Distinctive styles and themes mark the career of animated shorts
Even when focusing on children's experiences, the five films nominated for the animated short Oscar are decidedly aimed at adults.…
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Issues from childhood to old age in short documentaries
This year's Oscar-nominated short documentaries weave their way through lives of hardship and empowerment, illuminating the ways we approach life's…
Live action shorts: Stories of life and death among the nominees
It's a particular challenge to achieve serious emotional impact on a smaller canvas, but the 2024 Oscar-nominated live-action shorts tackle…
Multiple microphones, live orchestras. The 'Maestro' sound team achieves it
It should have been an easy job for the “Maestro” sound team: Mahler's Resurrection Symphony played at Ely Cathedral in…
Oscars Rewind – 2004: Peter Jackson achieves a hat trick
If you want a preview of what will likely win best picture in any given year at the Academy Awards,…
Bob Marley biopic tops Christmas box office 'Madame Web'
Moviegoers over Presidents Day weekend show more love for musicians with dreadlocks than heroines with cobwebs. “Bob Marley: One Love,”…
'Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse' takes first prize at the Annie Awards
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” won best picture on Saturday at the Annie Awards, which honor animated films and television shows.…
The director of the documentary Daniel Roher on the death of Alexei Navalny
Daniel Roher’s 2022 Oscar-winning documentary “Navalny” helped make Alexei Navalny’s story more visible to people around the world, offering an…
Ziggy Marley talks Bob Marley biopic 'One Love'
When Ziggy Marley cast Kingsley Ben-Adir and Lashana Lynch as his parents in “One Love,” the long-awaited Bob Marley biopic,…
How a blow to the head led Carey Mulligan to join 'Maestro'
In 2018, Bradley Cooper introduced “Maestro” to Carey Mulligan over coffee at Café Cluny in Manhattan. The film, which he…