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Why are the Oscars Called Oscars? How the Academy Award Prize Got Its Name
Why Are The Oscars Called “Oscars”? Ever wonder why the Academy Awards are called the Oscars? Like most narratives in ...
What we can learn about the 2026 Oscars from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival might be far removed from the 2026 Academy Awards... far, far removed. However, as early as it is to think about what the 2026 Oscars will look like, Cannes has become a ...
These Cannes 2025 Prize Winners Will Inspire Oscar Campaigns
We look at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival award winners that could show up at the Oscars, with 'Sentimental Value' most likely ...
Cannes Winners Are Again Good For NEON But Create Confusing Picture For Oscar Race – Which Films Could Place In Both?
An analysis of how the Cannes Film Festival Winners and Premieres Might affect the upcoming Oscar Race after recent years of ...
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Oscars AI Guidelines Usher in New Era for Academy Awards
Learn More. The 98th Academy Awards will make history as the first Oscars with official guidelines for AI use in filmmaking. The Awards ceremony will be held on March 15, 2026. In the latest rule ...
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SciTech Awards: Captioning Oscar Recognizes ‘Commitment to Accessibility’
Marlee Matlin accepted an Academy Award of Merit – an Oscar statuette – that was created to broadly recognize “all the individuals who have developed and supported captioning technology ...
Cannes and the Oscars: Why the French Film Fest Now Has More Clout With the Academy
Since the double win of “Parasite,” Cannes has premiered more Best Picture nominees than any other festival The increased connection between the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards is a hot ...
Neon’s ‘Sentimental Value,’ Starring Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve, Is a Surefire Oscar Contender
Starring Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve, Joachim Trier's 'Sentimental Value' is a major Oscar contender to emerge from ...
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Oscars: Film Academy Revokes, Then Reinstates Screenings Access for Widows and Widowers After Backlash (Exclusive)
By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards Over the past week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences terminated — briefly and, the organization insists, inadvertently — a ...
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Oscars’ New Rule Requiring Voters to Watch All Nominees Could Reshape Awards Campaigning, but Academy Members Already Found Loopholes
Oscar voters may actually have to do their homework. That’s because the Academy has implemented a ... (provided they earn prizes from other awards groups in the lead-up to voting).
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There’s a new category coming to the Oscars
The Academy has announced that it will add an award for best stunt design. The category will debut in 2028 with the 100th Oscars. In a press release about the announcement, Academy CEO Bill Kramer ...
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The LA Fires Destroyed His Oscars. How The Academy Went Out Of Its Way To Help The Avatar And Lincoln Creative
The American production designer looked so proud and happy to have his new Oscar statuettes. Clearly the Academy couldn’t ... like the Critics' Choice Awards, Oscar nominations and the live ...