Actor-writer-director Kenneth Branagh has finally won his first Oscar after taking home the best original screenplay award for ‘Belfast’ at the 94th Academy Awards. Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ was up against ‘Don’t Look Up’ (Adam McKay and David Sirota), ‘Licorice Pizza’ (Paul Thomas Anderson), ‘King Richard’ (Zach Baylin) and ‘The Worst Person in the World’ (Joachim Trier and Eskil […]
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Covid-19 vaccination required for Oscar nominees, guests, but not for performers, presenters
This year’s Oscars, which will take place on March 27, will require proof of COVID-19 vaccination for most of the people in the audience at the show, but not for its performers and presenters. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided on Thursday […]
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Dua Lipa to headline Elton John’s Oscar pre-party special
With the Oscars just one month away, veteran singer-songwriter Elton John is getting ready to party with a little help from his friends. As per Variety, Grammy-winning singer Dua Lipa is on board to perform during the 29th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards pre-party special. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event will take place as a […]
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ndian Women Rising, Educate Girls USA to raise funds for education of Oscar-contending ‘Bittu’s’ cast
Indian Women Rising, a cinema collective founded by Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, and Ruchikaa Kapoor Sheikh is collaborating with ‘Educate Girls USA’, an NGO founded by Safeena Husain to raise funds for the two young leads Rani and Renu Kumari from the Oscar-contending short film ‘Bittu’. The collaboration also received […]
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Oscar-winning actor Christopher Plummer, known for ‘Sound of Music’ dies at 91
Oscar-winning actor Christopher Plummer, who rose to prominence for his critically-acclaimed film ‘Sound of Music’, has died at the age of 91, confirmed his manager on Friday (local time). The prolific and versatile Canadian-born actor was critically lionised as among the pre-eminent Shakespeareans of the past century and has bagged two […]
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Oscar and Emmy-winning actor Cloris Leachman passes away at 94
Oscar winner and multiple Emmy-winning actor Cloris Leachman has passed away. She was 94 when she breathed her last. Leachman, best remembered for playing Phyllis Lindstrom on ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’, died of natural causes on Tuesday in Encinitas, California, reported Variety. Her longtime manager Juliet Green made the announcement of […]
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Ennio Morricone, Oscar-winning music composer, dies at 91
ROME: Ennio Morricone, whose scores for movies such as “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, “The Mission” and “Cinema Paradiso” made him one of the world`s most famous and prolific screen composers, has died, ANSA news agency said on Monday. He was 91. ANSA said Morricone, who won two […]