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5 oldest Oscar winners, including Anthony Hopkins

Who are the five oldest people to ever win an Oscar? We’ve got you covered.

Plenty of people in Hollywood have proven that age is just a number at the Academy Awards.

There have been a good number of folks to win an Oscar into their elderly years, just as there have been folks to win an Oscar in their teens.

At the 96th Academy Awards, legendary 92-year-old composer John Williams could become the oldest person to ever win an Oscar for his score for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

At the moment, there are two people who won Oscars at 89 who are tied for being the oldest people to take home the gold. Who else is on the list?

3 sports films that have won Best Picture at the Oscars

Which sports films have won Best Picture? We’ve got you covered.

With the 95th Academy Awards just around the corner, it’s worth looking back on the history of the Best Picture category and how many times it has been kind to sports films.

While sports movies haven’t always fared well at the Oscars, a few have broken through over the years and have captured the industry’s attention.

There aren’t many Best Picture winners that deal with the world of sports, but the ones that have won have become classics in the genre.

Let’s take a look back at the couple of sports films that have taken home the Academy Awards’ top prize.

15 of the best Oscar speeches, including Tom Hanks and Halle Berry

The Academy Awards always have great speeches. Here are 15 of our favorites.

The Academy Awards have always been a great place for great speeches.

Over the years, we’ve seen incredible outpourings of gratitude mixed in with unforgettable exclamations of jubilee. Heck, we’ve even seen someone do push-ups.

We’ve tallied 15 of our favorite speeches from over the years, ranging from ones by actors like Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Gwyneth Paltrow, Denzel Washington and Robin Williams.

While this list is by no means exhaustive, it’s a reflection of what makes for a great Oscars speech and some admiration for some of our favorite Academy Award moments.

Sit back, relax and get those Academy Awards memories going.

Why Wes Anderson could win his first Oscar this year (in an unlikely category)

Wes Anderson might finally win an Oscar this year, but not for one of his feature-length films.

Wes Anderson is one of the most celebrated filmmakers of his generation, but he’s never been able to take home an Academy Award.

Anderson has been nominated seven times in the past without any wins, but his eighth nomination might give the auteur his first Oscar.

His 2023 film Asteroid City did not receive a nomination this year, but another one of his 2023 projects earned him a nomination from the Academy this winter.

In a four-set of short films for Netflix, Anderson’s Roald Dahl adaptation The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar earned a nomination in the Best Live-Action Short category at this year’s Oscars.

It’s the frontrunner to win the award at present, which would give Anderson the first Oscar in his career. It’s an unlikely category for Anderson’s first victory, but it’d be incredibly deserving all the same.

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5 Oscar takeaways from the 2024 SAG Awards, including why Oppenheimer has all the momentum

Here are five Oscar takeaways from Saturday night’s SAG Awards.

Saturday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards recognized plenty of talented and deserving actors with honors, but it also helped us get as definitive a look at the 2024 Oscar race as we’ve gotten so far.

The Academy Awards are in two weeks, and everything points to Christopher Nolan’s historical epic Oppenheimer winning plenty of trophies for the evening.

The film won three of the five major film awards, including best cast, best lead actor for Cillian Murphy and best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr. It’s feeling more and more like it’s the film to beat at the moment in multiple categories.

We’ve gathered five key takeaways for the 2024 Oscars, including where we really don’t have a clear winner settled in the acting categories.

Re-awarding the 8 major Oscar categories from the 2014 ceremony

Let’s reconsider the 8 major categories at the 2014 Oscars.

With this year’s Oscar ceremony just a couple of weeks away, it’s worth going back and remembering the awards show from a decade prior.

The 86th Academy Awards ceremony was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres and featured that infamous Oscar selfie that briefly broke the internet and John Travolta completely whiffed on pronouncing Idina Menzel’s name.

Steve McQueen’s historical drama 12 Years a Slave won Best Picture, while Matthew McConaughey won Best Actor for Dallas Buyers Club and Cate Blanchett won her second Oscar in the Best Actress category for Blue Jasmine.

Now that we’re 10 years removed, we’ve decided to go back and reconfigure the nominees and winners for this set of Oscars. This is a purely subjective exercise, although we skewed toward the critical consensus and the way the canon has developed over the years in determining our reworkings.

We analyze the eight major categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.

A hint: we fix the Leonardo DiCaprio Oscars thing.

Messi the dog from Anatomy of a Fall took over the 2024 Oscar nominees luncheon

Messi the dog took over the 2024 Oscar nominees luncheon.

Monday’s 2024 Oscar nominees luncheon gathered together some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, but none of them eclipsed Messi the dog.

The border collie breakout star of Best Picture nominee Anatomy of a Fall showed up to support his movie being nominated for numerous Oscars, and the young pup was the talk of the town as he arrived for the luncheon.

Messi’s performance in Anatomy of a Fall is genuinely one of the most impressive aspects of an already stellar movie, as the good pup’s portrayal of Snoop pretty much rivals any animal performance ever committed to film. He’s that good.

Messi’s day at the Oscar luncheon looked quite eventful, and we’ve got the best highlights from this very good boy’s special afternoon below.

Keegan-Michael Key’s outstanding 2024 NFL Honors hosting job should land him a future Oscars gig

The 2024 NFL Honors proved one thing: Keegan-Michael Key should host the Oscars one day.

It’s not often you can point to the host of the 2024 NFL Honors ceremony and say, “Now, that person should host the Academy Awards.”

However, that’s how good Keegan-Michael Key was at hosting this year’s NFL awards ceremony.

From his absolutely biting-yet-genial monologue to actually clever bits with the audience, Key managed Thursday night’s awards show with an effortless charm.

He kept the show rolling, got the audience genuinely engaged in the ceremony and knew exactly how to nail those little transitional moments in the awards that people take for granted when watching broadcasts like this.

Hosting an awards show can be one of the toughest jobs in show business, but Key earned an A+ for hosting a football awards show. Imagine what he could do with the Oscars.

There comes a time, after you’ve watched so many awards shows over the years, where you really value the good hosts.

Key’s genuine excitement for the moment certainly helped, as he used his Detroit Lions fandom and general understanding of the NFL to deliver a monologue that got in the right digs at the right people.

Using Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s status as a couple as a conduit to poke fun at Bill Belichick is the kind of unexpectedly hysterical monologue joke that shows like the Oscars are desperate to find.

Comedian Trevor Noah has long earned raves for his Grammys emcee work for this same reason: the vibes are affable, the jokes are smart, the genuine passion for the occasion shows through the performance.

In contrast, comedian Jo Koy’s Golden Globes hosting duties earned wide jeers because his monologue was awful, and he didn’t know how to navigate the room when those jokes weren’t working.

Hosting the Oscars is incredibly tricky, as people have soared and bombed in equal measure. If the Academy wants to see someone absolutely nail a typically static awards show, look at how well Key did on Thursday night.

While comedian John Mulaney might be atop many wish lists in the industry, Key really should be in major consideration in the future.

He knows the movie world, and he’d know how to find the right jokes for the room that are actually funny and find a nice balance between satire and goodwill.

Let’s give Jimmy Kimmel a break and get one of the great sketch comics of the 2010s and one of the industry’s most likable people in as 2025’s Oscar host. Key absolutely deserves it after such a brilliant turn at the NFL Honors.

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