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I went back and counted. There were 95 tributes in a little less than four minutes. It seemed faster on live television.

Some notes on the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, which ran about three hours and 15 minutes -- longer than the running times of any of the eight Best Picture nominees. The "Pay Attention to the BAFTA Winners Next Time" Award: For those of you who predicted that acting Oscars would go to the late Chadwick Boseman and anyone not named Frances McDormand, the BAFTAs should have provided some clues. At the British equivalent of the Oscars on April 11, awards went to "Nomadland," Sir Anthony Hopkins and McDormand. In recent years, the BAFTAs usually have been a surefire indicator of the Best Actress Oscar winner. Two streaks end: McDormand became the first recipient of the year's Best Actress award to also appear in the Best Picture winner. The last time it happened: February 27, 2005, when Hilary Swank won for "Million Dollar Baby." Before Sunday night, the last time a female screenwriter won an Academy Award was in 2008, when Diablo Cody took home the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for "Juno." The British actress-writer-dirertor Emerald Fennell snapped the streak with her Best Original Screenplay win for "Promising Young Woman." Two streaks continue: Glenn Close is now 0-for-8 when it comes to Oscar wins, which ties her with the late Peter O'Toole for overall futility at the awards show. But she showed comedian Lil Rel Howery that she can do the 1980s-era dance "Da Butt" during a trivia segment. Meanwhile, the prolific songwriter Diane Warren has never won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 12 nominations. A new land speed record: The Academy customarily receives criticism whenever an Oscar telecast leaves out noteworthy celebrities in the annual In Memorium segment. This year's edition used a version of Stevie Wonder's uptempo song "As" to accompany the farewell tributes. Needless to say, many viewers were not pleased by the speedy pace. Most poignant acceptance speech: "Another Round" director Thomas Vinterberg, dedicated the Danish film's award for Best International Feature Film to his late daughter, Ida. She was killed in a car crash last May --just four days into the film’s shooting. "This is a miracle that just happened—and you're a part of this miracle," he said. "Maybe you've been pulling some strings somewhere, I don't know. But this one is for you." Best dressed: The former Disney Channel star Zendaya was a stunning presence in a strapless yellow Valentino gown. Her equestrian TV commercial for Lancôme Paris Idôle fragrance also was impressive. The musical artist known as H.E.R. is having a very nice year so far: Name another performer who has sung at the Super Bowl and earned two Grammys and an Oscar in 2021. An historic year: The Academy announced that women on Sunday night picked up a record 16 trophies -- nearly 35.6 percent of the statuettes handed out in 23 competitive categories. Mark your calendars: The Academy previously designated the 94th Oscars for Sunday, February 27, 2021. But the pandemic certainly will determine if that happens or not.

Several observers have said the awards show has been designed as if it IS a film.

The drama "Nomadland" won the top prize Sundayat the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony. In addition, the film's Chinese-born writer-creator Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Director. She also became the second female winner in the directing category after Kathryn Bigelow, who won for "The Hurt Locker" in 2010. At the age of 83, the Welsh-born Sir Anthony Hopkins -- now an American citizen -- won his second Best Actor award for his performance in "The Father." In the drama, the veteran actor plays a man suffering from dementia. Hopkins' first Oscar win was 19 years ago for his work as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs." Hopkins did not attend Sunday night's ceremony. Frances McDormand earned her third Best Actress award for her performance in "Nomadland." Only the great Katharine Hepburn won more (4). McDormand also became the first woman to win producing and acting Oscars on the same evening. Britain's Daniel Kaluuya, who is of Ugandan descent, won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the slain 1960s Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in the historical drama "Judas and the Black Messiah." It was Kaluuya's second Academy Award nomination. He was a 2017 Best Actor nominee for his performance in the thriller "Get Out." South Korea's Youn Yuh-jung, who played the grandmother in "Minari," became the first Asian woman to win the Best Supporting Actress award since 1958. She was the first Korean actress ever nominated. Here is a complete list of winners from the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony held Sunday night: Best Picture: "Nomadland," Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, and Chloé Zhao (producers) Best Director: Chloé Zhao, "Nomadland" Best Actor: Sir Anthony Hopkins, "The Father" Best Actress: Frances McDormand, "Nomadland" Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya, "Judas and the Black Messiah" Best Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-jung, "Minari" Best Original Screenplay "Promising Young Woman," Emerald Fennell Best Adapted Screenplay "The Father," Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller Best Animated Feature Film: "Soul," Pete Docter & Dana Murray Best International Feature Film: "Another Round" (Denmark) Best Documentary Feature: "My Octopus Teacher," Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster Best Documentary Short Subject: "Colette," Anthony Giacchino, Alice Doyard Best Live Action Short Film: "Two Distant Strangers," Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe Best Animated Short Film: "If Anything Happens, I Love You," Michael Govier & Will McCormack Best Original Score "Soul," Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Best Original Song "Fight for You" from "Judas and the Black Messiah," D'Mile & H.E.R. (music); H.E.R. & Tiara Thomas (lyrics) Best Cinematography: "Mank," Erik Messerschmidt Best Production Design: "Mank," Donald Graham Burt (production design) and Jan Pascale (set decoration). Best Costume Design: "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," Ann Roth Best Makeup and Hairstyling: "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal, and Jamika Wilson Best Film Editing: "Sound of Metal," Mikkel E.G. Nielsen Best Visual Effects: "Tenet," Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher Best Sound: "Sound of Metal," Nicholas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Coutollenc, Carlos Cortes and Philip Bladh

Continued from the previous section: Best Cinematography: "Judas and the Black Messiah," Sean Bobbitt "Mank," Erik Messerschmidt "News of the World," Dariusz Wolski "Nomadland," Joshua James Richards "The Trial of the Chicago 7," Phedon Papamichael Best Production Design: "The Father," Peter Francis "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," Mark Ricker "Mank," Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale "News of the World," David Crank "Tenet," Nathan Crowley Best Costume Design: "Emma," Alexandra Byrne "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," Ann Roth "Mank," Trish Summerville "Mulan," Bina Daigeler "Pinocchio," Massimo Cantini Parrini Best Makeup and Hairstyling: "Emma," Marese Langan, Laura Allen, and Claudia Stolze "Hillbilly Elegy," Eryn Krueger Mekash, Patricia Dehaney, and Matthew Mungle "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal, and Jamika Wilson "Mank," Gigi Williams, Kimberley Spiteri, and Colleen LaBaff "Pinocchio," Dalia Colli, Mark Coulier, and Francesco Pegoretti Best Film Editing: "The Father," Yorgos Lamprinos "Nomadland," Chloé Zhao "Promising Young Woman," Frédéric Thoraval "Sound of Metal," Mikkel E.G. Nielsen "The Trial of the Chicago 7," Alan Baumgarten Best Visual Effects: "Love and Monsters," Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt and Brian Cox "The Midnight Sky," Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon and David Watkins "Mulan," Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury and Steve Ingram "The One and Only Ivan," Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones and Santiago Colomo Martinez "Tenet," Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher Best Sound: "Greyhound," Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman "Mank," Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance and Drew Kunin "News of the World," Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller and John Pritchett "Soul," Ren Klyce, Coya Elliott and David Parker "Sound of Metal," Nicholas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Coutollenc, Carlos Cortes and Philip Bladh

Continued from the previous section: Best Animated Feature: "Onward," Kori Rae & Dan Scanlon "Over the Moon," Peilin Chou, Glen Keane & Gennie Rim "A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon," Will Becher, Paul Kewley & Richard Phelan "Soul," Pete Docter & Dana Murray "Wolfwalkers," Tomm Moore, Stéphan Roelants, Ross Stewart & Paul Young Best International Film: "Another Round" (Denmark) "Better Days" (Hong Kong) "Collective" (Romania) "The Man Who Sold His Skin" (Tunisia) "Quo Vadis, Aida?" (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Best Documentary Feature: "Collective," Alexander Nanau and Bianca Oana "Crip Camp," Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht and Sara Bolder "The Mole Agent," Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibáñez "My Octopus Teacher," Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster "Time," Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino and Kellen Quinn Best Documentary Short Subject: "Colette," Anthony Giacchino, Alice Doyard "A Concerto Is a Conversation," Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers "Do Not Split," Anders Hammer, Charlotte Cook "Hunger Ward," Skye Fitzgerald, Michael Scheuerman "A Love Song for Latasha," Sophia Nahali Allison, Janice Duncan Best Live Action Short Film: "Feeling Through," Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski "The Letter Room," Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan "The Present," Farah Nabulsi and Ossama Bawardi "Two Distant Strangers," Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe "White Eye," Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman Best Animated Short Film: "Burrow," Michael Capbarat & Madeline Sharafian "Genius Loci," Adrien Mérigeau & Amaury Ovise "If Anything Happens, I Love You," Michael Govier & Will McCormack "Opera," Erick Oh "Yes-People," Arnar Gunnarsson & Gísli Darri Halldórsson Best Original Song: "Fight for You" from "Judas and the Black Messiah," D'Mile & H.E.R. (music); H.E.R. & Tiara Thomas (lyrics) "Hear My Voice" from "The Trial of the Chicago 7," Daniel Pemberton (music); Celeste & Pemberton (lyrics) "Húsavík" from "Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga," Rickard Göransson, Fat Max Gsus (Max Grahn) & Savan Kotecha (music & lyrics) "Io sì (Seen)" from "The Life Ahead," Diane Warren (music); Laura Pausini & Warren (lyrics) "Speak Now" from "One Night in Miami..." Sam Ashworth & Leslie Odom Jr. (music & lyrics) Best Original Score: "Da 5 Bloods," Terence Blanchard "Mank," Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross "Minari," Emile Mosseri "News of the World," James Newton Howard "Soul," Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Continued in the next section:

Here are the nominations for the 93rd annual Academy Awards, which will be televised by ABC tonight: Best Picture: "The Father," David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi, and Philippe Carcassonne (producers) "Judas and the Black Messiah," Shaka King, Charles D. King, and Ryan Coogler (producers) "Mank," Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth, and Douglas Urbanski (producers) "Minari," Christina Oh (producer) "Nomadland," Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, and Chloé Zhao (producers) "Promising Young Woman," Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell, and Josey McNamara (producers) "Sound of Metal," Bert Hamelinick and Sacha Ben Harroche (producers) "The Trial of the Chicago 7," Marc Platt and Stuart Besser (producers) Best Director: Thomas Vinterberg, "Another Round" David Fincher, "Mank" Lee Isaac Chung, "Minari" Chloé Zhao, "Nomadland" Emerald Fennell, "Promising Young Woman" Best Actor: Riz Ahmed, "Sound of Metal" Chadwick Boseman, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" Sir Anthony Hopkins, "The Father" Gary Oldman, "Mank" Steven Yeun, "Minari" Best Actress: Viola Davis, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" Andra Day, "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" Vanessa Kirby, "Pieces of a Woman" Frances McDormand, "Nomadland" Carey Mulligan, "Promising Young Woman" Best Supporting Actor: Sasha Baron Cohen, "The Trial of the Chicago 7" Daniel Kaluuya, "Judas and the Black Messiah" Leslie Odom, Jr., "One Night in Miami..." Paul Raci, "Sound of Metal" Lakeith Stanfield, "Judas and the Black Messiah" Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bakalova, "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" Glenn Close, "Hillbilly Elegy" Olivia Colman, "The Father" Amanda Seyfried, "Mank" Youn Yuh-jung, "Minari" Best Original Screenplay "Judas and the Black Messiah," Screenplay: Will Berson & Shaka King; Story: Berson, King, Keith Lucas & Kenny Lucas "Minari," Lee Isaac Chung "Promising Young Woman." Emerald Fennell "Sound of Metal," Screenplay: Abraham & Darius Marder; Story: Derek Cianfrance & D. Marder "The Trial of the Chicago 7," Aaron Sorkin Best Adapted Screenplay "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm," Screenplay: Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Jena Friedman, Anthony Hines, Lee Kern, Dan Mazer, Erica Rivinoja & Dan Swimer; Story: Baron Cohen, Hines, Nina Pedrad & Swimer "The Father," Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller "Nomadland," Chloé Zhao "One Night in Miami..." Kemp Powers "The White Tiger," Ramin Bahrani Continued in the next section:

Bob Strauss @bscritic Yes, the action in #FalconAndTheWinterSoldierFinale is awesome. Still, the winner of this week's superhero TV battle is #InvincibleOnPrime Ep. 7, "We Need to Talk." Probably the best fight sequence ever seen in any comic book show, animated or live-action. 12:58 PM · Apr 23, 2021·Twitter Web App

Bob Strauss @bscritic #DisneyPlus' #NatGeo series #SecretsOfTheWhales has amazing footage and delivers lots of interesting information. That's in spite of narrator #SigourneyWeaver and other commentators constantly insisting that the big marine mammals are "just like us." 2:56 PM · Apr 22, 2021·Twitter Web App

Bob Strauss @bscritic #BoysfromCountyHell on @Shudder takes time getting to its real bloody, and eventually funny, Celtic vampire action. Once it's rolling, though, this is the distinctively Irish #horror movie many of us have been waiting for. 3:15 PM · Apr 22, 2021·Twitter Web App

Variety @Variety #MortalKombat , a martial arts-inspired adaptation of the popular video game, took in a robust $22.5 million from 3,073 domestic venues https://bit.ly/3etbtEt 4:00 PM · Apr 25, 2021·TweetDeck

Forbes @Forbes Oscar 2021 predictions: https://trib.al/UTOSlr2 2:00 PM · Apr 25, 2021·SocialFlow

Couldn't resist throwing in Mo Rocca's interview with Russ Tamblyn, who talks about his onscreen athleticism and other things.

An amazing CBS Sunday Morning piece on the actor Jon Voight aired on Oscar Sunday

Variety @Variety Our final #Oscar predictions Final Oscars Predictions 2021: Who Will Win and Who Should Win? Variety's film awards editor makes the final predictions for the 2021 Academy Awards with wins for "Nomadland," "The Father" and Netflix. variety.com 1:00 AM · Apr 25, 2021·TweetDeck

The Hollywood Reporter @THR In a year unlike any other, THR's awards expert Scott Feinberg and chief film critic David Rooney hash out the likely winners and the most deserving ahead of Sunday's show Oscars: Who Will Win, Who Should Win In a year unlike any other, The Hollywood Reporter's award expert Scott Feinberg and chief film critic David Rooney hash out the likely winners and the most deserving ahead of Sunday's show. hollywoodreporter.com 9:29 AM · Apr 24, 2021·SocialFlow

Axios @axios Viewership for Sunday's 93rd Academy Awards is expected to nosedive following a turbulent year for movie studios and theaters. Oscars viewership could drop, while ad revenue may jump Viewership for live TV events, especially award shows, has dropped during COVID-19. axios.com 4:00 PM · Apr 24, 2021·TweetDeck

Man (Malcolm Atterbury) about to board bus at the crossroads: "That's funny." Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant): "What?" Man: "That plane's dusting crops where there ain't no crops." -- "North By Northwest," setting up one of the memorable scenes in movie history..

Some things to consider before the 93rd annual Academy Awards ceremony, which will air tomorrow on ABC: Don't rule out Britisher Carey Mulligan as a strong candidate for the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in "Promising Young Woman." But even if she doesn't win this time, you should check out her formidable filmography sometime. Mulligan's screen debut was as one of the Bennet sisters in "Pride & Prejudice," director Joe Wright's acclaimed 2005 version of Jane Austen's 1813 novel. Her sisters were played by Jena Malone, Talulah Riley and the future Academy Award nominees Keira Knightley (as Elizabeth Bennet) and Rosamund Pike. In 2007, Mulligan guest starred in one of the most popular episodes of the BBC sci-fi TV series "Doctor Who." In "Blink," she played Londoner Sally Sparrow who investigated the arrival of statue-like alien creatures known as "Weeping Angels." They moved when you weren't looking at them -- which made them ultra-dangerous to humans. Sally also had to figure out a way to rescue the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and his companion Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman), who were trapped in the year 1969 without the time traveling TARDIS. Mulligan and Pike were reunited in "An Education" (2009), the noteworthy coming-of-age tale about a 1960s' London teen who became dazzled by an older man (Peter Sarsgaard). Directed by theDanish filmmaker Lone Scherfig, the film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (Mulligan, as the young schoolgirl) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Nick Hornby, based on the 2009 memoir by the British journalist Lynn Barber. Pike played the girlfriend of Dominic Cooper's character. Mulligan played the daughter of the disgraced financier Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," Oliver Stone's 2010 sequel to the 1987 film "Wall Street." The 2011 drama "Drive" starred Ryan Gosling as a stunt driver turned getaway man who becomes close to his neighbor -- a young mother played by Mulligan. Directed by Denmark's Nicolas Winding Refn, the film also starred Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac and Albert Brooks. Mulligan sang in "Shame," Sir Steve McQueen's 2011 drama starring Michael Fassbender as a New Yorkercoping with sexual addiction. His personal space was invaded by his younger sister (Mulligan), who showed up at his apartment dreaming of stardom as a lounge singer. Written and directed by McQueen, the film also starred James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie, Amy Hargreaves and Hannah Ware. In 2013, Mulligan and Leonardo DiCaprio headlined the fourth screen adaptation of "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great American Novel about the Roaring Twenties. DiCaprio starred as the title character, a mysterious man of wealth who threw lavish summer parties in Long Island, N.Y. Mulligan was Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby's lost love now married to millionaire Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton). Directed by the Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann ("Moulin Rouge!" "Romeo + Juliet"), the film also starred Tobey Maguire, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke and Elizabeth Debicki. Catherine Martin, Luhrmann's wife and co-producer, received Academy Awards for Best Costume Design and Best Production Design (shared with Beverley Dunn). In 2015, Mulligan headlined a new film version of "Far from the Madding Crowd," the drama based on the 19th-century English novel by Thomas Hardy. She starred as Bathsheba Everdene, a beautiful, headstrong woman who inherited a farm and found herself with three suitors -- a failed sheep farmer (Matthias Schoenaerts), a brash military officer (Tom Sturridge) and the stodgy owner of the neighboring property (Michael Sheen). The film was directed by Denmark's Thomas Vinterberg, a 2020 Best Director Oscar nominee for "Another Round." Suzanne Collins, author of "The Hunger Games" and its sequels, named her key character Katniss Everdeen as a tribute to the heroine of Hardy's story. The 2015 historical drama "Suffragette" starred Mulligan as the fictional Maud Watts, a laundry worker who became radicalized by the movement to attain voting rights for British women. Directed by Sarah Gavron, the film also starred Meryl Streep and Helena Bonham Carter. The 2017 period drama "Mudbound" starred Mary J. Blige and Mulligan as family matriarchs who formed a bond in post-World War II Mississippi. Blige received Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song (she co-wrote "Mighty River"). Mulligan's Oscar-nominated performance as the vengeance-minded Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas in "Promising Young Woman" has earned her a share of critics' awards -- including Best Actress honors from the Critics Choice Movie Awards, the National Board of Review and the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

Jim Steinman, the prolific Grammy Award-winning songwriter, composer and producer known for his collaborations with Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler and Céline Dion, has died at the age of 73. He succumbed to kidney failure at a hospital in Danbury, Connecticut on Monday, his brother said. Steinman, who had been sidetracked by strokes in recent years, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012. In the 1970s, the Hewlett, N.Y.-born Steinman began a fruitful collaboration with the power singing Meat Loaf (born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas). The 1977 album "Bat Out of Hell" was not an immediate hit, but it went on to sell more than $50 million copies worldwide and spawned two sequel LPs. "...[Y]ou can’t just have a great voice and sing a Jim Steinman song," Meat Loaf told a Rolling Stone writer. "You have to become a Jim Steinman song. You have to be the song. You don’t sing the song. You are the song." The song "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" from "Bat Out of Hell" featured a memorable play-by-play commentary by Phil Rizzuto, the New York Yankees great turned baseball announcer. Another track from "Bat Out of Hell" was the Steinman song "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad," which peaked at No. 11 in 1977 on the Billboard pop chart. Steinman provided the music score for director Rob Cohen's 1980 campus drama "A Small Circle of Friends," which starred Brad Davis, Karen Allen, Jameson Parker and Shelley Long. The soundtrack featured early versions of "Total Eclipse of the Heart." Steinman's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was a huge success in 1983 for the Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. In the United States, it was Billboard magazine's No. 6 song of the year. Written by Steinman, "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" was a hit for the the Australian duo Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock -- a.k.a. Air Supply. The song was released in 1983 and spent three weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard pop chart. In 1984, Tyler performed the Steinman song "Holding Out for a Hero," which was used in the soundtrack of the hit film "Footloose." The pictured starred Kevin Bacon as a big city teen adjusting to his new home -- a small town that bans dancing. The film also starred John Lithgow, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, Chris Penn and Sarah Jessica Parker. Steinman wrote "Nowhere Fast" and "Tonight Is What It Means to be Young" for Walter Hill's 1984 film "Streets of Fire," billed as "A Rock and Roll Fable." The picture starred Diane Lane as the kidnapped pop singer Ellen Aim and Michael Paré as Tom Cody, the ex-military man hired to rescue her from the clutches of Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe) -- the leader of a motorcycle gang. As it happened, Ellen also was Cody's ex-girlfriend. Also starring in the film: Deborah Van Valkenbugh, Amy Madigan, Rick Moranis, Bill Paxton and E.G. Daily. In 1993, the first single from Meat Loaf's LP "Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell" was Steinman's "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)." The tune earned Meat Loaf the 1993-1994 Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo. Steinman was nominated for Song of the Year, the songwriting award. The music video was directed by Michael Bay. Céline Dion's 1996 cover of Steinman's song "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" was one of the hits from her Grammy Award-winning album "Falling into You." The single reached No. 2 on Billboard's U.S. pop chart. The LP was named Album of the Year, and Steinman received his only Grammy for his contributions to the release. Bonnie Tyler @BonnieTOfficial I am absolutely devastated to learn of the passing of my long term friend and musical mentor Jim Steinman. 4:15 PM · Apr 20, 2021·Twitter Web App Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff RIP to the great Jim Steinman, who shared this wisdom with me a couple years ago. 2:20 PM · Apr 20, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

The Week @TheWeek Best Picture is clearly "Nomadland"'s to lose, writes @brendanmorrow. But could the heavy favorite be awarded an upset? Could Nomadland possibly lose Best Picture at the Oscars? There are three films with an outside chance of upsetting the heavy favorite theweek.com 9:40 AM · Apr 23, 2021·Sprout Social

"Music," the directorial debut of Australia's Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sia, received four Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Actress (Kate Hudson) and Worst Supporting Actress (Maddie Ziegler). The film -- about a young woman who becomes the guardian of her autistic half sister -- was a surprise recipient of 2021 Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical (Hudson). The Razzies traditionally are announced a day before the annual Academy Awards ceremony. Former New York City Governor Rudy Giuliani earned two awards for his controversial appearance opposite Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova in the comedy "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm." Giuliani, who appeared as himself in the film, was named Worst Supporting Actor and earned one-half of the Worst Combo Award (shared with his pants zipper). Worst Actor honors went to Mike Lindell, the My Pillow creator and Trump loyalist whose "Absolute Proof" documentary attempted to disprove the results of the 2020 presidential election. Here is the list of this year's Razzie Award winners: Worst Picture Absolute Proof 365 Days Dolittle Fantasy Island Music Worst Actor Mike Lindell (the My Pillow guy) - Absolute Proof Robert Downey, Jr. - Dolittle Michele Morrone - 365 Days Adam Sandler - Hubie Halloween David Spade - The Wrong Missy Worst Actress Kate Hudson – Music Anne Hathaway - The Last Thing He Wanted AND Roald Dahl's The Witches Katie Holmes - Brahms: The Boy II AND The Secret: Dare to Dream Lauren Lapkus - The Wrong Missy Anna-Maria Sieklucka - 365 Days Worst Supporting Actress Maddie Ziegler - Music Glenn Close - Hillbilly Elegy Lucy Hale - Fantasy Island Maggie Q - Fantasy Island Kristen Wiig - Wonder Woman 1984 Worst Supporting Actor Rudy Giuliani (as "Himself") - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Chevy Chase - The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee Shia LaBeouf - The Tax Collector Arnold Schwarzenegger - Iron Mask Bruce Willis - Breach, Hard Kill AND Survive the Night Worst Screen Combo Rudy Giuliani & His Pants Zipper (Yes, That Really IS Rudy Giuliani!) - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Robert Downey Jr. & His Utterly Unconvincing "Welsh" Accent – Dolittle Harrison Ford & That Totally Fake-Looking CGI “Dog” – Call of the Wild Lauren Lapkus & David Spade - The Wrong Missy Adam Sandler & His Grating Simpleton Voice - Hubie Halloween Worst Director Sia – Music Charles Band - All 3 Barbie & Kendra movies Barbara Bialowas & Tomasz Mandes - 365 Days Stephen Gaghan – Dolittle Ron Howard - Hillbilly Elegy Worst Screenplay 365 Days All 3 Barbie & Kendra Movies Dolittle Fantasy Island Hillbilly Elegy Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel Dolittle (Remake) 365 Days (Polish Remake/Rip-Off of Fifty Shades of Grey) Fantasy Island (Remake/"Re-Imagining") Hubie Halloween (Remake/Rip-Off of Ernest Scared Stupid) Wonder Woman 1984 (Sequel)

Some things to consider before the 93rd annual Academy Awards ceremony, which will air Sunday on ABC: The actor-singer Leslie Odom, Jr. is halfway to EGOT status, thanks to his performances as Aaron Burr in the original Broadway production of "Hamilton" (he won a Tony and a Grammy for his efforts). Now Odom has two chances to win an Academy Award on Sunday. He is nominated as Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the singer Sam Cooke (1931-1964) in the drama "One Night in Miami..." He also is a Best Original Song nominee (with co-writer Sam Ashworth) for "Speak Now" from "One Night in Miami..." Odom is the first male to be nominated in acting and songwriting categories in the same year.

With one major awards show to go, the drama "Nomadland" won four prizes at the 36th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards: Best Feature, Best Director (Chloé Zhao), Best Film Editing (Zhao) and Best Cinematography (Joshua James Richards). Here are the winners from the Film Independent Spirit Awards: Best Feature "Nomadland" (Searchlight Pictures) Best Director Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) Best First Feature “Sound of Metal” (Amazon Studios) Best Female Lead Carey Mulligan (“Promising Young Woman”) Best Male Lead Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”) Best Supporting Female Yuh-Jung Youn (“Minari”) Best Supporting Male Paul Raci (“Sound of Metal”) Best Screenplay “Promising Young Woman” – Emerald Fennell Best First Screenplay Andy Siara (“Palm Springs”) Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards (“Nomadland”) Best Editing Chloé Zhao “Nomadland” John Cassavetes Award “Residue” Best Documentary “Crip Camp” Best International Film “Quo Vadis, Aida?” Robert Altman Award “One Night in Miami” – Kimberly Hardin (casting director), Regina King (director) and cast members Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge and Leslie Odom Jr. Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series “Immigration Nation” Best Scripted Series “I May Destroy You” Best Female Performance in a Scripted Series”Shira Haas, “Unorthodox” Shira Haas, “Unorthodox” Best Male Performance in a Scripted Series Amit Rahav, “Unorthodox” Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series “I May Destroy You” Ensemble Cast: Michaela Coel, Paapa Essiedu, Weruche Opia Stephen Wight

michael musto @mikeymusto Here are my Oscar predictions, which are as definitive as Oscar predictions can get. Probably. Nomadland! Judas! Minari! Who’s Getting The Oscar and Why It Still Matters | The Village Voice Save yourself from Oscar night tedium with Musto’s sure-fire predictions villagevoice.com 11:16 AM · Apr 21, 2021·Twitter Web App