On the Awards Train, Momentum Is Key to Winning Oscars

In the Oscar race, momentum is everything. “One Battle After Another” has it. On Sunday night, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest took home three top prizes (read the full Critics Choice winners list here) including Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay, but didn’t sweep the table: Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”) lost to Timothée Chalamet star of…

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10 Inflection Points for 2026

In the seven months since I launched In Development, the same conversation kept showing up. Different people, roles, and career stages; powerful veterans and fresh rookies; same throughline.I don’t know what’s going on, but this is weird, right? It’s not just me, is it? No. It really is that weird. And no, it’s not just…

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‘One Battle After Another’ Editor

“One Battle After Another” is a film littered with great moments, from the captivating prologue that Teyana Taylor dominates to the poignant “American Girl” needle drop that closes the epic out. But there’s one sequence the film that critics and audiences have singled out as a standout: the stomach-churning, incredibly suspenseful road chase along a…

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French Cinema Icon Was 91

Brigitte Bardot, the French actress who rivaled Marilyn Monroe as a cinematic goddess for more than a decade, died on Sunday, December 28 at the age of 91. The actress, who became one of the definitive sex symbols of the 1950s with “And God Created Woman” (1956) and who later worked with several Nouvelle Vague…

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