6 days ago · MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're used to seeing the Academy Award nominees for best original song performed live on Oscars night. (SOUNDBITE OF TIMOTHEE CHALAMET'S "LIKE A ROLLING STONE") MARTIN: And several of the top 2025 contenders are movies built around big musical performances, including "Emilia Perez," "Wicked," and "A …

Dec 9, 2024 · Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan accept the Best Director award for Everything Everywhere All at Once onstage during the 95th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 12, 2023 in...

Apr 25, 2021 · MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And finally today, the 93rd annual Academy Awards are happening this evening. And while the pandemic has made the run-up to tonight's Oscars ceremony a very different...

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the film industry.. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with the award being split into ...

Mar 12, 2023 · From Warren Beatty to Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion, here's every filmmaker who's won the Best Director Oscar at the Academy AWards through the years

Mar 3, 2018 · For people who don't know it's a so-called dark comedy about a woman who rents three billboards to call attention to her daughter's unsolved murder. It's up for seven Academy Awards.

Nov 10, 2019 · NPR's Michel Martin talks with journalist Afua Hirsch about Lionheart, Nigeria's entry for the international feature film Oscar category that was disqualified for having too much English...

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a …

Dec 19, 2019 · In 2018, she became the fifth woman ever to be short-listed in the best director category at the Academy Awards in its 90 years for her movie “Ladybird,” an ode to mother-daughter...

1 day ago · Co-hosts Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz discuss the nominees in the biggest categories of the 97th Academy Awards, which will be broadcast on March 2.