Academy awards: Last News

“Emilia Pérez,” “The Brutalist” and “Wicked,” which lead the nominees for the 97th Academy Awards, announced early Thursday.And as the countdown begins to Oscar night on March 2, Jay Leno is rooting for first-time host Conan O’Brien.“I think he’ll be great,” Leno, 74, exclusively told The Post. “He’s a very funny guy. He’s very creative.

Ariana Grande is feeling victorious. The actress, 31, had a touching reaction to receiving her first Oscar nomination on Thursday. Grande is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Wicked” alongside.

the 2025 Oscar nominations were announced. They surely thought the Academy was the brutal-est. Downright wicked.

the most 2025 nominations going towards “Emilia Perez,” “The Brutalist” and “Wicked.”Ariana Grande, Demi Moore, Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet and Zoe Saldana were among the actors who received nods for their performances. But a slew of other talented actors — including Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington and Pamela Anderson — were completely snubbed from the nominations list.Jolie, 49, was acclaimed for her role in the Maria Callas biopic directed by Pablo Larraín.

announced this morning. There are 23 awards categories that honor films released theatrically between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024.Despite a handful of snubs and surprises, the roster of films being honored this year are quite the well-rounded mix; there are a handful of biopics, two big musicals, animated fare, sci-fi horror representation, and, of course, one 3.5 hour epic.

“African Voices Changemakers.”“I’m definitely underpaid,” he added.Hounsou’s most famous movies include “Amistad,” “Gladiator,” “In America,” “Blood Diamond,” “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Captain Marvel,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Shazam!,” “A Quiet Place Part II,” “A Quiet Place: Day One,” and both “Rebel Moon” films.His roles in “In America” and “Blood Diamond” earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2004 and 2007, respectively.Hounsou, who was born in West African and immigrated to the U.S. at age 23, said he believes he was snubbed by the Oscars for his performance in Steven Spielberg’s “Amistad.”“I was nominated for the Golden Globe, but they ignored me for the Oscars because they thought that I had just come off the boat and the streets,” Hounsou recalled.

told CNN.“Now, often when a gown is worn on the red carpet, there is usually a plan put in place for where that gown will end up.”A rare few are gifted to or bought by the A-list wearer — for instance, Kim Kardashian has an archive of many of her Met Gala looks, while Zendaya purchased her show-stopping 1996 black, John Galliano-designed Givenchy gown from fashion’s biggest night in 2024 — a trend that was more popular decades ago.Bishop told CNN that Nicole Kidman’s 1997 Oscars dress — a chartreuse number from Galliano — was a piece that “changed the trajectory of red-carpet dressing” and marked the beginning of brands “very publicly partnering with a celebrity and sort of officially dressing them for the red carpet.”Prior to that time, it was more commonplace for the celebrity to keep the gown they wore on the carpet, and, according to CNN, sometimes those gowns would even be sold or given away.Today, most ensembles are put in storage or on display in galleries, while some are auctioned for hefty sums.“Most of the time it gets returned and is stored in the designer’s archives,” stylist Tanya Gill previously told Vanity Fair in 2017, although there are rare exceptions when designers will “gladly gift the gown,” Gill added.

at Sunday’s Golden Globes, as two of his films — “Dune Part Two” and “A Complete Unknown” — are up against each other in the Best Drama category, while Chalamet himself is nominated for best actor in a drama, for the latterIt’s his show-stopping portrayal of music icon Bob Dylan, Hollywood insiders say, that has propelled the actor to serious leading-man status and positioned him as a grown-up in a way that his previously nominated roles, including “Call Me By Your Name” and “Wonka,” didn’t quite.In “A Complete Unknown,” Chalamet sings over 40 songs including “Girl From North Country,” “Like a Rolling Stone” and “The Times They are A Changin,” and plays the guitar and harmonica — earning praise from Dylan himself, who raved on X in December, “Timmy’s a brilliant actor.” “He carries that ‘stubborn artist’ to a genius [level],” Danny Rosner, producer of the upcoming film “The Hotel Martinez,” told The Post of Chalamet. “It’s a dream role especially because he can sing.

got paid the same amount for “Wicked.”“We went through our contracts together and called each other up. ‘Did you see that? What do you think about that? Let’s get it together!’” Grande, 31, said in the pair’s interview with Variety published Thursday.Erivo, 37, recalled, “We both went through it — ‘What number are we doing? How do you feel about that?’ We were really f – – king honest.

“With Gourley and Rust” podcast, comedian Paul Rust claimed he witnessed the whole thing.“I saw James Franco flip out once,” Rust claimed in the episode that dropped on Dec 27. “When ‘Your Highness’ came out, CollegeHumor was going to try to do some promotion, and the idea was that a group of nerds are playing Dungeons and Dragons with the stars of ‘Your Highness,’ James Franco and Danny McBride.”He noted “this was literally two days after [Franco] had hosted the Oscars.

the Hollywood Reporter Monday.“The Oscars are absolute nonsense, because everything that’s judged in the Oscars, it’s not a year’s work. It’s just the work that comes out between Thanksgiving and Christmas,” he said.

I will always love you … but I won’t go on a red carpet with you.Dolly Parton revealed that her husband of 58 years Carl Dean has no interest in attending public industry events with her after he felt “so uncomfortable” before an award show.The pair made the decision way back in 1967 when the “Jolene” songwriter and Dean, 81, were newlyweds.The Tennessee native rented a tux and “begged him” to go to the BMI Awards when she was nominated for Song of the Year – which she won – but after that, Dean made it clear that the glitz and glam made him “so uncomfortable.”“He said, ‘Look, now I want you to do everything you want to do, and I wish you the best, but don’t ever ask me to go to another one of these damn things because I ain’t going,’” Parton quipped on the “Dumb Blonde” podcast, hosted by Jelly Roll’s wife Bunnie Xo.“And he never did.”Dean’s decision wasn’t a surprise to Parton because apparently the two-time Oscar nominee knew her husband was never interested in the spotlight.“He loves music, but he’s not the least bit interested in being in it,” the 78-year-old country music icon added.“And he told me that right up front.”The 11-time Grammy Award-winning singer told E! News in 2022 that it’s important for her to still dress up for him at home.“Every day, I put on some makeup and fix my hair because I think, ‘Well, the whole world, I’m out here and everybody else sees me all dressed up, and I’m not going to just kind of go home and just flop on him,’” the country superstar told the outlet.The couple met at a laundromat in Nashville way back in 1964. At the time, Parton was just 18 years old and he was running an asphalt-paving company in Tennessee.The pair got married in 1966 at a small church in Ringgole, Ga.

wonderful in “The Last Showgirl,” scurry out of the banquet hall with her team shortly after she lost. Wearing a cream frock in a sea of dark clothes, you couldn’t miss her.

biopic about a young Donald Trump at the Marrakech Film Festival.The 64-year-old actor, who has won two Academy Awards, spoke during a press conference Tuesday and accused the Oscars of being “afraid” of embracing “The Apprentice” starring Sebastian Stan as the president-elect, 78.“The Academy have exercised really extraordinary cowardice when it comes to being part of the bigger world of expression, and in fact, have largely been part of limiting the imagination and very limiting of different cultural expressions,” said Penn, per Variety.The “Mystic River” star, who was casually chain-smoking during his rant, said the Oscars and other award ceremonies should be viewed as “television shows first.”“So I don’t I get very excited about what we’ll call the Academy Awards [except for] when a film like ‘The Florida Project,’ or ‘I’m Still Here,’ or, you know, ‘Emilia Perez,’ of the things that are likely to happen this year,” he explained. Penn then addressed the controversy over Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” which is not expected to be a major contender during awards season, despite receiving an 8-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.“When something sneaks through, it’s to be celebrated,” said Penn.

Associated Press in a joint interview with his “The Piano Lesson” co-star Michael Potts. “It’s an honor to win,” the “Pulp Fiction” actor said, adding that most people ultimately forget Oscar-nominated performances.“You get nominated and folks go, ‘Yeah I remember that.’ Or most people forget,” he quipped.The “Unbreakable” actor was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category at the 1995 Oscars for his role as Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.”He ultimately lost out to Martin Landau for his role as Ed Wood in the 1994 film of the same name.Jackson believed that he would’ve won an Oscar for his role in Joel Schumacher’s “A Time To Kill” if his memorable scenes hadn’t been cut from the final version.

Esquire Magazine.“I have a memory of turning around and looking at him, and nobody was standing but the people around him. And everyone else was looking at me.”“Not that it was this way. Maybe that’s the way I perceived it.

“Conan O’Brien Must Go,” that was recently renewed for a second season. He also joked that he wanted to join “The White Lotus” Season 3 and offered to play a male gigolo.

“CBS Sunday Morning,” Bates recalled her mother’s response to her best actress win for the 1990 film “Misery.”“When I won the Oscar for ‘Misery,’ she said, ‘I don’t know what all the excitement [is] about, you didn’t discover the cure for cancer.’”Bates continued, saying she forgot to thank her mother during her speech, but Mankiewicz shared a clip revealing she actually did.The clip brought the actress to tears of relief, explaining, her mother “should have had my life.”“When she died, I said come into me. I wanted her spirit to come into me.

“Club Shay Shay” podcast.“Oh my god, it’s the worst,” he said. “There are so many people you need to make a movie.

turned down the offer to host the 2025 Oscars. In recent years, the comedian and talk show host had become an Academy Awards favorite, as he acted as the emcee for the biggest night in Hollywood four times: in 2017, 2018, 2023 and 2024. So, why did he finally step away? On the most recent episode of Gavin Newsom, Marshawn Lynch and Doug Hendrickson’s “Politickin’” podcast, Kimmel said, “I just decided I didn’t want to deal with that this year.” Kimmel, who hosted last year’s ceremony, which included “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” competing and John Cena seemingly nude onstage, added, “It was just too much last year.