Oscar Protests About Diversity Need to Add Hiring Stats

The controversial scorecards from Jack Catterall's controversial defeat to Josh Taylor on Saturday night to explain the result to shocked fans.

A mum was left terrified after a drunken thug assaulted her and threatened her children.

Leeds announced that Marcelo Bielsa had left his position on Sunday, after a miserable run of form that included a 4-2 defeat at Elland Road against Manchester United.

Dashboard Confessional have appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live – watch them perform ‘Everyone Else Is Just Noise’ below.The emotive set saw the group deliver their latest single from new album, ‘All The Truth That I Can Tell’ – the group’s first new album in over four years. The album arrived on Friday (February 25) via Hidden Note Records/AWAL.The new song sees frontman Chris Carraba reflecting on ageing and getting older.

King Crimson founder Robert Fripp and his wife, singer Toyah Willcox, have shared a cover of The Black Keys‘ hit ‘Lonely Boy’ – check it out below.The cover is a part of the pair’s ‘Sunday Lunch’ video series which was launched in 2020. The series has so far seen the couple share renditions of songs by Ramones, Nirvana, David Bowie, Metallica, Billy Idol, The Rolling Stones, Judas Priest, The Prodigy, Guns N’ Roses, Alice Cooper and many more through Willcox’s YouTube channel.In recent weeks, they’ve covered ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’ by the Smashing Pumpkins and given a special Valentine’s Day performance of ‘Too Drunk To Fuck’ by The Dead Kennedys.Today (February 27), Sunday Lunch headed to 2011 with a hit single from The Black Keys’ breakout album ‘El Camino’.Watch Fripp and Willcox take on ‘Lonely Boy’ below.In August, Willcox released her 16th studio album ‘Posh Pop’, which she previewed with the single ‘Levitate’ featuring Simon Darlow and Bobby Willcox.Discussing the album in a recent interview with NME, Willcox explained how it came about. “When COVID stopped everything last year, it allowed me to concentrate on writing and recording the next album,” she said.

Always up for an adventure! Jacob Bertrand not only enjoys being part of the action on his series Cobra Kai, but he also embraces it off screen.

Prizes are up for grabs for cyclists across South Lanarkshire as part of a programme which takes place next month.

Always prepared. Ben Savage is ready to return as Cory Matthews should Disney ever decide to expand the Boy Meets World universe.

Hollywood actor Cillian Murphy returns to screens this weekend in the trademark grey flat cap as he embodies perhaps his most famous role - Peaky Blinders' Tommy Shelby.

Malin Andersson has candidly admitted she's "struggling" as she shared her decision to take some more time away from social media. Love Island star Malin, 29, welcomed her baby daughter into the world earlier this month and took some time to enjoy the baby bubble in private for some time. Earlier this week, Malin delighted fans as she introduced her adorable tot, Xaya, into the world with a black and white snap on her Instagram page.

Vicky Pattison and Ercan Ramandan recently marked their pet dog Milo's first birthday with a lavish party, held at their sprawling Essex mansion. Former Geordie Shore star Vicky, 34, and her fiancé Ercan, 28, went all out for their pet pup's big day, which was attended by several of their family and friends who brought their own dogs along.

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Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentIf you suspect that Hollywood has always been male-centric, there’s more evidence (not that there was ever much doubt). A new Emerson College study shows that, for 92 years, the Oscar-winning best picture has been almost twice as likely to include nominated male actors (lead and supporting) than female.The study, called “Oscar is a Man: Sexism and the Academy Awards,” found that the best-picture winners, from the 1927-28 season through 2019, included 124 nominated performances by men, but only 72 for women, which is 58% of the male tallies.There are many statistics offered.

Clayton Davis The Academy Awards have announced producers for the upcoming 93rd ceremony. Emmy nominee Jesse Collins (“Zoboomafoo”), Oscar nominee Stacey Sher (“Django Unchained” and “Erin Brockovich”) and Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh (best director for 2000’s “Traffic”) will produce the upcoming show, which is scheduled to air on Sunday, April 25.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEgypt’s Film Clinic, the prominent indie shingle headed by Cairo Film Festival president Mohammed Hefzy, has scored the rare distinction of being the Middle East and North Africa region distributor of a trio of Arabic films that are in the running for the 2021 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.Film Clinic, which since 2006 has been producing a wide range of Arabic film and TV fare – most recently Netflix Arabic Original series “Paranormal” – in 2016 branched out and launched Film Clinic Indie Distribution and since then has been gradually stepping up activity.Film Clinic’s distribution arm is now set to soon release “When We’re Born” by Egypt’s Tamer Ezzat; “200 Meters” by

Kaleem Aftab Production has finally completed on “Huda’s Salon,” the new film from double Academy-Award nominated director Hany Abu-Assad (“Paradise Now,” “Omar”). Production was halted twice this year because of regulations brought in to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Wealthy, curtain-twitching suburbanites have formed the basis for many a TV show, but the Polish feature Never Gonna Snow Again proves the setting can be profoundly cinematic and esoteric, as well as darkly funny. Co-directing and writing with director of photography Michal Englert, Malgorzata Szumowska revels in blending genres in this acutely observed festival hit that is Poland’s submission for the 2021 International Oscar race.

Tom Holland is getting some serious Oscar buzz for his performance in the upcoming movie Cherry and the film has been given a release date that is perfect for an awards season presence!

10 things I was thankful for this awards season. But obviously, you can’t tell the story of this awards season — or this year — with only nice thoughts and gratitude.After all, it’s a year without movie theaters to a large degree.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentStrand Releasing has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Majid Majidi’s “Sun Children,” which competed at Venice and represents Iran in the international feature film race at the 2021 Academy Awards.Represented in international markets by Hengameh Panahi’s Celluloid Dreams, “Sun Children” has been critically acclaimed in the festival circuit, and its young leading actor Ruhollah Zamani won Venice’s Marcello Mastroianni Award for best young actor.

EXCLUSIVE:  Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe winning actor, writer, producer, activist and overall queen Taraji P. Henson has signed with M88. Henson will be repped by the entire M88 team, led by new partner Oronde Garrett and co-founder Phillip Sun.

Christopher Vourlias Vadim Perelman’s “Persian Lessons” will represent Belarus in the best international feature film race at the 2021 Oscars, Variety has learned.The WWII drama, which world premiered in the Panorama strand of the Berlin Film Festival this year, stars Nahuel Perez Biscayart (“Beats Per Minute”) as a Belgian Jew who narrowly avoids execution by a Nazi firing squad when he claims to be Persian. Desperate to save himself, he offers to teach Farsi — a language he does not know — to the head of the camp, played by German star Lars Eidinger (“Clouds of Sils Maria”).Perelman (“House of Sand and Fog”) directed from a script by Ilya Zofin, based on the story “Erfindung Einer Sprache” by Wolfgang Kohlhaase.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentTopic, the fast-growing streaming service from First Look Media, has acquired North American streaming rights to Anabel Rodriguez Rios’ documentary feature debut, “Once Upon a Time in Venezuela.” The film, which explores the decline of the Venezuelan fishing village of Congo Mirador and, more broadly, the country’s complicated current political and social climate, made its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. It is Venezuela’s 2021 Academy Award submission for best international feature film, and was shortlisted for the 2020 IDA Documentary Awards.

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Glenn Close politely called out Gwyneth Paltrow while fielding questions about being nominated for an Academy Award seven times without a single win.  The actress, 73, is in the Oscar conversation once again for her role in the Ron Howard-directed Netflix original “Hillbilly Elegy." The role comes after her surprise best actress loss last year for her part in “The Wife.” The prize ultimately went to Olivia Colman for “The Favourite.”  Close spoke with Peter Travers for his ABC News special “Popcorn,” in which the two candidly discussed the Oscar race.

Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tips But the awards show must go on. Next year’s Baftas and Academy Awards are delayed until April, rather than the usual February.

Also Read: Critics Call Ron Howard's 'Hillbilly Elegy' 'Laughably Horrendous,' 'Worst Film of His Career'Close went on, “I thought, ‘What?’ It’s like, it doesn’t make sense, so I think who wins has a lot of things to do with how things have been, whether it has traction or whatever. Publicity, how much money did they have to put it out in front of everybody’s sight? So, you know, I have to be philosophical about it.”The “they” in question here is Harvey Weinstein’s production company, which was behind “Shakespeare in Love.” The film also won “Best Picture” at that year’s awards ceremony.Close herself has been nominated for seven Oscars, giving her the title of the most-nominated actress without a single win.

Glenn Close admitted she didn’t believe that Gwyneth Paltrow‘s performance in Shakespeare in Love was worthy of her 1999 Oscar win.The Hillbilly Elegy star, 73, opened up about her thoughts on the Academy Awards during an interview with ABC News’ Popcorn with Peter Travers on Tuesday, November 24.“I honestly feel that to be nominated by your peers is about as good as it gets,” she explained.

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine Not only has 's one-year-old son Oscar's hair got long, but the little lad is now rocking an adorable centre parting!Sitting at a table with a big grin on his face, Oscar donned a stripy top and sat with his hands crossed as he looked at the camera."Waiting for Santa," the Hell's Kitchen star wrote alongside the image, and before long, fans rushed to the comment section to gush about the boy's hair."His hair is luscious chef," wrote one.The celebrity chef's post comes days after he delighted fans again, this time with some exciting news. Gordon confirmed on Tuesday that Following the announcement that restaurants in England will be allowed to reopen again when lockdown restrictions are eased next month,

Hillbilly Eleg, veteran actress Glenn Close has revealed that Gwyneth Paltrow’s 1999 Oscar win for Shakespeare in Love left her confused. Close, who currently holds the record of being the most Oscar nominated actress in history without a win, wasn’t in the running against Paltrow that year but nevertheless shared her thoughts on the ceremony and the way winners can often be perplexing.

The Academy Awards‘ recently-announced diversity rules should “fuck off”.In June The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences pledged greater inclusivity after the 2020 Oscars nomination list was criticised for its lack of diversity, and in September announced major changes to the qualifying criteria for the Best Picture category.Speaking to Variety, Samberg, known for his role as Jake Peralta in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, said he thought it was “insane” that people were taking issue with the newly introduced criteria.“The parameters if you look at them closely, you can have the ‘whitest’ cast in the history of cinema and still very easily meet them by just doing a few key roles behind the camera.