024 HOLLYWOOD MUSIC IN MEDIA AWARDS COMPLETE WINNERS LIST (FINAL) SONG - FEATURE FILM "The Journey" from THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT. Written by Diane Warren. Performed by H.E.R. SONG - INDEPENDENT FILM "Beautiful That Way" from THE LAST SHOWGIRL - Written by Miley Cyrus, Lykke Li, and Andrew Wyatt. Performed by Miley Cyrus. SONG - DOCUMENTARY FILM "Never Too Late" from ELTON JOHN: NEVER TOO LATE. Written by Elton...

Continuing the below-the-line analysis, it seemed appropriate this week to focus on what I would call the technical side of the below-the-line crafts. Next week we'll take a look at Production Design, Costume Design, and Makeup and Hairstyling, and the following week we'll cover the music categories of Original Score and Original Song. Best Film Editing Best Film Editing is the most important, below-the-line category and equally the most...

The Astra Awards are coming in early for the awards season and could influence the Golden Globe voters who are voting as we speak with ballots due December 4. Both the Globes and the Astras are rebuilding after a tsunami of outrage whipped through the industry for various reasons. But in the end, we're not exactly curing science here, folks. Get over yourselves. They're film awards, probably the least...

It's hard to know how Wicked will be received by Academy members. At the moment, there are few negative reactions to it beyond complaints about the run time. Considering so many hopefuls for 2024 fell flat at the box office, Wicked might fill the necessary slot of making the Oscars exciting for movie fans. Then again, we said the same thing about Barbie and it didn't do much to...

This is the Buzzmeter. You can subscribe to it by heading to our newsletter sign-up. I send these out as well as post them here and it might become a podcast. Because the Oscar race has been swallowed up by publicity, it's hard to tell what is real anymore, isn't it? It's hard to know who is being honest or who is pandering. It's a very surreal moment to...

The AARP Movies for Grownups has been around for a while. They don't really tell you that much about the Oscar race, mainly because I could not find who picks the nominees, how many people pick the nominees. Is it a committee? How does it work...either way, they are aimed at people over 50 which, for a very long time, described the Academy. That isn't true anymore. To that...

There seems to be a bit of a controversy-not-controversy brewing online. Sebastian Stan has said that he wanted to do a Variety's Actors on Acting but none of the publicists wanted their clients associated with him so he could not do it. I hate to break it to Mr. McKay but welcome to the new normal. This is the monster you and everyone else have created where it's perfectly...