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  • NewsKevin Polowy

    13 Long Shots We'd Like to See Get Oscar Nominations This Week

    The nominees for the 2016 Academy Awards will be announced on Thursday, and Golden Globe winners like Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) and Brie Larson (Room) are as close as you can get to sure things. But Oscar always has a few surprises up his sleeve and occasionally a long-shot contender makes the cut. Below are 13 unlikely actors and movies we’d love to see named on Thursday morning.

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    Johnny Depp Describes 'Mortifying' Audition for the Coen Brothers

    Johnny Depp attends a screening of ‘Black Mass’ at the BFI London Film Festival in October (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images for BFI) For all his talents, Johnny Depp claims he’s “horrible” at auditions. Of course, now that he’s an A-list star, Depp’s auditioning days are behind him. But speaking at the AFI Film Festival on Monday, Depp described the trauma of the last audition he ever went on: A disastrous reading for an unnamed Coen brothers film. “It was mortifying,” said the Black Mass st

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    Johnny Depp Doesn't Want to Win an Oscar

    By Phoenix Tso Johnny Depp has been nominated for three Best Actor Academy Awards, for Sweeney Todd, Finding Neverland, and for the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. The actor is getting Oscar buzz for playing mobster Whitey Bulger in Black Mass. However, Depp says he doesn’t want to win for this or any other role in the future. As quoted in Vanity Fair, Depp says, “I don’t want to win one of those things ever, you know.” The reasons why?

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    Check Out Selfie Critics' Takes on 'Black Mass'

    Everybody’s a critic — and that includes you! With the first selfie movie-review app FirstLookYou, brought to you by Yahoo Movies, you can upload your own opinion about the latest blockbusters — and it may just show up on the big screen. Just download the FirstLookYou app, then as soon as you leave the theater after your next movie, shoot a selfie review (good or bad: let ‘em have it!): You can share your clip with friends, and you might also catch it here on Yahoo Movies or even in theaters bef

  • NewsMeriah Doty

    From Whitey Bulger to Willy Wonka, the Secrets Behind Johnny Depp's Movie Transformations

    Johnny Depp through the years and the makeup jobs

  • NewsJordan Zakarin

    'Black Mass,' 'Good Will Hunting,' and the Best and Worst Boston Accents in Movies

    Boston is home to one of America’s most recognizable regional accents, and every few years, a squadron of A-list actors descends upon Beantown in an effort to respectably imitate the city’s famously nasal and r-dropping pronunciations. Needless to say, some actors are much better at mastering the accent than others — though often only Boston natives and experts like professor John McCarthy, dean of the graduate school at UMass Amherst and an expert on linguistics, can tell the difference. The

  • NewsKevin Polowy

    15 Early Oscar Contenders Coming Out of Toronto, Telluride, and Venice

    Three film festivals in three countries over the course of three weeks kick Hollywood’s awards season into gear: Italy’s Venice Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, and the Toronto International Film Festival, which wraps up this weekend in Canada. The Buzz: After mostly positive early reviews from Venice and Telluride, the film got a huge reaction at TIFF.