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For Oscar Best Picture contenders, the time has come to deliver an inventory of the racial/ethnic identity and sexual/gender orientation of those involved with your film. On Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which presents the Oscars, quietly launched its new RAISE platform, an online system…

I’m Your Man (Ich bin dein Mensch), the Maria Schrader-directed film that earned star Maren Eggert the best actress Silver Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, has been selected as Germany’s entry into the 2022 International Feature Oscar race. The film stars Eggert as a a scientist at the famous Pergamon Museum…

Hive, the debut feature from writer-director Blerta Basholli that won a trio of awards at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has been submitted by Kosovo for this year’s International Feature Oscar race. The Albanian-language drama, which won the World Cinema Audience, Directing and Grand Jury Prize honors in Park…

Slumdog Millionaire largely started the Oscar train out of the Telluride Film Festival in 2008 when it rode its World Premiere in this small Colorado town all the way to a Best Picture Academy Award sweep. It has happened numerous times since, with the likes of Telluride premieres like The King’s Speech, Argo, 12 Years…

AMPAS CEO Dawn Hudson on Friday assured members in an email that the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opening remains on schedule for September 30. She also said the museum at the beginning would be operating at 50% capacity during business hours, with masks required for all indoor spaces. Of course, the Academy is…

EXCLUSIVE: Let the race begin. On the eve of the fall film festivals that signify the official start of Oscar season (just as Emmy final voting is prepared to wrap up Monday evening), the Academy Screening Room this week put up their first four films in the section labeled FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION — and all of them are…

There is a glut of great TV, movies and music to celebrate in 2021. But it’s been a bumpy ride for awards shows, with many canceled, moved or modified in 2020 as the pandemic waxed and waned. In 2021, the schedule seems a little more steady and awards organizations a little more savvy. The fall and winter months could…

EXCLUSIVE: In another example of the reality of the Covid world we, and the entertainment industry, are living in, Deadline has learned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will not be traveling to Colorado for its annual member trip to the Telluride Film Festival this upcoming Labor Day weekend, and as…

There were no major shakeups among elected officials at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as David Rubin has been re-elected for his third and final term as president of the Oscars organization. The results come after the AMPAS board of governors met Tuesday to install newly elected governors and…

Later today, the first Tuesday in August, the board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will meet to install newly elected governors and reorganize its officers, pretty much as usual. As usual, the governors will almost certainly elect casting director David Rubin, the Academy's current president, to…

“Please don’t make the Olympics into the Oscars,” Bill Maher pleaded in his show-ending New Rules monologue in tonight’s return of Real Time to HBO after a month’s break. Last April, as he reminded the audience, he said the theme of this year’s Oscar show was, “We dare you to be entertained.” Its producers, he griped…

Where did everybody go? They certainly weren't watching the Friday night Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony. The audience dropped to about 17 million, down 37 percent from 26.5 million viewers for the Rio de Janeiro opening in 2016 (though Saturday’s numbers was better.) We know they weren't at the movies. The box office…