Category: Awards
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The Academy names new Nicholl Fellows & Finalists
LOS ANGELES, CA: Three individuals and two writing teams have been selected as the recipients of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2025-2026 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, an international talent development program that supports non-professional screenwriters. This year, to identify potential fellows, the Nicholl program exclusively partnered with 40 global universities, screenwriting labs,…
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ICYMI: WGA Noms List & Show on March 8
LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK: Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in screenwriting, television, streaming, news, radio/audio, and promotional writing during 2025. Winners will be honored at the 78th Annual Writers Guild Awards on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at concurrent ceremonies in…
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Poor Things? Post-ingenue Oscars 2024 also rings in the Mangenue
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent There’s a reason Poor Things starring Best Oscar Actress nom Emma Stone with 11 Oscar nods charts so high among big movies, Oppenheimer with 13 nods, Barbie with eight, and Killers of the Flower Moon at 10 nominations. After #metoo and #timesup, we are officially in the Post-Ingenue Era…
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The Academy names show date and timelines for coming Award Season
NEWS: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and ABC today announced that the 95th Oscars® will take place on Sunday, March 12, 2023. The show will air live on ABC once again, and will be available in more than 200 territories worldwide via the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. And security will likely…
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The Academy Strikes Back… sort of
by Screenmancer Staff We will have more to say about this tomorrow, but today is the day The Academy struck back on the Will Smith issue. THE ACADEMY STRIKES BACK – read their letter in its entirely here, and post comments below.
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26th Satellites: Mira Sorvino’s loving tribute to Tom Skerritt, Mary Pickford winner & more
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent At the W Hotel Hollywood this past weekend, the 26th Satellite Awards capped off one of the most protracted Award Seasons in Hollywood history with a touching and emotional tribute from Oscar winner Mira Sorvino for honoree Tom Skerritt (TOP GUN, ALIEN), who recalled that he “started out in…
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The Gong Show: Should Will Smith’s Oscar melee go down to a vote?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent UPDATED: (3/30/2022) The Academy members will take this to a vote, no kidding. We were way ahead on this one… On Japanese TV they carried the entire unedited melee when KING RICHARD’s Will Smith crossed from his front row seat at the 94th Academy Awards to clock comedian Chris…
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Guess this year’s Best Pics from wonky titles with Oscar Nominees
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent In the run up to Sunday, March 27, which is known as Oscar Sunday, we thought it would be fun to join the guessing gang from The Academy. All you have to do is name the actual movie from the Working Title. All this in the company of Questlove…
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The 94TH OSCARS® adds RUTH E. CARTER, HOPKINS, LILY JAMES, LEGUIZAMO, SIMU LIU, RAMI MALEK & UMA THURMAN
NEWS: Show producers Will Packer and Shayla Cowan today announced additional presenters for the 94th Oscars®. The lineup includes Ruth E. Carter, Anthony Hopkins, Lily James, John Leguizamo, Simu Liu, Rami Malek and Uma Thurman. The Oscars will air live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at 8 p.m. EDT/5 p.m. PDT. Previously announced Oscars presenters include Kevin…
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Jenifer Lewis gets 2022 Honorary statuette at IPA’s 26th Satellites on April 2
by Screenmancer Staff This year the International Press Academy’s Honorary Satellite statuette will be presented to Award-winning actress Jenifer Lewis, as the global press association reschedules the date for the 26th Annual Satellite™ Awards for April 2, 2022. with a venue to be announced shortly. “Despite this difficult time of confinement throughout the world,” the…
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Oscar nom Kristen Stewart brought a wild red carpet thrill to SBIFF
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Last night at the 37th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) when Kristen Stewart arrived, you could actually hear the crowd roar outside in the light rain behind the makeshift metal gates along the street outside the Arlington Theater. And that’s how #KStew, in her fan shorthand, brought the…
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The 28TH Annual Screen Actors Guild winners on hand at SAG AWARDS®
Last night the Screen Actors Guild Awards® presented the prestigious Actor® statuettes for the outstanding motion picture and television performances of 2021* at the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, held Sunday, Feb. 27 at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. The telecast aired on TNT and TBS Feb. 27, and is available today on HBO Max.…
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Your Annotated Nom Score Card for the 94th Academy Awards
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) sent out a notice to remind us entertainment journalists to use only their official list of nominees. Which begs the question, who flubbed the list previously? (Double-take not required, lol.) But those are insider thoughts as the 94th Nominee Show…
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Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross to host Oscar noms & live stream info
Get ready as Emmy®-winning actor-comedian Leslie Jordan (“Will & Grace,” “The Help”) and Emmy-nominated actor-CEO-producer Tracee Ellis Ross (“Black-ish,” “The High Note”) will host the announcement of the 94th Oscars® nominations in all 23 Academy Award® categories in a live presentation on Tuesday, February 8, via global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org, the Academy’s digital platforms (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook), NY and LA Switch…
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BAFTA has technical difficulties, but here are 6 most nommed & all via YouTube
Hosts AJ Odudu and Tom Allen were live from BAFTA195 Piccadilly, as they announced the 2022 noms, #EEBAFTAs. subscribe to BAFTA ⏩ https://youtube.com/user/BAFTAonline check out BAFTA Guru ⏩ London, 3 February 2022: BAFTA has today announced the nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2022, celebrating the very best in film of the…
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