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The Best Picture Gender Divide • This year, no actress is nominated for her performance in a best picture contender. It’s hardly a fluke, but rather follows a trend in which male-driven stories are more favored by Academy voters for the top category
‘The Blast Was About 5 Kilometers High’ • The sequence of the attack on Arrakeen in Dune was honored at the Visual Effects Society Awards, one of four prizes the Legendary/Warner Bros. film earned at the March 8 event
A Campaign Rush With Oscar Voting Days Away • THR’s awards expert recaps the movers and shakers in the lead-up to the March 17 start of final balloting
How Well Do You Know the Oscar Nominees? • Which best actress nominee is a daredevil? Which Academy Award winner is riding hard for Flee? Test your movie knowledge now with THR’s quiz
Best Picture 2022 • FROM SOCIAL SATIRE TO SANDWORMS, PERSONAL TALES TO PRESTIGIOUS LITERARY ADAPTATIONS, PLUS FRESH TAKES ON FAMILIES AND ONE INTERNATIONAL DARK HORSE, THE YEAR’S TOP FEATURES OFFER SOMETHING FOR EVERY OSCAR VOTER
Belfast • TAMAR THOMAS, LONGTIME COLLABORATOR OF EIGHT-TIME OSCAR NOMINEE KENNETH BRANAGH, RELISHES PLAYING A PART IN THE DIRECTOR’S MOST PERSONAL FILM TO DATE
CODA • PRODUCER PATRICK WACHSBERGER TELLS THR ABOUT ADAPTING A FRENCH FILM FOR A U.S. AUDIENCE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF HIRING DEAF ACTORS IN ITS LEAD ROLES
Don’t Look Up • DON’T LOOK UP PRODUCER KEVIN MESSICK TELLS THR ABOUT THE ‘SIX-DIMENSIONAL CHESS’ OF SHOOTING DURING THE PANDEMIC AND WHY SOME STUDIOS DIDN’T ‘EMBRACE’ ADAM MCKAY’S ENDING
Drive My Car • HARUKI MURAKAMI’S WORK HAS BEEN KNOWN TO BE DIFFICULT TO ADAPT FOR THE BIG SCREEN, BUT THAT DIDN’T STOP PRODUCER TERUHISA YAMAMOTO FROM WANTING TO TRY WITH DRIVE MY CAR
Dune • TWO-TIME OSCAR NOMINEE MARY PARENT LOOKS BACK AT DEVELOPING THE LATEST ADAPTATION OF FRANK HERBERT’S CLASSIC SCI-FI NOVEL, A PASSION PROJECT FOR DIRECTOR DENIS VILLENEUVE
King Richard • PRODUCER TREVOR WHITE TALKS ABOUT THE CHALLENGES FACED WHILE MAKING THE FILM ABOUT SERENA AND VENUS WILLIAMS’ FATHER, RICHARD
Licorice Pizza • PRODUCER SARA MURPHY DISCUSSES THE CHALLENGES OF MAKING PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON’S ’70S-SET FILM DURING THE PANDEMIC WITH A CAST AND CREW OF FAMILIAL PLAYERS
Nightmare Alley • DIRECTOR, PRODUCER AND CO-WRITER GUILLERMO DEL TORO ON THE CHALLENGES OF GETTING NIGHTMARE ALLEY MADE AND WHAT HE LEARNED ABOUT HIMSELF WHILE MAKING THE FILM
The Power of the Dog • OSCAR WINNER EMILE SHERMAN RETEAMED WITH HIS TOP OF THE LAKE COLLABORATOR JANE CAMPION FOR A TENSE, OFTEN BEGUILING WESTERN WITH A CAST OF FOUR OSCAR-NOMINATED PERFORMERS
West Side Story • THREE-TIME OSCAR NOMINEE KRISTIE MACOSKO KRIEGER TALKS ABOUT HER DECADES WORKING WITH STEVEN SPIELBERG AND THE GARGANTUAN TASK OF REIMAGINING A BELOVED MOVIE MUSICAL
AN OSCAR-NOMINATED FILM SHOT AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD • Bhutan’s Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom had an astoundingly arduous journey to the Academy Awards
OTHER INTERNATIONAL FARE • Tragedy, trauma and rudderlessness mark these Oscar contenders
‘THERE’S A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES THAT THEY’RE CREATING’ • The directing team behind Writing With Fire talks about the inspiring female journalists in their Oscar-nominated documentary
THE OTHER LIVE-ACTION SHORTS SEEKING THE OSCAR • These Academy Award-nominated shorts deal with themes of racism, injustice and social stigmatization
SAYING GOODBYE THROUGH KARAOKE • Writer-director Martin Strange-Hansen and producer Kim Magnusson talk to...