Oscars takes down 'Popular' category for its 91st edition

The upcoming 91st Oscars will be held on February 24, 2019.

Entertainment News: After weeks of criticism, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has now officially decided not to introduce the new 'popular' category at the 91st Oscars, which is slated to take place in 2019.

According to the Variety magazine, AMPAS in a statement opined that adding a new category would only go on to add more "challenges for films that have already been released."

The AMPAS board of governors, however, promised that they will continue to discuss the possibility of presenting this award in future.

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The Academy's CEO, Dawn Hudson while speaking to Variety said that due to were mixed reactions due to "the introduction of a new award, and we recognize the need for further discussion with our members".

In August, filmmaker Adam McKay, producer and late Oscars producer Craig Zadan, was one of the few celebrities who objected the decision of the Academy. However, 'Transformers' actor Mark Wahlberg came out in....continue reading

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Oscars Winners 2018 : Full list of winners from the 90th Academy Awards

Guillermo Del Toro-directed ‘The Shape of Water’ bagged two of the top honours at the 90th Academy Awards.

The 90th Academy Award concluded on Monday with Guillermo Del Toro-directed The Shape of Water bagging two of the top honours — for best film and best director. Bollywood diva Sridevi, often called the first lady superstar of Indian films, and Shashi Kapoor — bothof whom passed away recently — featured in the Award ceremony’s ‘In Memoriam’ section, which pays tribute to artistes who died this year. Others who featured in the section included James Bond star Roger Moore, Mary Goldberg and Johan Johansson, John Heard and Sam Shephard.

The Shape of Water, a fantasy drama, has been in the midst of controversy over the allegation of being a copy of the 1969 play Let Me Hear You Whisper.

The film stars Sally Hawkins as a mute cleaner working in a Cold War-era lab facility who bonds with a sea creature being kept there.

The film dominated the Academy Awards’ nomination pack this year, appearing in 13 categories.
Gary Oldman and Fraces McDormand clinched the Best Actor and Best Actress award for their performances in Darkest Hour and Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri.

Oldman played the UK PM who led Britain to an allied victory in the World War II in the Joe Wright-directed film.

“Thanks for this glorious prize. I owe this and much more to so many,” Oldman said in his acceptance speech.

Here’s the list of other top winners – Oscar 2018 Winner List

• Actress in a supporting role – Allison Janney for I, Tonya
• Actor in a supporting role – Sam Rockwell for Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Foreign language film – A fantastic woman
• Documentary (short) – Heaven is a traffic jam on the 405
• Documentary Feature – Icarus
• Animated Short Film – Dear Basketball
• Original song – Remember me from the film Coco
• Animated feature film – Call me by your name
• Cinematography – Roger A Deakins for Blade runner 2049
• Visual Effects – Blade Runner 2049
• Film Editing – Lee Smith for Dunkirk

Oscar 2018: Janney, Rockwell win supporting actor at 90th Academy Awards, Kimmel talks sex scandal

Janney, as widely expected, was named best supporting actress for her performance as a domineering mother in ice-skating movie”I, Tonya”.

International News : Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney won supporting actor Oscars on Sunday, while Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel dove into Hollywood’s most embarrassing moments – sexual misconduct and last year’s best picture blunder.

Rockwell, the front-runner for the Academy Award, took home the trophy for his role as a racist, dim-witted police officer in Fox Searchlight dark comedy“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

Janney, as widely expected, was named best supporting actress for her performance as a domineering mother in ice-skating movie“I, Tonya.”

“A Fantastic Woman,” Chile’s groundbreaking story about a transgender woman, played by transgender actress Daniela Vega, won best foreign language film.

Opening the show before an A-list audience of actors and filmmakers, many of whom have reported being victims of sexual harassment, Kimmel pulled no punches about the elephant in the room.

Noting that it was the 90th year of the ceremony, Kimmel said the tall golden Oscar statue itself was“the most beloved and respected man in Hollywood.”

“He keeps his hands where you can see them, he never says a rude word and most importantly he has no penis at all.

He is literally a statue of limitations. That’s the kind of man we need more of,” Kimmel quipped.

The sexual misconduct scandal has led to the downfall of dozens of once-powerful men in Hollywood and beyond, and has overshadowed the movie industry’s awards season celebrations.

Referring to Fox Searchlight’s 13-time Oscar-nominated fantasy romance“The Shape of Water,” in which a cleaning lady falls in love with a mysterious river creature, Kimmel joked: “We will always remember this year as the year men screwed up so badly that women started dating fish.”

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