Ava DuVernay is one of the most fascinating and trailblazing filmmakers in the business. She’s an Emmy and BAFTA award winner and an Oscar and Golden Globe nominee, whose middle name should be “First.” For 2012’s Middle of Nowhere, she became the first Black woman to win Sundance Film Festival’s …

PLEASE NOTE: This forecast, assembled by Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of awards coverage, reflects Scott’s best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these projections by drawing upon conversations with voters and other …

There’s a very real chance that the sibling singer/songwriters Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell — the guests on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast, having previously been guests on an episode in 2021 — will make history in 2024. Over the 95 years of the Academy Awards, …

What are my biggest takeaways from Sunday evening’s 81st Golden Globe Awards ceremony? Here are three. (1) This is not your old HFPA Though some winners thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the HFPA is actually no more. The controversial group was dissolved after selling itself and its assets to …

Barbie led all films with eight wins at the Astra Film Awards on Saturday night, but the biggest winner of all may have been the HCA — an organization of “critics, entertainment journalists, content creators, industry insiders and creatives” formerly known as the Hollywood Critics Association and recently rebranded as the …

When we woke up on October 7 to the stories of the barbarity of Hamas, when we heard about the hostages, when we saw the footage of the obliterated homes on various kibbutzim, when we were told the massive death toll and saw kidnappings before our very eyes, when we heard …

PLEASE NOTE: This forecast, assembled by Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of awards coverage, reflects Scott’s best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these projections by drawing upon conversations with voters and other …

PLEASE NOTE: This forecast, assembled by Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of awards coverage, reflects Scott’s best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these projections by drawing upon conversations with voters and other …

PLEASE NOTE: This forecast, assembled by Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of awards coverage, reflects Scott’s best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these projections by drawing upon conversations with voters and other …

In the aftermath of Thursday morning’s announcement of shortlists for 10 Oscar categories, here are my main takeaways… Winners 1) The Academy Has there ever been a best original song shortlist more stacked than this one? Among the shortlisted songwriters are Billie Eilish and Finneas (“What Was I Made For?” …

PLEASE NOTE: This forecast, assembled by Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of awards coverage, reflects Scott’s best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these projections by drawing upon conversations with voters and other …

Olivia Rodrigo, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a tremendously gifted singer-songwriter who is, at just 20, arguably the biggest pop star in the world. The New York Times has called her “Pop’s brightest new hope,” “a modern and somewhat signature pop star,” …