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This year's clear frontrunner for Best Production Design at the Oscars -- 'The Grand Budapest Hotel" -- is also way ahead in our predictions for the winners of the Art Directors Guild A…
British works dominate the field in the 2014-15 race for Best Play at the Tony Awards.
The current frontrunner is "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," Simon Stephens's ad…
Unlike most years, there is no clear frontrunner for the Best Musical Tony Award for 2014-15. Last season, the battle lines were clearly drawn between "A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and …
Neil Patrick Harris is hosting the Oscars in February, but if all goes well for him at the Grammys next month, the Oscar will be the last prize he needs to finish his EGOT.
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With whopping 2/11 odds, "Birdman" is the overwhelming favorite to win the Golden Globe for Best Musical/Comedy Picture, but are we underestimating "Into the Woods" (ranked third with 20/1 o…
We are predicting that the screen version of the Tony-winning tuner "Into the Woods" will take home at least two Oscars -- Best Costume Design and Best Production Design. One viewing of the …
Emily Blunt is the clear frontrunner to win a Golden Globe for Best Actress (Comedy/Musical) for her turn in the Disney hit tuner "Into the Woods." However, with the Globes not given out til…
"Rob (Marshall), with his theater background, approaches this in a very different way from any other director I’ve ever worked with,” says sound editor Renee Tondelli, who was ta…
Join the feisty discussion going on right now in our infamous message boards where Hollywood stars, directors, execs and other honchos hide behind cyber-nicknames. Sample comments below with…
"I don’t think everything lends itself to be a movie," admits "Into the Woods" writer James Lapine in a new podcast with Gold Derby (listen below). "Sometimes people will adapt plays o…
Jeff LaBrecque wonders, "How could Richard Linklater possibly cast the perfect 6-year-old who was also willing to commit the next 12 years of his life to a movie ('Boyhood')? The anwer: &ldq…
Well, looks like we won't get much help from the Golden Globes when it comes to predicting the winner of Best Picture at the Oscars. Among our 11 Oscarologists who have made predictions…
The all-time leader in Tony Awards acting wins is aiming for an Emmy next. Audra McDonald is filming her performance as the legendary Billie Holiday in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill" …
So far academy members have received these DVD screeners at home to be considered for Academy Awards:
Dec. 15: "Inherent Vice"
Dec. 15: "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies"
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Seven films have made the cut with the motion picture academy's Makeup & Hairstyling Branch Executive Committee, and they're as noteworthy for the titles that were excluded as for the ones s…
Just as with the Oscars, Meryl Streep continues to break her own record for most film nominations at the Screen Actors Guild awards. For the upcoming 21st annual edition of these kudos, she …
The past several months for Neil Patrick Harris have already been phenomenal, but now he has another milestone to add to his impressive career: Grammy nominee. Harris is nominated as one of …
Nominations for the 57th annual Grammy Awards were revealed on Dec. 5 in a daylong marathon that began on "CBS This Morning" at 8:30 a.m. ET and ended more than 12 hours later during a prime…
"Let It Go," the breakout anthem from the Disney animated film "Frozen," won the Oscar for Best Original Song last March, making songwriter Robert Lopez only the 12th person ever to complete…
The Golden Globes have given separate awards for dramas and musicals/comedies since the 1950s, and dramas have a much stronger track record when it comes to repeating at the Oscars. But whil…
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Pete Hammond saw "Into the Woods" Saturday and called it "the most dazzling movie musical since 'Chicago.' 'Chicago' had the benefit of a great and smart screenplay by Bill Condon, who was nominated for an Oscar." As he notes, "despite the inherent stage-bound theatricality of the setting, Rob Marshall, James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim have been smart enough to realize the difference between what worked on a stage and what will work on film." Deadline<
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Concurs Greg Ellwood: To say that Meryl Streep is the standout in Rob Marshall's "Into the Woods" is somewhat of an understatement. Chris Pine does steal almost every scene he's in as the Prince (more on that in a moment), but it's Streep's performance as the Witch that is transfixing. She has three showcase numbers, "Stay With Me..."
"Into the Woods" leapt into the Oscar race joyously on Saturday night when it debuted to loud cheers at the DGA Theater in New York, dispelling all rumors that it was another disastrous movi…
Join the fiesty discussion going on right now in our infamous message boards where Hollywood stars, directors, execs and other honchos hide behind cyber-nicknames. Sample comments below with…
Mike Nichols, died Wednesday night at the age of 83. He was one of only a dozen winners of the entertainment awards grand slam -- Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy. Married since 1988 to ABC…
Check out our Experts' current predictions in the Best Actor race and you'll see something curious: Bradley Cooper is ranked sixth for "American Sniper" – that's one notch shy of scori…