Mad Max has received ten nominations this year, including Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Director and even Best Picture. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and hip-hop movie “Straight Outta Compton” were...
Last year’s victor Julianne Moore (“Still Alice”) went on to win the Oscar as well. Veteran actress Maura Tierney was the same, winning best supporting actress-drama for The Affair.
Maybe some of these names were total long-shots; maybe some of them were just a few votes shy of a nomination. “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity”, she said at the time. This year’s list of Oscar nominees won out over...
Movie fans have expressed concerns over the fact that not one single nominee across the Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress is black. Aside from the Inside Out, the Oscar nominee slots are taken by Shaun the Sheep, Anomalisa, Boy and the...
Charles Gant, film editor of Heat magazine, suggests the lack of diversity within the Academy’s 6,000-strong membership is having a knock-on effect on the overall nomination shortlist. “Irony of ironies, the only actor who received a nomination for “Creed”...
There was good news and bad news for Straight Outta Compton on Oscar nominations morning. Still, it’s among the movies that was put into the conversation when considering the diversity problem that the Academy is having with their nominations.
The film scooped ten nominations. Five others are Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, Adam McKay’s The Big Short, Lenny Abrahamson’s Room and John Crowley’s Brooklyn.
The director of the critically-acclaimed Straight Outta Compton, a biopic about the rap group N.W.A, was also snubbed. (Also Read: Oscar Nominations: Leonardo DiCaprio’s The Revenant Leads With 12 Nods) Mr Stallone in the movie reprises his iconic role of boxer Rocky...
The film will compete in a variety of categories, including Best Film, Best Director for Alejandro G. Iñarritu, Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio and Best Supporting actor for Tom Hardy. “This has been a great year in film, it really has across the board”.
I mean, the obvious choice would be Leo, but we have the same problem as the Best Picture category – Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio won Golden Globes for Best Actor in their respective categories.