Oh yes – it’s that time of year again.
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Yes, the Oscars can, and should, evolve. But right now, when movies, rather than dominating the culture front and center as they once did, look more and more like just one additional entertainment choice amid a brain-frazzlingly eclectic multi-media cosmos, I think it’s a big mistake for the Academy Awards ceremony to be in a perpetual neurotic state of reinventing itself, giving its Best Picture rules a new perm every other year. It looks arbitrary and vacillating, it reduces the Oscars more and more to being just One More Awards Show (rather than the awards show), and besides, it’s sort of like fussing with Christmas. You can’t really make it better; you can just make it less.
Owen Gleiberman decries the Oscars’ latest attempt to switch things up, arguing that the awards show is thisclose to losing its identity.
American Hustle and Gravity are tied for the most nods with 10 apiece; 12 Years a Slave is close behind with nine nominations total.
This week in EW: We go behind the scenes of the Academy Awards to see just how the Family Guy and Ted creator intends to pull off the biggest live show of the year.
We’re live blogging the #Oscars tonight—join us here!
This week in EW: Inside the madness of Charlie Sheen. (Sorry, Oscars—if you want to score a cover, you’re going to have to do better than that!)
Day 3 behind the scenes with OSCARS host Neil Patrick Harris!
Photo credit: Art Streiber for EW.
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A new (re)generation
Iconic sci-fi franchise ‘Doctor Who’ is kicking off a new era, as Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor takes control of the TARDIS. Read EW’s latest cover story.