All Academy Awards articles – Page 36
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NewsMorgan Freeman, John Legend added to Oscar presenters
J.J. Abrams, Sacha Baron Cohen, Henry Cavill and a performance from the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl also announced.
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CommentWhat the BAFTA wins mean for the Oscars
Oscar voters across the Atlantic will have felt some ripples from BAFTA’s Sunday night awards show as they weigh up their own choices.
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FeaturesWildgaze: building on 'Brooklyn'
Celebrating six BAFTA nominations and three Oscar nominations, Wildgaze Films duo Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey look back at Brooklyn’s journey and ahead to their future slate and ambitions
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Features'Ex Machina': rise of the machine
As Alex Garland’s Ex Machina vies for five Baftas and two Oscars, the film-makers look back on its production and debate the pros and cons of an international release strategy that saw the sci-fi film become a sleeper hit in the US. Mark Salisbury reports.
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FeaturesSandy Powell: the dress maker
UK costume designer Sandy Powell has four Bafta and Oscar nominations this year for her work on Cinderella and Carol. She talks to Tiffany Pritchard.
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Features'Trumbo': from blacklist to shortlist
Bryan Cranston, the Oscar and Bafta-nominated star of Trumbo, talks to Jeremy Kay about digging deep to find the truth behind one of Hollywood’s screenwriting greats.
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Features'The Big Short': prophets of loss
Producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner and director Adam McKay of The Big Short tell Elbert Wyche how they made an entertaining, informative film about the build-up to the calamitous global banking meltdown.
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FeaturesAwards countdown: Bound for glory
With just two weeks to go until the Baftas on February 14, we are into the final stretch of awards season.
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FeaturesThe angels and their outfits
London costume house Angels has made and supplied outfits to hundreds of films, from Lawrence Of Arabia to Maggie Smith’s muddy boots in The Lady In The Van. As Bafta is poised to honour the company, Sarah Cooper meets the family of Angels.
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FeaturesInterview: 'The Revenant' composers, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto
Alternative music pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto and his regular collaborator, the leading electronic musician known as Alva Noto, talk to Tiffany Pritchard about their Bafta-nominated work on The Revenant.
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NewsAcademy explains rule changes
Following concern by members, leadership at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have explained the rationale behind last Thursday’s rule changes.
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NewsAcademy introduces diversity changes
In a unanimous vote, the Academy’s board of governors have approved what it called “substantive changes” designed to make the Academy’s membership, its governing bodies and voters “significantly more diverse”.
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CommentCOMMENT: The Oscar doesn't go to...
A lack of diversity was glaringly apparent in this year’s Oscar nominations, writes Matt Mueller.
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Features'The Revenant' producer Mary Parent on the biggest challenge of her career
After the Golden Globes, Bafta and Oscar nominations, The Revenant has become this awards season’s front-runner. Jeremy Kay talks to producer Mary Parent about bringing the most challenging project of her career to fruition
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NewsSpike Lee, Jada Pinkett Smith to boycott Oscars
Two of Hollywood’s most prominent African-Americans used the Martin Luther King Jr public holiday in the US to declare they will stay away from the 88th annual Academy Awards on February 28 as the #OscarsSoWhite backlash gathered momentum.
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NewsAMPAS head vows diversity review
Referring to the all-white roster of this year’s Oscar acting nominees, Cheryl Boone Isaacs said she was “heartbroken and frustrated”.
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NewsOscars 2016: Acting Nominations in Pictures
This year’s Academy Award best actor and actress nominations.
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CommentCOMMENT: Oscar nominations show Academy rewards ambition
The Revenant’s 12 Oscar nominations have put Fox/New Regency’s drama at the top of the pile and reflects the Academy’s appreciation of a work of supreme craft and ambition.
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NewsOscars 2016: Best Picture nominations in pictures
Gallery of this year’s Best Picture nominated films.
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NewsOscars 2016: nominees' reactions
A call from the president of Colombia; not waking the kids; and sharing the news with a shop assistant - how Thursday morning’s good news played out.