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As I made the party stops this weekend, you could tell there was more tension and nervousness than usual about this year’s Academy Awards. “Sunday night could be an earthquake and change the industry as we know it — and not in a good way,” one indie distribution head told me before the Spirit Awards on Saturday. He…

Diversity was one of the biggest winners at the Oscars on Sunday, with three out of the four top acting awards won by non-white actors as Regina King, Mahershala Ali and Rami Malek triumphed for their roles in If Beale Street Could Talk, Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody, respectively. In 2015, not a single non-white…

Rami Malek’s big Oscar night took an unexpected and awkward turn when he slipped near the Dolby Theatre stage following his best actor win for Bohemian Rhapsody. It was later confirmed that Malek did not suffer any serious injuries, according to The Los Angeles Times. Holding on to his golden statuette, Malek seemed…

Bohemian Rhapsody led all films with four trophies at tonight’s 91st annual Academy Awards, but it ceded Best Picture to Green Book, which tied Disney’s Black Panther and Netflix’s Roma for second with three wins apiece. No other film won two. On the studio side, Disney, Fox, Netflix and Universal tied with four…

UPDATED with speech video: When it comes to two of the industry’s biggest awards, first time is a charm for Rami Malek. Just like the Emmys two years ago when he won Best Actor Drama for Mr. Robot off his first nomination, Malek won Best Actor tonight off his first Oscar nomination for Fox/New Regency’s Bohemian Rhapso…

John Ottman, who recently won his first ACE Eddie Award for 20th Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody, made the cut again by winning the film editing Oscar on Sunday. The Eddies have a long track record of predicting the Best Editing winner at the Academy Awards. Twenty-one of the past 28 ACE winners for best edited…

For a second year in a row, a single film won both sound categories at the Oscars, with 20th Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody scoring Sound Editing and Sound Mixing honors Sunday. Last year, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk took honors in both craft categories. The Queen biopic that stars Rami Malek as frontman Freddie…

The drums of “We Will Rock You” had Hollywood’s well-dressed elite on its feet from the opening beat, and “We Are the Champions” kept them smiling and head-bopping. Finally, a giant image of the late Freddie Mercury hovering over the stage got the crowd back to standing. The Oscars steered clear of topicality, snark…

Over the past year, beginning in February with Black Panther and ending in December with Vice, I did video reviews of all of what eventually became the eight nominees for Best Picture at the 91st annual Academy Awards. Check them all out and see which one you think will take the Oscars’ big prize Sunday night. Black…

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…

It shouldn’t have been too surprising that John Ottman won this year’s ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film Drama for Bohemian Rhapsody. Equally it shouldn’t be at all shocking that he is nominated for his first Academy Award in Film Editing for that film. If anyone would know the challenge of turning around a…

After enduring a week of backlash over its plan to shorten the Oscars by not showing some categories live then ultimately relenting, the Movie Academy needs your loving tonight. Now some Queen fans might be saying, “You’re my best friend.” The band featured in 2018 breakout biopic Bohemian Rhapsody is set to play the…