Netflix Leads Oscar Nominations for the First Time Behind ‘Irishman,’ ‘Marriage Story’

Charles Dickens’ 160 year-old “best of times/worst of times” conundrum from “Tale of Two Cities” beautifully sums up the state of filmmaking in this young century. Seemingly around every corner there’s a new disruptive technology changing, and often complicating, either production or distribution.

By this point in awards season, top-billed creators and performers behind Oscar-nominated films have received more than their share of press and advertising coverage. Others involved in the lauded films, particularly those on support staff, tend to go less celebrated."Assistants Behind the Oscars," a new featurette released by Young Entertainment Activists (YEA) on Friday morning, spotlights one of these less-applauded groups.

With her latest best original song nomination for "I'm Standing With You" from the Fox feature Breakthrough, Diane Warren now holds an Oscar record -- if not yet an Oscar. Her 11th career mention makes her the most-nominated woman in Oscar history without a single win.

Exiled moviemaker Roman Polanski’s new film An Officer And A Spy leads all nominations for France’s Oscars.

Harriet Frank Jr., the two-time Oscar nominee forHudandNorma Raewho partnered with her husband, the late Irving Ravetch, to form one of the great screenwriting teams in Hollywood history, has died. She was 96.Frank died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, her nephew, Michael Frank, told The New York Times.Frank and Ravetch worked on 17 features together, including eight directed by Martin Ritt over a 32-year span and three that were adapted from William Faulkner novels.

By Matt Grobar

The awards season is upon us and some actors are shining brighter than the others. One of them is actress Laura Dern, who is on a  winning streak for her performance in Marriage Story. The Noah Baumbach directorial has bagged a nomination in the Best Picture category in every award show so far and even in various other categories. The talented cast of the film  includes Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern and Ray Liotta among others. 

Antonio Banderas is an official Oscar nominee! The 59-year-old received a nomination in the Best Actor category for his role in Pain and Glory. As if his first nomination wasn’t exciting enough, the story about getting the news makes the experience even better.

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By Matt Grobar

Streaming giant Netflix received strong support from filmmakers behind “The Irishman” and “Marriage Story” at the Producers Guild of America’s nominees panel on Saturday at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

Florence Pugh received her first ever Oscar nomination for her critically acclaimed performance as Amy March in the Greta Gerwig-directed Little Women and the 24-year-old actress reacted to the news in the most hilarious way. The actress took to Instagram and shared before-and-after pictures from the morning she received the news of her nomination. Pugh woke up to the nominations early morning on December 13 and documented her epic reaction from her bed and shared it with her fans.

It was quite an exciting Monday morning for legendary songwriter Diane Warren, 63, and This Is Us star Chrissy Metz, 39. On Jan.

Joker led the nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards with a total 11 nods.

In case you haven’t heard, the 2020 Oscar nominations were announced this Monday morning and—no surprise here—they are lacking diversity as well as women nominees in all the major categories. However, there was a silver lining when it came to the foreign language films this year. Spanish actor Antonio Banderas received his first Oscar nomination for his role in Pain and Glory, which left him teeming with excitement.

Dark comic-book story “Joker” led nominations on Monday for the Oscars in a best picture line-up dominated by stories by or about men and featuring only one actor of colour despite efforts over the past few years to diversify the field.

Joker led the nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards with a total 11 nods.

Streaming made Hollywood history again Monday as Netflix picked up a leading 24 Oscar nominations, marking the first time that the company has earned more than any major studio or specialty distributor.That included landing two spots in the coveted best picture category for Martin Scorsese's The Irishman and Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story.The Irishman received a total of 10 nominations, tying with Sony's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Amblin/Universal's 1917.