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Sources said that the Academy has a surprise in store for the end of the Oscarcast. Deadline hears that Julia Roberts will present the Best Picture prize. Roberts was exceptional in Ben Is Back, but didn’t get nominated. But she certainly adds star power to the proceedings that so far has been…

In what has been an ever-changing scenario since the race for the 91st annual Academy Awards began in earnest at the beginning of September with the fall festival trifecta of Venice, Telluride and Toronto, the hunt for Oscar has been as confounding and difficult to call as ever. The so-called precursor awards have…

There can only be one winner, but each of the Best Picture nominees overcame creative, financial and logistical hurdles to get this close to the finish line. Here are their war stories. Black Panther Fifty years ago, the phrase 'Black Panther' carried more political baggage than it does today, immediately summoning up…

CNN fell victim to Oscars Best Picture Snafu curse Tuesday morning when 2018 nominees were unveiled , incorrectly listing on-air more than one movie not actually nominated in that prestige category. The Actual List of Oscar noms for Best Picture, announced Tuesday morning, are: Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkir…

“I dream about it every night,” Oscar host Jimmy Kimmel tells his “therapist” about last year’s Academy Awards Best Picture snafu in a new promo video for the upcoming Oscars ceremony. “I’ve tried to get past it…I think I’m losing my mind. And the worst part is, they want me to do it again!” Kimmel says in the video…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said today that 341 feature films are eligible in its wide-open Best Picture Oscar race. To be in the running for consideration, features must open in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County by midnight, December 31, and begin a minimum run of seven…

Last year at this time, strong and obvious Best Picture Oscar contenders had emerged from the so-called Fall trifecta of film festivals at Venice, Telluride and Toronto. Movies like La La Land and Moonlight, Hidden Figures, Hacksaw Ridge and Arrival all staked their claim to a spot with their debuts and key fest…

“Have any of you here ever hosted the Oscars before? Well, except for the end – It was a lot of fun,” Jimmy Kimmel said at the top of his ABC late-night show. “As I'm sure you've at least heard, La La Land was simultaneously the biggest winner and loser last night…You know it's a strange night when the word ‘envelope…

Conan explained what really happened at Sunday night’s 89th Academy Awards when Warren Beatty opened the envelope to discover which movie had won the Best Picture Oscar. “A lot of people at first blamed Warren Beatty for making the mistake,” Conan noted. “But, in his defense, if you saw the card he was given to read…

It will be up to the Academy to explain the inexplicable ending of a terrific Oscarcast, because Lionsgate isn’t talking. Its film La La Land was awarded Best Picture, only to have it taken away and given to Moonlight. A spokesman was taking the high road: “We’re incredibly proud of our eight winners tonight — six…

There can only be one winner, but each of the Best Picture nominees overcame creative, financial and logistical hurdles to get this close to the finish line. Here are their war stories. Arrival When Ted Chiang's sci-fi Story of Your Life first came across Denis Villeneuve's desk, it wasn't an immediate choice for the…

Barry Jenkins does not want me to call him a romantic. "I am a craftsman," he insists. His declaration comes a little while after I wonder whether he considers Chiron—the young hero of Jenkins' Moonlight, who suffers through many injustices of life on the streets of urban Miami as he grapples with his sexuality—to be…