Role (Nominees)

Sterling K. Brown

American Fiction

Robert De Niro

Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr.

Oppenheimer

Ryan Gosling

Barbie

Mark Ruffalo

Poor Things

Actress In A Leading Role (Nominees)

Annette Bening

Nyad

Lily Gladstone

Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra HÜLLER

Anatomy of a Fall

Carey Mulligan

Maestro

Emma Stone

Poor Things

Actress In A Supporting Role (Nominees)

Emily Blunt

Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks

The Color Purple

America Ferrera

Barbie

Jodie Foster

Nyad

Da’Vine Joy Randolph

The Holdovers

Animated Feature Film...

Sean Wang and his grandmas have had quite the month. On Jan. 19, the filmmaker’s debut feature, Dìdi (弟弟), had its world premiere in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, and then four days later he became an Oscar nominee for Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó. He shot the Disney+ documentary short in 2021 during the pandemic, about the daily life of his paternal and maternal grandmothers, Yi Yan Fuei and Chang Li Hua, who after being widowed about a decade ago became roommates and then, as Wang puts it, “sisters” and “soulmates.”

“We thought it would be special to fly back to Fremont and surprise the grandmas and watch the nominations with them,” Wang says of he and producer/cinematographer Sam A. Davis’ quick jaunt back to his Bay Area hometown in the middle of their Park City engagement. “Even if we didn’t get nominated, [we could] put an end to this surreal,...

Deadline has launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: The Nominees, the Oscar nominees panel showcase that took place Saturday.

Click here to launch the Contenders Film: The Nominees streaming site.

Cast and creatives from eight Oscar-nominated films sat down for wide-ranging discussions about the craft that went into the making of the movies now in final stretch to the Academy Awards on March 10.

The diverse panels ran the gamut, from Best Picture nominees Killers of the Flower Moon, The Holdovers and Anatomy of a Fall to documentaries like Bobi Wine: The People’s President, To Kill a Tiger and Năi Nai & Wài Pó, the historical epic Napoleon and the animated Elemental.

Panelists included Napoleon costume designers Janty Yates and David Crossman and production designer Arthur Max; Holdovers stars Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, director Alexander Payne, writer-producer David Hemingson and producer Mark Johnson; Flower Moon cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, production designer Jack Fisk,...

Filmmaker Sean Wang’s endearing live-action short Năi Nai & Wài Pó might seem to be perhaps the lightest of all the Oscar nominees in the category, but he had more on his mind in chronicling the lives of his inseparable grandmothers, the 94-year-old Năi Nai (Yi Yan Fuei) and 83-year-old Wài Pó (Zhang Li Hua) as they go about their daily lives, even sleeping in the same bed in their Bay Area home.

The recent spate of violence against innocent people in the Asian community in America was also on Wang’s mind as he joined us for Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees.

“I mean, the idea of it is right there, you know, my two grandmas. The movie is full of life, and joy, and humor, and farts, and all the things that it encapsulates because they are full of joy and humor and sometimes gas,” he said.

As we race to the Oscar finish line, it has certainly been a year to remember. The movie business all but shook off the last vestiges of the Covid era with the phenomenon that was Barbenheimer — collectively, Barbie and Oppenheimer earned more than $2 billion globally at the box office. Not only is cinema alive and kicking, but both of those box office behemoths are Oscar-nominated for Best Picture.

It sets the stage for Contenders Film: The Nominees, Deadline’s annual awards-season showcase. Today, we sit down with casts and creatives from eight of this year’s Oscar-nominated films, representing hopefuls spanning categories from the crafts to Best Picture. The virtual livestream begins at 9 a.m. Pt.

Click here to register and watch the livestream.

The Best Picture competition is still very much on, and Focus Features’ The Holdovers is in the running. Joining us today for a Q&a conversation are director Alexander Payne,...

“The word I keep coming back to to describe that moment is an extreme burst of chaotic energy,” shares filmmaker Sean Wang about the moment he received his first Oscar nomination for his documentary short film “Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó.” The director watched the announcement live with the film’s stars — his grandmothers Yi Yan Fuei (Nǎi Nai) and Chang Li Hua (Wài Pó) — and filmed their reactions, sharing the utterly joyous moment of their celebration online. The nomination serves as a lovely grace note on the “extremely unexpected and surreal and special journey” that the family went on together. Watch our exclusive video interview above.

“Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó” is a 17-minute snapshot of the life that Wang’s two grandmothers have made for themselves in their old age; his Nǎi Nai is now 96, his Wài Pó 86. The two share a home and even a bed, take care of one another,...

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Here are the Best Documentary Short nominees:

Island in Between | Taiwan | 20 minutes

Located just a few miles from mainland China is a series of islands known as Kinmen––islands under the jurisdiction of Taiwan. This is where Taiwanese men spend their mandatory military service, as it’s the frontline of any impending conflict that might arise from China’s decades-long refusal to acknowledge the country’s sovereignty. Putting a Taiwanese face to the tensions, S. Leo Chiang traveled to Kinmen to capture its life in-motion.

That’s pretty much what Island in Between delivers: snapshots of residents with connections to both countries and voiceover narration describing Chiang’s own relationship with them (as well as the US). We see army drills. Listen to the “psychological warfare” of pumping Taiwan’s most...

Best Actor

Colman Domingo (Rustin)

The actor received public praise from Walter Naegle, the life partner of the late Bayard Rustin: “You’ve brought Bayard’s spirit to a world audience — the intelligence, integrity, compassion and commitment, all driven by a joy for living.”

Best Actress

Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)

The 37-year-old breakout, who, for her turn as Mollie in Martin Scorsese’s drama, became the first Indigenous American to be nominated for an acting Oscar, was profiled by The New Yorker on Feb. 4.

Best Supporting Actor

Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)

The actors’ actor and fan favorite who is nominated for an Oscar for the fourth time (his previous noms were for The Kids Are All Right, Foxcatcher and Spotlight) will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Feb. 8.

Best Original Score

Oppenheimer

Ludwig Göransson’s score was awarded best score soundtrack album...

“Oppenheimer” la película más nominada de los premios.

Hoy se han anunciado los nominados a los Oscars 2024, los premios más importantes de la industria cinematográfica. Oppenheimer ha sido la película más nominada y se queda a una nominación de los 14 (el récord actual).

La ceremonia de los Oscars tendrá lugar el 10 de marzo en Los Ángeles. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los nominados de la 96ª edición de los Oscars:

Mejor PELÍCULA

Oppenheimer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Anatomy of a Fall

The Holdovers

Poor Things

Barbie

Maestro

Past Lives

American Fiction

The Zone of Interest

Mejor PELÍCULA Animada

The Boy and the Heron

Elemental

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Nimona

Robot Dreams

Mejor PELÍCULA Internacional

Society of the Snow

The Zone of Interest

Io Capitano

Perfect Days

The Teachers’ Lounge

Mejor DIRECCIÓN

Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall

Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest

Martin Scorsese,...

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Nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced today in a live presentation from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Academy President Janet Yang opened the ceremony hosted by actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid. The nominees in all 23 Academy Award categories were revealed. The 96th Oscars Airs Sunday, 10 March, with the in-person event taking place at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.

And the nominees are…

Best Picture

American Fiction

Anatomy of a Fall

Barbie

The Holdovers

Killers of the Flower Moon

Maestro

Oppenheimer

Past Lives

Poor Things

The Zone of Interest

Actor In A Leading Role

Bradley Cooper - Maestro

Colman Domingo - Rustin

Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer

Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction

Actor In A Supporting Role

Sterling K. Brown - American Fiction

Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon...