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Oscars 2023 predictions: Who will (and who should) win

Last year's Academy Awards were, by most measures, a real mess; overlong, unfunny and punctuated by The Slap, an unexpected event that had everyone talking about the Oscars for the wrong reasons. The show was a parade of bad decisions, particularly the choice to prioritize limp comedy sketches over actual…

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These just might be the best Academy Award predictions that you will read anywhere. Honest

The members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences don’t always get it right, but this year’s batch of Oscar nominees is particularly well chosen.

Tribune News Service

TV tonight: the secret sexual abuse allegations in Japanese pop

This harrowing documentary investigates Johnny Kitagawa, media mogul and the maker of J-pop superstars. Plus, Hugh Bonneville and John Bishop go on a road trip. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Cate Blanchett hides from host Hasan Minhaj as Everything Everywhere All At Once sweeps Film Independent Spirit Awards

Blanchett and other stars prefer to hide under their tables than participate in Minhaj's jokes.

ABC News

Hasan Minhaj’s savage monologue sends gasps through Spirit Awards

LOS ANGELES — “Let’s dream big. This is our time to do it.”

Los Angeles Times

Oscar favorite ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ sweeps Spirit Awards

LOS ANGELES — Oscar front-runner “Everything Everywhere All at Once” continued its dominant awards season run at the 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica on Saturday, where it won in all seven categories in which it was nominated.

Los Angeles Times

Why 'Tár' deserves several Oscars, including best picture

LOS ANGELES — Final voting for the Oscars is now underway; the results will be unveiled on March 12. Not being a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (an ideal arrangement for all involved), I don't get a ballot, though if I did, here's how I…

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Why Tár should win the best picture Oscar

Cate Blanchett is wonderfully commanding as the sociopath musical megastar whose life is crumbling around her but it is the steely menace in Todd Field’s film that is simply delicious

The Guardian - UK

3 Oscar voters share their super-secret ballots

LOS ANGELES — Oscar voting begins Thursday and, as all the responsible citizens reading this know, you’re not always entirely prepared when you come face to face with that ballot. Film academy members, including the three sharing their picks here, sometimes end up making their choices on a whim and…

Los Angeles Times

What Oscar(s) do these contenders need to win in order to take the best picture prize?

LOS ANGELES — In olden times, part of the fun in watching the Oscars via this medium we used to call "TV" was parsing the early awards given during the show and imagining how they were creating a narrative and, perhaps, forecasting which movie would win the ceremony's last prize.

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine vigil with Helen Mirren celebrates new Kyiv Road in London

Kyiv Road is coming to London and we were at Trafalgar Square last night to hear the news. At a vigil arranged by the US Embassy and Westminster Council to mark the first anniversary of the Ukraine war, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and actor Dame Helen Mirren, right, formed an…

Evening Standard

The 2023 Oscar nominations in full

Every nominated movie in one place – from ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once‘ to ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

The Independent UK

Full list of 2023 BAFTA winners: All Quiet on the Western Front dominates, Cate Blanchett wins Best Actress and Austin Butler beats Colin Farrell for Elvis role

All Quiet on the Western Front dominates the 2023 BAFTAs as Cate Blanchett and Austin Butler take home the top prizes for Best Actress and Best Actor. Check out the full list of winners.

ABC News

Bafta Film Awards 2023: The full list of winners

From ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ to ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’, here are all the titles that triumphed on the night

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'All Quiet' leads as stars, royalty attend UK film awards

Hollywood stars and U.K. royalty are gathering in London for the British Academy Film Awards

The Independent UK

Baftas 2023: The full list of Bafta nominations

‘Banshees of Inisherin’, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and ’Elvis’ follow close behind

The Independent UK

Oscar nominations 2023 – the complete list in full

Every nominated movie in one place – from ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once‘ to ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

Los Angeles Times

Cate Blanchett likens her acting career to a ‘love affair’ that might be over

Cate Blanchett is thinking about breaking up with acting — again.

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Cate Blanchett: ‘I’ve never encountered a character like Tár. She inhabited my dreams’

The actor’s role as an abusive maestro is her most powerful yet. The Oscar favourite discusses fame, missing Australia and the strong reactions Tár has provoked

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Classic Blanchett

Tár is set in the contemporary world of Western classical music and centres on Lydia Tár, one of the world's most prolific composer-conductors and first ever female music director of a major German orchestra. While the film has the look and feel of a biopic, Lydia Tár is a fictional…

The Guardian - UK

Tár and The Banshees of Inisherin take top honours at London film critics awards

Cate Blanchett wins actress of the year while Banshees picks up three acting awards, including actor of the year for Colin Farrell

The Conversation

Tár isn't just about gender, sexuality and power – it is also a story of class in the elite world of classical music

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The Conversation

Tár: busting the myths the film perpetuates of the all-powerful maestro

Tár follows a fictional all-powerful female orchestra conductor and her fall from the height of her career. Lydia Tár is portrayed as one of the top conductors in the world and the first female conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Oscar nominee ‘Tár’ brought conducting into the spotlight. That’s not good for classical music

Director Todd Field has gone through great pains, including on a podcast for the Los Angeles Times, to explain his great effort to get the world of classical music right in “Tár.”

Tribune News Service

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