Jacques Audiard’s strong prix game
Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language, French-made musical “Emilia Pérez” leads all other movies in the 2025 Oscar nominations, adding to the scores of other laurels Audiard’s thematically…
How do these pitches from the 10 best picture nominees sound?
What movie will win the Oscar for best picture? The race, for the moment, is more of a free-for-all than it has been in years.…
French film “Emilia Pérez,” about Mexican drug lord, is tanking in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — The movie “Emilia Pérez” has finally hit the big screen in Mexico City — the principal setting for the genre-bending musical about narco-violence and…
Oscar nominations delayed again by L.A. wildfires
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has once again delayed the announcement of nominees for the 97th Academy Awards due to the ongoing…
L.A. fires delay 2025 Oscar nominations, extend voting
The wildfires that have torn through the Los Angeles area this week have led to numerous closures, cancellations and postponements — now including the Oscar…
Eight women. Five spots. Who’s in?
Salaries of $500,000 and up are a “dime a dozen”? Makes me think the good folks at Kraft Heinz are being a little stingy with…
How do you mend a broken heart?
My talented colleague Todd Martens spent much of the past year living — and reporting — this story on the science of heartbreak, how it…
Did ‘Barbenheimer’ dominate the Oscar nominations? Yes and no
Girl power may have bested atomic energy at the box office in last summer’s “Barbenheimer” showdown. But Tuesday’s Academy Award nominations morning flipped the script,…