Oscar pundits were describing this awards season as “weird.” Unlike last year’s slate, dominated by Barbenheimer, the new crop of contenders had been thinned out by the actors’ and writers’ strikes, leaving room for such polarizing oddities as “ Emilia Pérez ” and “ The Substance .

With Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Clint Eastwood and Taylor Hackford in the race, it could have gone a number of ways

Conan O'Brien will make his Oscars hosting debut at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 2, following in the footsteps of Jimmy Kimmel

The film, starring Oscar winner and recent Golden Globe winner Adrien Brody, focuses on an architect who flees Europe after World War II to rebuild his life in the United States. It bears all the hallmarks of previous successes at the Oscars, such as Saving Private Ryan and The Pianist, the latter earning Brody a Best Actor Oscar.

Nominations: Films like Emilia Pérez, A Complete Unknown, and Wicked are the top contenders for Best Picture, while Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) might get a nod for Best Actor.

According to Deadline, Yang and Sennott have been tapped by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to reveal this year’s Oscar nominees during a live event on Thursday (Jan. 23) at 8:30am ET.

Not only was "Joker 2" a box office bomb, but the Todd Phillips sequel has now garnered a near-sweep of every award for this year's Razzies.

To invoke the name of another Best Picture contender (that is not a musical), you should be able to Sing Sing this group. The aforementioned Netflix marvel Emilia Pérez has some pundits wondering whether it might dominate like no other movie in Oscar history,

Hasitha Fernando explores the story behind Ex Machina on the tenth anniversary of its UK release… Ex Machina is one of the most cerebral, thought-provoking sci-fi techno thrillers to come out of the 2010s.

An awards campaign strategist highlights the ruinous economics a cancellation would present to both the Academy and myriad vendors, hair and makeup professionals, limo drivers, event planners, and caterers whose livelihoods are directly staked upon Oscars business as usual.