Describing the decision to remove the performances of nominated songs as "just another example of the devaluation of music, and its creators," SCL president Ashley Irwin asks "for even abbreviated ...
The quintessential Oscar-bait movie: a performer-driven biopic ... It’s the kind of grown-up cinematic work you think of being at the Academy Awards, full of deep ruminations on spirituality ...
The Oscars telecast is a three-hour infomercial for the movie business. But Hollywood is hardly in a celebratory mood.