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Oscar Contenders Lady Gaga, Power of the Dog Soar With New York Critics Awards
But the big winner? The little-seen, immensely deserving Japanese epic Drive My Car.
Licorice Pizza Gets Oscars Boost From National Board of Review Awards
The Paul Thomas Anderson film won the precursor group’s best picture and best director prizes. Are Oscars in its future?
Nightmare Alley Is Another Strong Oscar Contender for Guillermo del Toro
With the director coming off a best-picture win, his star-studded latest does not disappoint. How far can it go?
Is West Side Story the New Best-Picture Front-Runner?
With a splashy premiere and enthusiastic reactions from coast to coast, Steven Spielberg’s risky remake has silenced its skeptics. Just how far can it go?
Poetry and Smoking Helped Jonathan Majors Channel Nat Love in The Harder They Fall
“He has deep rage, he has his vengeance in him,” says Majors of the lead character in the Netflix Western.
How Lin-Manuel Miranda Pulled Off the Most Thrilling Cameo in Tick, Tick…Boom!
You can spot a lot of Broadway legends in the bravura “Sunday” musical number, but there’s one appearance you can only hear.
9 Oscar Front-Runners You Can Watch Right Now
From HBO Max to Netflix to your local art house, many of the best films of the year are playing near you.
Will Lead Actor Be Oscar’s Most Competitive Category?
Will Smith still seems like a front-runner for King Richard, but the field of competition is getting more crowded by the day.
Kodi Smit-McPhee Went to “Jane Campion Boot Camp” for The Power of the Dog
The most challenging job of the young actor’s career might result in his first Oscar nomination.
Leonardo DiCaprio Is a “Debbie Downer” About the Climate Crisis—But His New Movie Don’t Look Up Might Change That
At one of the first screenings for the Netflix satire, DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, and director Adam McKay used charm and comedy to explore what McKay calls the “most important story in the history of mankind.”
The Harder They Fall Director Jeymes Samuel Didn’t Reinvent the Western—He Freed It
“If you take away the narrow, white-male-centric stories we were given, then that means you have a whole universe of stories with women of actual dominance, with people of color, all races,” Samuel tells the Little Gold Men podcast. “Basically, you have a genre where 90% of it is unexplored.”
How the Adapted-Screenplay Oscar Race Got So Fascinating
Maggie Gyllenhaal vs. Jane Campion vs. Rebecca Hall—and that’s only the Netflix titles.