Oscars 2021: Best Original Screenplay Contenders & Predictions

The new movie One Night in Miami has been generating so much Oscars buzz ever since its Venice Film Festival premiere and now an L.A. audience has seen the film!

Carmen Best, the first Black police chief in Seattle's history who stepped down earlier this year amid budget cuts, started a new gig on Monday as a law enforcement analyst for NBC’s Seattle affiliate, KING 5.   “I am honored to have Chief Best on the KING 5 News team.

Candiace Dillard Bassett says she's been living in what feels like a prison of her own mind for the last year. This week marks the one-year anniversary, if you can even call it that, of the physical altercation that unfolded between Candiace and her The Real Housewives of Potomac co-star, Monique Samuels, at a Maryland winery on Oct.

On May 29, as the nation rioted and marched and demanded justice for George Floyd after his death at police hands, Donald Trump tweeted a callback to the segregationist and Alabama governor George Wallace: “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Two days later the president sought to clear peaceful protesters from the path between the White House and St. John’s Church for a photo opportunity.

Aaron Sorkin is known for certain trademarks: the walk-and-talk, the breathless dialogue, crescendos of feeling. You know the drill: Martin Sheen quotes the bible, an orchestra swells and then we cry.But the writer hasn’t given us that ultra-satisfying, sweeping Sorkin package much since “The West Wing” ended.

Celebs were keeping busy this week, from Emilia Clarke, Angela Bassett and more partnering for the sixth annual Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program, to Demi Lovato showing off a tie-dye look in a selfie, to Delilah Belle Hamlin taking a stroll in London.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDiverse storytelling and representation are the core focus for Angela Bassett and Emilia Clarke, who are serving as jurors and mentors during this year’s sixth annual Tribeca Through the Lens filmmaking program.“The biggest reason I wanted to be a producer was that I had spent a huge amount of time in several very big machines where I got to have a very fulfilling role but I felt left out of a bunch of rooms, and as a creative human I wanted to be in them,” Clarke

Sundance title in the mix, too.)For the 2021 Oscars, however, the enthusiasm is muted — COVID, election — and that 7/9 proportion will likely skew lower. After Sundance, the last carefree, business-as-usual festival, big titles a la “Joker” and “1917” have been in relatively short supply because studios want traditional theatrical releases after premieres.

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the class of Adapted Screenplay contenders is how wonderfully diverse it is. In theory, this category could have four women nominees and four PoCs in a very competitive year.

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories.

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Peter White Television EditorWaleed Zuaiter, who has starred in Netflix’s The Spy and Hulu and Channel 4 drama Baghdad Central, has launched his own production company to tackle diversity in TV and film.Zuaiter, who produced Omar, the Palestinian feature that was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, has established FlipNarrative, which will be based in LA, London and Beirut.

A funny thing happened on the way to a COVID-delayed Oscar qualification deadline. Real Best Picture contenders showed up.

The first thing you should realize about the 2021 Best Picture race is thanks to a fluctuating domestic theatrical distribution due to the coronavirus pandemic this list of contenders will likely change over the next few months. Don’t be surprised, however, if there are actually some major additions to the mix.

There’s a lot of good news in the Best Director race for the Academy as the 2021 Oscars begins to take shape. First off, there is a ton of diversity with Lee Issac Chung (“Minari”), George C.

Is 2021 the year another legendary actor adds a second or third Academy Award to their trophy case? Or will a first-timer make their case? In either scenario, the Oscars won’t necessarily be rewarded with star power from the Best Actor category. Although, there are some outside contenders for ratings ravished ABC.

There’s always one. There’s always one major Oscars category that makes everyone in the awards game scratch their head and think, “Well, that’s wide open.” A category that might not be as deep as previous years or be rampant with over the moon worthy nominees.

In the year 2021, just how many actors from one film can land a nomination in an Oscars category? The last time it occurred in the Best Supporting Actor race was in 1975 when Robert De Niro, Michael V. Gazzo, and Lee Strasberg were all nominated for “The Godfather, Pt.

With five months to go before the Feb. 28 qualifying deadline, the Best Actress race is already extremely competitive.