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Oscars 2016: Why no one seems to know what will win Best PictureThis year, your guess may be as good as the experts' when it comes to what movie will win the big prize. Why is the Best Picture race seemingly so hard to predict this time?
Oscars 2016: Will the industry improve for women and people of color in Hollywood?All the acting nominees at the Oscars this year are white and no female directors are nominated for the corresponding prize. Yet some in Hollywood are heartened – albeit cautiously – by recent developments that should benefit women and minorities, both behind the camera and in front.
Spirit Awards 2016: What they say about the Oscars and diversityThe Spirit and Oscar winners have often aligned in acting and best picture categories. Why this year is different.
Oscars 2016: What factors make a movie succeed at the Academy Awards?There are many factors behind what's led to two straight years of all-white acting nominees, but one is the stifling limitation of what gets considered an 'Oscar movie.' 'The nomination process is essentially run by, dictated by money and public relations maneuvering,' actor Viggo Mortensen says.
'Embrace of the Serpent': Director Ciro Guerra's technique can be meditative but also just vaporous'Serpent' is the phantasmagoric third feature from Colombian director Ciro Guerra and is shot in lustrous, widescreen black and white. It was inspired by the journals of two ethnographers who traveled the Amazon in the last century.
Oscars 2016: Will the Academy rule changes work?Following the second year in a row in which all the Oscar acting nominees have been white, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced alterations to the membership. Will this bring about change?
Oscars 2016: How to change the face of HollywoodOne of the nominees in the middle of the Academy Awards controversy shows how Hollywood can better value diversity.
Oscars 2016: Why has no sci-fi movie ever won Best Picture?The films 'The Martian' and 'Mad Max: Fury Road' are nominated for Best Picture this year. Do either of them have a chance of becoming the first science fiction movie to take the big prize?
#HollywoodSoWhite: Study confirms racial and gender bias in TV and moviesA look at 414 recent films and TV series showed that only a third of speaking characters were female, and only 28.3 percent were from minority groups.
Migrant island documentary "Fire at Sea" wins at Berlin International Film Festival"Fire at Sea," a documentary about Lampedusa, an Italian island that is many migrants' first destination on risky journeys toward safety and a better life in Europe, won the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival.
'Race' actor Stephan James on playing Jesse Owens: 'I had to learn to run like Jesse... You can't fake that'James was recently seen onscreen as Congressman John Lewis in the 2014 movie 'Selma.' 'Race' co-stars Jason Sudeikis and Carice van Houten.
'A War': The issues at stake are more complex than the filmThe movie is essentially three movies for the price of one, combining a war-front drama, a home-front drama, and a courtroom drama. It stars 'Game of Thrones' actor Pilou Asbæk as a commander of a unit of Danish soldiers in Afghanistan.
'Zoolander 2' is a misfire with recycled gags'Zoolander 2' stars Ben Stiller as model Derek Zoolander, Owen Wilson as his friend Hansel, and Penelope Cruz as a special agent who recruits them to get to the bottom of a mystery. The movie cobbles together various twists and complications.
'Deadpool' is less irreverent than self-congratulatoryThe superhero film stars Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson, also known as Deadpool, who is a fighter incapable of dying. It's weirdly funny at best but exhaustingly weird most of the time.
'Mountains May Depart': The film's final section doesn't hold up to the restThe film takes place over a span of 26 years, extending from 1999, when China was in the early throes of capitalism, to a barely futuristic 2025. It centers on a young schoolteacher who is acquainted with two men, with one being a man of the people and the other representing the new order.
'Hail, Caesar' actor Alden Ehrenreich praised for a scene-stealing turn as a 1950s movie starEhrenreich stars in the newest Coen brothers movie as cowboy Hobie Doyle. 'You can feel that you're working with people who are masters,' the actor said of working with some of his idols.
'Hail, Caesar!' is sharp and amusing but a minor work by the Coen brothers'Caesar!' stars Josh Brolin as a 'fixer' for movie studio Capital Pictures and George Clooney as a famous, fatuous movie star. Clooney has a lot of fun with the role.
'Rams' is a one-of-a-kind movie because of its unusual subject and shape-shifty tone'Rams' tells the story of estranged Icelandic brothers (Sigurður Sigurjónsson and Theodór Júlíusson) who work as sheep farmers. The movie shows that often the best films come from the unlikeliest places.
'The Finest Hours': Coast Guard participant remembers the historic rescue'Finest' stars Chris Pine and Casey Affleck as members of the Coast Guard who attempted to rescue men from a stricken tanker off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952.
'Kung Fu Panda 3' has heart, witty dialogue, kid-friendly humor'Panda' is an extremely satisfying third installment in the popular animated series, which stars actors including Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, and Angelina Jolie.
