Eight films were nominated for best picture. “Mank” was joined by “Promising Young Woman,” “Nomadland,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Sound of Metal,” “Minari,” “The Father” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”
No other studio came close to Netflix, which led with a commanding 42 nominations, 22 coming in film categories and 20 in television.
“Summer of Soul,” Questlove’s directorial debut, unearths a little-seen 1969 musical event featuring Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, B.B. King and Sly and the Family Stone.
Warner Bros.’ films will debut simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max in the U.S. After one month, they will stop streaming and continue to play only in theaters.
Similar to the Spanish Flu, which weeded out smaller companies and contributed to the formation of the studio system, COVID-19 is remaking Hollywood, accelerating a digital makeover and potentially reordering an industry that was already in flux.
Kelly Preston, who played dramatic and comic foil to actors ranging from Tom Cruise in “Jerry Maguire” to Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Twins,” died Sunday after a two-year fight against breast cancer.
“To play things right, as is needed in the world right now, we were tested for the coronavirus and were found to be positive,” Hanks said.
Hart stepped aside just about an hour after refusing to apologize for tweets that resurfaced after he was announced as Oscars host on Tuesday.
In the aftermath of the Colorado shooting during a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises," Hollywood studios banded together to withhold box-office reporting through the weekend, while Warner Bros. frantically rushed to remove a movie trailer with now eerie relevance.
