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We've raised a cheer for the March 10 Oscar broadcast's audience bump, up 4 percent, to 19.5 million viewers from 18.8 million a year ago. The total should stretch toward 21 million when digital viewers over seven days are finally added in. (Social media…

Brent Delaney, Harris McCabe, J. Miller, c. Craig Patterson and Kayla Sun are the winners of the 2023 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said today. Each of the five fellows will receive a $35,000 prize, along with mentorship from…

Truth be told, I'm not crazy about Oscar night. The shoes pinch. Security's a bother. All the red-carpet nattering unnerves me. And watching at home isn't much better. Who really wants to turn on the television at 5 — oops, make that 4 — o'clock on an…

It's that time of year again — when Hollywood residents, tourists and businesses must prepare for some serious disruptions. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the City of Los Angeles have released the street and sidewalk closures for the 96th annual Academy Awards on March 10 at the Dolby…

A divorce on the board of AMPAS. The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Monday to make the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch two distinct branches: the Animation Branch and the Short Films…

The Casting Directors have finally got their Oscar. After a decades long effort to establish a competitive Oscar for Casting Directors, it has finally paid off with the establishment of a new Oscar category for Achievement In Casting beginning with the…

It's a fact of life, people love the Oscars most when the film Academy or its members are doing something dumb. Slapping a host. Naming the wrong winner. Singing about bare breasts. That sort of thing. So it was a good week for the March 10 Academy Awards show. The colossally un-smart snubs of Margot…

The move in recent years to make the Oscars a truly global event in terms of the membership drive by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has paid off particularly well this year: Eligible voters from a record 93 countries submitted ballots in the…

Let the techies be rewarded. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today revealed the 16 sci-tech achievements that will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony next month. See the full list below. Achievements marked for Sci-Technical Awards need not have…

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences is tightening its internal overlook and control of the Oscars and all awards-related events in an expansion of its Oscars Strategy division which started in 2022. Longtime AMPAS executive Teni Melidonian…

Today is not just significant for the solstice and the passing of fall into winter, it also is the first bell ringing in the race for Oscar as the Academy has just announced semi-finalists in 10 categories. Fifteen movies each are moving forward in the…

Is it too early for a New Year's wish? Well, I'm going to make one anyway. I wish the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures would hurry up its long-promised Hollywoodland exhibition. Officially titled Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital, the exhibit is intended, finally…