Anora A young sex worker’s romantic entanglement with the son of a Russian oligarch gets very messy in this screwball comedy set in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach. Read THR‘s full review here. Oscar wins: Best picture (Alex Coco, Samantha Quan and Sean Baker, producers), best directing (Sean Baker), best actress (Mikey Madison), best supporting actor (Yura Borisov), best writing (Sean Baker), …
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After hosting the 2025 Oscars ceremony, Conan O’Brien is offering insight into the origin of his memorable monologue bit with Adam Sandler. O’Brien told Entertainment Tonight after the telecast that he initially reached out to his former Saturday Night Live colleague to involve him in a different way for the Academy Awards. In the bit that aired during Sunday’s ceremony, …
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That didn’t take long. Just week after leaving Warner Bros., Andrew Cripps has landed at Disney, where he’ll succeed Tony Chambers as head of theatrical distribution. He’ll begin the gig March 3. The position opened up after Chambers was elevated to overseeing Europe, the Middle East and Africa as part of a major restructuring of how Disney operates businesses in …
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Oscars night has continued the Grammys naked trend. Last month for music’s biggest night, every iteration of bras, panties, corsets and more made an appearance at the 2025 Grammy Awards for an awards show that The Hollywood Reporter‘s style writer Laurie Brookins wrote could have been dubbed “the underwear Grammys.” (Kanye West’s wife, Bianca Censori, memorably skipped the underwear altogether on the …
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London-based Big Picture Film Club (BPFC) on Monday unveiled a strategic pivot into U.K. and Ireland theatrical distribution with the acquisition of two new titles, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal. The events, media publishing and marketing consultancy has acquired sports documentary Fighters and environmental doc 50 Hours Underwater, both slated for a third-quarter release. Fighters, from Ben & Jack …
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The breadth of talent with ties to Wales was on display at the 2025 Oscars. Two out of the three Welshmen nominated came up trumps Sunday night at L.A.’s Dolby Theatre, including The Brutalist cinematographer Lol Crawley, who grew up in Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain. In his acceptance speech, Crawley thanked “all my friends back in Wales” and later told BBC Breakfast from …
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Kieran Culkin took inspiration from an unexpected source for his 2025 Oscar-winning role in A Real Pain — even if his wife helped him realize it. The performer, who won best supporting actor on Sunday, told reporters in the Academy Awards press room that director Jesse Eisenberg‘s script was so tight that he felt he didn’t even want to rehearse …
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One of the wilder Oscar seasons in recent memory — one jolted, to an unknowable extent, by wildfires that devastated Los Angeles in early January, followed by a massive post-nominations scandal that imploded a top contender in late January — came to an end on Sunday night with Neon’s Anora, a $6 million indie about a Brighton Beach sex worker who …
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The Wicked team’s lives have been changed — for good. The Oscars 2025 opened with its Glinda (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) taking the stage to sing. Grande started with “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” before Erivo took over to perform ““Home” from The Wiz. Until they came back together to sing the Wicked‘s part one closer, “Defying Gravity.” While Ariana …
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