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Nicole Kidman Says Her Oscar Prep Starts With Going to Church: ‘It Centers Me’
Ask most celebrities what they do to get ready for the Oscars and they’ll tell you something about a visit to the gym, maybe getting a…
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Reliance’s Jio Studios Acquires Stake in Oscar Winner Guneet Monga Kapoor’s Sikhya Entertainment (EXCLUSIVE)
Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Limited has acquired a 50.1% stake in Sikhya Entertainment, the Indian production house behind…
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Halle Berry Won an Oscar and Says ‘I Was Still Black the Next Morning’ With Directors Refusing to Cast Her; She Later Advised Cynthia Erivo That Oscar Wins ‘Cannot Be Validation’
Halle Berry recently sat down with The Cut for a profile ahead of the release of her new thriller “Crime 101” and revealed that she once…
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‘The Secret Agent’ Director Kleber Mendonça Filho Praises Oscar Nominee Wagner Moura: ‘Everything Came Together Because of the Main Actor Who Believes in Generosity’
“The Secret Agent” director Kleber Mendonça Filho praised Wagner Moura at Rotterdam Film Festival, calling him a generous star. “Since…
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Oscar Bobb transfer news: Fulham sign Manchester City winger for £27m
Bobb has fallen down the pecking order at City after the January arrival of Antoine Semenyo from Bournemouth. "I know there are rumours, I…
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Charli xcx Says Original ‘Brat’ Movie Pitch Was Too Label-Focused and Calls Ariana Grande’s Oscar Snub a ‘Surprise’: ‘She Is Amazing and Goes Full Force’
Charli xcx is taking Sundance by storm ahead of the world premiere of “The Moment,” a concert mockumentary in which a fictionalized…
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‘Sinners’ and ‘One Battle After Another’ Returning to Imax 70mm After Oscar Nominations (EXCLUSIVE)
Many of the Oscar contenders for best picture will return to the big screen before Hollywood’s biggest night. A few of them are even…
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Delroy Lindo was in bed when he found out he had received his first Oscar nomination
British actor Delroy Lindo says he was "in bed" when his son rang to tell him he had been nominated for his first Oscar. The 73-year-old…
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'The Secret Agent' earns 4 Oscar nominations, boosting Brazilian cinema
Brazilians celebrated the nomination of "The Secret Agent" film to four Oscar categories on Thursday, which many said confirmed the rise…
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The 2026 Oscar Nominations and What Should Have Been Picked
Wes Anderson (“The Phoenician Scheme”) Ryan Coogler (“Sinners”) Kleber Mendonça Filho (“The Secret Agent”) Josh Safdie (“Marty Supreme”)…
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Sinners Makes History With Most Oscar Nominations Ever
“There’s a firm argument to be made that this art form, the Delta blues, is our country’s most important contribution to global popular…
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Warner Bros. Ties Own Oscar Studio Record With 30 Nominations for ‘Sinners’ and ‘One Battle After Another’
Warner Bros. scored a leading 30 Oscar nominations on Thursday morning, collecting a record 16 nods for Ryan Coogler’s vampire thriller…
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‘Sinners’ Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Becomes Most-Nominated Black Woman in Oscar History
Ruth E. Carter continues to set milestones for Black women at the Oscars. The legendary artisan earned her fifth Oscar nomination for best…
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BAFTA Boss on Alan Cumming’s First Time Hosting Film Awards, the Logic Behind Longlists and Late Nominations Date: ‘It’s Nice to Have Oscar’ as a ‘Bellwether’
For the first time in a very long time, this year’s BAFTA Film Awards nominations are being announced after the Oscar nominations are…
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The Mediapro Studio, Infinity Hill and IP4 Co-Produce Spanish-Language Thriller ‘The Blue Box’
The Mediapro Studio, Infinity Hill and IP4 have banded together to co-produce “The Blue Box” (“La Caja Azul”), a Spanish-language thriller…
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Final Oscar Predictions: Supporting Actor — Any Room for Some Surprises?
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the…
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Amanda Seyfried Says Winning an Oscar Is Not Important: ‘Do You Remember Who Won in the Past 10 Years?’
Amanda Seyfried recently told The New Yorker that winning an Oscar is not important to her. She said that she’s “gotten this far” without…
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Oscar Voting Closes: Revelations Behind Anonymous Ballots, and the Surprises That May Be Lurking
As of 5 p.m. PT, Oscar nomination voting is officially closed. Multiple conversations with Academy voters all throughout this week have…
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Variety Awards Circuit Podcast Roundtable: Golden Globes Without Shocking Wins, Oscar Voting Uncertainty and Potential Best Picture Shakeups
Oscar voting is about to come to an end, and the question about which films and performances will dominate this year’s Academy Award…
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Witches, Vampires and Aliens: How Genre Films Like ‘Sinners’ and ‘Weapons’ Factor Into the Oscar Race
Hailee Steinfeld and her “Sinners” co-star Michael B. Jordan shared the kind of on-set conversations you can only have while making a…
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Awards HQ: Ariana Grande Packs CAA, Emma Stone Backs ‘Bugonia,’ Demi Moore Champions Kate Hudson and 20 Oscar Nomination Questions
Welcome to Variety Awards HQ — your weekly command center for the Oscars race. It’s January 12, 2026, and Oscar nomination voting is…
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Character Counts: Songs in the Oscar Race Go Beyond Just Being Pretty Tunes
The best movie songs are the ones that illuminate character, summarize the story or otherwise add a new dimension to the film experience.…
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AI Impact Drama ‘Humans in the Loop’ Adds Shabana Azmi, Ritesh Batra, Shaunak Sen as Executive Producers in Oscar Push (EXCLUSIVE)
Three major international talents hailing from Indian cinema have thrown their weight behind “Humans in the Loop” during its awards season…
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‘Cause of Death: Unknown’ Review: Iran’s Surprisingly Daring Official Oscar Entry Sees an Ensemble Cast Conflicted by a Moral Conundrum
This year, there are two films vying for the best international feature film Oscar which are set in Iran, following a group of people,…