Oscars
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How Son Lux Made ‘Mountains of Music’ for ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
TheWrap magazine: “The challenge was to keep it from being a total mess,” says Ryan Lott, whose group Son Lux wrote the song “This Is a Life,” featuring Mitski and David Byrne
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How ‘Descendant’ Searched for a Slave Ship and a Community’s History
TheWrap magazine: “My mom talked about it like a ghost story or myth — it wasn’t something you talked about out loud,” says director Margaret Brown
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Why Brett Morgen Refused to Define David Bowie With ‘Moonage Daydream’
TheWrap magazine: “Bowie defies facts, defies definition and is beautifully mysterious,” the famed documentarian says
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‘Argentina, 1985’ Asks a Timely Question: How Fragile Is Democracy?
TheWrap magazine: “There was a lot of mistrust, a lot of misinformation, a lot of skepticism in the air,” says actor Ricardo Darín of the case study behind Argentina’s Oscar entry
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Why the New ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Needed a German Perspective on World War I
TheWrap magazine: Director Edward Berger says he wanted to infuse the classic anti-war story with “a sense of guilt, shame, terror, horror”
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How Ryan Tedder Secretly Taped ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ to Write the Hit ‘I Ain’t Worried’
TheWrap magazine: “I didn’t tell them I did this,” the OneRepublic Grammy winner says, “but I had an iPhone so I recorded the scene while we were watching it”
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Early Oscar Predictions: The Audience Is Staying Away From Awards Movies, But Will Voters Care?
“The Fabelmans,” “The Banshees of Inisherin” and others should be able to win over voters despite tepid box-office returns
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Rian Johnson Also Thinks ‘Glass Onion’ Should’ve Had a Longer Theatrical Release
TheWrap magazine: “I would’ve loved to have as big and long a theatrical run as we could get, but I’m grateful to Netflix for stepping out of their comfort zone,” says the director
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‘She Said’ Cast Say They Made Movie for Harvey Weinstein’s Victims
TheWrap magazine: “When a system is built to support a monster, everyone is implicated,” Zoe Kazan says
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‘Bardo’ Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu: Autobiographies Lie, but Fiction Tells the Truth
TheWrap magazine: “Autobiography pretends it’s making factual claims, but it’s not,” says the director of “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”
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Academy Screening Room Tops 100 Films, But It’s Missing Lots of Big Oscar Contenders
Members can watch “Top Gun,” “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “Tár” at home, but not “The Fabelmans,” “Women Talking” or “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
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Governors Awards Mix Campaigning, Calls for Action and a Long-Awaited Oscar for Diane Warren
Directors Peter Weir and Euzhan Palcy and actor Michael J. Fox are also honored at the annual ceremony
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Oscars Documentary Race Hits 144 Entries, Up From 2021
The list includes “All that Breathes,” “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” “Fire of Love,” “Navalny” and “Good Night Oppy”
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Oscars International Race Hits 92 Entries, One Short of All-Time Record
All of the films have now been placed in groups and assigned to voters in the category
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Top Student Academy Awards Go to USC, NYU, German and Australian Schools
This is the first year the Student Oscars have had U.S. and international schools competing head-to-head
