Oscars 2025: Last News

A star-studded list of performers has been announced for the 2025 Oscars, airing this Sunday, March 2. Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Doja Cat, BLACKPINK's LISA, and Raye have all been confirmed to perform at the upcoming ceremony. A while back the Academy revealed that they would be axing its tradition of having all the nominees of the Best Original Song category perform at the ceremony.

the SAG Award for Best Actor Sunday night, he stunned the A-list room into silence.In a moment of pure New York bravado, the 29-year-old star controversially announced, “I want to be one of the greats.”The megawatt names that the “A Complete Unknown” star desires to be spoken in the same breath as? “I’m as inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando and Viola Davis as I am by Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps,” he said.Well, then.That recitation of his vision board was the latest move in one of the strangest — and most hypnotically watchable — awards campaigns in memory. No staid Arts & Leisure profiles for this guy.

Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards were mercifully short.Two quick hours, in and out. Other interminable Hollywood events, please take note.The ceremony honoring performers at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles is the last major step on the road to the Oscars, and a pitstop on the cul-de-sac to the Emmys.The SAGs, an embarrassingly glitchy broadcast on Netflix, are a useful bellwether for the Academy Awards.

“The Brutalist” — but he’s made “zero dollars” from the drama.“I just directed three advertisements in Portugal… it’s the first time that I had made any money really in years,“ the 36-year-old filmmaker said on Monday’s episode of the “WTF With Marc Maron” podcast.Corbet, who co-wrote “The Brutalist” with his partner Mona Fastvold, explained that the pair “made zero dollars on the last two films we made.”“Yes, actually zero,” he admitted. “So we had to just live off of a paycheck from three years ago.”Corbet’s past directorial works include 2015’s “The Childhood of a Leader” and 2018’s “Vox Lux.”“The Brutalist,” Corbet’s most critically acclaimed work yet, follows a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor who emigrates to the United States.

the New York Times how he felt about not receiving an Oscar nomination for his performance in “Gladiator 2.”“I was sitting there smiling, going: Look at you. On the day you didn’t get a nomination for an Oscar, you’re working on Othello on Broadway,” Washington recalled in the interview published Saturday.“Are you kidding me? Awww.

according to a new report.The controversial 52-year-old Best Actress nominee came under fire last week for a series of resurfaced, offensive posts on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that have been decried as racist, antisemitic and Islamophobic. Because of the backlash, sources told The Hollywood Reporter the musical film’s distributor Netflix will not have Gascón fly from Spain to Los Angeles this week to attend the AFI Awards on Thursday, Critics’ Choice Awards on Friday or the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday.She is also a recipient of a Santa Barbara Film Festival Virtuoso Award, which will additionally honor the likes of Kieran Culkin, Ariana Grande, Mikey Madison and Gascon’s co-star Selena Gomez.

Oscar nomination, but now she’s under fire as her past social media comments have resurfaced. The Spanish star’s controversial posts on X, formerly Twitter, have since been deleted, but they were preserved in screenshots shared by journalist Sarah Hagi earlier this week.According to Variety, in a 2021 post reacting to that year’s Oscars, Gascón wrote, “More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M.

released a statement over the weekend apologizing for wearing blackface in a resurfaced comedy skit from the Brazilian TV show “Fantastico” 17 years ago.“Almost twenty years ago, I appeared in blackface in a comedy sketch from a Brazilian TV show,” the Oscar-nominated “I’m Still Here” actress said to Deadline. “I am very sorry for this.

dune with Hollywood. After the 2025 Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday, Josh Brolin went on a rant slamming the Academy for snubbing his “Dune” director, Denis Villeneuve, and snarked that in response, he will “quit acting.” Brolin, 56 posted an Instagram Story following the announcement of this year’s nominees. “Just want to say congratulations to the Dune best picture nomination, to Greig Fraser for cinematography, for best visual effects, special effects, for Patrice [Vermett] for production design and for sound, I believe,” the “Goonies” star addressed the camera.“Apparently, I’m going to quit acting because Denis Villeneuve didn’t get nominated.

2025 Oscar nominees were announced on Thursday. Anderson, 57, who got a “best actress” Golden Globe nomination for her performance in “The Last Showgirl,” was shut out of that race for the Academy Awards. “Oh my gosh, it’s not something I ever expected,” the former “Baywatch” star told Elle.com hours after the 2025 nominees were announced.She added, “Doing the work is the win.

Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong, who played on-screen brothers for four seasons on “Succession,” both scored Oscar nods in the Best Supporting Actor category on Thursday. Culkin, 42, is nominated for his role as cousin Benji in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” while Strong, 46, earned his after portraying Roy Cohn in the polarizing Donald Trump biopic, “The Apprentice.”Other actors in their category are Yura Borisov (“Anora”), Edward Norton (“A Complete Unknown”) and Guy Pearce (“The Brutalist”).

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

resulting from the Los Angeles wildfires, the 2025 Oscar nominations were finally announced on Thursday morning.Bowen Yang (“Wicked”) and Rachel Sennott (“Bottoms”) read off the list from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills — hours before Yang had to jet back to New York to continue rehearsing “Saturday Night Live” with Best Actor nominee and this weekend’s host/musical performer Timothée Chalamet.“Emilia Pérez” led the pack with the most nominations with 13. It set the record for the most-nominated non-English language film.Notable snubs include Angelina Jolie for “Maria,” Nicole Kidman for “Babygirl,” Pamela Anderson for “The Last Showgirl” and Denzel Washington for “Gladiator II.”​For the first time, Conan O’Brien will host the starry ceremony at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.

There is always a shortlist of actors deserving of an Academy Award. Ralph Fiennes is one of them.

If the Best Actor race is just trying to find five worthy nominees, the Best Actress Oscar class for 2025 is a potential bloodbath. And, no, we’re not just talking about potential “The Substance” nominee Demi Moore.

The Venice Film Festival has begun and the Toronto International Film Festival is a week away, but in the mountains of Colorado, perhaps one of the most influential festivals in the world has finally announced its slate. The 2024 Telluride Film Festival will screen nearly 60 feature films including world premieres of Malcolm Washington’s “The Piano Lesson,” Edward Berger’s “Conclave,” Michael Gracey’s “Better Man,” Scott McPhee and David Siegel’s “The Friend,” Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The End,” and RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys.” Documentary screenings include Morgan Neville’s “Piece by Piece” and Errol Morris’ “Separated.” READ MORE: Venice Film Festival Preview: 15 must-see movies including “Maria,” “Queer” & “Joker: Folie à Deux” The festival will also screen Sean Baker’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner “Anora” as well as award winners such as Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez,” Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” and Jesse Eisenberg’s Sundance screenwriting winner “A Real Pain.” Additionally, Pablo Larrain’s “Maria,” starring Angelina Jolie, and Tim Fehlbaum’s “September 5” and Alfonso Cuarón’s “Disclaimer” will make the trip from Venice to Telluride to screen at the festival.