Month: February 2019

It didn’t take long for Black Panther to make an impact at the Academy Awards, snagging two Oscars early in the evening–one for Best Costume Design and the other for Best Production Design–and not stopping there. In all, the Marvel Cinematic Universe film has been nominated for 7 Oscars.

Upon accepting her award for Best Costume Design, Ruth Carter was quick to give thanks to Spike Lee for giving her her start in 1988’s School Daze, which he directed. She also gave thanks to Marvel for creating Black Panther in the first place, saying, “Marvel may have created the first black superhero, but through costume design, we turned him into an African king.”

“Thank you to the Academy, thank you for honoring African royalty and the empowered way women can look and lead on-screen,” she continued. This was Carter’s first Oscar and also sees her making history as the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. “This has been a long time coming,” she joked.

As for the Best Production Design awards, Hannah Beachler did the majority of the speaking for herself and Jay Hart. “I stand here with agency and self-worth because of Ryan Coogler,” she said of Black Panther’s director. As with Carter, Beachler also gave thanks to Marvel, who she said “lifted us up” every day during the process of making the film.

As the show continued, Black Panther stayed in the forefront, picking up its final award of the night for Best Original Score. Accepting the award, composer Ludwig Göransson remembered, “Thank you, Ryan Coogler. Ryan, working with you has been an incredible honor. I remember 12 years ago we were in our dorm at USC, writing the score to your first short film.”

Make sure to check out our list of all of the 2019 Academy Award winners.

With Game of Thrones Season 8’s April 14 release date quickly approaching, HBO has released some new footage just in time for the 2019 Oscars. The footage came in a larger video full of clips from various of the premium cable network’s upcoming shows, including Big Little Lies Season 2, Barry Season 2, Watchmen, and more.

The video opens with a shot of ravens flying around the top of the Wall, which isn’t anything to write home about. But if you skip ahead to around 48 seconds in, you’ll see what’s really exciting in the new footage: some recent arrivals at Winterfell.

Check out the video above.

As you can see, Dany’s lethal Unsullied army of eunuchs will apparently arrive at Winterfell some time during the upcoming Season 8–and with them, Dany’s largest dragon, Drogon. It makes perfect sense that they’d be marching North, given what happened in the Game of Thrones Season 7 finale. I’d bet this will be in the first episode, given what little HBO usually reveals about new Game of Thrones seasons before they air.

There’s not much else to glean from this, although it’s worth watching the full video for a look at some of HBO’s other upcoming shows. Keep checking GameSpot for all the Game of Thrones Season 8 coverage you need leading up to the April 14 release.

The 91st Academy Awards were held this evening, and Green Book took home the overall award for Best Picture. The movie stars House of Cards actor Mahershala Ali as jazz pianist Don Shirley and Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen as his driver and bodyguard Tony Vallelonga in the Deep South. The film was directed by Peter Farrelly, who is one of the Farrelly brothers behind Dumb & Dumber, Shallow Hal, Me, Myself, And Irene, and There’s Something About Mary.

Ali also won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Green Book, while Farrelly, Brian Currie, and Nick Vallelonga (the son of Tony Vallelonga) won for best Original Screenplay.

Also during the show, Rami Malek won Best Actor in a Leading Role for playing Queen singer Freddie Mercury in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, while Olivia Colman took home the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Favourite. Alfonso Cuaron took home the Best Director award for Roma, while Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won Best Animated Picture.

Another highlight of the night was the performance of the song “Shallow” by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper from A Star Is Born. The song won Best Original Song, and Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt, and Benjamin Rice shared the award.

Marvel’s Black Panther was also a big winner at the 91st Academy Awards. It was nominated for seven awards, and won three, making it the first Marvel movie to earn an Oscar. Its wins included Costume Design, Original Score, and Production Design.

Below you can see a list of the Oscars categories and nominees. The winners are in bold. And for lots, lots more on the 91st Academy Awards, head to GameSpot sister site ET.

91st Academy Awards Categories And Winners

Best Picture

• Black Panther
• BlacKkKlansman
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Favourite
• Green Book [WINNER]
• Roma
• A Star Is Born
• Vice

Best Actor

• Christian Bale, Vice
• Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
• Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
• Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody [WINNER]
• Viggo Mortensen, Green Book

Best Actress

• Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
• Glenn Close, The Wife
• Olivia Colman, The Favourite [WINNER]
• Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
• Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Supporting Actor

• Mahershala Ali, Green Book [WINNER]
• Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
• Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born
• Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Sam Rockwell, Vice

Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams, Vice
• Marina de Tavira, Roma
• Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk [WINNER]
• Emma Stone, The Favourite
• Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

Director

• Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
• Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War
• Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
• Alfonso Cuarón, Roma [WINNER]
• Adam McKay, Vice

Animated Feature

• Incredibles 2, Brad Bird
• Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson
• Mirai, Mamoru Hosoda
• Ralph Breaks the Internet, Rich Moore, Phil Johnston
• Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse, Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman [WINNER]

Animated Short

• Animal Behaviour, Alison Snowden, David Fine
• Bao, Domee Shi [WINNER]
• Late Afternoon, Louise Bagnall
• One Small Step, Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas
• Weekends, Trevor Jimenez

Adapted Screenplay

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Joel Coen , Ethan Coen
• BlacKkKlansman, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee [WINNER]
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
• If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins
• A Star Is Born, Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters

Original Screenplay

• The Favourite, Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
• First Reformed, Paul Schrader
• Green Book, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly [WINNER]
• Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
• Vice, Adam McKay

Cinematography

• Cold War, Lukasz Zal
• The Favourite, Robbie Ryan
• Never Look Away, Caleb Deschanel
• Roma, Alfonso Cuarón [WINNER]
• A Star Is Born, Matthew Libatique

Best Documentary Feature

• Free Solo, Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi [WINNER]
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross
• Minding the Gap, Bing Liu
• Of Fathers and Sons, Talal Derki
• RBG, Betsy West, Julie Cohen

Best Documentary Short Subject

• Black Sheep, Ed Perkins
• End Game, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
• Lifeboat, Skye Fitzgerald
• A Night at the Garden, Marshall Curry
• Period. End of Sentence., Rayka Zehtabchi [WINNER]

Best Live Action Short Film

• Detainment, Vincent Lambe
• Fauve, Jeremy Comte
• Marguerite, Marianne Farley
• Mother, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
• Skin, Guy Nattiv

Best Foreign Language Film

• Capernaum (Lebanon)
• Cold War (Poland)
• Never Look Away (Germany)
• Roma (Mexico) [WINNER]
• Shoplifters (Japan)

Film Editing

• BlacKkKlansman, Barry Alexander Brown
• Bohemian Rhapsody, John Ottman [WINNER]
• Green Book, Patrick J. Don Vito
• The Favourite, Yorgos Mavropsaridis
• Vice, Hank Corwin

Sound Editing

• Black Panther, Benjamin A. Burtt, Steve Boeddeker
• Bohemian Rhapsody, John Warhurst [WINNER]
• First Man, Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou Morgan
• A Quiet Place, Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl
• Roma, Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay

Sound Mixing

• Black Panther
• Bohemian Rhapsody [WINNER]
• First Man
• Roma
• A Star Is Born

Production Design

• Black Panther, Hannah Beachler [WINNER]
• First Man, Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas
• The Favourite, Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton
• Mary Poppins Returns, John Myhre, Gordon Sim
• Roma, Eugenio Caballero, Bárbara Enrı́quez

Original Score

• BlacKkKlansman, Terence Blanchard
• Black Panther, Ludwig Goransson [WINNER]
• If Beale Street Could Talk, Nicholas Britell
• Isle of Dogs, Alexandre Desplat
• Mary Poppins Returns, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman

Original Song

• All The Stars from Black Panther by Kendrick Lamar, SZA
• I’ll Fight from RBG by Diane Warren, Jennifer Hudson
• The Place Where Lost Things Go from Mary Poppins Returns by Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
• Shallow from A Star Is Born by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt and Benjamin Rice [WINNER]
• When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch

Makeup and Hair

• Border
• Mary Queen of Scots
• Vice [WINNER]

Costume Design

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Mary Zophres
• Black Panther, Ruth E. Carter [WINNER]
• The Favourite, Sandy Powell
• Mary Poppins Returns, Sandy Powell
• Mary Queen of Scots, Alexandra Byrne

Visual Effects

• Avengers Infinity War
• Christopher Robin
• First Man [WINNER]
• Ready Player One
• Solo A Star Wars Story

The Halo TV show has been in the works for a very long time, and it suffered a setback recently when director Rupert Wyatt (Planet of the Apes) dropped out due to scheduling issues. Now, his replacement has been found, and it’s another big name in the TV and movie business.

Otto Bathurst, who directed Black Mirror’s horrifying first episode, “The National Anthem,” has been tapped to direct and executively produce the new Halo TV show. After Black Mirror, Bathurst went on to work on Peaky Blinders and later 2018’s Robin Hood movie.

The Halo TV show will air on Showtime, whose parent company, CBS, also owns GameSpot. The last we heard from network president of programming Gary Levine was that the Halo show is “evolving beautifully with rich characters, compelling stories, and powerful scripts.”

Showtime said previously that Halo is the network’s “most ambitious series ever,” and that’s notable given Showtime is behind some massive productions such as Homeland, Shameless, Billions, and more recently the Jim Carrey show Kidding.

The Halo TV show will feature Master Chief in some capacity, but it remains to be seen if he is the lead, or what other characters might join him. Kyle Killen (Awake) will serve as writer, showrunner, and executive producer.

Showtime has ordered 10 hour-long episodes of Halo for its first season. The Halo show was originally announced back in 2013 with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television set to produce, which it still is.

The next Halo video game, meanwhile, is Halo Infinite. The game is in development for Xbox One and PC. According to a recent report, it will be a launch title for a new Xbox console coming out in 2020.