Remakes and reboots are a dime a dozen in Hollywood nowadays. Typically, they’re either terrible, cynical cash-grabs that fade away in time, but sometimes those remakes do strike a chord with audiences, such as Bradley Cooper’s 2018 film, “A Star is Born.” And while that film was a critical success that captured the cultural zeitgeist a few years ago, the film has one big critic—Barbra Streisand, who starred in the third remake of “A Star is Born” in 1976.

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Maybe it’s time to let the old ways of this almost-finished decade die, yeah? But it wouldn’t be complete without our deep dive into the best soundtracks and scores of the 2010s. It’s admittedly somewhat weird and difficult to do. Scores and soundtracks are different beasts; one original musical written for a film that gives it its emotional shape—often the secret MVP of a movie—and the other more of a mixtape, but when well-curated and used next to picture, can be just as deadly and help craft what we know as the visual and aural transcendence that’s known as cinema when it’s at its best.

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The Recording Academy announed the 2020 Grammy Nominations on Wednesday morning and history was made. Lizzo led all nominees with eight, but both she Billie Eilish landed nods in the top four categories: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year and Best New Artist. They become the first two artists to ever pull that unique feat off.

READ MORE: Beyonce’s “Homecoming” chronicles her iconic Coachella performance [Review]

Eilish and Lil Nas X earned six nominations overall.

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Without a doubt, the most memorable, and possibly only real, “holy shit!” moment from this past Sunday’s Oscars ceremony (other than “Green Book’s” win, of course) was the performance of “Shallow” by “A Star is Born” leads Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. And while all the recent scuttlebutt around the ol’ social medias is whether or not the duo’s chemistry was a sign of some…extracurricular activities on set, Warner Bros.

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Before the telecast even kicked off last night, there was already a lot of talk surrounding the Oscars Best Original Song performances. Originally rumored to only feature performances by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper singing “Shallow,” as well as Kendrick Lamar and SZA performing “All the Stars,” the actual telecast featured the former, but not the latter, complemented by several other performances that range from “meh” to “good.”

The 2019 Oscars kicked off with a huge performance by Queen (with Adam Lambert providing vocals).

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She’s won a Golden Globe and she’s won nine Grammy Awards, but today Lady Gaga became an Academy Award winner.  The pop music icon won the Best Original Song Oscar for “Shallow” from “A Star is Born.”  She was also nominated for Best Actress in Bradley Cooper’s Best Picture nominee.

READ MORE: Bradley Cooper Shines As Star & Director In Rousing, Delightful ‘A Star Is Born’ [Venice Review]

Gaga co-wrote “Shallow” alongside fellow winners Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt.  

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None of this really works does it? When it comes to the Oscars, the old formulas for picking the Best Picture winner have sort of been thrown out the window this season. No film won more than one major guild honor. Sure, that’s happened before, but it doesn’t help that the only film that won a guild honor and took BAFTA’s top prize, “Roma,“ is a foreign language film.

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THR hosts only their second Songwriters Roundtable on this week’s “Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter.” The conversation includes Academy Award frontrunner Mark Ronson for “Shallow” (“A Star is Born”), in addition to nominee Diane Warren for “I’ll Fight” (“RBG”). The other songwriters include David Crosby (“Little Pink Houses”), Kesha (“On the Basis of Sex”), Boots Riley (“Sorry to Bother You”), Tim McGraw (“Free Solo”), and Jack Antonoff (“Love, Simon”).

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The Make-Up and Hairstyling Guild handed out their 2019 Awards on Saturday night and two of the three Academy Award nominees, “Vice” and “Mary Queen of Scots,” both had good nights.  “Vice” took home Best Period and/or  Character Makeup and Best Special Effects Makeup in a Film.  “Mary Queen of Scots” took the Best Period and/or Character Hairstyling while “Crazy Rich Asians” won the honor for Contemporary Hairstyling.

The other Oscar nominee, “Border,” did not make the guild cut likely because it was a foreign language film.

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Academy members are currently voting for the winners of the 91st Oscars.  And after voting, or before, they are letting their anger be known about the Academy and ABC’s decision to award four of the categories, Cinematography, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling and Live Action Short, during commercial breaks.  If that isn’t enough to get some members to run against already embattled president John Bailey I’m not sure what else will.  If this town loves anything it’s drama and in that context it’s no surprise we’ve got another close Best Picture race coming down to the wire.

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The Recording Academy handed out the winners of the 2019 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night and a number of the early awards went to movie-centric nominees.

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper won Best Song Written For Visual Media for “Shallow” from “A Star is Born.” Ludwig Göransson work for “Black Panther” won Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media and “The Greatest Showman” took best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media.

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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts revealed the winners of the 2019 BAFTA Awards on Sunday and it crowned a frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar, “Roma.”  Alfonso Cuaron’s autobiographical drama took Best Film over “The Favourite” which dominated the rest of the proceedings.

“Roma” also won Best Director (Cuaron) as well as Film Not in the English Language (Foreign Language Film) and Best Cinematography.  Along with the DGA honor for Cuaron, it nudges the Netflix release into pole position for Oscar’s top prize.  

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To the millions of people that paid money to go see “A Star is Born” and bawled their eyes out, and praised the film for months after, I got news for you – Sean Penn is a much bigger fan of the film than you are. Honestly, Sean Penn is probably a bigger fan of “A Star is Born” than anyone is a fan of anything in the history of the world.

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One of the sure-things as far as the 2019 Oscar nominations went was Bradley Cooper for Best Director for “A Star is Born.” The nomination had everything going for it: an A-list actor-turned-director, a massive blockbuster at the box office, rave reviews, and oh yeah, he directed the hell out of the film. But alas, it was not meant to be, as Cooper was snubbed from the Director nom.

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Yes, we’re still over three weeks away from the Oscars, but let’s be real, this year’s awards ceremony is setting itself up to be a shitshow, right? With the highly-publicized controversy surrounding the hosting and the seemingly endless attempts by ABC to somehow make the Academy Awards more popular, this year’s Oscars already seems destined to go down as one of the more disappointing. And adding to that is the recent controversy about which musical performances will or won’t be shown during the telecast, including a performance from a legendary rock band that will actually not happen.

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The weekend after Oscar nominations is always interesting at the box office. With common sense dictating that the films being named by the Academy as the best of the year will get a bump at the box office, analysts are always curious about which films will spark renewed interest from film fans and which can’t even benefit from a bit more notoriety. This weekend also had the added bonus of a highly divisive adult thriller, a critically-acclaimed kids film from an up and coming director, and a flurry of holiday leftovers still staking a claim.

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After countless screenings, Q&A’s, red carpets, screeners, hand holding, for your consideration ads, talk show appearances and cocktail parties, between 160 and 190 contenders are going to be rewarded with Oscar nominations bright and oh, so unnecessarily early on Tuesday morning.  And almost just as many who didn’t hear their name called will try to get back to sleep knowing they no longer have to starve themselves for the February telecast.  Granted, this season hasn’t had the distraction of a historic presidential election or an industry-changing #MeToo movement, but have been controversies late in the game.

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“First Man” seems like the expected winner, and its our prediction, but “Black Panther” could easily take this as could “A Quiet Place” or even “Roma.” A ton of Oscar pools are going to be decided on this category and Sound Mixing. [Updated Feb. 12]

Pedictions

1. “First Man” – Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
2. “Black Panther” – Benjamin A.

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Because it has “live music” Academy members should vote for “Star is Born” here. That being said, if they really don’t like the movie (which is possible based on some snubs) “First Man” or “Bohemian Rhapsody” (which just, um, sounds good?) could take it. [Updated Feb. 12]

Predictions
1. “A Star Is Born” – Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve A. Morrow
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You’ll have to look online to hear who won early in the show, but if “Green Book” or “The Favourite” takes it, Best Picture is way up in the air. “Bohemian Rhapsody” should take it because of John Ottman‘s work in helping shape the “director-less” movie together, but the flashy “Vice” from Oscar-winner Hank Corwin (“The Big Short”) could win as well.  [Updated Feb. 12]

Predictions
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This is the biggest lock of the night. If “Shallow” doesn’t win it’s one of the biggest upsets in Oscar history.  The song just won the Grammy in this equivalant category against insane competition including last year’s Oscar winner, “Remember Me” from “Coco.”  If any song can pull it off it’s likely “All the Stars,” but if “Shallow” isn’t announced the gasps from the audience will be picked up worldwide.  [Updated on Feb.

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The Costume Designer Guild became the second to last guild to announce their year-end awards on Thursday (the VFX society is the straggler) and peppered in some unexpectedly fun players amongst the expected nominees.  Awards season contenders such as “A Star is Born,” “Black Panther,” “The Favourite” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” were joined by “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Ocean’s 8,” “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” “A Wrinkle in Time” and “Avengers: Infinity War.”  Surprise omissions included “A Simple Favor,” “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” “Roma” and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.” 

READ MORE: “Aquaman,” “Vice” lead 2019 Make-Up and Hair Guild Awards nominees

On the television side designers from “Sharp Objects,” “The Marvelous Mrs.

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After what turned out to be a tumultuous Golden Globes, a slew of guild nominations were revealed over the past 36 hours and even with less than a week to go until final Oscar ballots are submitted thinks look “slightly” clearer.  And as one prominent awards consultant is prone to say about Oscar, “It’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

At the front of the pack is still Bradley Cooper’s “A Star is Born.”  I know it must not seem that way after the Globes, but as we must, here’s another reminder that what the 88 members or so of the HFPA decide to anoint is not what 8,000 plus members of the Academy are prone to repeat.  

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The Art Director’s Guild of America announced their 2019 ADG Awards nominees and thanks to multipe categories across film and television almost every possible movie or program that could get nominated did.  On the film side that meant potential Oscar nominees such as “Black Panther,” “The Favourite,” “First Man,” “Mary Poppins Returns” and “Roma.”  The TV nominees saw acclaimed work for “Homecoming,” “The Good Place,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Sharp Objects” and “Maniac” earn recognition from the guild.

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The American Society of Cinematographers announced their 2018 nominees and “Roma,” “A Star is Born,” “Cold War,” “First Man” and “The Favourite” were the big winners on the film side.  For television, “The Handmaid’s Tale” earned two nods alongside work from “Homeland,” “The Crown” and “The Man in High Castle.”

READ MORE: “Roma” and “Cold War” top Oscar’s Foreign Language Film Shortlist

A major bellwether for an Oscar nomination (the ASC and Oscar almost always line up), this has to be disconcerting for James Laxton‘s gorgeous work in “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Rachel Morrison’s achievements in “Black Panther” or Bruno Delbonnel’s lighting in “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”

It should be noted that “Roma’s” Alfonso Cuarón is now just the second director to earn an ASC nod for shooting his or her own film.

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