The destination for THR’s coverage of the contenders, creatives and crafts leading up to the Academy Awards
KEY DATES
Jan. 23
Academy Awards Nominations
Feb. 10
Art Directors Guild Awards
Feb. 18
People’s Choice Awards
Feb. 18
BAFTA Film Awards
Feb. 24
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Feb. 25
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Feb. 25
Producers Guild Awards
March 10
Academy Awards
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OSCAR ROUNDTABLES
The season’s biggest stars come together
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“Don’t You Lie for a Living?”: Margot Robbie, Emma Stone and THR’s Actress Roundtable
As girls, they dreamed of growing up to perform like Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicolas Cage, Goldie Hawn — even an Ewok. As women, they have turned in some of this year’s most daring and moving performances. In November, Annette Bening (Nyad), Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), Greta Lee (Past Lives), Carey Mulligan (Maestro), Margot […]
The Hit Squad: Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Dua Lipa on the THR Songwriter Roundtable
“I honestly was concerned that it was over for me,” Billie Eilish confesses at a table with Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Jon Batiste, Cynthia Erivo and Julia Michaels, who came together to discuss their songwriting prowess and process. “We’d been trying and it wasn’t doing what it usually would do in me. I was honestly […]
Greta Gerwig, Bradley Cooper and the THR Director Roundtable: “Final Cut Is a State of Mind”
The preshoot rituals they can’t live without, the studio negotiations they’ve learned to finesse and the creative choices they still can’t believe they got away with — the directors of six of this year’s most remarkable movies got together and talked shop. In November, Blitz Bazawule (The Color Purple), Bradley Cooper (Maestro), Ava DuVernay (Origin), […]
COVER STORIES
Deep dives and intimate conversations with the biggest contenders
ANATOMY OF A CONTENDER
Behind the scenes of the season’s biggest films
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How Christopher Nolan Blew Up the Screen: The Making of ‘Oppenheimer’
Contrary to all those clearly erroneous fan rumors, Christopher Nolan obviously did not detonate an atomic bomb while making the historical epic Oppenheimer. To re-create the Trinity Test — the world’s first A-bomb explosion — he and his team fired off tons of TNT, set flame to gallons of gasoline, and burned up mountains of […]
The Making of ‘Barbie’: Margot Robbie Says the Film’s Last Line Is “The Hill I Was Ready to Die On”
In the beginning — 1959, to be exact — there was Barbie. Neither formless nor vapid, she came to the toy-playing masses with high heels and high breasts, an apparition of mock adulthood. Her creator, Ruth Handler, gave her the grown-up persona she noticed little girls transferred onto baby dolls, and a name that would […]
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“Every Day I Was Like, ‘What Am I Doing?’”: The Making of ‘Poor Things’
In a scene early in the movie Poor Things, Emma Stone gleefully flings some kippers across a dining table at Ramy Youssef’s face. It’s a weird and important moment, one in which Stone is establishing her character as a childlike Victorian woman, someone oblivious to social mores and free of shame. Stone and her director, […]
FEINBERG FORECAST
Best Picture — Projected Ranking (Feb. 14)
Oppenheimer
Universal
Poor Things
Searchlight
Anatomy of a Fall
Neon
Barbie
Warner Bros.
The Holdovers
Focus
Maestro
Netflix
American Fiction
Amazon/MGM
Past Lives
A24
Feinberg Forecast
Updated Oscar Projections a Week Before the Start of Final Voting
THR‘s executive editor of awards coverage, Scott Feinberg, checks in on all 23 categories.
ROUNDTABLE VIDEOS
Watch the season’s top talent share stories and discuss their creative process
BEHIND THE SCREEN
How crafts and tech masters make movie magic
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How ‘The Creator’ Director Gareth Edwards Used VFX to Make $80M Look Like $200M
After traveling to dozens of exotic locations around the world to film New Regency’s and 20th Century Studios’ The Creator, director Gareth Edwards made one last trek that was among his most consequential: to Industrial Light & Magic in Northern California. There, he showed a rough cut of the film to the VFX pros who […]
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‘The Boy and Heron’ Producer on Why Hayao Miyazaki Came Out of Retirement
Hayao Miyazaki’s decades-long producer Toshio Suzuki — also co-founder and president of the animation icon’s Japan-based Studio Ghibli — admits that even he was surprised when Miyazaki, now 83, reached out to him in 2016 to say that he wanted to make another movie. “It was only three years after he announced his retirement, and […]
‘Godzilla Minus One’ VFX Oscar Nom Seemed to Be an “Unreachable” Goal
A joyful clip of an ecstatic Godzilla Minus One visual effects team recently went viral, featuring the moment Jan. 23 when it was announced that their film had earned a VFX Oscar nomination — something that must have seemed improbable, or impossible, when the lean 35-person team tackled the Toho Studios’ film that was made on […]
AWARDS CHATTER
In-depth conversations with the most interesting and accomplished people in show business
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‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast: Cillian Murphy on ‘Oppenheimer,’ Potential ‘Peaky Blinders’ Movie and Making a Musical
Cillian Murphy, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a terrific Irish actor who The New York Times has said is “known for his electrifying, typecast-defying turns in a range of movies, big and small.” Backstage has called him “a chameleonic performer, a character actor trapped in a leading […]
Podcast: Jon Batiste on Oscar-Nominated Song “It Never Went Away,” ‘American Symphony’ Oscar Snub and Grammys
Jon Batiste, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded in front of an audience of film students at Chapman University, is a singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and actor. At just 37, he has already won five Grammys — including, in 2022, album of the year, for […]
The Best Magsafe Accessories to Get the Most Out of Your Apple iPhone
The Apple iPhone is incredibly versatile, especially with the right gear to get the most out of the smartphone. And since 2020, Apple has made attaching accessories to the device easier, thanks to MagSafe technology. What is MagSafe? It’s an Apple standard that wirelessly transfers power from the iPhone (iPhone 12 and up) to accessories […]
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MORE AWARDS NEWS
Oscars: Billie Eilish, Ryan Gosling and Jon Batiste to Perform Nominated Original Songs
Jon Batiste, Becky G, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Scott George and the Osage Singers, and Ryan Gosling and Mark Ronson will perform this year’s nominated songs on the 96th Academy Awards, executive producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producers Molly McNearney and Katy Mullan announced today. This will be Eilish and O’Connell’s second […]
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Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot No. 1: ‘Zone of Interest’ Is Best Picture, but Nolan Is Best Director
This “Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot,” which is the first in a series that THR will run ahead of Oscar night, reflects the votes — and candid rationales for them — of a male member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 867-person short films and feature animation branch, as communicated to THR in […]
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Oscars: Five Past Winners Will Introduce Current Nominees in All Four Acting Categories (Exclusive)
The Oscars ceremony that took place in 2009 remains an all-time favorite for many who watched it, including your humble correspondent, largely because of the thrilling way in which the four acting Oscars were presented: Five past winners introduced the five current nominees for each award. This resulted in massive standing ovations from the audience […]
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Bradley Cooper on Writing, Producing, Directing and Starring in ‘Maestro’: “It All Feels Like One Thing To Me”
Before scoring three Oscar nominations this year for Netflix’s Maestro — including best picture, actor and original screenplay (the latter shared with Josh Singer) — Bradley Cooper had already garnered an impressive nine Academy Award nominations as an actor (Silver Linings Playbook in 2013, American Hustle in 2014, American Sniper in 2015 and A Star Is […]
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‘The Zone of Interest’ Producer on Finding New Relevancy in a Holocaust Drama: “Our Political Culture Is Closer to That of the Perpetrator Than We Think”
When Jonathan Glazer began developing the project that became The Zone of Interest — nominated for five Oscars, including best picture and best international feature — he and producer James Wilson began to ask a series of questions that would require them to find the rationale behind making another film that depicts the events of […]
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Kelsea Ballerini Set to Host and Perform at 2024 CMT Music Awards (Exclusive)
Kelsea Ballerini is set to return as host of the 2024 CMT Music Awards, which will air live April 7 on CBS. The four-time Grammy nominee also will perform during the show, taking place at Austin’s Moody Center. This will mark the fourth consecutive year Ballerini has hosted the show. In 2021 and 2023, Ballerini […]
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‘Poor Things’ Producer Ed Guiney on the “Head-Scratching Moments” Pulling Off Yorgos Lanthimos’ Biggest Movie Yet
One might say Poor Things is an epic culmination for Ed Guiney: It’s a film ten years in the making that lurked in the shadows of the producer’s three other collaborations with director Yorgos Lanthimos (the duo also has a fifth project on the horizon: Kinds of Kindness). Based on a novel of the same […]
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