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A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Despite final balloting being halfway done (Oscar voters, you have until Tuesday at 5 PM PT), and campaigns still in high gear leaving no rock unturned and no opportunity to reach straggling voters untaken, much of the air in the room this week has…

Since its Sundance 2018 unveiling, the documentary RBG has — like Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — proven to be most resilient. While fellow successful theatrical release docus from that Sundance like Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and Three Identical Strangers were strangely excluded from the final Oscar ballot …

This morning’s nomination for RBG as Best Feature Documentary serves a welcome cap to a banner year for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the SCOTUS whose culture status has been greatly elevated thanks, in part, to this film and the Felicity Jones-starring biopic On the Basis of Sex in which Ginsburg made a cameo. It didn’t hurt…

UPDATED with Fox News statement: Fox & Friends has apologized after briefly airing a graphic Monday suggesting that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead. The graphic, which flashed on the screen briefly following a commercial break ahead of Ainsley Earhardt’s report on campus culture, featured a photo of…

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital Tuesday, five days after undergoing cancer surgery, according to a court spokesperson. The 85-year-old Ginsburg is “recuperating at home,” SCOTUS public information officer Kathleen Arberg said in a statement. Ginsburg had two malignant growths…

There can be no question that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become a full-fledged cultural icon , seemingly always in the news particularly recently with health bouts in which she appears to be the indomitable survivor no matter what is thrown at her.  Earlier this year a documentary from Participant Media , RBG , became…

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is said to be working from her hospital bed as she recovers from surgery to remove cancerous lobes from her lung, welcome news to progressives anxious that she continue her service on the nation's highest court. Her admirers may also take comfort from the words of RBG…

As if there wasn’t enough gut-punch news out of Washington the past few days, now comes word that Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery this morning to remove two malignant cancerous nodules from her left lung. It’s the 85-year-old liberal hero’s third treatment for different cancers in 20 years, but a spokesperson…

While Ruth Bader Ginsburg origin story On the Basis of Sex is Mimi Leder's first feature in 18 years, it isn't a return. In the mind of the director, who was making groundbreaking television long before it was in vogue, she never really left. When she struggled to land a feature after the commercial underperformance…

“We’re all born to do something,” songwriter Diane Warren says. “And this is what I was born to do.” Certainly, looking at all Warren has accomplished in her career, the industry agrees. Amassing nine Oscar nominations between 1988 and 2018, along with a Grammy, an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and three consecutive Billboard…

In the beginning of the new trailer for the Mimi Leder-directed On the Basis of Sex, Felicity Jones is seen as the trailblazing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her days at Harvard Law School. When a man (Sam Waterston) leading a welcome dinner asks the women why they are taking the spot that could’ve have…

President Donald Trump shot back at former First Lady Michelle Obama over an excerpt of her new book in which she said she would never forgive him for his birther conspiracy about her husband and the impact it had on her family. "I guess she wrote a book. She got paid a lot of money to write a book. And they always…