The Academy Awards are just weeks away — and a new cohort of performers has been announced. On Monday, the Oscars revealed that Talking Heads’ David Byrne will be joined by Stephanie Hsu and trio Son Lux to perform the song “This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at …
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Game music isn’t just for gaming nerds anymore. It’s finally being recognized as real, “serious” music. This year, the Grammys introduced a new category for video game music: Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media. The music has evolved along with the video game artform, as scores …
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Sidney Poitier walked among kings and earned Hollywood’s highest honors, but that didn’t stop the Federal Bureau of Investigation from keeping tabs on the actor and philanthropist via informants and surveillance tactics during the civil rights era, according to documents newly obtained by Rolling Stone. Poitier, who passed away at …
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The girl is named Cáit. She’s 12 years old, doesn’t like attention, stays hidden and silent when she can. Living in the rural Irish countryside in the early 1980s, she’s the youngest of a brood belonging to parents that seem one perpetually short fuse away from exploding. Or rather, she …
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After being lifted up on some wild platforms during her Super Bowl halftime show earlier this month, Rihanna is ready to lift up the Oscars audience at next month’s awards show. On Thursday, the Academy Awards announced that Rihanna will perform her song “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda …
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The Oscars have always been a battleground of sorts. In recent years, the ceremony has become a public event arbitrating issues of race, gender, and privilege in cinema and society. But throughout its 94-year history, the Academy Awards mediated some very different battles. There have been attempts to square petty …
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Christoph Waltz is warm, inviting, and disarmingly kind — as if he knows it can take a moment for people to adjust to his real-life persona compared to the mostly horrifying men he’s embodied onscreen. In truth, since his portrayal of SS Colonel Hans Landa in 2009’s Inglourious Basterds, Waltz …
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Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to the Oscars. To usher in the occasion, he’s joined by Top Gun: Maverick stars Jon Hamm and Charles Parnell in the first trailer for the 2023 awards show. The two-time (soon to be three-time) host puts on the Maverick flight suit for the …
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You’re never quite sure what Steven Soderbergh is going to do next. And that mercurial sensibility is part of his charm. The man who burst onto the scene at the age of 26 with his erotic thriller Sex, Lies, and Videotape has played in so many sandboxes, from crime comedies …
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Everything Everywhere All At Once, Elvis, and The Fabelmans all picked up a trove of nominations for the 95th Academy Awards, which were announced Tuesday, Jan. 24. The indie multi-verse smash Everything Everywhere All At Once led all nominees with 11, including nods for Best Picture, Best Director for Daniel …
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