For chocolate-loving children, Easter Saturday can be almost as slow-moving as Christmas Eve. Every second passing by is another step closer to the Easter Bunny delivering delicious treats - but for excited youngsters, the wait can feel pretty long.
28.03.2022 - 05:53 / deadline.com
While streaming has been poised to elbow traditional theatrical releases out of the Oscar spotlight, tonight’s results are offering a modest rebuke to that narrative.
While Best Picture could still go to a streaming service, which would represent a significant milestone in the 94-year history of the Academy Awards, the total is now assured of falling short of last year’s record of nine. With a handful of major categories left, there have been two wins for streaming out of 18 categories, both for Apple’s CODA, for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor.
Netflix, which led all studios and streamers with 27 total nominations, and has piled up 86 over the past three years. The Power of the Dog paced this year’s field with 12 nominations, but came into the home stretch of the show without any hardware.
Amazon Prime Video helped amp up the conversation about streaming Oscars in 2017 when it recorded three wins out of seven nominations for Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman. Netflix captured Best Documentary (Short Subject) that same year with The White Helmets. Those four wins were equaled in 2019, the year of Netflix’s Roma and Period. End of Sentence and Prime Video’s Cold War.
Defining what makes a “streaming movie” has gotten trickier due to Covid, of course. Last year, with the ceremony recognizing films that were largely unable to play theatrically due to the pandemic, the Academy waived the qualifying requirement that films be theatrically released. Last June, the board of governors extended that protection but said future ceremonies could see some theatrical threshold re-established.
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For chocolate-loving children, Easter Saturday can be almost as slow-moving as Christmas Eve. Every second passing by is another step closer to the Easter Bunny delivering delicious treats - but for excited youngsters, the wait can feel pretty long.
Childhood friends of a 'intelligent and funny' man who was the 'light of every room' are remembering him more than a year after he tragically took his own life on New Year's Eve. Jack Hart, who was originally from Stockport but later moved to Crewe with his family, died on December 31 2020 aged just 21, after struggling with his mental health and the lockdown restrictions.
A coroner has slammed the way a probation service hostel where three residents have died has been run - with 'inadequate' staffing levels and a known culture of drug taking. Bolton Coroners Court heard eye-opening evidence on Tuesday (April 12) from workers and management involved with St Joseph's approved premises, in Eccles, during the three months Craig Akhtar Bissa lived at the site.
It's set to be an exciting night of boxing on Saturday evening which will be headlined by Conor Benn defending his WBA title against South African Chris van Heerden. Ricky Hatton's son, Campbell Hatton, will also be fighting on the DAZN card - another put together by Matchroom's Eddie Hearn.
Forty-six days on, the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues. More than 10 million people have fled their homes, according to the United Nations, while another 6.5 million are thought to be displaced inside the war-torn country itself.
Kevin De Bruyne says Manchester City will leave everything on the pitch in their final Premier League fixtures as they battle with rivals Liverpool for the title.
Stacey Solomon was so distracted by the cuteness of her own matching outfit with her baby daughter that she didn't even spot her wardrobe fail. She took to Instagram earlier this week with a string of adorable snaps alongside six-month-old Rose.
Drivers were hit by the largest monthly spike in fuel prices on record last month, amid rising oil costs and the war in Ukraine.
Juventus defender Matthijs de Ligt believes he gave 'too much' respect to the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gianluigi Buffon during his early days in Turin.
A quintessentially British cottage that looks like it came straight out of a fairytale book has guests staying there from across the UK, and even from Hollywood. The chocolate box cottage, located in the Cheshire countryside less than an hour's drive from Manchester, is the perfect hideaway for those wanting to stay somewhere unique.
Neighbours have told of their shock following the death of a 91-year-old man in a house explosion in Wythenshawe. Widower Frank Burton, 91, was found dead in his home following the blast on Brownley Road on Thursday evening.