Category : Hollywood & Entertainment

As predicted here and in virtually every entertainment news blog and column, Sunday’s Oscar telecast performed over 60% lower than 2020’s Oscar show - - which was already in the history books as the lowest-rated Academy Awards Show, ever. Cinema’s biggest night drew a 1.9 rating, and scored just over 9.85 million viewers. By comparison, last year the show earned a 5.3 rating, with 23.65 million viewers, again - - an all-time low, that is before 2021 arrived. “at Pixar, we think of our work as Indie films.” His inference is clear: if you want to make quality, you must do it outside of readmore

Like every single other awards ceremony in the past year, the 93rd annual Academy Awards looked a little different — but thank goodness it didn’t take place entirely on Zoom. We may have reached a point in the pandemic when virtual acceptance speeches have become awkward or challenged by a bad wifi connection. Nonetheless, like every ceremony since 2016’s great #OscarsSoWhite movement launched by April Reign, one of the main buzzwords of the night was diversity. Diversity, inclusion, representation and terms that challenge the white, cisgender, heterosexual and male dominance of Hollywood have been an issue long before Reign’s readmore

Sunday was an historic evening at the 93rd Academy Awards as major strides were made in celebrating diverse stories and talent at Hollywood's big night. Nomadland's Chloé Zhao became only the second woman to ever win the Academy Award for best director since Kathryn Bigelow won for The Hurt Locker in 2010. Zhao, who was born in China, also becomes the first non-white woman to win best director. Prior to that, only five women had been nominated for best director at the Oscars: Lina Wertmüller, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Bigelow and Greta Gerwig. In another landmark moment, Minari readmore