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Hollywood’s annual ritual of self-congratulation is in danger of cancellation as the Los Angeles area experiences a three-fold rise in coronavirus cases due in large part to the omicron variant. Pre-Oscar events are already being canceled as the entertainment industry prepares for what could be another season of empty red carpets.

Acclaimed screenwriter and director Paul Schrader has condemned woke cancel culture, calling it “infectious” and comparing it to the coronavirus Delta variant.

Hollywood & Highland, the retail and theater complex that also serves as home to the annual Academy Awards, has reportedly removed the statues of large white elephants that have presided over the venue for two decades due to concerns that they are racist.

Actor Stephen Dorff, said “My business is becoming a big game show. You have actors that don’t have a clue what they’re doing. You have filmmakers that don’t have a clue what they’re doing. We’re all in these little boxes on these streamers. TV, film — it’s all one big clusterf**k of content now.”

Billy Crystal is the latest Hollywood figure to come down hard against cancel culture and the current state of comedy. The former Oscars host also threw shade at this year’s Academy Awards telecast, which was the lowest rated in modern Oscars history.

Actors and musicians who are “prestigious award winners” will be at the front of the immigration queue, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel said.

“Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins said the infamous Oscars mix-up at the end of the 2017 ceremony has unfairly reinforced the belief that the movie won best picture only because “it was the black film.”

Homeless encampments lined the sidewalks and parks near Union Station, the venue for Sunday evening’s Oscars, on Tuesday — 48 hours after the red carpet had been rolled up and the stars and media had gone home.

Former president Donald Trump excoriated ABC’s telecast of the 93rd annual Academy Awards, noting the show’s record-low ratings while also urging the show to be less “politically correct and boring.”

Filmmaker Amanda Milius told Breitbart News on Monday that Hollywood undermined its own influence over America by abandoning conservatives.

Oscar ratings collapsed 58 percent over last year’s record low. Fewer than ten million tuned in for the first time ever.

Anthony Hopkins was nowhere to be found on Oscar night when he won a surprise best actor award for his performance as an elderly man battling dementia in The Father.

Actor John Leguizamo found himself unhappy with the results of the 2021 Oscars ceremony, lamenting on social media that Latino artists were “excluded again.”

A Throng of those watching the telecast of the 93rd Academy Awards were outraged to see that actresses Jessica Walter and Naya Rivera, as well as musician Adam Schlesinger, were left out of the 2021 “In Memoriam” segment on Sunday.

The 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday evening brought back, at least somewhat, the red carpet after an award’s season that was crushed by little-to-no red carpets, lame socially-distanced stage settings, and unwatchable acceptance speeches over Zoom.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chloé Zhao’s history-making Oscars sweep, winning best director and best picture, is being met with a muted response in her country of birth, and even censorship.

While several Oscar winners and presenters used Sunday’s live ABC broadcast to promote left-wing politics, one winner took a truly bold step by acknowledging pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong — a virtual no-no in Hollywood where saying anything critical of China’s Communist dictatorship has become taboo.

Actress Glenn Close danced to the 1988 song “Da Butt” during the annual 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday evening. 

Filmmaker and producer Tyler Perry urged national unity as he accepted a special Oscar on Sunday, using his speech to encourage people to “meet me in the middle” and “refuse hate.”

Chinese-born director Chloe Zhao won the Oscar for best director on Sunday for Nomadland, the spare indie drama about itinerant workers, van dwellers, and other modern-day nomads who are criss-crossing their way through middle America.

The director of a short film that won an Academy Award on Sunday evening said that “we deserve better than to live in a country” with gun violence every day.

An Oscar winner on Sunday used his acceptance speech to criticize law enforcement, claiming that fatal police shootings happen “disproportionately” to black people.

Actress-turned-director Regina King wasted little time Sunday by kicking off the 93rd annual Academy Awards by declaring she would have protested in Minnesota “if things had gone differently this past week,” in an apparent reference to the verdict in the Derek Chauvin case.

The 93rd annual Academy Awards ceremony kicks off Sunday night at 8 p.m. Eastern on ABC from the Dolby Theater and Union Station in Los Angeles, California. But will anyone care enough to tune in?

Hollywood is full of anti-border wall celebrities. But on Tinseltown’s biggest night, ten-foot security fences have been erected around Union Station in Los Angeles, California, to keep celebrities safe and the public out during Sunday’s 93rd Academy Awards.

Oscar-nominated star Andra Day has claimed the textbooks used in American schools are designed to perpetuate “white supremacy,” alleging they deliberately downplay or hide the accomplishments of black historical figures, including singer Billie Holiday, whom she plays in the Hulu movie The United States vs. Billie Holiday.

Oscar winners and presenters at the Academy Awards are famous for using the platform to preach politics in grandiose speeches that have pushed left-wing narratives and promoted Democratic Party positions.

Celebrities attending Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony will still win big, even if they don’t take home an award, since all nominees will receive gift bags containing a variety of luxurious items and services reportedly worth $205,000 apiece — a combined value of $5.1 million.

If you thought the previous decade sucked, wait till you get a load of this one. There are usually a few pretty great titles every year, but the number of worthwhile movies just hits the skids.

An Oscars unlike any before will get underway Sunday night, with history on the line in major categories and a telecast retooled for the pandemic.

Hollywood likes to blame the downward trajectory of Oscar ratings on changing viewer habits and the length of the show, which usually clocks in at close to four hours. But now there’s more evidence left-wing politics is at least partly

The Oscars are a day away and are already coming under fire. The city of Los Angeles is being accused of hiding the homeless as Hollywood prepares to toast itself ahead of Sunday’s 93rd Academy Awards ceremony. One man told local news he was told to either move or have his things demolished.  

The millennium started out well enough with Gladiator, but with a few exceptions, it was all downhill from there.

For the first half of the decade, movies remained as great as ever, and then began a long decline in 1996, a decline that has only worsened.

In part seven of this series we look at the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1980 and 1989.

Here are all the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1970 and 1979 when the New Hollywood-era was in full bloom.