Academy Awards

Disney Accused Of Censoring Anti-Putin Speech From Oscars Broadcast

The 2024 Academy Awards were a winner for the Walt Disney Company. The American television version drew 19.5 million viewers, the most since 2020, and Disney Entertainment sold out all of its ads for the broadcast. Oppenheimer (2023) was the big winner, taking home seven Academy Awards. However, Walt Disney Studios was completely shut out from the awards, including Best Animated Film, which it usu

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Disney’s Box Office Bombs May Be… Nominated for Oscars?

For those following the Hollywood drama over the past year (strikes, flops, and scandals), it might not come as a surprise that Disney has made some of the largest box office flops of all time. But despite the movies’ poor performance, some of them may actually be up for some Academy Awards. Although Disney is no stranger to flops (John Carter, Treasure Planet, Strange World, etc.), 2023 is

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Walt Disney Dominated the Oscars

The Academy Awards will air on March 12 on Disney-owned ABC. For the first time, an actress in a Marvel film has a chance to win an Oscar. Angela Bassett was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).  The films in the MCU have been nominated for 26 Academy Awards, winning only three, with five to be announced on Sunday. Black Panther (2018) won al

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Will Smith Posts Apology Video After Oscars Slap

The 2022 Academy Awards were among the Academy’s most memorable — and, unfortunately, not for a good reason. Footage of Aladdin actor Will Smith hitting stand-up comedian Chris Rock live onstage after a comment about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett-Smith meant that the actor was hit equally hard by controversy — not to mention by a 10-year-ban from the Academy. The actor and fath

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Rachel Zegler References Her Invitation Snub During the Oscars

Golden Globe award-winner Rachel Zegler might have only become famous last year with her first big role as Maria in the Steven Spielberg adaptation of West Side Story (for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress), but the actress has quickly amassed a huge fanbase — and after her fans aggressively pressured the Academy online to give her an invitation to the Oscars, star Rachel

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‘Love Will Make You Do Crazy Things’: Will Smith Defends Himself for Hitting Chris Rock at the Oscars

The most shocking moment in the 94th Academy Awards was one of the Oscars’ most jaw-dropping moments in its entire history. Actor Will Smith walked on stage and smacked comedian Chris Rock in the face after the presenter made a G.I. joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith, Will Smith’s wife. Jada Pinkett-Smith was sporting a shaved head at the ceremony, presumably due to the affliction known as

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‘Encanto’ Loses to James Bond in the ‘Oscar for Best Original Song’ Category

Disney fans might have been surprised or disappointed when the popular Encanto song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” was not nominated by composer Lin-Manuel Miranda for the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 94th Academy Awards, but they may have been hoping that the Walt Disney Animation Studios movie Encanto would prevail with its Oscar nominee anyway! The Encanto original song &#

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‘Encanto’ Wins the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film

When the Oscar nominees for the 94th Academy Awards were announced, Disney fans learned that the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film was actually going to be a showdown between three Disney animated movies: Encanto, Raya and the Last Dragon, and the Disney and Pixar movie Luca. Each of these three Disney animated films has won several other awards during the 2022 award season, but the run

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‘Encanto’ Actors Will Perform “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” at the Oscars

Encanto fans, get ready! The 94th Academy Awards are coming up on Sunday, March 27 live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and even though we already knew that the smash-hit original song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Encanto was being performed, we now know that some of the cast members from the movie will be reprising their roles for the performance — and some famo

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Our 2022 Oscar Predictions

The 94th Academy Awards are upon us, and since several Disney movies, Marvel movies, and Disney or Marvel actors have been nominated for Oscars, we’ve gathered our predictions for this year’s Oscar winners! Best Picture Nominees: Belfast, CODA, Don’t Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story. Predicted Winner: CODA

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