Oscar Nominations Are In, Here Are The Shocker Snubs Everyone Is Talking About

Bella Breakdown This year’s Oscar nominations are in and – truth be told, there are a lot of not-so-pleasant surprises. Let’s get the biggest sigh out first: no female directors are on the ballot for the Best Director category. Not one. Those left out are “Little Women” director Greta Gerwig (previously nominated in this category for 2018’s “Lady Bird”), Céline Sciamma for “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” Lulu Wang, who directed the highly critically-acclaimed “The Farewell,” Lorene Scafaria for “Hustlers,” Marielle Heller for “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” and Joanna Hogg for the beautifully intricate, “The Souvenir,”...

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The Oscar Nominations Are In With Surprises And Snubs

In case you haven’t seen Twitter yet, the Oscar nominations are dominating what’s trending on social media. We celebrate the surprises and snubs for the 2020 Oscar nominations. “Joker” It’s not much of a surprise that “Joker” is nominated but proved it’s a top contender with one of the highest numbers of nominations, going up for 11 awards. It would be surprising if “Joker” doesn’t walk away with an Oscar and they have a chance at the big one for Best Picture. “Joker” is the prequel story of the infamous Batman villain from the DC Comic universe and how...

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Everything You Need To Know About The Golden Globe Nominations

Bella Breakdown With more and more box office hits and record-breaking numbers for movies through streaming services, it was a bit of a toss-up which movies and TV shows would receive the coveted Golden Globe nominations. While there were definitely some givens — Joaquin Phoenix’s role in “Joker” and Quentin Tarantino’s direction of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” – the competition for receiving a nomination was fiercer than ever. Especially for female directors, who were again entirely left out of the Best Directing category and were slighted in many others as well. Nevertheless, the nominations mark the unofficial...

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These Are The 2019 Oscar Nominees

Bella Breakdown If you’ve been following award show season thus far, you probably have an idea of who the heavy hitters are. This year’s list of nominees is in line with that of the Golden Globes, Critic’s Choice Awards and Screen Actor’s Guild Awards, but there are a few little surprises sprinkled throughout. Bohemian Rhapsody was a big winner at the Golden Globes, while Christian Bale and Glenn Close took home awards for best actor and actress. Many fans of A Star is Born were miffed that it hasn’t received much critical acclaim just yet, but perhaps that will...

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The 2019 Grammy Nominations – Classical Music

Continued From: The 2019 Grammy Nominations – Historical And Production Since there are so many categories and fields for the upcoming 2019 Grammy nominations, we give you the top nominees for the Classical Music field: Field 28 – Classical Category 75 – Best Orchestral Performance (Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.) • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3; Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) • Nielsen: Symphony No. 3 & Symphony No. 4 Thomas Dausgaard, conductor (Seattle Symphony) • Ruggles, Stucky & Harbison: Orchestral Works David Alan Miller, conductor (National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic) •...

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