Last time Adam McKay crashed the Oscar party with The Big Short, his inventive dissection of the meltdown of the global economy in 2008 got a Best Picture nomination and McKay's first Oscar for script. He's back with the latecomer Vice, cleverly mixing humor and inventive narrative techniques to show how Dick Cheney…

The Big Short scribe Charles Randolph has set up a movie at Annapurna Pictures that is a fact-based drama on the hot-button subject of sexual harassment in the workplace, specifically at Fox News. He has been pitching the project around town for the past two weeks, and sources say recently deposed Fox News chief Roger…

EXCLUSIVE: The Big Short's Adam McKay will next direct an untitled drama at Paramount Pictures about Dick Cheney, who moved from Halliburton chief executive to become reputedly the most powerful Vice President in American history. McKay has quietly completed a screenplay that will go out to actors shortly, as he and…

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lawrence is attaching herself to Adam McKay’s drama about medical company Theranos and its 32-year-old founder Elizabeth Holmes. Theranos is the blood-testing startup that once had Silicon Valley investors salivating over its commercial potential with a $9 billion valuation as recently as two years…

"The story of Spotlight has just begun," said Michael Sugar, one of the four Spotlight producers to win best picture tonight. The win came as a surprise to the group, and what truly made it special was the actual Boston Globe Spotlight team and the sexual abuse survivors were in the audience of the Dolby Theater. "I…

The Big Short has landed the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Adam McKay and Charles Randolph. Their script bested those from Room, The Martian, Brooklyn and Carol, and makes The Big Short tonight’s second Best Picture Nominee to win an Academy Award. Based on the nonfiction book by MIchael Lewis The Big Short tracks…

Editors Note: This story was originally published February 23. The campaign for the 88th annual Academy Awards that started in earnest at the three fall film festivals in early September is over, and the answers will soon be in those envelopes to be opened on the Dolby Theatre stage. So now my final predictions of…

EXCLUSIVE: Last year, the top award in the social media universe went to multiple Oscar nominee American Sniper, which led the Best Picture nominees but didn’t take home the win. That went to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman. This year the social media winner is the director’s latest, The Revenant, which leads…

Screenwriters Adam McKay and Charles Randolph and author Michael Lewis took home the big prize tonight at the 28th annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards. The winners were announced at a black-tie gala at the Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library on the USC campus. This year, for the first time, the Scripters also honored…

Plan B co-presidents Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producers operating at the highest level, finding themselves and their films in the awards conversation repeatedly and closing major deals on a regular basis. They won Best Picture for 12 Years A Slave just three years ago, and will be hoping to capitalize on…

So has a BAFTA win cemented The Revenant as a clear Oscar front runner in a Best Picture race that, until now, has not had one? Its five wins at BAFTA – actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, Sound, Cinematography, Director and Film – can be taken with last week’s DGA win for Alejandro G. Inarritu and a Golden Globe victory for…

The Big Short manages the difficult trick of being absolutely hilarious while at the same time making one deeply afraid and anxious. Obviously a factual comedy about the 2007-2008 financial crisis is going to have that effect, but the film is about more than just a look at the past, it’s also about the present or…