Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer and Regina Hall will host the 94th Academy Awards, the Academy announced on Tuesday during a segment on Good Morning America. Variety first reported the news on Monday. It marks the first time in three years that the Oscars will have dedicated hosts for the ceremony. …
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Things are of course very different this year, and all performances for the Academy Award nominees for Best Original Song were performed during the preshow, which began at 6:30 p.m. ET., rather than being interspersed and performed live during the Oscars event at Union Station in Los Angeles. The nominees …
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Composer Emile Mosseri and Minari star Yeri Han have released a new live performance video for the acclaimed film’s original song, “Rain Song.” The simple, socially distanced clip has the feel of a visual collage as Mosseri builds the delicate song out of piano, acoustic guitar, and synthesizer. Han appears …
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Little Women director Greta Gerwig tells Rolling Stone that she wanted the movie to be a “ballet, a musical” — and in order to create that effect, she enlisted the talents of composer Alexandre Desplat, who has won two Oscars for Best Original Music Score (for 2014’s The Grand Budapest …
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The Academy Awards confirmed Friday that Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga will perform their A Star Is Born hit “Shallow” at the February 24th ceremony. The duet is nominated in the Best Original Song category. The Oscars‘ announcement comes less than a week after Gaga and Cooper performed the song …
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Sufjan Stevens enlisted the help of St. Vincent, Moses Sumney and the Punch Brothers’ Chris Thile for a haunting, intimate performance of his Oscar-nominated song “Mystery of Love” at the 90th Academy Awards Sunday. Stevens wrote the song for Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name. Stevens, decked out in …
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