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The Academy Awards are the industry's greatest acknowledgment for movies. For almost a hundred years, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has rewarded the best in cinema with the Oscar statuette. Indeed, many classic movies like Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, The Godfather, The Silence of the Lambs, Titanic, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King have claimed the ceremony's most prestigious award: Best Picture.

If you have the requisite cones and rods, the moment is imprinted on your retina: Dorothy Gale awakens from a nasty bump on the head, opens the door of her drab sepia-toned farmhouse, and crosses over into an eye-popping realm of dazzling primary colors — ruby slippers, yellow brick roads and emerald cities.

Not only aren’t we in Kansas anymore, we aren’t in Hollywood anymore, at least not the usual black and white palette of all but 15 feature films that year. The portal into Oz did not open the curtain on cinematic color — nor was it alone in showcasing the polychromatic spectrum that year — 1939, after all, also saw the release of Gone With the Wind, whose painterly swatches of shimmering golden-hour hues made Oz look garish. But The Wizard of Oz drew the most vivid contrast between two possible screen worlds, a grim monochromatic Depression-scape and what was called...

It's hard to believe that we're more than a decade removed from the last feature-length Muppet movie. In the spring of 2014, Disney released the final Muppets movie -- at least, the final one for now. "Muppets Most Wanted" was, like its 2011 predecessor "The Muppets," a fun, family-friendly homage to the Muppet movies of old. The 2011 film, starring Jason Segel and Amy Adams, was as much about the Muppets themselves as it was a reference-laden film riffing on the 1979 classic "The Muppet Movie." And just as "The Great Muppet Caper" sent Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, and Miss Piggy to Europe for a rollicking heist movie, "Muppets Most Wanted" sent its gaggle of Muppet characters away from the United States for an adventure that ran them afoul of Interpol and the world's first and second greatest criminal masterminds. 

Muppet movies are also nothing if they're not delightfully self-referential, breaking the fourth wall with ease.

Best Actor Oscar Winners List (Photo Credit – Instagram/Wikipedia)

The Academy Awards have long vaunted acting titans, and a rare few male actors have commandeered the Best Actor statuette more than once, with Daniel Day-Lewis scaling the peak thrice. From living legends like Tom Hanks to recent winners such as Adrien Brody, 10 men are trailing Day-Lewis’ record. Here is every name with two or more wins in this hallowed category.

1. Daniel Day-Lewis

Sir Daniel Day-Lewis stands alone with three Best Actor Oscars, a feat no other man has matched. His wins were facilitated thanks to dramatic transformations for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, and Lincoln—roles that exhibit him as an unforgettable chameleon. The Irish actor has retired since 2017’s Phantom Thread, but his five nominations out of fewer than a couple dozen movies certainly make us wonder whether Day-Lewis could come back for that gold once again...

Disney’s first feature-length color animated movie, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” opened in Technicolor in 1937, and the company came full circle when Technicolor’s flagship visual effects company Mpc was called upon to create effects on Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the classic. But the timing now marks the sad end of Technicolor, which was founded in 1915 and went on to become one of Hollywood’s most recognizable brands, working on classic films such as “The Wizard of Oz” and “Gone with the Wind.”

On Friday, Feb. 21, Technicolor began alerting customers and employees that it was facing “severe financial challenges.” This included sending U.S. employees a Warn notice as required by law for large companies that anticipate closings and mass layoffs. Technicolor’s leadership worked through the weekend to find a solution, but by Monday CEO Caroline Parot admitted in a company memo to an “inability...

Can Adrien Brody ever truly own his Oscar?(Photo Credit – theacademy/Instagram)

Adrien Brody may have claimed the Best Actor title at this year’s Oscars, but the golden trophy in his hands? That doesn’t technically belong to him.

Of course, that won’t stop The Brutalist star from proudly displaying it on his mantle, at least for now. After a fierce competition against Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice), and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), Brody emerged victorious for his portrayal of László Tóth, an architect striving to rebuild his life in America.

Adrien Brody takes extra time to call out Jew-hate and racism while accepting his second Oscar for Best Actor.

He also deserves the award for Best Humanity at the Oscars.

Thank you, Adrien.

The 2025 Best Actress Oscar race was one for the ages. Mikey Madison won the award Sunday night for Anora to enter the Oscar annals as one of the youngest champs in the category ever.

At 25 years and 342 days old, Madison is the ninth youngest Best Actress winner. She displaces Vivien Leigh from the top 10 youngest list. Leigh was 26 years and 116 days old when she won her first Oscar for 1939's Gone with the Wind. Here is the new youngest top 10 (their ages calculated at the time of the award):

1. Marlee Matlin, Children of a Lesser God (1986): 21 years, 218 days

2. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook (2012): 22 years, 193 days

3. Janet Gaynor, 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise (1927/28): 22 years, 222 days

4. Joan Fontaine, Suspicion (1941): 24 years, 127 days

5. Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday (1953): 24 years, 325 days

6. Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette (1943): 25 years, 0 days

7. Grace Kelly, The Country Girl (1954): 25 years, 138 days

8. Hilary Swank,...

Earning his second Best Actor Oscar 22 years after his first, Adrien Brody entered the history books as the first leading actor to win two statuettes on his first two attempts on Sunday.

He won for his role as an ingenious, haunted architect in Brady Corbet’s epic, following his win in 2003 for Roman Polanski’s biographical World War II drama “The Pianist.”

And by wining Best Actor on Sunday, Brody not only made history but also preserved his place among Oscar milestones. Had 29-year-old Timothée Chalamet won in the category for “A Complete Unknown,” he would have become the youngest Best Actor victor ever, beating Brody’s own record from 2003.

Brody is the 11th leading actor to win twice in the top category.

“Acting is a very fragile profession,” Brody opened his acceptance speech. “It looks very glamorous, and certain moments it is, but the one thing that I’ve...

Adrien Brody took home his second Oscar on Sunday — Best Actor for The Brutalist — putting him in rarefied air: He is the eighth performer to boast a perfect 2-for-2 record at the Oscars.

The first seven to achieve this are:

1. Luise Rainer: Best Actress for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937)

2. Vivien Leigh: Best Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

3. Helen Hayes: Best Actress for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1932) and Best Supporting Actress for Airport (1970)

4. Kevin Spacey: Best Supporting Actor for The Usual Suspects (1995) and Best Actor for American Beauty (1999)

5. Hilary Swank: Best Actress for Boys Don’t Cry (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004)

6. Christoph Waltz: Best Supporting Actor for Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012)

7. Mahershala Ali: Best Supporting Actor for Moonlight (2016) and Green Book (2018)

See The complete list of Oscar winners

Brody nabbed his first Best Actor Oscar for...

Cynthia Erivo looks incredible while hitting the red carpet at the 2025 Academy Awards on Sunday (March 2) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

The 38-year-old Wicked actress is nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work as Elphaba, and her outfit on the carpet gives a nod to the character.

“We wanted a nod to Oz, we wanted a nod to green, we wanted a nod to Old Hollywood,” she said of her look on E! Live From the Red Carpet.

Her look for the Oscars this year was also in homage to Hattie McDaniel, who was the first ever Black actress to win an Oscar, for her role as Mammy in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

“Tonight is for Hattie McDaniel [...] Hope this Dress Makes You Proud!! Love Jason & Cynthia,” her stylist, Jason Bolden, wrote on his Instagram story.

Cynthia‘s partner Lena Waithe was also seen on the carpet,...

The 2025 Oscar nominations were announced on Jan. 23, with Emilia Pérez leading the way with 13 total bids. Next in line were The Brutalist (10), Wicked (10), A Complete Unknown (eight), Conclave (eight), Anora (six), Dune: Part Two (five), The Substance (five), and Nosferatu (four).

In the lead-up to the 97th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 2, thousands of Gold Derby users will be making and updating their predictions in all 23 categories, from picture and acting, to the three short film contests, and everything in between.

The following Oscar odds are derived from the combined forecasts of four unique groups: experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, editors who cover awards year-round for this website, top 24 users who had the best accuracy scores last year, and the mass of users who make up our biggest predictions bloc.

AMPAS members will vote for the winners between Feb. 11 and Feb. 18, and the results will then...

It’s time to review the 2025 Oscar nominations! That’s because tonight is the 97th Academy Awards (learn how to watch here), and, my, have things in the Oscar race changed since this full list of noms was unveiled January 23. See the complete list of nominees for the 2025 Oscars below, and see our full list of Oscar predictions here.

“Emilia Pérez” seemed like the definitive Best Picture frontrunner at that time, cleaning up with 13 nominations. Now, following the implosion of Best Actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón, and the growing outcry against the film in Mexico, its Oscar chances seem pretty much dead, except for likely Best Supporting Actress winner Zoe Saldaña and maybe Best International Feature. In her own final Oscar picks, Anne Thompson also has “El Mal” from the Jacques Audiard movie winning Best Original Song.

Mind you, “Emilia Pérez,” in scoring 13 noms, tied with multiple other films such as “Gone with the Wind,...

Films With the Most Oscar Wins (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Oscars 2025: The 97th Academy Awards will be held in a few hours, and we are waiting with bated breath to see this year’s winners. We have already made our picks for the six main categories, but we will know the rest once the event occurs. But this article will reveal the movies with the most Oscars. Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King are among the top films, while Oppenheimer took home seven significant awards last year, but some movies have won more than that. Scroll below for more.

This year, Emilia Perez is leading with the most nominations, followed by The Brutalist and Wicked. Zoe Saldana’s movie has 13 nods, while the other two movies are tied with 10 nominations. This year, the list has a diverse mix of genres, with fresh talent meeting established actors,...

Quick LinksVal Lewton Revolutionized Low-Budget Horror MoviemakingThe Curse of the Cat People Is One of Cinema's Best Films About Childhood ImaginationGenerational Trauma Is a Key Theme in The Curse of the Cat People

Directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, The Curse of the Cat People is an underrated 1944 psychological supernatural horror thriller that deserves to rank alongside the greatest sequels in cinema history. The Curse of the Cat People was one of eleven legendary B movies Val Lewton produced for Rko Pictures between 1942 and 1946. Lewton's historic run as a producer began in 1942 with Cat People, a low-budget B horror movie that became a surprise box office hit. Looking to capitalize on Cat People's commercial success, Rko Pictures commissioned Lewton to produce a sequel. While many sequels fall victim to being an inferior, copy-and-paste version of their predecessor, Lewton ensured that The Curse of the Cat People was...

Segregation, scrutiny, and decades of erasure – Hollywood was everything but kind to Hattie McDaniel in the years following her 1940 Academy win, the first for a Black performer. Sympathizers for the Academy’s cause would, perhaps, feel that the industry was designed like that then, much like the world around it, and they weren’t doing anything different. If that weren’t enough, the Oscar she so rightfully earned mysteriously vanished from Howard University in the late 1960s.

What happened to this historic award? How could something so significant simply disappear? This is the story of a win, a lost award, and a mystery that remains to be solved.

Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in Gone With the Wind | Credits: MGM Hattie McDaniel made history as Mammy

Hattie McDaniel’s Mammy in Gone with the Wind won her the Golden Statue. It is hard to succinctly express the weight of the moment.

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay honors those works that adapt previously published material into works of cinematic art. There's something truly daunting about taking something that already worked in another medium and trying to translate it into live-action. Throughout the Academy's near-100-year history, notable past winners have included classics like Gone with the Wind, The Godfather, The Silence of the Lambs, and The Social Network.

Stars: Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola | Written by Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold | Directed by Brady Corbet

Dark screens are broken by the reading of a letter, and a scramble of people across the screen, all of them fighting to see their new world of freedom. The land of dreams: America. The crashing brass of an overture fills the room, and you sit up, realising this is something very different. When movies were in their golden age and films felt like an event, an overture would often ring out before any images were seen, or over the opening titles. Think of films such as Lawrence of Arabia, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ben Hur, Gone with the Wind, and many more. Grand films that feel made for the big screen, that seem to invoke the very voice of cinema. If...

Iconic SAG Awards Speeches ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

The SAG Awards 2025 was held in Los Angeles and was live-streamed on Netflix. The award ceremony is significant for kickstarting with the attendees sharing their origin to become an actor. The trend started with Angela Lansbury’s opening monologue at the 1995 event, and soon, every artist started ending their speech with the ‘I’m an actor’ tagline. Here’s looking at some of the most endearing ‘I’m An Actor’ speeches of the creme-de-la-creme of Hollywood at the SAG Awards.

Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway recalled how she was inspired by her mother playing the role of Evita. At the 2006 Saf Awards, Anne said, “My first memory of wanting to be an actor came when I saw my mother play the title role in Evita. I watched her die on stage and come back to life in time for the applause and I thought,...

Snakes on Plane gave audiences exactly what they came for, it's all spoiled in the title. It also helped that A-list actor Samuel L. Jackson led the ensemble.

Snakes on a Plane streams on Peacock starting Mar. 1. This 2006 action-thriller was much-anticipated leading to release, thanks to viral marketing and media coverage. Interest peaked when Samuel L. Jackson jumped into the project; New Line Cinema initially doubted he was onboard and even confirmed with his agent. Jackson also proved pivotal to development; the film was titled Pacific Air Flight 121 at one point, but the actor insisted they keep Snakes on Plane as the official title, which is the only reason he joined the ensemble.

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"The title was what got my attention," Jackson told USA Today.

When it comes to The Oscars, it's fair to say that it's one of the most anticipated celebrations in the film industry. For many filmmakers, winning an Oscar is the finest achievement possible, mostly because it's tied with a lot of recognition. Thus, movies like Gone with The Wind and Parasite remain with the audience because they have such a coveted position in the film business.

However, certain critics turn their noses up at animated movies. Although these films secure awards in their own right, they're typically undervalued because they are mostly associated with children. In turn, a lot of film buffs are missing out on the best Oscar-winning films of a generation.

A Little Girl Must Complete Forced Labor to Save Her Parents Spirited Away

Chihiro and her family are excited to start again in their new home. During their journey to the house, her parents stop off at an abandoned amusement park.

Never in recent memory has a movie bungled its Best Picture chances quite like Emilia Pérez. Some have lost their steam through the months-long awards season, but only Emilia Pérez’s slip has fallen on one person: its star, Karla Sofía Gascón, whose resurfaced tweets that were rightly deemed full of bigotry and hate came back to haunt not only her, but the film itself. Now, Netflix is finally commenting on the backlash and where the movie stands ahead of next month’s Oscars.

Appearing on The Town podcast (via The Hollywood Reporter), Netflix’s Cco Bela Bejaria said, “I think it’s really a bummer for the 100 incredibly talented people who made an amazing movie. And if you look at the nominations, and all of this awards love that it’s received, I think it’s such a bummer that it distracted from that. It really has kind of...

Alex Garland's latest feature film, Civil War, has captivated audiences nationwide on its way to setting numerous box office records for A24. Civil War became A24's highest-grossing Thursday night preview release and the company's highest-grossing opening weekend release. The movie also became A24's first film to finish a weekend at the top spot of the domestic box office list.

A civil war is any armed conflict between organized groups within the same state or country. Many in the United States are familiar with films about the American Civil War, such as Gone with the Wind, Glory, and Gettysburg. However, other civil wars such as the Irish Civil War and the Sengoku period in Japanese history have been brilliantly depicted in cinema through movies such as The Wind That Shakes the Barley and Ugetsu. Civil war films account for some of the greatest war movies ever made.

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Trying to crown one year as the best in cinematic history is fun but also a bit futile. It’s possible to select contenders, but the reality is that every year in the history of the medium has something good to offer. Without picking a single year, 1939 is iconic, as is 1994, but more recently – or at least as far as the 21st century is concerned – 2019 was kind of an all-time good year for movies.

On January 23, Emilia Pérez entered film history. The Spanish-language, French musical crime film received 13 Oscar nominations, tied for second-most of all time, placing it alongside Gone With The Wind and Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?. Those watching along online had one collective response: What?

Emilia Pérez has since become...

For years, when it comes to entertainment, Hollywood has been the epicenter of storytelling. Over the years, there have been countless tales told and stories made for the audience, from death-defying scenes to heart-warming ones that melt your heart out.

While each project or scene has a charm of its own, that is quite incomparable, there are a handful few who have etched into the collectible memory of moviegoers.

Hollywood is full of unforgettable and mesmerizing moments | Credit: Image by Thomas Wolf, licensed under Cca- Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Such moments have sparked debates, inspired countless, and turned their respective films into cultural touchstones. While we cannot possibly compile a list of all such moments, here are 20 unforgettable Hollywood movie moments that continue to captivate and resonate with audiences around the world.

20. “Here’s looking at you, kid” – Casablanca (1942) Casablanca | Credit: Warner Bros.

A romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz,...

Clark Gable was the Oscar-winning matinee idol who starred in dozens of films before his untimely death in 1960. Let’s take a look back at 12 of Gable’s greatest movies, ranked worst to best.

After appearing in bit parts in a number of films, Gable shot to stardom with his performance in “A Free Soul” (1931) as a gangster who bewitches a young woman (Norma Shearer) whose attorney father (Lionel Barrymore) helped him beat a murder rap. From there forward, the actor’s persona as a raffish leading man who’s every guy’s best friend and every gal’s dream became cemented in a number of subsequent roles.

He won an Oscar just three years later for Frank Capra‘s screwball classic “It Happened One Night” (1934), in which he played a newspaper reporter traveling with a spoiled socialite (Claudette Colbert). The film became the first to sweep the five major Oscars,...

In the genres of film, romance is one of the most sprawling; featuring movies that will make you bawl your eyes out, laugh until you have a six-pack (of abs or beer) and keep you on the edge of your seat until the credits roll. Movies like Casablanca, When Harry Met Sally, Gone with the Wind, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind all have incredibly different vibes, with each one giving audiences a different experience. In the early aughts, an adaptation of a beloved Nicholas Sparks novel would unite romance lovers everywhere when The Notebook made its way into theaters. Considered to be one of the greatest genre titles of not just the last 20 years but also of all time, the Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams film is now streaming on Hulu. Unfortunately for subscribers who were hoping to celebrate Valentine’s Day with the production, it won’t...

Before “Emilia Pérez” made history with 13 nominations at the 2025 Oscars — tying with “Gone with the Wind,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Oppenheimer” for the second-most nods of all time — the film’s producers have backed a slew of indie hits.

Now, the filmography from producers Pascal Caucheteux and Grégoire Sorlat and their banner Why Not Productions is getting its due on the big screen. IndieWire can announce that with support from Netflix, the top Why Not Productions features will return to theaters. That includes Gregg Araki’s iconic 1995 Nc-17 crime film “The Doom Generation,” Claire Denis’ “White Material,” and Lynne Ramsay’s “You Were Never Really Here.”

Araki will appear for a Q&a with “The Doom Generation” at the Egyptian on Thursday, February 6 following the 7:30 p.m. show.

Additional directors featured in the program include Ken Loach, Arnaud Desplechin, and Cristian Mungiu. The program also will have...

The polarizing albeit somehow industry favorite "Emilia Pérez" has nabbed 13 Oscar nominations, setting the record for most nominations by an international film. The Spanish-language French musical crime film, written and directed by Jacques Audiard, is also tied with "Gone With the Wind," "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "Forrest Gump," and "Oppenheimer" for the second-most Oscars nominations, ever. /Film's Jeremy Mathai called the film "a swing and a miss," and with a 32% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, he's certainly not alone in thinking the movie was a huge whiff.

Suppose you are someone who loved the film. In that case, I'm not here to tell anyone how to feel about a piece of art. But considering the legitimate criticisms that have been lobbied against the film regarding both its trans representation and its depiction of Mexican culture, it's wildly disappointing to realize just how many Academy...

The Academy Awards have an unfair reputation among the public for being out of touch with the public's interest in movies. When you look back at its nearly 100-year history, most of its winners for Best Picture were solid financial hits that connected with a mainstream audience. In some cases, like Gone With the Wind, The Godfather, Titanic, and recently Oppenheimer, Best Picture winners were already cultural sensations before earning the coveted award. If anything, Academy voters are perhaps too keen on the zeitgeist, as many of their winners in the last 30 years have aged as poorly as expired milk. Between Dances With Wolves and American Beauty, many Best Picture winners of the 1990s were profound at the moment but have quickly fallen out of fashion. With Forrest Gump, the crime is not just that this maudlin and simplistic 1994 drama won Best Picture, but it also defeated one of the...

For a race that seemed as unpredictable as any in recent history, the 2025 Oscar nominations came and went without many huge surprises. All the expected acting contenders — including frontrunners like Demi Moore, Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Zoe Saldaña, and Kieran Culkin — were bestowed with nominations on Thursday, as were several films long predicted to score Best Picture recognition. But while the 97th Oscars were perhaps shorter than usual on snubs and surprises, the list of nominees did clarify which films Academy voters truly loved and what might ultimately win Best Picture in March. Ahead are the key takeaways from the 2025 Oscar nominations.

Emilia Pérez is the front-runner to beat

With 13 Oscar nominations on Thursday, including Best Picture, Best International Feature, Best Director, and acting nominations for Karla Sofia Gascón and Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez is not just the year’s top Oscar contender but one of the most decorated nominees in history.

As we wrap an epic day of coverage of the Oscar nominations, here are some final observations:

—It’s ironic that there will be no Best Song performances at this year’s 97th Academy Awards, because music-driven movies have rarely, if ever, made such an impact. This is the first time that three music-oriented/musical films have been nominated for Best Picture in the same year: Emilia Pérez (with its chart-topping 13 nominations), Wicked (with its 10), and the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown (with eight). The last times that even two musicals faced off for Oscar’s biggest prize was in 1964 with My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins and in 1968 with winner Oliver! and Funny Girl.

—Emilia Pérez snared more noms than any foreign language film ever with 13, to lead all comers Thursday. It joins an impressive list of other 13-time Oscar nominees that includes The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,...

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The nominees for the 97th Academy Awards were announced today.

And as usual, the list contained some major surprises.

Some big names were snubbed, while other major talents received their very first nominations.

But the biggest shocker of all might have been the absolute dominance of Emilia Perez.

Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz attend the “Emilia Perez” Photocall at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) Emilia Perez Is Set to Win Big at the Oscars

The French-produced Netflix film scored a whopping 13 nominations, making it tied for the second-most nods of all time.

(It’s a several-way tie that includes such cinematic heavy-hitters as Gone With the Wind, Forrest Gump, and Oppenheimer.)

The film also received more noms than any other 2024 film by a considerable margin.

In case anyone needed a reminder that “Film Twitter” and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are not populated by the same people, Emilia Pérez, the polarizing French-directed, Spanish-language musical about a trans Mexican gangster, landed a field-leading 13 Oscar nominations on Thursday morning. That tally — encompassing noms for best picture, director, actress, supporting actress, adapted screenplay, international feature, cinematography, film editing, makeup/hairstyling, original score, sound and two for original song — smashed the record for a non-English-language film (previously held by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Roma, which had 10 each) and is just one shy of the all-time record for any film (All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land each landed 14).

Is Jacques Audiard’s Netflix film unbeatable? Of course not. Plenty of people have issues with the film, including many members of the Mexican and trans communities, who find it offensive, and critics and general audiences,...

For the first time in 47 years, all five Best Actress Oscar nominees hail from Best Picture nominees.

The Best Actress lineup was the top five in the odds: Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (The Substance), and Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here). Four of those films were widely predicted to score Best Picture nominations except for I’m Still Here, which was in 13th place in the odds; but in the biggest surprise of the day, the Brazilian feature made the cut on Thursday. The other Best Picture nominees are The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, and Nickel Boys.

The last time the Best Actress and Best Picture lineups aligned was during the 1977-78 season when Diane Keaton (Annie Hall) won Best Actress over Jane Fonda (Julia), Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl), and The Turning Point stars Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine.

Charlie Sheen might have suffered more than a few career setbacks and caused innumerable controversies, but that does not deny the fact that he is a prolific actor. Apart from his work in Two and a Half Men, the actor has given audiences some of the best blockbusters in his career.

Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men | Credit: CBS

One of these is a tongue-in-cheek parody film of Tom Cruise’s Top Gun, called Hot Shots! that ended up becoming a cultural phenomenon in its own right. Furthermore, the film also scored remarkably well at the box office, allowing Sheen to create a career record.

Top Gun parody that helped Charlie Sheen show his box office might Hot Shots! (1991) | Credit: 20th Century Studios

Charlie Sheen, in his remarkable career, has appeared in several movies and TV shows. However, his 1991 Top Gun parody film, Hot Shots! took Hollywood by storm.

A few fun facts about Oscar statuettes: 

The award is 13-and-a-half inches tall, and the award, overall, weighs about eight-and-a-half pounds. The statues are made of solid bronze and are plated in real gold. During metal shortages during World War II, the Oscars were made out of painted plaster, although winners were permitted to swap them for bronze ones once the materials were plentiful again. 

It's been said that handing an Oscar too much can make the gold tarnish, so Oscar winners have to be careful with them. The statuettes are made by an art foundry in Chicago called Polich Tallix, the same firm that handled the work of Roy Lichtenstein, and the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C. 

The statuettes also, technically, don't belong to the voters or to the people who win them. Indeed, starting in 1951, the Motion Picture Academy introduced a new rule forbidding recipients from...

The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) has revealed 25 in-development projects set for its 23rd edition, with titles produced by acclaimed filmmakers such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Sylvie Pialat, Lee Sinje, Stanley Kwan and Yeh Ju-Feng. A standalone animation section will also be introduced for the first time.

Part of the Hkiff Industry Project Market, Haf is scheduled to take place from March 17-19 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, in conjunction with Hong Kong Filmart.

Scroll down for full list of projects

Out of 276 submissions from 45 countries and regions, “those shortlisted are remarkable for their...

The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) has revealed 25 in-development projects set for its 23rd edition, with titles produced by acclaimed filmmakers such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Sylvie Pialat, Lee Sinje, Stanley Kwan and Yeh Ju-Feng. A standalone animation section will also be introduced for the first time.

Part of the Hkiff Industry Project Market, Haf is scheduled to take place from March 17-19 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, in conjunction with Hong Kong Filmart.

Scroll down for full list of projects

Out of 276 submissions from 45 countries and regions, “those shortlisted are remarkable for their...

Southern California has long endured devastating fires, with the Palisades and Eaton fires counting as two of the most destructive blazes in its history. More than a century ago, a series of fires in what is now the Palisades laid claim to Inceville, one of the first film studios.

The studio was founded in 1912 by Thomas Ince, a producer-director and mogul during the silent film era, built where Sunset Boulevard now intersects the Pacific Coast Highway. The grounds, spanning 18,000 acres and housing 700 people, were used to shoot numerous Westerns, with Ince helping to popularize the genre. Inceville played a part in establishing the star system and formalizing the roles of director, screenwriter and editor as separate positions.

In a 1961 essay for The Hollywood Reporter, writer Allan Hersholt recalled how his father, Jean Hersholt, landed his first acting gig at Inceville in 1915. “It had sprung up like a gold-rush town, about...

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Legendary filmmaker and artist David Lynch died Thursday at the age of 78. “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us,” the director’s family wrote online. “But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole. It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.'”

The iconic director behind classics like Eraserhead,...

In the entire history of the Academy Awards, only six Best Picture winners have been 100 minutes or less. It seems that traditional, Oscar-bait "prestige" pictures tend to run long, attracting Academy voters with their sheer volume. Extra-long films are also a little rare, though, as only five Best Picture Winners are 200 minutes or more. Additionally, a whopping 18 Best Pictures have been between 160 and 195 minutes, so voters clearly don't mind longer movies. Indeed, the average length of a Best Picture winner is 136 minutes. In terms of cinematic storytelling, that seems to be the sweet spot. 

Of course, Roger Ebert's adage needs to be mentioned. The famed critics once posited that no good movie is too long, and no bad movie is short enough. The actual length of a film doesn't really matter, so long as it's a quality picture, and it makes good use of its time. Personally, I feel...

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There has never been a better time to be a fan of Superman, now in his ninth decade as an icon of pop culture. In mere months, David Corenswet will introduce a new generation to the Man of Steel on the big screen, just as Christopher Reeve did when I was a child. However, growing up before streaming (and even the ubiquity of VCRs), I spent most of my...

Steven Weber, who plays Dr. Dean Archer in Chicago Med, discusses the potential for a romantic relationship between his character and Dr. Hannah Asher (Jessy Schram). The medical drama, part of the One Chicago franchise, follows the doctors and nurses at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center's emergency department. While faced with many emergency medical cases throughout its ten-season run, several characters have also taken a chance to find love in their personal lives. Among the popular pairs include Dr. Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto) and Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss).

During an exclusive interview with Screen Rant, Weber was asked if there was a potential for a romance between Archer and Asher. He responded that the two have had a platonic relationship for several seasons, so there is nothing on the horizon for a romance. The star then elaborated on why a romantic plot was unnecessary. Their relationship is built on mutual respect and understanding,...

Mark your calendars, Oscars fans, because the 97th Academy Awards will air on Sunday, March 2, 2025 on ABC. The annual star-studded ceremony will honor movies released in theaters within the 2024 calendar year of eligibility. AMPAS members will vote on the Oscar winners in 23 categories, including Best Picture. But what will win? Here at Gold Derby, thousands of users have been making and updating their 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Picture, so let’s take a look at all of the top contenders in our photo gallery below.

These 25 Best Picture hopefuls are listed in order of their racetrack odds, which are derived from the combined forecasts of four unique groups: experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, editors who cover awards year-round for this website, top 24 users who had the best accuracy scores last year, and the mass of users who make up our biggest predictions bloc.

There will be 10 Best...

This claim, included in Universal’s thorough and impressive list of box office achievements for 2024, is technically true: “Domestically ‘Wicked‘ is now … the highest-grossing Broadway adaptation of all-time at the domestic office ahead of ‘Grease’ ($188.62M).”

Also technically true is that “The Grinch” is bigger than “Gone with the Wind,” “Sing” is bigger than “Jaws,” and “Five Nights at Freddy’s” is bigger than “The Godfather.” Also, the 1977 first “Star Wars” is only the third biggest success of that franchise.

Presenting grosses without adjusting skews the real picture of how they compare. It is a prime case of film history erasure, an all-too common occurrence these days. The somewhat (but not impossible in most cases) effort to sort out the true success of films through history starts with adjusting box office takes to current ticket prices. Normally, that is fairly simple, since we know the costs by year and can do the math.

Wheel of Fortune co-host, Vanna White is sharing her favorite Nsfw answer from the many contestants over the years. She has been with the hit game show for over forty years and it is now gearing up for its fiftieth anniversary celebration. So, what were the best but more obscene answers? Keep reading for what Vanna has to say.

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This year has been very transformative for Wheel of Fortune. Longtime host, Pat Sajak left the game show after over forty years which was a huge blow to viewers. They had come to know and love him so to find out he was exiting was a mixed bag. On the one hand, he had started to get a tad crotchety which made viewers wonder if it was time for Pat to retire. Then, on the flip side, he was a staple of the WoF so...

Bette Davis, one of the best actresses of all time, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress 11 times in her career. Some persnickety Oscar historians might say that she was nominated only 10 times, though, as her nomination for 1934's "Of Human Bondage" was one of the very few write-in votes ever permitted by the Academy. Records show that Davis, although not officially nominated by the Academy, still came in third that year.

Davis only won two Oscars, however. The first was for her performance in "Dangerous" in 1935 and the second was for playing a Scartett O'Hara-like role in "Jezebel" in 1938. Her performance in "Jezebel," Hollywood would eventually learn, was the first in a streak of nominations that would last for five straight years. In 1939, Davis was nominated for her performance in "Dark Victory." 1940 would see her nominated for "The Letter." In 1941, it was for "The Little Foxes," and...

Meryl Streep is the best of the best.

Her performance in Sophie’s Choice (1982) has been voted the greatest Oscar Best Actress winner ever, according to a Gold Derby ballot cast by 21 of our film experts, critics, and editors, who ranked all 97 movie champs.

Diane Keaton ranked second for Annie Hall (1977), with Jodie Foster following in third for The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972) and Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) rounded out the top five.

At the bottom of the list of the Best Actress winners is Mary Pickford for Coquette (1929). Just above that film in the rankings are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Helen Hayes for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1932), Loretta Young for The Farmer’s Daughter (1947), and Marie Dressler for Min and Bill (1931).

Another recent Gold Derby poll of cinema experts declared The Godfather (1972) as the greatest Best Picture Oscar winner of all...

Love them or hate them, obsess over them or ignore them altogether, the Academy Awards are a cultural artifact whose history mirrors the very history of American film. Granted, as a gatekeeping and taste-managing institution, the Oscars have always been better at belatedly following and responding to winds of change in the industry than at anticipating or provoking them, and you could probably count on your fingers the number of times that the Oscar statuette in any given category went to a genuinely bold, bracing, game-changing winner. But they're as good a summation of the congealing of critical and commercial mainstream consensus over the decades as we film buffs have. And, as such, it's fascinating to look at the instances of the ultimate winner being so out of lockstep with that consensus as to cause an uproar.

As we gear up for the 97th Academy Awards in March 2025, it's a...