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Here are the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1950 and 1959.

The movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1940 and 1949.

Even with a pandemic locking us all down, including most of our movie theaters, pretty much no one is even aware of, much less watching, this year’s Best Picture nominees.

Actor Jason Sudeikis raised eyebrows at another awards show, this time by wearing a “my body my choice” sweater during Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards ceremony. Sudeikis appeared on screen to accept his Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series award for his role in Apple TV’s Ted Lasso.

HONG KONG — The Oscars will not be shown in Hong Kong for the first time in more than half a century, its local broadcaster confirmed Monday, as doubts remained over whether Hollywood’s top awards will air in mainland China.

Oscar producers are facing backlash after telling nominees they must attend the ceremony in person and are not allowed to give their acceptance speeches remotely via Zoom next month during the Academy Awards. The rules for this year’s Oscars ceremony is “causing

Oscar nominees have been told by the show’s producers that they are not allowed to give their acceptance speeches remotely via Zoom next month during the Academy Awards, and clothing like hoodies and loungewear will be banned at the ceremony.

Netflix’s David Fincher helmed “Mank” scored ten Academy Award nominations on Monday, more than any other movie this awards season. But fast forward three years and the movie’s best picture nomination would look doubtful under new diversity quotas that are set to take effect in 2024.

Hollywood’s love for Stacey Abrams (D) failed to translate into an Academy Award nomination on Monday, when her highly touted All In: The Fight for Democracy fell short of landing a spot in the documentary feature category.

For performers, it’s the most diverse slate of nominees ever — and a far cry from the all-white acting nominees that spawned the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag five years ago. Nine of the 20 acting nominees are people of color, including a posthumous best-actor nomination for Chadwick Boseman (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”), and nods for Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”), Steven Yeun (“Minari”), Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield (“Judas and the Black Messiah”), Leslie Odom Jr. (“One Night in Miami”), Viola Davis (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”), Andra Day (“The People vs. Billie Holiday”) and Yuh-Jung Youn (“Minari”).

Sacha Baron Cohen spent much of Hollywood awards season calling for more social media censorship against Donald Trump and conservatives. On Monday, Hollywood rewarded him with two Academy Award nominations for his performance in The Trial of the Chicago 7 and the screenplay for his anti-Trump Borat sequel.

The 93rd Academy Awards telecast is six  weeks away and already the far-left Hollywood Reporter is writing a pre-excuse for why it’s going to be a ratings catastrophe.

Stacey Abrams (D) has shifted her Academy Awards campaign into attack mode, accusing Republicans and former president Donald Trump of voter suppression as she seeks an Oscar nomination for her Amazon Studios documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy.

Advocacy groups are calling for the Borat sequel, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, to be barred from the Oscars and Golden Globes for “promoting racism in entertainment” and “portraying Kazakh people as misogynistic, incestuous, anti-Semitic, and barbarous.”

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the 2021 Oscars telecast will be a live, in-person production next year, dispelling rumors of a virtual show.

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star Andy Samberg says those who are concerned or outright opposed to the new diversity standards and quota system recently imposed by the Academy Awards can “f**k off.”

Filmmaker Ron Howard said that his Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind would probably fail the Academy’s new diversity standards, which require that movies meet certain quotas on race and gender in order to be considered for the best picture category.

Citizen Kane, widely considered the best movie ever made, would not be eligible for best picture Oscar consideration in today’s Hollywood. Neither would Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 12 Angry Men, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,  It’s a Wonderful Life, or 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Like we all needed another reason to not watch the Oscars, right? 

The Academy Awards is facing accusations of undermining artistic freedom after they issued new guidelines stating that films eligible to win the coveted Best Picture award must meet various diversity standards in order to qualify. 

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday that it will require films to meet extensive new “diversity” standards to be eligible to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

The woke Academy Awards has seen its ratings fall through the floor as Americans sick of being lectured to by wealthy elites are tuning out en masse. Now eight-time Oscar nominee actor Bradley Cooper is taking a swing at Hollywood’s annual awards circus, calling it “utterly meaningless” and “completely devoid of artistic creation.”

Kevin Hart knows what it feels like to be “cancelled.” The actor-comedian was invited to host the Oscars two years ago but was forced to step down before the job even began after the media dug through his old tweets and accused him of homophobia. Now Hart is hitting back at cancel culture’s practitioners, saying they leave no room for growth or redemption.

Now that we know that Hollywood sees blackface — all blackface, regardless of intent — as racist, we can only assume Hollywood lauded “Tropic Thunder” with all those accolades with racist intent — to humiliate black people.  

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” ― Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.

“What I say is make great movies, not this computerized crap, computerized garbage,” Trump said, offering some advice to Hollywood.

Actress-singer Bette Midler has called President Donald Trump a “parasite” living in the White House following his comments about the Oscar-winning movie during Thursday’s “Keep America Great” rally in Colorado Springs.

“Then you have Brad Pitt, I was never a big fan of his, he got up, said a little wise guy statement,” Trump said, recalling the 2020 Oscar ceremonies.

Actress Natalie Portman, an A-list star with her own production company, admitted that she has “only made a few films with women” in response to Rose McGowan’s critique of the Black Swan actress’s feminist fashion statement at the Oscars, where she donned a Dior cape featuring the names of women who directed films in 2019 but were not nominated.

Portman’s blow against the patriarchy does indeed ring hollow when you look at her own record of working with and hiring female directors — which is practically non-existent.

The director of a Netflix documentary backed by Barack Obama’s production company, Julia Reichert — who quoted Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto during her acceptance speech at the Oscars on Sunday — had also once been nominated for a film about communism. The Irony.

Actor and climate change activist Joaquin Phoenix was spotted with a plastic water bottle at Vanity Fair’s Oscar party following Sunday’s 92nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles according to a report.

A parade of monied Hollywood A-Listers preached down to the rest of us about equality at this year’s Oscars ceremony all while collecting a $225,000 swag bag.

Ricky Gervais has advised the fist-pumping millionaire Hollywood celebrities to cut out their political grandstanding because their lectures to the everyday Americans tend to have the opposite effect of what they intended.

David Axelrod warned film director Judd Apatow that Hollywood’s hostility toward Donald Trump may be politically damaging the Democrat Party.

It must’ve been the coffee creamer. Or the thought of artificial cow insemination. Because after years of openly struggling with her weight (and health) and a seemingly self-imposed sabbatical from political lectures after backing Hillary Clinton in ’16, actress Lena Dunham announced to the world that it was Joaquin Phoenix’s unhinged Oscars tirade on the environment that has made her want to become vegan.