Tag: Movie awards
How an Irish town became home for an animation powerhouse
NEW YORK — The medieval town of Kilkenny in the southeast of Ireland is an unlikely home for a perennial Oscar contender. But there,...
Will the Oscars be a `who cares’ moment as ratings dive?
NEW YORK — George Bradley used to love watching the Academy Awards. The 28-year-old Brit now living in San Diego would stay up late...
SAG Awards to honor best performances — with some distance
LOS ANGELES — Several Oscar hopefuls will reunite at Sunday’s Screen Actor Guild Awards, albeit in the same virtual, socially-distanced way that most gatherings...
Oscars add UK hub for broadcast after concerns about travel
With less than a month until showtime, the 93rd Oscars are taking another pass at the script.
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Acclaimed French director Bertrand Tavernier is dead aged 79
PARIS — French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, who directed acclaimed movies such “A Sunday in the Country,” “Captain Conan” and “The Judge and the Assassin,”...
‘Virginia Woolf,’ ‘Goldbergs’ star George Segal dies at 87
LOS ANGELES — George Segal, the banjo player turned actor who was nominated for an Oscar for 1966's “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” and...
‘Borat,’ ‘Promising Young Woman’ win at Writers Guild Awards
NEW YORK — Sacha Baron Cohen's “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” was partly improvised and scripted by nine writers, but it still walked away Sunday night...
Plans solidify for 93rd Oscars: No Zoom, no sweatshirts
With nominations set and just over a month until showtime, details are trickling out about the 93rd Oscars and neither sweatshirts nor zoom made...
Oscar nominations Monday could belong to ‘Mank’ and Netflix
NEW YORK — Nominations to the 93rd Academy Awards on Monday will look — in more ways than one — unlike they ever have...
Chadwick Boseman is posthumously nominated for an Oscar
NEW YORK — Half a year after his death, Chadwick Boseman was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award on Monday for his final performance...
