Brad Pitt took a swipe at the Senate and thanked his children as he won his first acting Oscar.
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Alan Menken has won both the Oscar and the Grammy four times, more often than any other songwriter.Film songs have been recognized at the Grammys since the first year of the awards, 1958, when "Gigi" was nominated for song of the year. But the Grammys didn't have a category devoted exclusively to film and TV songs until 1987, when they introduced best song written specifically for a motion picture or television. The first winner: "Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail.
That ballad,
Brad Pitt took a swipe at the Senate and thanked his children as he won his first acting Oscar.
Mura Masa and slowthai made their US TV debuts on The Tonight Show on Tuesday, bringing their recent collaboration "Deal Wiv It" to life with a high-energy performance. Slowthai provided the fire, stripping to the waist before clambering across host Jimmy Fallon's desk and onto his couch. Check out the performance above.
Sixty years. That’s how long a Louisiana judge sentenced Rob Richardson to serve for armed bank robbery. Garrett Bradley covers more than a third of that term in “Time,” and the cumulative impact — boiled down into an open-minded and deeply empathetic 81 minutes — will almost certainly rewire how Americans think about the prison-industrial complex.
By Andreas Wiseman
The American Film Market has cut two days from its schedule and will run for six days, starting in November with its 41st edition.
London-based production, finance and sales company Film Constellation has added Tim Sutton’s Berlinale title “Funny Face” to its international sales slate. UTA is representing North American rights.
Every summer, more than 1,000 teens swarm the Texas capitol building to attend Boys State, the annual American Legion-sponsored leadership conference where these incipient politicians divide into rival parties, the Nationalists and the Federalists, and attempt to build a mock government from the ground up.
By Mike Fleming Jr
By Amanda N'Duka
Most Americans who don't live on the Gulf Coast have, in all likelihood, long ago stopped thinking about the causes and effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. It's impossible to hold all the world's crises in your mind at once, and a relief to set one aside.
It’s a rare occasion when a first-time American filmmaker embraces the metaphysical, and rarer still when said director does so without embarrassing pretentiousness, but Edson Oda thinks big and mostly pulls it off inNine Days. Uneven but stunningly crafted and concerned with nothing less than who deserves a space on the planet Earth, this is a carefully thought-out original creation that some will argue belongs in an art installation sooner than in a commercial cinema.
It took four movies before Lee Isaac Chung was ready to tell the kind of story first-timers so often rush to share straight out of the gate. Not a coming-of-age movie so much as a deeply personal and lovingly poetic rendering of his Korean American childhood — specifically, how it felt for his immigrant family to adjust to life in small-town Arkansas — “Minari” benefits from the maturity and perspective Chung brings to the project.
Giving Voice is an invigorating look at African American playwright August Wilson’s legacy through the eyes of a cohort of hopeful young theater students across the country. This talented group of high school students compete in the 2018 August Wilson Monologue Competition by performing a monologue of their choice from one of Wilson’s ten plays — each play focuses on one decade of twentieth-century black life — and the doc introduces us to six of the students in the competition.
Emo rockers hit the road later this year
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In her feature-length debut Farewell Amor, Ekwa Msangi explores the meaning of home for an Angolan immigrant family newly reunited in New York City after almost two decades apart.According to the United Nations, the United States currently hosts 51 million international migrants (about 19 percent of the world’s population), the largest number of any country in the world.
Enrique Salenic stars in “José” (Image courtesy YQ Studio LLC/Outsider Pictures)