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Kendrick Lamar receives the Grammy for the best rap album during the 60th Annual Grammy Awards show in New York in 2018.

Oscars: Kendrick Lamar and SZA will not perform ‘Black Panther’ song

February 21, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.

Despite the Academy's efforts to secure Kendrick Lamar and SZA for a performance of the Oscar-nominated song "All the Stars" from "Black Panther" on the upcoming Oscars telecast, the duo...

Female directors shut out of Oscar nominations … again

January 22, 2019 at 3:27 p.m.

It was an anticipated takeaway from this year's Oscar nominations announcement, but that doesn't make it any less unfortunate: Despite a number of worthy contenders to choose from, female filmmakers...

John David Washington, left, and Laura Harrier in a scene from "BlacKkKlansman."

Inside an Oscar season of anger

January 16, 2019 at 9:25 a.m.

The furor that has flared around virtually every major Oscar rival this year has turned the ongoing awards season into a particularly ugly one. As the proceedings continue to devolve...

New York Film Critics name ‘Roma’ the best film of 2018

November 29, 2018 at 12:55 p.m.

The New York Film Critics Circle has named "Roma" the best film of 2018, with the film's helmer, Alfonso Cuarón, taking best director. Ethan Hawke ("First Reformed") and Regina Hall...

An Oscar statue appears outside the Dolby Theatre for the 87th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

Academy retreats on ‘popular’ Oscar category for now

December 17, 2018 at 4:06 p.m.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced its new planned "popular" Oscar "merits further study" and will not present the new category at the upcoming 91st Academy...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Jennifer Lawrence and Jodie Foster to present best actress Oscar, replacing Casey Affleck

May 11, 2019 at 11:07 a.m.

Breaking with tradition in the midst of an awards season that has come to colloquially become known as "the year of the woman," the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...

‘Get Out’ leads first-ever MTV Movie and TV Awards nominations

December 17, 2018 at 5:10 p.m.

The annual MTV Movie Awards have a makeover coming this year as for the first time ever, movie and television categories will both be represented on the show. Nominees were...

A scene from the star-studded financial crisis comedy "The Big Short."

SAG Awards Predictions: Will ‘The Big Short’ or ‘Spotlight’ win?

December 17, 2018 at 6:23 p.m.

The 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are set for Saturday night, as industry thespians gather to celebrate their own and tell those awkward "I'm an actor" stories to the...

‘Star Wars’ and the Oscars: Keeping things in perspective

June 16, 2018 at 9:40 a.m.

Best original score, best sound editing, best sound mixing, best visual effects and maybe best production design. If you're asking me, that's the Oscar ceiling on "Star Wars: The Force...

Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, in a scene from Columbia Pictures' "Concussion."

‘Concussion’ lines up against controversy

June 16, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

Three years ago, in a move that set the bar for Oscar season politicking, a bloc of U.S. senators trashed Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty." They perceived the film, about...

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