Why is Sally Lindsay hosting Tenable? Actress takes over presenting duties from long-running host Warwick Davis

Clayton Davis With the 2021 Oscars in the rearview, Variety looks ahead to what could be a very packed and condensed year with the Awards Circuit Draft for Oscars 2022.A tradition for the past 16 years, I’ve always thrown shots in the dark in the week immediately following the Academy Awards. For the first time, my year-in-advance top pick, Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” won picture and director.

Clayton Davis It was an Oscar night to remember, but perhaps not in the way that all of us would have expected.In this special Awards Circuit Podcast Roundtable Mega Edition, Clayton Davis, Jenelle Riley, Jazz Tangcay and Michael Schneider give one last look at the highs, lows, surprises and jaw-dropping moments from the 93rd Oscars.

EXCLUSIVE: Though her highly-anticipated series The Underground Railroad doesn’t bow for another couple of weeks, Thuso Mbedu is lining up her next feature film as she has come on to TriStar Pictures’ The Woman King starring Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis. The pic will be directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, who most recently directed the critically acclaimed blockbuster, The Old Guard.

Clayton Davis Eva Longoria has named Adriana Martínez Barrón as vice president of film at her UnbeliEVAble Entertainment production banner.“We are very excited to welcome Adriana to the UnbeliEVAble team,” says Longoria.

Disney+ has added a brand new cast member to the upcoming series, Willow.

EXCLUSIVE: Amer Chadha-Patel (Doom: Annihilation) has landed a male lead opposite Ellie Bamber, Ruby Cruz and Erin Kellyman in Willow, Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s upcoming TV series follow-up to the 1988 fantasy movie, with the film’s star Warwick Davis reprising his title role, I have learned. Lucasfilm declined comment.

Sabrina The Teenage Witch.The Texas woman, named in court records as Caron Scarborough Davis, had a 21-year-old outstanding warrant for her arrest in Oklahoma over the video rental.As the New York Times reports, prosecutors said that Davis had rented the TV series cassette from the now defunct Movie Place store in Norman in 1999.

Clayton Davis What was marketed as “what if the Oscars were a movie?” — the end result was more like, “What if the Oscars were a glossy version of the Golden Globes but with more Black people in attendance?”In an unconventional year, the Oscars delivered an unconventional ceremony, making history, and even rearranging the show so that the biggest prize of best picture wasn’t handed out last.

It’s a huge year for Cheyenne Floyd! The Teen Mom OG star, 28, got engaged on Sunday, April 25, during her baby shower.

Clayton Davis The 19th annual “Night Before” benefit, hosted by the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was held on Saturday evening, featuring a star-studded virtual affair made up of multiple Academy Award nominees, presenters and industry influencers.Those in attendance included multiple nominees from this year’s upcoming Oscars telecast, including Vanessa Kirby (best actress for “Pieces of a Woman”), Leslie Odom Jr.

Geena Davis' Bentonville Film Festival will be produced as an annual program of the newly formed nonprofit BFFoundation in Arkansas, organizers revealed on Wednesday. The foundation, which recently opened a new office in downtown Bentonville, will continue its mission to create a deeper impact for racial and gender equality in media while growing the film industry in Arkansas.

Rebecca Davis editorChinese director Jia Zhangke has formally launched his new venture: a filmmaking school in his native Shanxi staffed by some of China’s top industry talent, including helmers Ning Hao and Bi Gan.The Shanxi Film Academy was inaugurated in a ceremony presided over by Communist party officials and attended by major firms seeking synergies between the school’s future crop of filmmakers and their own thirst for new talent and content.

Clayton Davis The final voting for the Academy Awards officially closed at 5 p.m. PT today.

Clayton Davis As accomplished as Academy Award winner Viola Davis is in the industry, she still feels the unfair comparisons and judgments for the roles she chooses. “It’s so hard to get films made that don’t fit a certain box of how they see us,” Davis tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast.

She is the new host of ITV’s quiz show Tenable while presenter Warwick Davis juggles other work commitments. And former Coronation Street actress Sally Lindsay, 47, is a big fan of the show which sees teams answer top 10 list questions for the chance to win a whopping jackpot of up to £125,000.