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Oscars 2018 biggest snubs and surprises: James Franco, 'Wonder Woman' miss out on nominations
Nearly two weeks after five women accused James Franco of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior, the actor missed out on an Academy Award nomination for his performance in “The Disaster Artist.” The 39-year-old had been an early favorite on the awards circuit for his turn as the eccentric...
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Architecture is facing its own award-season controversy
Architects, like journalists, are fond of giving themselves awards. Then there are the outside organizations — Pritzker, Curry Stone and Driehaus, to name three — whose main reason for being is to hand out design prizes. Nobody is interviewing architects on any red carpets, but the laurels pile...
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A Mexican actor became a worker making less than $5 a day for art, theater and understanding poverty
Mexican actor Gabino Rodríguez spent five months in 2015 living under an assumed identity. For that period, he became Santiago Ramírez, a working-class delivery driver who had left Mexico City for Tijuana in the wake of a divorce. And for those five months he survived on a minimum-wage salary that...
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Oscar voters spread their love far and wide with the 2018 Academy Award nominations
The most unpredictable Oscars season in years finally came into focus Tuesday as the 90th Academy Awards nominations were announced, with nine films representing a wide range of genres earning best picture nods, from a sweeping World War II epic to a hot-button, racially charged horror film to...
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Mike Nesmith revisits influential post-Monkees country-rock with First National Band
It’s not terribly surprising that record executives were at a loss when “the smart Monkee” Mike Nesmith said farewell to the hit TV show that had made him a pop superstar and launched a solo career making music that, at the time, was fairly uncategorizable. Yet the post-Monkees music he created...
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Laurie Metcalf on her first Oscar nomination and the power of a 'mom’s fears and regrets'
Laurie Metcalf, already a three-time Emmy winner and recent Tony winner, on Tuesday earned her first nomination for an Oscar — a supporting actress nod for “Lady Bird.” The mother-daughter comedy is up for five Academy Awards, including best director (Greta Gerwig) and leading actress (Saoirse...
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Kenneth Turan on the Oscar nominations: How the academy threaded the needle between old and new
I dreamed a dream of Oscar on Monday night. Not of winning one, nothing so presumptuous as that. My dream was that I’d completely slept through the nomination announcements. That scared me so much I immediately woke up and got to the TV on time. True story. I had Oscar anxiety not only because...
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Hear all the tunes nominated for original song at the Oscars
Proven movie-music makers will vie against pop-star newcomers for the original song Oscar, nominations for which were announced Tuesday morning in Beverly Hills. The nominees include tunes from hit movie musicals like “The Greatest Showman” and “Coco,” along with more introspective numbers from...
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Mary J. Blige 'can't stop crying all these happy tears' over her two 'Mudbound' Oscar nods
Musician Mary J. Blige earned her first-ever Oscar nominations on Tuesday for supporting actress and original song for Dee Rees’ World War II drama “Mudbound.” The nine-time Grammy Award winner reflected on her latest achievements in a morning chat with the Los Angeles Times. Two-time Oscar nominee....