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Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round is continuing its trajectory as one to watch this season. The Mads Mikkelsen-starrer has been shortlisted by Denmark's Oscar Committee as one of three pictures that will vie to be the country's entry for the International Feature Film Academy Award. The other two…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.  Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 begins streaming today on Netflix after a brief run in theaters that are open around the country, not L.A. or NY obviously, and receptive to playing it. In a conversation I had with its Oscar-winning…

Refresh for updates Acknowledgements, thank yous, laments for shuttered theaters, pleas for racial justice and get-out-the-vote plugs (for one presidential candidate, anyway) are being offered by this year’s crop of Tony Award nominees. “It is an uncertain time for the theater world and the world at large,” said Jake…

Blame the coronavirus for this year’s drastically reduced roster of eligible Tony Award nominees, and Tony nominators for overlooking at least a few possibilities. Even with only 18 Broadway productions in the running for a 2020 award, feelings were bound to be hurt. Let’s start with the good news: The list of…

Slave Play, Sea Wall/A Life, Grand Horizons, The Inheritance and The Sound Inside will compete in the Tony Awards’ Best Play category, with Moulin Rouge!, Jagged Little Pill and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical up for Best Musical. Such was the scaled back roster of eligible nominees that only one leading actor in a…

Broadway has been dark since mid-March, but its 2019-20 season already was winding down. In fact, there were 31 shows on the Main Stem boards when the coronavirus made this the cruelest of years, 18 of which are eligible for the 74th annual Tony Awards. Today we’ll get the nominations for those coveted statuettes, and…

Post Malone was the big winner at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards tonight, taking home nine trophies, including the night’s biggest award, Top Artist, and the Top Male Artist honors. The awards were held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, with many artists there in person for performances. There was no live…

If you've ever wondered whether a giant asteroid could suddenly wipe us out like the dinosaurs and render all our 2020 worries meaningless, Werner Herzog's latest documentary is definitely a must-see. Apple TV+’s Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, which Werner co-directed with Cambridge University Professor of…

Jasmila Zbanic's Quo Vadis, Aida?, which debuted at Venice this year, is Bosnia's entry for the 2021 International Oscar race. The movie follows the titular Aida, a translator for the UN in a small town in Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for…

The Czech Republic has become the latest country to name its selection for this year's International Oscar race, choosing Agnieszka Holland's biographical drama Charlatan. The film premiered at the Berlinale earlier this year and was selected for Telluride before that event was cancelled. It has also been a box office…

The Critics Choice Awards is launching its own sequel by moving to create a completely separate broadcast TV kudos show that ought to be welcome news for fans. The organization today announced the Critics Choice Super Awards, which will air January 10 as a special on the CW Network. It will honor “fan obsessed” genres…

If you want a little scare for Halloween—not as big as the election, civil unrest, or coronavirus—take a look at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences job listings on Oscars.org. Last week, the Academy posted its call for a new Executive Vice President, Member Relations and Awards, to replace Lorenza Muñoz…