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“Based on its observations and findings, the Ministry has chose to constitute a Judicial Commission to review the entire sequence of events and the circumstances and to establish the facts and correctives in the context of the University”, the statement said. The...

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy, issued a statement about the board’s decision.

What needed to happen, they asked, for these tragedies to stop? I still love meeting people on the bus, chatting about what films they’ve seen and loved (or hated). As seen in the brand’s recently released short film, directed by Paul Haggis and titled “OUT...

A new report from HollywoodLife indicates that Kanye is more than willing to fill in for Chris Rock should he decide to boycott the Oscars along with Will and Jada Smith.

The Academy Award nominations for 2016 are out with Leonardo Di Caprio’s The Revenant leading the race. “2015 Oscar-winner Inarritu will compete again with George Miller (‘Mad Max: “Fury Road”), Tom McCarthy (‘Spotlight”), Adam McKay for...

“Diversity comes out of the word ‘independence, ‘” Redford said. These moviemakers, who might otherwise be closed out of the process, can prevail by making films cheaper, with smaller, less expensive cameras and software that lets them edit at home.

“It is racist to whites”, responded Rampling, who is nominated for best actress alongside Cate Blanchett, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lawrence and Saoirse Ronan.

To combat this dilemma, the Academy will launch a campaign to “recruit qualified new members who represent greater diversity”.

A member can gain lifetime voting status if they pass three 10-year periods and are still active or if they won or are nominated for an Oscar. Lifetime voting rights will be granted only to Academy Award nominees and winners, and to members after three 10-year voting terms. Those...

She had the honor of accepting the Best Acting Ensemble award for Spotlight at the ceremony. But were they a harbinger of the Academy Awards that will occur on February 28th.

Andrea Davis, an associate professor specializing in cultures of the Americas at York University in Toronto, agrees that the absence of racially diverse Oscar nominees, including black actors, has a broader influence on society.

“Straight Outta Compton was a great film; I think it just lost some Academy members who are older”, she continues.

The Furious 7 star has sided with the likes of director Spike Lee, actress Jada Pinkett Smith, and rapper Snoop Dogg in condemning Academy voters for failing to recognise African-American talent in the main acting categories after the shortlist was announced last week (14Jan16)....

For the second year in a row, the Academy Awards did not nominate a single person of color in any of the four acting categories, prompting boycotts by some black filmmakers and a renewal of the biting hashtag #OscarsSoWhite. The Guardian reports that Charlotte Rampling, a Best...

Best Editing: Margaret Sixel, “Mad Max: Fury Road”.