Wrap Magazine
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Fran Lebowitz Says Good Riddance to Trump: He ‘Never Deserved New York’
TheWrap magazine: “I wish that when he left, he’d have taken that big pile of junk on Fifth Avenue,” says the subject of the docuseries “Pretend It’s A City”
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See Vintage Postcards of the 11 Los Angeles Locations to Host the Academy Awards
TheWrap Oscar magazine: From the Roosevelt Hotel to Union Station, here are the sites of all 93 Oscar ceremonies
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Emerald Fennell on Being Part Of an Oscar’s First: ‘It Just Takes a While To Turn Around a Big Ship’
TheWrap awards magazine: Fennell is nominated for Best Director along with “Nomadland’s” Chloé Zhao, the first time two women are competing in the same year
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Netflix’s Scott Stuber on Streamer’s Huge Haul of Oscar Nominations in a Very Strange Year
TheWrap awards magazine: “I think people are recognizing that we’re here and we’re going to be part of this conversation about the best of the year,” says the company’s head of original films
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‘Collective’ Director Explains Why Romanian Officials ‘Were Not Happy’ About Oscar Attention
TheWrap awards magazine: Alexander Nanau discusses his searing film about a nightclub fire, nominated for both Best Documentary and Best International Feature Film
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‘Da 5 Bloods’ Composer Calls Scoring War Movies a ‘Sonic Battle’ Between Guns and Music
TheWrap awards magazine: Terence Blanchard breaks down the crucial scene between Chadwick Boseman and Delroy Lindo
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‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Director on Why Art Is Necessary to Confront Tragedy
TheWrap awards magazine: “Without art and culture, our lives wouldn’t make any sense,” says director Jasmila Žbanić, whose film chronicles the 1995 Srebrenica massacre
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Maria Bakalova on Why That Rudy Giuliani Scene Still Makes Her Nervous
TheWrap awards magazine: “He called the police and we were running away from the police, and we left the state, and the next day we even left the country,” the Bulgarian actress says
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How the ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Team Got Hollywood to Make a Movie About Black Socialism
TheWrap awards magazine: “There was…apprehension in some pitch meetings about making a movie about an organization perceived as violent and militaristic,” writer Keith Lucas said
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How the Largely Improvised ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Landed an Oscar Screenplay Nomination
TheWrap awards magazine: “We were able to take beats we already wanted to get in the movie and shape them to what the world had become,” director Jason Woliner says
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Diane Warren on Which of Her 12 Oscar-Nominated Songs She Absolutely Thought Would Win
TheWrap awards magazine: The prolific songwriter, who has yet to win, also revealed whom she was “happy to lose to”
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A Journal of the Weirdest Awards Season Ever, From Streams to Vaccines and Everything in Between
TheWrap magazine: The COVID-19 pandemic and the recognition of systemic racism transformed this awards season into a marathon like no other
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Why ‘My Octopus Teacher’ Directors Brought in an ‘Octopus Psychologist’ for Their Documentary
“She helped us get inside the mind of an octopus as much as she could,” says co-director Pippa Reed of the cephalopod expert they consulted for their film
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How ‘Earwig and the Witch’ Dragged Studio Ghibli Into the World of CG Animation
TheWrap awards magazine: “We had to create a team and a whole infrastructure from scratch,” says director Goro Miyazaki, son of the company’s legendary founder Hayao Miyazaki
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‘The Croods: A New Age’s’ Big Challenge: Creating a New World During a Global Pandemic
TheWrap awards magazine: “We had great momentum and chemistry, and then it was like, Wait — we’re going to have to do all of this separately in our homes?” says first-time director Joel Crawford
