Oscar Telecast Faces Backlash Against ‘No Zooms’ Mandate

Best Picture winners over the years and you realise that almost every film selected is still in circulation. William Wellman’s Wings, the very first winner in 1927, is readily available on DVD and Blu-Ray, as are such other early winners as Cimarron and Broadway Melody.

EXCLUSIVE: Following its Oscar nomination, Elvira Lind’s short film The Letter Room has been racking up the sales. The movie, which stars Oscar Isaac and Alia Shawkat, has sold to France and Germany (ARTE France), Spain (Telefonica), Denmark (TV2), Russia (Shot TV), Poland (New Europe Film Sales), Airlines (JetBlue) as well as an international deal with Kanopy for the educational circuit.

Despite previous outrage that streaming service Netflix could have films nominated for Oscar Awards, this year the site has proven once again that its movies can play with the big boys.

The Oscar-nominated filmmaking team behind the documentary Time are looking forward to a reunion at Union Station in Los Angeles, the main venue for this year’s Academy Awards. Director-producer Garrett Bradley and producers Lauren Domino and Kellen Quinn haven’t seen each other in person for a while, because of Covid-19.

Leslie Odom, Jr. and Diane Warren are among the Best Original Song Oscar nominees invited to attend a special Songwriters Hall of Fame virtual event.

Any time you get an Oscar nomination it’s exciting, but at the end of the day when one of Hollywood’s biggest stars is singing your praises for your work on their project, its hard to beat that feeling.

Time’s Garrett Bradley has become the first African-American woman recognized with an Oscar nomination for directing a feature documentary.

The new horror series Them premiered on Amazon Prime Video this weekend and executive producer Lena Waithe is facing backlash on social media right now.

Maya Jama has faced backlash after sharing a video outside Buckingham Palace after the death of Prince Philip on Friday.The TV presenter was branded “disrespectful” after driving past the palace and commenting on the death of the Duke of Edinburgh just hours after it was announced by Buckingham Palace. Maya, 26, had filmed herself travelling by car when she saw crowds gathering to lay flowers outside the gates of the palace.

Kerry Washington is causing quite a reaction on social media.

Fremantle has acquired international distribution rights to Oscar Peterson: Black and White, the feature-length documentary about the iconic jazz pianist being directed by Barry Avrich. The deal is for overseas rights excluding Canada on the film, which is underway on production. A fall 2021 release is planned.

In the Oscar-nominated documentary short A Concerto Is a Conversation, acclaimed composer Kris Bowers traces a line from his family history to the premiere performance of his original concerto "For a Younger Self" at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2019. Following that line is Horace Bowers Jr., Kris Bowers' 91-year-old grandfather, who sits down with his grandson to tell the story of his journey out of the Jim Crow-era South in the pursuit of his American Dream.

Meghan Markle wowed in a printed Oscar de la Renta dress as she attended Princess Diana’s nieces wedding back in 2018, now three years on you can snap up a steal of a dupe for only £12.99! Yes, that’s right, the Duchess of Sussex's beautiful blue and white £4,600 designer gown inspired by the Wedgwood china design, has landed online at one of our favourite high street retailers H&M.

Shanna Moakler has removed all traces of her model ex-boyfriend from her life!

vaccine passports on Twitter on the basis that the safety measure would “segregate people and strip them of their freedom to travel internationally”. On Monday, the doctor and media personality, who is best-known as Dr Drew, tweeted: “These vaccine passports segregate people and strip them of their freedom to travel internationally.

Xzibit has responded after his marijuana brand Napalm faced backlash this week.

last year’s ‘Uh-huh’ – sees her collaborate with one of her favourite artists.“I just adore Oscar,” Litany (real name Beth Cornell) said in a press release.

Shalini Dore Features News EditorThe  Oscar-nominated live action shorts come from filmmakers based in the U.S., U.K, and the Mideast. They all center on the human desire to be seen as people.Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski Roland’s entry into the deaf-blind community came through a chance meeting about 10 years ago with a man holding up a sign asking for help to cross the street late one night in New York City.