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Oscars Survey Says: Most Americans Have No Idea What's Nominated for Best Picture, Who's Hosting the Show
2017’s Academy Awards will be handed out this Sunday night, and forecasters increasingly expect it to come down to a battle between Damien Chazelle’s La La Land and Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight for Best Picture. According to a new poll on all things Oscars by The Hollywood Reporter, however, couldn’t name those two films — or any of the other seven contenders — as nominees for the award. According to THR’s survey (conducted with the National Research Group in February), 60 percent of the 800 peop
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Female Characters Gain New Level of Importance in Hollywood's 2016 Movies (Study)
Females made up 29% of protagonists in the 100 highest-grossing films of 2016, according to a new study by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University.
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Oscars 2017: 'Arrival's' Nominated Screenwriter on Adapting the Surprise Hit and Speaking the Aliens' Language
Few 2016 films were as intricately and affectingly written as Arrival, director Denis Villeneuve’s “first contact” science-fiction drama about a linguist (Amy Adams) tasked with figuring out a way to communicate with mysterious extraterrestrials. The issue of translation was also faced by screenwriter Eric Heisserer, who set about trying to adapt Ted Chiang’s short story “Story of Your Life” — a nonlinear tale steeped in heavy scientific concepts — years before he even had a studio commitment.
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'Arrival' Exclusive Clip: Watch 10 Minutes of Oscar-Nominated Film In Advance of Blu-ray/DVD Release Here
Extended preview of acclaimed sci-fi hit before its Feb. 14 release on Blu-ray/DVD
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'Arrival' Oscar Nominees Denis Villeneuve and Bradford Young Describe the Alien Movie's 'Dirty Sci-Fi' (Exclusive)
Bradford Young has, in a few short years, become one of Hollywood’s most talented cinematographers, as proved by his sterling work on A Most Violent Year, Selma and now Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, which is up for eight Oscars. Young himself has netted one of those eight nominations, making him the second black director of photography to ever compete for an Oscar for Best Cinematography. In the above clip, Villeneuve and producer Shawn Levy explain that, because of their distaste for green-scre
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'Arrival' Looked Amazing — Meet Bradford Young, the Guy Who Made It Happen
New featurette puts spotlight on sci-fi hit's cinematographer as awards season voting heats up
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2016's Box-Office Winners and Losers
Regardless of your political persuasion, 2016 was a year of tumult and uncertainty. At least the movies gave us an occasional break from the headlines. Feel-good animated films triumphed at the box office this year, with Finding Dory at No. 1, while superheroes found a darker groove (the hard-R comedy Deadpool, the villain-driven Suicide Squad) and familiar franchises — Harry Potter, Star Wars — put down new roots. Before we toast the arrival of 2017, here’s a list of the biggest box-office winn
