Steven Spielberg “Disagrees” With Changes To 2022 Oscars Telecast & Is “Not Optimistic” Decision Will Be Reversed

The Academy Awards may be a star-studded extravaganza but one star who won’t be in attendance this year is Mark Rylance.

Oscars this year because they are “really boring”.The actor, currently starring in sports comedy The Phantom of the Open, shared his thoughts on awards season and explained why he’ll sit this year’s Academy Awards out.“I don’t think awards are a serious marker of what the greatest or most inspiring things are, but it’s nice to be celebrated,” he told Radio Times, according to the Independent.Rylance has declined his invitation to the Oscars, at which Adam McKay’s film Don’t Look Up – in which he stars as tech mogul Peter Isherwell – is nominated for four awards.“I won’t be going this year. To be honest, they’re actually really boring,” Mark Rylance said.The actor had previously won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2016, for his work in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies.

Rita Moreno is back on the awards season circuit with Steven Spielberg's celebrated new adaptation of the Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim musical and ready to cheer on Ariana DeBose, who is poised to make Oscars history once again with a win for the same role.«I'll tell you what, this is an Oscar part,» Moreno told ET's Will Marfuggi at the 74th Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday night. «And I can tell you the scene that seals it, and it's the scene in the candy store.

Zoe Saldaña is opening up about the highs and lows of her career in Hollywood, including the time her former manager encouraged her to change her name in the early days of her success.“When I did Center Stage, I remember being discouraged by my management at that time to use my name,” the actress revealed during her recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, explaining that “their intention was never for me to stop being who I was.

Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of West Side Story, revealing it was ‘exciting and daunting all at the same time’ to join the project. The 30-year-old snagged a Bafta award nomination for best supporting actor for his efforts but revealed that he still struggled with feeling anxious at the outset, as well as his view that there were ‘no second chances’ when it came to acting for film roles rather than on stage.

Ariana DeBose has won Best Supporting Actress at the 202 Critics Choice Awards for her role in .The actress was blown away as she accepted the award from The Savoy Hotel in London, just hours after earning a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same role.DeBose stunned in a goldenrod yellow strapless column gown from Carolina Herrera as she thanked fans and critics for their support.«Critics, you matter, and I am so, so, so grateful for your support of ,» DeBose shared. «There were so many people who questions whether or not this film should be reimagined, and you rallied around us, you loved on us, every single one of us, and I am very, very grateful for that.»«To my fellow nominees, you are also esteemed and glorious and I love you so much! You inspire me, and especially one fellow nominee, the great Rita Moreno,» she shared, addressing the Oscar winner who was nominated in the same category as DeBose. «Seriously, you made space for me to thrive beside you.

Ariana DeBose has won Best Supporting Actress at the 202 Critics’ Choice Awards for her role in “West Side Story”.

Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur kept their winning ways going during award season - including earning two earlier in the night at the BAFTA Awards - as they each won again at theCritics' Choice Awards2022 on Sunday night.The talented thespians each took home their second awards of the night in the Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories as they were seen via satellite from London.DeBose, 31, won for West Side Story as she beat out heavy competition includingCaitríona Balfe – Belfast,Ann Dowd – Mass, Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog, Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard, and Rita Moreno – West Side Story. Golden: Ariana DeBose earned Best Supporting Actress for West Side Story at the Critics' Choice Awards just hours after earning a similar honor at the BAFTA Awards Incredible: Troy Kotsur won Best Supporting Actor for CODA after also winning earlierThe actress ended her speech with an inspiring message as she said: 'You know, the last thing I'm going to say, because you never know who is watching, to all young people, it doesn't matter how you identify who you are, you are unique, you are talented, you are seen, you are valued, you are loved, and you matter.

Lashana Lynch was named the EE Rising Star at this year’s Bafta Awards while western The Power of the Dog won Best Film. The actress, who played MI6 agent Nomi in the latest Bond film, thanked everyone involved in her career as well as her “supportive” parents and grandparents who came to London as part of the Windrush Generation.

Maggie Gyllenhaal won the DGA award for Best First-Time Feature on Saturday night.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Directors Guild of America’s 74th annual DGA Awards are under way at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, with Judd Apatow on tap as host. The ceremony returns to an in-person event this year, having gone virtual in 2021, and is part of a busy weekend on the kudos gauntlet that also includes the BAFTA, Annie Awards and Critics Choice events.This year in the motion pictures category, the group nominated Kenneth Branagh for “Belfast” (Focus Features), Jane Campion for “The Power of the Dog” (Netflix), Paul Thomas Anderson for “Licorice Pizza” (MGM/United Artists Releasing), Steven Spielberg for “West Side Story” (20th Century Studios) and Denis Villeneuve for “Dune” (Warner Bros).

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaWhen Christopher Nolan was shopping for a studio for “Oppenheimer,” his look at the creation of the atomic bomb, Donna Langley sprang into action. The Universal Filmed Entertainment Group chairman believes that Nolan, along with Steven Spielberg and Jordan Peele, is one of the few filmmakers whose name above the title demands that audience will pay attention.

Ariana DeBose is celebrating two projects at the 2022 AFI Awards!

She may have won a SAG Award, been nominated for a Tony Award, and just earned her first Oscar nomination for “West Side Story,” but Ariana DeBose is driven by being a “consummate perfectionist.” That means when she watched the celebrated Steven Spielberg musical for the first time she “found a million things” she could have done better. Considering the almost universal acclaim her performance as Anita received, many viewers and her peers would politely disagree.

Jessica Chastain brought a very special plus one with her to this year’s Oscar Nominees Luncheon on Tuesday.

Nicole Kidman's absence at the annual Oscar nominees luncheon has a perfectly good explanation — she's recovering from an injury.ET can confirm the star is at home in Nashville, Tennessee, recovering from a torn hamstring. The 54-year-old actress had been filming her Amazon series,  in L.A., when the pre-existing injury flared up.According to , which first reported the news, producers are temporarily halting production of the Amazon series this week to figure out when they can resume and if they'll need to shoot around Kidman until she can return to the production. Kidman, nominated for her fifth Oscar following her portrayal of Lucille Ball, attended the Screen Actors Guild Awards last month in Santa Monica, California.

Every year, the Academy and the telecast producers try their damndest to make the Oscars fresh and exciting. Often, this includes floating ideas about new changes to the ceremony that don’t always rub people the right way.

West Side Story director pointing out that every category is ‘indispensable.’The filmmaker, who’s up for the best director award and has been nominated a whopping 19 times in his life, said he strongly disagrees with the choice.‘I disagree with the decision made by the executive committee,’ he told Deadline. ‘I feel very strongly that this is perhaps the most collaborative medium in the world.

Steven Spielberg has spoken up about his disapprovalover the Motion Picture Academy’s decision to pre-record eight Oscar categories.The new schedule would mean that eight awards would be handed out in the hour before the actual Oscar telecast begins at 5 p.m. PT on March 27, in order to save time and keep the show to three hours.'I disagree with the decision made by the executive committee,' the Schindler's List director, 75, said in a new interview with Deadline.

Steven Spielberg steps out for the 2022 Oscars Nominees Luncheon held at Fairmont Century Plaza on Monday (March 7) in Los Angeles.

Steven Spielberg is sharing his thoughts on the 2022 Oscars.