Sean Baker’s Oscars Battle Cry (and Mine): Don’t Abandon the Big Screen
Two minor quakes hit Los Angeles Sunday night, and I like to think that they were cosmically connected. The second earthquake was a small rattler (3.9) centered in the San…
‘Nickel Boys,’ an Oscar Nominee With a Jarringly Different Point of View
Ross himself never appears in the film, and we rarely hear him speak, but there’s a notable exception. About midway through “Hale County,” he, or maybe we, are in a…
How to Watch the Oscars 2025: Date, Time and Streaming
Who is nominated? The Spanish-language narco-musical “Emilia Pérez” leads the pack with 13 nominations, followed by Brady Corbet’s epic drama “The Brutalist” and the gravity-defying musical “Wicked” with 10 each.…
Best Picture Oscar Nominees: Behind the Scenes of ‘Anora,’ ‘Conclave’ and More
“Hello. I’m Denis Villeneuve. I’m the director of ‘Dune, Part Two’.” “So this scene happens exactly after the introduction of Feyd-Rautha, where we saw him as a psychopath. And here,…
Oscars 2025 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress?
✓ “Anora” “The Brutalist” “A Complete Unknown” “Conclave” “Dune: Part Two” “Emilia Pérez” “I’m Still Here” “Nickel Boys” “The Substance” “Wicked” After a few years where the best picture winner…
‘Anora’ Wins Big at Producers and Directors Guild Awards
This tumultuous Oscar season has a certified front-runner. On Saturday night in Los Angeles, more than a month after “Anora” lost every award it was nominated for at the Golden…
How ‘Nickel Boys’ Became One of the Year’s Most Visually Striking Films
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen When the filmmaker and photographer RaMell Ross first read “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two…
Get a Hug From Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in ‘Nickel Boys’
In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You…
Biggest Oscar Snubs and Surprises 2025: Sebastian Stan, Fernanda Torres and More
The Golden Globes really are back. After a scandal-ridden few years that had the Golden Globes on the ropes, that awards body’s influence could be felt all over the Oscar…