No Zoom for intimate 2021 Oscars, producers say

The Oscars ceremony in April will be an intimate, in-person gathering, held without Zoom and limited to nominees, presenters ...

The Year’s Most Moving Drama Should Nab a Major Acting Oscar

Art is both reality and fantasy, liberating and constricting, and an escape from, and confrontation of, oneself in ...

Oscars ceremony in April to be live, in person and from many locations

The Academy Awards, or Oscars, ceremony in April will be an in-person event that will air live from multiple locations, ...
Variety

Oscar Predictions: Best Director — Can Ryan Coogler Make History as the First Black Winner With ‘Sinners?’

Oscars Best Director Commentary (Updated Nov. 13, 2025): Ryan Coogler could be on the brink of history with “Sinners,” which has quickly emerged as one of the season’s most beloved and formidable ...
Variety

Oscar Predictions: Paul Thomas Anderson Dominates Gotham Nods as Golden Globes’ Comedy/Musical Race Begins to Overflow

Oscars Commentary (Updated: Nov. 3, 2025): It’s starting to get noisy around these Oscar parts. This season, Neon is mounting aggressive campaigns for five non-English-language contenders, including ...
People

All About Laura Dern’s Parents, Oscar-Nominated Actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd

Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd married in 1960 after meeting on the set of an off-Broadway production Alex Gurley is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has ...