Oscars Flashback: Jacques Cousteau's 'The Silent World' Won Best Documentary Feature in 1957

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For years, specialty films have counted on an Oscar best picture nomination to provide a major boost at the box office. This time around, analysts are stumped as to how much the top nominees will benefit, considering that the box office has yet to recover from the pandemic.

have,” she told TheWrap with a laugh. “It’s been life-changing.”Also Read: Oscars Song Contenders on 'Common Thread' Through Their Songs: 'A Need to Be Heard and Seen' (Video)The 23-year-old singer and songwriter said she didn’t hesitate when she was approached by the filmmakers of “Judas” to write and perform a song for their film about the FBI campaign to target the Black Panther Party and its chairman, Fred Hampton, in late 1960s Chicago.

Disney+ is expected to overtake Netflix and become the world’s biggest streaming platform within three years.According to new data released by The Walt Disney Company earlier this month, the platform is on track to trump Netflix as Disney+ just passed 100million global subscribers 16 months after launching, while it took Netflix a decade to reach the same number.Expectations had previously forecast Disney+ to take five years to reach 90million subscribers, according to the Guardian.Disney+

Shakespeare warned to “beware the Ides of March,” but the 15th brought glad tidings to a select group of documentary feature filmmakers who earned coveted Oscar nominations.

This morning, animation legend Glen Keane was up before the sun and learned that he’d scored his first Oscar nom for Best Animated Feature Film, for his debut feature—Netflix musical fantasy, Over the Moon.

Manori Ravindran International EditorOscar-nominated documentary “Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah” is the first Academy Award nominee to be released as an NFT (non-fungible token).The film, which examines the life and work of the “Shoah” director, was a contender in the 2016 documentary short Oscar race and aired on HBO; however, it’s never been made available for public purchase, either physically or digitally.Enter the NFT: the latest fad in digital commerce.

The world’s biggest art heist is getting the Netflix documentary treatment.

The biggest album globally in 2020 was BTS' Map Of The Soul: 7, the IFPI have announced.

The biggest single globally of 2020 was The Weeknd's Blinding Lights, the IFPI - the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide - have revealed. 

The 15 shortlisted films vying to become one of the five Best International Feature nominees at the 2021 Academy Awards are a surprising and creatively engaging bunch. Their stories often are drenched in history — much of it tragic and disturbing — and turbulent social and political currents course through any number of them.

Come awards season, documentarians usually find themselves outside the rope line, on the periphery of the red carpet and tucked away in a neat little box marked "below the line." This is, after all, a moment for designer dresses and million-dollar smiles, with only a token acknowledgment for foreign-language and nonfiction features. Not this year.

If Chloé Zhao manages to nab this year's directing Oscar for Nomadland, she won't be the first to win for a drama about down-on-their-luck itinerant workers making their way across the American West.

Sam Taylor-Johnson has assembled an impressive cast for her next feature film, “Rothko,” which is set in the art world. The ensemble cast includes Russell Crowe, as well as Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Stuhlbarg, Aisling Franciosi, and Jared Harris.

IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Jacques Audiard’s upcoming film “Paris, 13th District” (Les Olympiades) during the virtual European Film Market.

Regé Jean Page is definitely capitalising on his Bridgerton success.

A documentary exploring claims filmmaker Woody Allen molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was a child has had its UK release confirmed. Following its showing in the US, Allen v Farrow will premiere on Sky Documentaries on Monday 15 March.

Regé-Jean Page has yet another exciting role in the works.