Can More Female Editors Join the Ranks of Oscar Winners?

Bill Maher’s Real Time on HBO this Friday was about waking up to various scenarios and recognizing the hypocrisy around us.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentAfter Oscar nominations were announced Feb. 8, the buzz seems equally centered on who was nominated and who wasn’t.There’s an impressive roster of work in both categories.

Lemonade won Best Picture, upon further research, we've discovered that's “not at all how anything works,” and this is her . No, she didn't get recognized for “Listen” from Dreamgirls, or for “Spirit” from The Lion King. We are surprised too.The is being honored for her song “Be Alive” from the movie King Richard, starring Will Smith as the tough but loving father-coach of Venus and Serena Williams.

Dune is a three-year-plus battle long-fought, and well won by Denis Villeneuve, even if he was boxed out of the Best Director category at the Oscars.

Oscar more than once.The director of The Power of the Dog earned a nod today (February 8) at the 2022 Oscars for her revisionist Netflix Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee.Campion was nominated for Best Director for The Piano in 1993, which also won her the Palme D’Or prize in Cannes that year.This year, she’s nominated alongside Kenneth Branagh, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Steven Spielberg. It also marks the first time the Academy has nominated a woman for Best Director in two years in a row, after Emerald Fennell and Chloé Zhao were nominated last year.Seven women have been nominated for Best Director in the history of the Oscars: Lina Wertmüller, Sofia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow, Greta Gerwig, Chloé Zhao, Emerald Fennell and Jane Campion.

A lasting legacy. Chadwick Boseman was celebrated during the nominations ceremony for the 2022 Oscars nearly two years after his death.

Oscar Nominations 2022: ‘Power of the Dog’ Leads With 12 Nods.

The 2022 Oscar nominations are in.

Clayton Davis Along with being one of the favorites in the best picture category, “Belfast” shepherded producer, writer and director Kenneth Branagh into Oscars history books.With nominations for best picture (as one of the film’s producers) and original screenplay, Branagh is the first person to be nominated in seven individual Oscar categories, surpassing George Clooney, Alfonso Cuarón and Walt Disney, who were recognized in six.In addition, Branagh joins Clooney and Warren Beatty as the only people to have received noms in every eligible major category — picture, director, lead or supporting acting and both original and adapted screenplay.Prior to nominations, he received five noms over his respectable career, across different categories — director (“Henry V”), actor (“Henry V”), supporting actor (“My Week With Marilyn”), adapted screenplay (“Hamlet”) and live-action short (“Swan Song”). Branagh has been a respected actor and director for over three decades.

The 2022 Oscar nominations are in.

The Power of the Dog, director Jane Champion's gorgeous, moody meditation on grief and loneliness? What about Don't Look Up, the Netflix original that had everyone on TikTok talking? Maybe you caught , the Serena and Venus Williams biopic that stars Will Smith in a career-defining role? We know you at least checked out Disney's , because we as a society have not stopped signing along to the Lin Manuel-Miranda original songs since it premiered. All can now be labeled as “Oscar nominees 2022." And good news for you: There's still time to watch the ones you missed, because the Academy Awards ceremony doesn't air until March 27. So check out the full list of Oscar nominations 2022, below, and we'll see you in March. Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)Troy Kotsur (CODA)Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)J.K.

Beyoncé is one step closer to Oscars gold. The 40-year-old singer landed her first ever Academy Award nomination on Tuesday in the category of Best Original Song. Beyoncé earned the nod for her song, «Be Alive,» which she co-wrote with Dixson for the biopic, about the life of Venus and Serena Williams' father, Richard Williams. While on in November, Serena spoke about approaching Beyoncé, whom she's collaborated with in the past, about doing the original song for the movie.«When the film came out, there was no other person that could do this song except for Beyoncé.

With his 8th Oscar nomination for directing today, Steven Spielberg joins a very select group of four filmmakers who have received 8-plus Best Director nominations. They include Billy Wilder, who also has 8, his contemporary Martin Scorsese, who has 9, and the great William Wyler, who earned 11 total directing nominations.

West Side Story, a role that won Rita Moreno an Oscar for the 1961 adaptation, has no shortage of scene-stealing Oscar moments, many of which show off her incredible talent as a singer and dancer as well. Caitríona Balfe’s role as the protective mother in Belfast looks close to a lock as well. She was the only actor from her film nominated at the SAG awards, making the cut even as Jamie Dornan and Ciarán Hinds were brutally snubbed.

Chris Willman Music WriterKenneth Wannberg, composer and Emmy-winning music editor who worked on nearly half of all John Williams’ films dating back to the late 1960s, died Jan. 27 at his home in Florence, Oregon.

The BAFTA Film Awards nominations announced this afternoon in London offer up a diverse crop, and the highest number of female nominees on record; they’re also notable for a strong British presence and Will Smith’s first-ever mention.

Jodie Sweetin, former Bachelor Colton Underwood and “Real Housewives of New York City”‘s Eboni K. Williams are testing their limits.