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
SAG Awards Analysis: What the Results Tell Us About the Oscar Race
THR‘s executive editor of awards coverage, Scott Feinberg, explains the significance of the night’s wins for Cillian Murphy, Lily Gladstone and the cast of Oppenheimer.
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’ Pod: Lily Gladstone on Almost Quitting Acting Before ‘Killers,’ Secret Homages in Scorsese’s Film and Being An Awards Season “First”
Lily Gladstone, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a trailblazing Native American actress whose breakout performance in Martin Scorsese’s film Killers of the Flower Moon, as an Osage woman named Mollie Burkhart whose oil wealth made her a target of white men during what is known as the […]
‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast: Celine Song on True Story Behind ‘Past Lives,’ Final Draft’s Subtitles Problem and “In-Yun” in Her Life
Celine Song, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a 35-year-old Korean-Canadian playwright-turned-filmmaker whose largely autobiographical feature directorial debut, Past Lives, is now nominated for the best picture Oscar, and whose script for it has brought her a best original screenplay nod. Filmmaker magazine called Past Lives “as confident […]
‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast: America Ferrera on Her ‘Barbie’ Monologue and Oscar Nom, ‘Ugly Betty’ Emmy and Battle With “Imposter Syndrome”
America Ferrera, the guest on this episode of The Hollywod Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded in front of film students at Chapman University, is a 39-year-old actress, producer, director and activist who has been a public figure — and a trailblazer — for more than 20 years. Ferrera has starred in projects on screens […]
MORE AWARDS NEWS
Crunchyroll Anime Awards: ‘Jujutsu Kaisen’ Takes Top Honors; Megan Thee Stallion, Bong Joon-ho Among Presenters
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 was the big winner at Crunchyroll’s Anime Awards in Tokyo over the weekend, taking the top-prize anime of the year honor and triumphing in 10 additional categories, including best director, best character design, best action and best cinematography. The best film prize went to Mokoto Shinkai’s anime blockbuster Suzume, while Demon […]
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ACE Eddie Awards: ‘The Holdovers,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ Among Winners
Universal’s Oppenheimer and Focus Features’ The Holdovers won the top theatrical prizes Sunday at the 74th Annual ACE Eddie Awards, presented by the American Cinema Editors at UCLA’s Royce Hall. ACE president Kevin Tent, who presided over the event, won best edited feature film, comedy, for The Holdovers, while the drama feature award went to […]
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CAS Awards: ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘The Last of Us,’ ‘The Bear’ Among Winners
The Cinema Audio Society Awards took place on Saturday, honoring Oppenheimer, The Last of Us and The Bear with winning trophies this year. The sound mixing team behind Oppenheimer took home the award in the live-action competition, beating the teams behind Barbie, Ferrari, Killers of the Flower Moon and Maestro. Cinema Audio Society, which honors outstanding sound mixing in […]
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson Explains How SAG Awards ‘Modern Family’ Reunion Came Together
Last week, the 2024 SAG Awards reunited casts from beloved TV shows and movies including Modern Family, Breaking Bad and The Devil Wears Prada. While the Modern Family reunion was missing the children from the hit ABC sitcom, the grown-up gathering did include Ty Burrell, who famously missed a previous time the cast gathered since […]
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Dwayne Johnson, Bad Bunny and Jennifer Lawrence Among Additional 2024 Oscar Presenters
Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Keaton, Regina King, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate McKinnon, Rita Moreno, John Mulaney, Catherine O’Hara, Octavia Spencer and Ramy Youssef have been added as presenters for the 2024 Oscars, showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producers Molly McNearney and Katy Mullan announced Thursday. The newly added presenters will join previously announced ones that include Mahershala […]
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2024 SAG Awards Red Carpet Winners: Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Pedro Pascal Top the List
For anyone wondering about the impact of airing the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild exclusively on Netflix, only a cursory glance is needed at the The Hollywood Reporter/Launchmetrics Red Carpet Power Rankings resulting from the event. Earned exposure at the SAG Award for many luxury brands — and the stars who wore them — saw […]
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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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