Songwriter Diane Warren On Inspiration From ‘The Life Ahead’ For Oscar-Nominated Song “Io Si (Seen)”: “It’s About Understanding, It’s About Love”

Diane Warren is getting the documentary treatment, courtesy of XTR.

Christopher Vourlias Marcela Santibañez, who was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary contender “The Mole Agent,” is executive producing a new documentary about a company of heroic firefighters, Variety has learned exclusively.Set against a backdrop of protest, pandemic and social unrest in the city of Valparaíso, “Piropolis” follows the firefighters of the fifth company as they battle the epic forest fires raging around their city.

Rebecca Davis editorMove over, “Nomadland” — Italy’s “Pinocchio” is now set to become the first film nominated at this year’s Oscars to hit China.Although Chloé Zhao’s film nabbed best picture and two other major prizes at the Academy Awards on Sunday, it was pulled quietly from its planned China release on April 23 in the wake of nationalist backlash against her there.

At the 93rd Academy Awards, songwriter Diane Warren made the wrong kind of history, losing out in her 12th bid for Best Original Song.

Thomas P. Kelly Jr., an Oscar-nominated producer who served as a professor and dean of Loyola Marymount University's College of Communication and Fine Arts for nearly three decades, has died.

H.E.R. is here! The 23-year-old performer made quite the entrance at the 2021 Oscars on Sunday. Dressed in a custom cobalt blue ensemble by Dundas, H.E.R.

As we steady our for another brilliant episode of Call The Midwife, we thought it’d be fun to look at what happened to the stars of the show who have left the BBC One drama behind. From Line of Duty and The Crown, to Taskmaster and even an Oscar nomination - yes, you read that correctly - former Call The Midwife cast members have been making waves in the entertainment industry since leaving Nonnatus House behind.

EXCLUSIVE: Triple Oscar nominee Tomm Moore has joined the creative team of The Inventor, the feature animation being helmed by Ratatouille writer Jim Capobianco.

If Anything Happens I Love You challenge. The rules were simple—to participate, TikTokers had to film themselves before and after watching an animated short on .

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In his 92 years, African-American businessman Horace Bowers Sr.—one of the two main subjects of the Oscar-nominated short documentary A Concerto Is a Conversation—has faced many obstacles in his path. He’s always found a way around them.

When Judy Heumann—one of the main subjects of the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp—was five years old in the early 1950s, her mother tried to register her for kindergarten in New York City. The staff took one look at Judy, who used a wheelchair as a result of polio, and denied her.

The House of the Mouse is welcoming back guests soon — which means local Disney fans will be clamoring for new merch to sport to the long-awaited opening. Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park are slated to reopen April 30 after being closed for over a year due to the pandemic.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorHollywood has always been drawn to true stories and there will never be a shortage of actors needed to re-create famous lives. But when portraying a real person who is dead or is even still alive, actors have their work cut out for them.

Oscar nominee “Minari” came from a very personal place.

Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal went into 2019’s Toronto International Film Festival without a distributor. Now, a year-and-a-half on, it’s a six-time Oscar nominee and perhaps the most hard-fought of all of this year’s crop of Best Picture candidates. Joe Utichi meets Marder and stars Riz Ahmed and Paul Raci to take stock of a film that transformed its key players in ways they hadn’t expected.

The 25th of April is a special day for songwriter Diane Warren. Not just because it’s the Oscars and she’s nominated for her 12th Best Song in a row for “Io Sì (Seen)” from the Netflix Sophie Loren movie The Life Ahead, but it’s Warren’s late father’s birthday.

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.