Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s bid to appear virtually at the Academy Awards has been rejected for the second year in a row, Vanity Fair said on Thursday. Mike Simpson, a high-powered Hollywood agent from the WME agency who also represents directors Quentin Tarantino and Bong Joon Ho, was supposedly sent …
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The spectacle of comedian Chris Rock being assaulted at the Academy Awards by Will Smith reveals something fundamentally wrong, even sick, about American society, overwhelmed as it is with violence and cancel culture. For those who missed the best primetime television in many years, the comedian Chris Rock, while performing …
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The art and business of movies is in a dreadful state and the Oscars are in precipitous decline. Hollywood got up bright and early this morning to hear who amongst them was nominated for an Academy Award. The rest of the world slept through the festivities, just like they will …
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The Webbys, hailed as the ‘internet’s highest honor’, is annually presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which is headquartered in New York. This is RT Creative Lab’s 5th Webby, but the first one to be awarded to RT by the Executive Jury Members of the International …
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The downward trend didn’t stop Oscar producers from trying valiantly to spice up the turgid blandness of the evening, but their heroic efforts nevertheless left a lot of empty seats (and empty sofas). If viewers thought last year’s awards ceremony – with just 23.6 million watching – was bad, they …
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My biggest question regarding 2021’s egregiously bungled and boring Oscar telecast is…if an awards show collapses but no one is watching, does it make a sound? Interest in the Oscars has been in steep decline for years now, and after suffering through the entire three hour and twenty-minute show last …
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As the show’s dwindling ratings prove, interest in the Oscars has been in steep decline in recent years. It would seem the perfect storm of a paucity of genuine movie stars and a plenitude of identity politics has wounded, maybe fatally, the once iconic awards. In contrast to the insipid …
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As a result of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Aperture 2025 initiative, new standards of representation and inclusion have been announced and will likely come into effect at the 96th Academy Awards in 2024. Victor Hugo once stated, ‘Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent …
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That racially loyal horror-Thriller Jordan Saw “Off” (Get Out) can compete for an Oscar, started sneaking around like in may. Then he Drank, especially not hiding the sarcasm, commented on these conversations: I hear all the time about it, and it is very humiliating. Very cool to hear now how …
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A curious case during the presentation of the award for the best film has become a kind of “highlight” of the event. Today in the U.S. Los Angeles has completed 89-I ceremony of delivery of film awards “Oscar”. The greatest number of award-winning musical film Damien Chazelle “La La land” …
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