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The so-called "shortlists" of qualified contenders in nine Oscar categories — including the feature documentary and international film races — landed on schedule Monday, one calendar day ahead of last year's December 17 announcement of the 2019 lists. But when it comes to movie awards, the calendar is a tricky beast…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released its Oscar shortlists for nine categories at once. Here are the films vying for final slots for the 92nd annual Academy Awards in Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music…

UPDATED, with more detail: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has pulled back the curtain on its shortlist for the International Feature Film Oscar race. Not surprisingly, the expanded field of 10 includes Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or winner Parasite, which already has been making waves this awards season…

The International Feature Film Oscar shortlist is due out on Monday, with an expanded 10 titles up from the traditional nine. Preliminary voting closed in the category on Wednesday with the first seven films determined (although still held under wraps) and the Executive Committee will meet Monday morning to decide on…

"I miss my invisibility." That's what a first-time Academy voter told me last week, reacting to the daily fusillades of screeners, invitations and assorted swag, plus the prodding phone calls, that now accompany Oscar membership. I found his complaint amusing: When I became a new voter years ago it was akin to joining…

EXCLUSIVE: Having opened for a limited run on the big screen last month, The Two Popes debuts December 20 on Netflix. But you can read the Anthony McCarten’s screenplay for the Critics’ Choice- and Golden Globes-nominated film right now. The movie stars Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce as Popes Benedict XVI and…

As the nominations come fast and furious now, the Screen Actors Guild’s SAG Awards along with the American Cinema Editors’ ACE Eddies further clarified the race for Oscar this morning, particularly from a standpoint of having the major guilds weigh in — meaning it is now peer groups rather than critics who are having…

It's back to the world of high finance for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and its yet-to-open movie museum: On Monday, a spokesperson for the Academy Museum confirmed that another bond offering is in the making. "The Academy made a financial decision, based on the current low interest rates, to take…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. OK, the fun of November when everyone still has high hopes of Oscar glory has now turned to the chill of December as reality starts to cloud the picture. The week kicked off Sunday with the announcement of winners of the British Independent Film…

Stumbling over some gala paraphernalia dropped by a Town & Country party rental truck outside the Landmark Theatres on Tuesday, I had to ask: What's the occasion? As it turns out, it is something rather grand. According to the Landmark concierge (all the best theaters have one), the stray tables and such were bound…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has raised the curtain on its list of contenders for the visual effects Oscar. The 20 pics include superhero blockbusters, the next Star Wars film, war movies, a Netflix original and the upcoming adaptation of one of Broadway’s biggest hit musicals. Here are the…

César Diaz won the Camera d'Or in Cannes this year with his first feature, the Guatemala-set Our Mothers. The Spanish-language film has since become Belgium's entry for the International Feature Film Oscar and tells a very personal, if not autobiographical, story for the director. The social drama takes place as…