Jennifer Lawrence says she’s iffy on doing an Oscars interview with Ryan Seacrest

A recent resurgence of sexual misconduct allegations against Ryan Seacrest has stars like Jennifer Lawrence thinking twice about whether they want to appear alongside the E! host on the red carpet.
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This year’s Best Picture nominees deserve to be seen as classic comic strips

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Sunday is the 90th Academy Awards, so naturally I tried to think of the dumbest thing I could do to honor them.

Truthfully, the Best Picture category is more stacked than it’s been in my memory. Almost all of the most-honored movies are already classics, and they’re a clear representation of the year’s best in cinema. (Though I would have also preferred that The Florida Project, Killing of a Sacred Deer, and mother! were up there as well.) Still, it’s been a great year for movies and good on the Oscars for recognizing that.

So what if — stay with me here — we could see these movies as classic newspaper comic strips? Read more…

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Someone made a delightful supercut of every visual effects Oscars winner (and this year’s nominees)

Things have greatly improved in the world of special effects since 1938, when Shawn of the North took home the first Academy Award for the category. Since then we’ve seen everything form Return of the Jedi to Forrest Gump winning the award. …

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‘The Florida Project’ was snubbed for an Oscar because we don’t like stories of women in poverty

And the award for the best social-issue movie of the year goes to … a story about a woman who falls in love with a fish.
An oppressed fish. An impoverished fish. But ya know. A fish.
That’s the message many who care about this shit felt like they h…

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In wake of #MeToo and #TimesUp, Casey Affleck decides not to present at the Oscars

Casey Affleck has decided to recuse himself from presenting the Oscar for best actress at the 2018 Academy Awards, likely due to the two sexual harassment allegations laid against him in 2010.
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Gal Gadot, Adam Driver and more amazing performances that awards season forgot about

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In theory, awards season is a chance to celebrate the best of the best that Hollywood has to offer. As anyone who’s ever rolled their eyes at a list of nominees could tell you, however, it never quite works out that way in practice.

Fortunately, that doesn’t mean we can’t praise those who were unjustly overlooked.

Below are some of our favorite performances of 2017 that were snubbed by the major awards – by which we mean the Oscars, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Golden Globes, the Indie Spirits, the BAFTAs. (We are not counting critics’ awards, festival awards, or audience awards.) Read more…

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The Oscars are going to begin a whopping 30 minutes earlier, still last for an eternity

The interminable self-congratulatory awards slog that is the Oscars is trying to do right by you, the viewer, and has decided to shift its mind-numbing, never-ending extravaganza of dresses and “SPEECHABLE MOMENTS” back a whole half-hour earlier….

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