Oscars Obliterate Old Record With 240 Qualifying Documentaries

Also Read: Oscar Shortlists: Apes, Pop Stars and '60s Hair Battle in FX, Music and Makeup CategoriesAmong the curiosities on the list are five songs from a faith-based movie called “Canaan Land,” six from a Japanese drama called “Twiceborn” and seven folk-based songs from “Killian and the Comeback Kids.”The list of all 104 qualifying songs, which come from 82 different films, was sent to members of the Academy’s Music Branch last week.

Nick Jonas snaps his fingers and turns into an old man in the new commercial for Dexcom.

Nick Jonas is heading to the Super Bowl — via a commercial.

Rapper Silentó was arrested and charged with murdering his cousin Frederick Rooks in Georgia on Monday, February 1.

There are Sundance movies and there are Oscar movies, and if you were to create a Venn diagram of the two, there are years when the two circles have overlapped and years when they've maintained their distance. Richard Linklater's decades-spanning Boyhood, for example, which debuted at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, went on to earn six Oscar noms, including best picture, and scored a win for supporting actress Patricia Arquette.

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, the feature documentary from Richard Peete and Robert Yapkowitz about the folk singer Karen Dalton, whose sphere in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene included Bob Dylan. Wim Wenders is executive producer of the pic, which had its world premiere at DOC NYC.

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, the feature documentary from Richard Peete and Robert Yapkowitz about the folk singer Karen Dalton, whose 1960s sphere in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene included Bob Dylan. Wim Wenders is executive producer of the pic, which had its world premiere at DOC NYC.

The Bachelor has a contestant who gets ye olde villain edit, and definitely gives producers a lot to work with. Matt James' resident royal is so extra that Bachelor Nation has theorized in order to make the season juicier.

A riotous horror-tinged romp starring a runaway buffalo, there's no other contender for the 2021 best international film Oscar quite like India's submission,Jallikattu, directed by Malayalam cinema maverick Lijo Jose Pellissery. The 90-minute movie's galloping plot couldn't be simpler: a bull escapes from a slaughterhouse in a remote Indian village and all of the menfolk gather to chase it down.

Venus Williams is “very excited” about a forthcoming biopic film starring Will Smith as her tennis legend dad.

It has been just a few days since the release of one of her most ambitious projects, The White Tiger and Jonas is already on to her next project.

Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, which won the New York Film Critics’ Association award for best picture of 2020, significantly centers on food and food preparation two centuries ago in the Pacific Northwest region we now call Oregon, four decades before the area became an American state.

Richard M. Kerns, who produced TV commercials for the Columbia Pictures offshoot EUE Screen Gems and for his own firm, has died.

In an age where apparently any financially-disappointing film can get additional millions of dollars for a director’s cut and any cult film can get a sequel, it’s no surprise that Richard Kelly would be interested in revisiting the underrated financial disaster that was “Southland Tales.” READ MORE: Richard Kelly Teases New ‘Southland Tales’ Film As Well As Two 4K Versions Of The Original After his cult-hit “Donnie Darko,” Kelly made an ambitious pseudo-post-apocalyptical satire with an insane

In the early 2000s, every moody teenager prided themself in being able to explain the plot of “Donnie Darko,” Richard Kelly‘s metaphysical film starring Jake Gyllenhaal about a kid who befriends a mysterious figure who tells him he has 28 days to save the world. Now, in a new oral history of the film, Kelly reveals that the notoriously confusing timeline in “Donnie Darko” was made clearer with the help of a certain Christopher Edward Nolan.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Joining the ranks of Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller Williams, Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco, 22-year-old native Angeleno and activist Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet to help mark the transition of presidential power in U.S. history.

coronavirus pandemic.It was confirmed in September that the venue, which is a favourite of many rock stars including Foo Fighters‘ Dave Grohl, would be shutting its doors due to losses incurred during the pandemic.But the venue could yet receive a new lease of life after raising £40,000 of its overall £95,000 goal, with the aim of relaunching in a new central London location when the pandemic comes to an end.Crobar owner Richard Thomas said: “I have to admit, I did a little dance when we hit