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After Will Smith notched the biggest-grossing film of his career with last summer’s $1 billion hit Aladdin, can he keep the box office heat wave going with Martin Lawrence in reviving their Bad Boys franchise? The third film, Bad Boys for Life, finally arrives over MLK weekend 13 years after the second movie, with a…

The most fascinating part of Tuesday's Oscar nominations announcement will be watching to see whether someone, anyone, pops out of the bunker to say something, anything, about the issues afflicting the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of late. In the best of circumstances, Hollywood's film Academy is about…

Jimmy Kimmel, who is hosting the Academy Awards ceremony for a second time, noted Tuesday on his ABC late-night show that awards season went into "full bloom" with the morning's Oscar noms reveal. I am hosting the Oscars again this year and I'm excited. I cannot wait to see which movie accidentally wins Best…

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…

In the chilly dawn of Jan. 23, a week from Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will pass judgment on the weighty issues and trends of the day. Ostensibly, the group will be announcing nominations by its 8,000-plus members for achievement in the making of motion pictures. But this year's Oscar nomin…

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences begins its eight-day Oscar nomination voting blitz on January 5, it will test a question that was floating around even before the group began its panic-push for member diversity in 2016. That is, has a growing foreign factor changed the Oscar choices? The issue is…

Looking at some street poetry on a sign in the San Fernando Valley—it was a half-haiku that said "Magnolia Blvd. DEAD END"—I got to wondering, how did we get from Magnolia to La La Land? I can find the line from Magnolia, in 1999, when it rained frogs, back to Short Cuts, with its tremors, six years before. Paul…

As AwardsLine’s second gallery featuring our exclusive portraits of some of this year’s Academy Awards nominees proves, the Oscar Class of 2016 is drawn from an eclectic range of disciplines. Yesterday, we featured the likes of Alicia Vikander, Matt Damon and Rooney Mara. Today, Lady Gaga and Diane Warren lead the…

Only a few days remain to cast Oscar ballots in the most wide open Best Picture race in memory. For voters still on the fence, Deadline is here to help. Below, each nominated film presents its best case, and we’ve included the reviews from our Oscar maven Pete Hammond. The Big Short Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy K…

Seven weeks from today Oscar nominating ballots will be in the hands of Academy voters. Seven weeks!  No wonder Academy campaigners already seem stressed and overheated about the race. With the Acad moving to electronic voting and shifting the nominating balloting period 10 days earlier than normal to the holiday…

If you haven't filled out your Oscar nominating ballot yet, you have until 5 PM PT today to get it to the PriceWaterhouse Coopers offices in Los Angeles at 350 S. Grand, Suite 4900. There have been years where 400 to 500 ballots have been walked in the day they were due, according to one Academy Of Motion Picture Arts…

Parties are rampant as usual at this point in awards season but the biggest new trend, or so it seems at least, is the number of publicized hosted screenings and endorsements for various contenders. There was a time when it was thought the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences officially frowned on having their…