Oscar Sunday: Last News

There can be no doubt the champagne corks are popping at Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Whale indie distributor A24 tonight. Not only did it see a record-setting performance at the SAG Awards, where it won all five of the movie categories (other than the non-televised stunt ensemble), but also Saturday night, where it took the top Best Picture award at the Producers Guild. Both often are Oscar-prescient guild awards shows that last year, and in many others, have foretold just exactly what would happen at the Academy Awards — not always but often.

Jack Dunn Bill Maher has his own take about what went down on Oscar Sunday. While talking with author and comedian David Sedaris on the latest episode of “Real Time,” Maher explained that “cancel culture” was a big factor in deciding the latest class of Academy Award winners, especially when it comes to “Emilia Pérez” and its star Karla Sofía Gascón. “There are people who say cancel culture isn’t a real thing and I would say to them, ‘It just happened at the Oscars,’” Maher said.

Jimmy Kimmel, who has hosted the Oscars four times, injected some late-night wars humor into his reaction to Conan O’Brien’s debut as Oscar host.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Live from Telluride, Sony Pictures’ biographical dramedy “Saturday Night” has officially entered the Oscar race thanks to its superb ensemble, sizzling script, and expert craftsmanship. The film drew significant attention at the festival, where nearly 300 people were turned away, and the first attendees arrived as early as 2:30 p.m. for the 7:15 p.m.

Ozempic and Wegovy are Hollywood’s drugs of choice — so did anyone use them in preparations for the 2024 Oscars? The Daily Mail spoke with Dr. Gary Motykie, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, about A-listers looking “slimmed down” at Sunday’s awards show more than in previous years. The speculation comes after Oprah Winfrey, 70, trimmed herself off WeightWatchers’ board of directors after admitting to using a prescription weight loss medication.

UPDATED with news that Ranjit will attend the Oscars as director Nisha Pahuja‘s guest. It’s a momentous weekend for To Kill a Tiger, the award-winning documentary directed by Nisha Pahuja.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Martin Scorsese can do a lot of things — just don’t ask him to dance. The 81-year-old filmmaker’s daughter Francesca says her dad has been open to do most anything in their wildly popular TikToks, but he’s not so keen on busting a move. “He refuses to do dances,” Francesca told me Wednesday at Vanity Fair and Instagram’s Young Hollywood pre-Oscars party at Bar Marmont.

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Truth be told, I’m not crazy about Oscar night. The shoes pinch. Security’s a bother. All the red-carpet nattering unnerves me.

Sophia Scorziello editor “A lot of what we do as directors is just putting out fires,” said “Ted Lasso” director Declan Lowney. Whether those are unavoidable or self-made fires, the directors at Variety’s Creative Collaborations: Directors on Directors panel all agreed that their shows and films faced serious challenges — but that didn’t stop their projects from earning Emmy nominations. Directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton of “Fleishman is in Trouble,” Peter Hoar of “The Last of Us,” Lowney of “Ted Lasso,” Glenn Weiss of “The Oscars” and Davis Guggenheim of “Still: A Michael J.

went down largely as expected. However, there were some tight acting races that turned out differently from what many pundits assumed and some shocking slights in the less-glamorous categories. Here are the biggest snubs and surprises from the 95th Academy Awards.Austin Butler, who played the King, versus Brendan Fraser in “The Whale” for Best Actor was always a neck-and-neck fight. Even after Fraser was victorious at the SAG Awards, many thought Butler would still nudge him out at the Academy Awards.

Jon Burlingame editor German composer Volker Bertelmann won the original score Oscar Sunday night for his music for the World War I epic “All Quiet on the Western Front.” “By working on a film like that, you are always touched,” Bertelmann said in accepting the honor, referring to the harrowing nature of the film. “Sometimes you have to make the screen very small because there are so many explosions happening.” It is Bertelmann’s first Academy Award. He was previously nominated, under his stage name Hauschka, for his music for the 2016 film “Lion” (co-composed with Dustin O’Halloran). He won the BAFTA for “All Quiet” on Feb. 19.

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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large It all comes down to this weekend. Variety’s Clayton Davis, Jazz Tangcay, Jenelle Riley and Michael Schneider dissect the Oscar categories one last time and share final predictions on this week’s edition of the award-winning Variety Awards Circuit podcast. It’s a Mega Roundtable of the podcast, as the team goes through every category and offers up their final thoughts. Will “Everything Everywhere All at Once” sweep the night? Or are some surprises in store? Listen along as you fill out your office Oscars pool: Here are some of the potential wins that the team is rooting for:

For India’s Oscar nominees, awards season has brought excitement, triumph and no doubt regular bouts of jet lag as they hop from one distant time zone to another. The South Asian country has seen three of its films earn Academy recognition — All That Breathes (Best Documentary Feature), The Elephant Whisperers (Best Documentary Short), and RRR (Best Original Song for “Naatu Naatu”). First-time nominees involved in those projects have found themselves on a road trip adventure split between luncheons, screenings, Q&As and more screenings.

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Will Smith is getting back to work, nearly a year after his infamous Oscar slap, which Eddie Murphy recently poked fun of at the Golden Globes.The 54-year-old actor will reportedly return to portray the Genie in a sequel to Disney's 2019 live-action adaptation of Aladdin, via The Sun.Dailymail.com has reached out to his reps for comment but have not heard back at this time.  Slap: Will Smith is getting back to work, nearly a year after his infamous Oscar slap, which Eddie Murphy recently poked fun of at the Golden Globes Genie returns: The 54-year-old actor will reportedly return to portray the Genie in a sequel to Disney's 2019 live-action adaptation of Aladdin, via The Sun While Smith won his first Oscar for King Richard just minutes after the slap, his career has been at a standstill.He resigned from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and he is banned from the Oscars for the next 10 years. While he did have projects in the works like another Bad Boys sequel and The Council, there have been no announcements for new roles since he slapped Chris Rock on live television on Oscar Sunday.

After an iconic career that has spanned nearly 40 years, Michelle Yeoh is on track to earn her first Oscar nomination for the critically-acclaimed hit Everything Everywhere All At Once.The 60-year-old actress - who recently signed on to the voice cast of Transformers: Rise of the Beast - appears to be a lock for her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Evelyn Wang in EEAAO, and she was just named the Icon of the Year by Time. Yeoh opened up in a wide-ranging interview for Time what it's been like to be the center of attention for an awards season campaign.  Iconic: After an iconic career that has spanned nearly 40 years, Michelle Yeoh is on track to earn her first Oscar nomination for the critically-acclaimed hit Everything Everywhere All At Once Center: Yeoh opened up in a wide-ranging interview for Time what it's been like to be the center of attention for an awards season campaignAfter an industry Q&A screening of Everything Everywhere All At Once, Yeoh reflected on the event.'They call it a campaign. It’s a little overwhelming,' Yeoh admitted after the event, likely the first of many leading up to Oscar Sunday on March 12, 2023.

Naman Ramachandran For the first time in its 37-year history, the SXSW festival in Austin will host South Asian House, an initiative to celebrate South Asians from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Maldives as well as accomplished members of the diaspora. The initiative, scheduled for the first weekend of SXSW on March 11 and 12, 2023, will feature programming around film and television, dance and music, technology, business, fashion, comedy and climate change from a South Asian world view across plenaries, sessions, panel discussions, workshops, art exhibits, book launches and music concerts. It will take place in the 4th Street neighborhood of downtown Austin, near the Austin Convention Center event headquarters.

Jon Hamm, 51, cut a dashing figure as he stepped out to dinner in Santa Monica this week with his girlfriend Anna Osceola, 33.The Mad Men heartthrob, who has let a distinguished touch of salt-and-pepper stubble come in, warded off the evening chill with a khaki jacket.He selected a simple white button-down shirt and a pair of midnight blue jeans for his latest outing, rounded off the look with walnut brown leather shoes. Off they go:Jon Hamm, 51, cut a dashing figure as he stepped out to dinner in Santa Monica this week with his girlfriend Anna Osceola, 33Meanwhile his dramatically younger girlfriend, whom he has been with for two years, draped her statuesque frame in a figure-hugging dress.She opted for a blue and white print number that plunged to bare a touch of cleavage as she pounded the pavement beside her man.

Jon Hamm and Casey Affleck looked like buddies as they attendedMike Dean and Jeff Bhasker's pre-Grammys party in Los Angeles on Friday.The Mad Men star, 51, stepped out in a light brown jacket over a white t-shirt and a pair of black jeans.The actor also walked in brown boots and wore stylish thick-framed glasses. Star-studded:Jon Hamm, 51, and Casey Affleck, 46, looked like buddies as they attended Mike Dean and Jeff Bhasker's pre-Grammys party in Los Angeles on FridayHamm's salt and pepper hair was combed over neatly to the right, and he sported a few days worth of stubble on his face.Affleck, 46, kept cozy in a dark blue long-sleeve sweater.