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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday revealed its updated rules and regulations for the 96th annual Academy Awards. Among the changes are clarifications regarding campaigns, an issue that took on greater significance last season with the…

UPDATED with latest: The 2023 Oscars are history, and as Hollywood gets a brief respite from awards madness — though Emmy season looms — it’s time to look ahead at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a shortened list of awards shows, events and the like as we look ahead to warmer climes and the…

And the Oscar date goes to … March 10. For a second consecutive year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has set the second Sunday in March for its Academy Awards gala. The return to normalcy comes after the 2022 ceremony was held March 27 and the Covid-delayed 2021 show was April…

And the new Academy post goes to … Meredith Shea. The Array alum, who also spent a decade at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a membership and awards exec, has been set as its Chief Membership, Impact and Industry Officer, a newly created post. Reporting directly to Academy…

Michael Cieply writes a column of analysis and commentary each Sunday. UPDATED: The 96th Oscar cycle is upon us, and with it, something new—the mandatory representation and inclusion standards that require filmmakers and/or their storylines and/or their distributors to meet elaborate racial, sexual…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors announced today the creation of the Production and Technology Branch. Comprising about 400 people previously classified as Members-at-Large, it represents members working in key technical and production positions in all phases of…

The head of the VC firm that invested several hundred million dollars in A24 a year ago says the indie producer-distributor’s "extraordinary" momentum could lead to a large international business and potential acquisitions. As is their wont, A24 executives are not talking publicly, but Stripes…

Now that the noise has subsided, were there any helpful takeaways from the Oscars? If you ask the leaders of A24, the distributor that swept six categories, their answer would be the same as it was six years ago when Moonlight was the surprise winner…

Ashley Graham appears to be taking her train wreck Oscars champagne carpet interview with Hugh Grant in stride, saying she followed her mother's advice to "kill people with kindness." Related Story Hugh Grant Shuts Down Oscar Red Carpet With Awkward Interview Grant on Sunday…

There's always a reckoning. There has to be. A studio chief tells me that next awards season they're going to recalibrate how they screen to voters “because there are a bunch of movies that people did not bother to see. Good movies that people did not watch because they were drawn to the noise. And the…

Actress Mira Sorvino has spoken out against the Film Academy for omitting her father Paul Sorvino from its In Memoriam segment at the 95th Oscars on Sunday. Sorvino first took to Twitter on Sunday night to share: “I for one am remembering Dad on this Oscars night…” Accompanying the comment was a…

Vanity Fair’s annual Oscar party took place Sunday at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. I have all the details from inside the event, which as usual attracted the most elite of the Hollywood set who poured in after watching Everything Everywhere All at Once score seven…