Oscars: Todd McCarthy’s Top Picks For Best International Feature Nominations

After a short hiatus caused by the NCAA men’s basketball tournament’s “March Madness,” the entrepreneurs and sharks are back on top of the Friday evening demos.

EXCLUSIVE: Jim Klock, Chad Lindberg, Jamie Kaler and Jane Sibbett have boarded The Ninth House’s independent feature Breast Cancer Bucket List. 

Chadwick Boseman has been nominated for best actor at this year’s Oscars, less than seven months after his death from cancer. The Black Panther star joins the likes of Anthony Hopkins and Riz Ahmed in the top category for his breathtaking performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

Andra Day — correction: Best Actress nominee Andra Day — couldn’t be more excited. ET spoke with the star following news of her Oscar nomination Monday to get the details on how she first learned she was nominated and what this recognition means to her. “When I looked at my phone I saw that it was full of messages,” she shared about first realizing she was nominated.

Jon Hamm and Anna Osceola were in the best place possible on Sunday night!

As the nominations were announced for the 93rd Academy Awards, actors like Steven Yeun and Riz Ahmed made history. 9 actors of colour received an Oscar nomination on Monday, this was certainly a big milestone for the Academy after its years of attempts to diversify the Award ceremony.

In Ireland today, Wolfwalkers directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart are celebrating an Oscar nom for Best Animated Feature.

Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell will both compete for Best Director at the 2021 Academy Awards, setting a new record for female auteurs in the category. The nominations, announced on Monday by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas, saw both Zhao's Nomadland and Fennell's Promising Young Woman selected in the Best Picture category, with them also earning nods for Best Director.

With Oscar nominations for Best International Feature and Best Director, Another Round’s Thomas Vinterberg today joined an elite, yet growing, group of overseas filmmakers to score simultaneous mentions in those categories. Speaking to Deadline from his home in Denmark just minutes after the announcement — and with the Danish press camped out in front of his house — Vinterberg said, “I don’t anticipate anything, don’t count on anything.

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.

Nomadland filmmaker Chloe Zhao has had made history once again as the first woman of color to be nominated for Best Director at the Oscars. Alongside Promising Young Woman director Emerald Fennell, this marks the first time two women have been nominated for Best Director in the history of the Academy Awards — and this is the 93rd edition of the ceremony.

The annual Golden Raspberry Awards, given to the year’s least best movies, unveiled their nominations Friday, with the Robert Downey Jr remake Dolittle, Sia’s Music, Mr Pillow Mike Lindell’s stolen-election documentary Absolute Proof and Rudy Giuliani’s cameo in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm the most panned by the group.

The Sun Online, Anna disclosed that as one of the dating agents on the show, she can have input on which celebrities are chosen for the show.  She said: 'A friend I want to try and persuade to join is Alexandra Burke.

Megan Thee Stallion has announced ‘Women On Top’, a new $1 million (£723,000) fund to support women in education, business, charity and more.The Houston rapper confirmed details of the fund, which is being done in partnership with Fashion Nova, yesterday (March 8) to mark International Women’s Day.Grants, donations and scholarships will be awarded from the $1 million fund throughout March, with the YWCA Houston receiving the first $25,000 (£18,000) grant.“I’m excited to collaborate with Fashion

Deadline has made a pair of staff moves as it continues its editorial expansion. London-based reporter Diana Lodderhose is returning to the site’s fold as International Features Editor, while Alexandra Del Rosario, currently Associate Editor, Nights & Weekends, has shifted to TV Reporter.

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.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorEmerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” has won Best Picture at the 10th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) International Awards.

While eye-popping images of ocean life are now commonplace — see the current Oscar-contending documentary My Octopus Teacher — when diving pioneer Jacques Cousteau released his documentary The Silent World in 1956, they were virtually unknown. The color film, co-directed by Cousteau, then 45, and Louis Malle, then 24, and edited from footage taken from excursions on Cousteau's trusty research vessel Calypso, revealed the strange majesty of ocean life.