Oscars

Michael B. Jordan and Jessie Buckley won best actor and best actress. Paul Thomas Anderson received best director. Cassandra Kulukundis won the Academy's first ever casting award.

You might know composer Max Richter for his reimagined Four Seasons. Now he’s an Academy Award nominee. Richter’s score for Hamnet is up for Best Original Score at this Sunday’s Oscars.This week on Reel Music, you can hear the music from Hamnet, along with other nominated scores including Sinners, Frankenstein, and Bugonia.Reel Music, Saturday night at 9 and Sunday night at 6 on WSHU.

As Hollywood celebrates another awards season filled with book adaptations, one English professor finds herself rethinking a familiar claim: that the book is always better. After seeing the film version of Hamnet, she discovered that sometimes a performance on screen can deepen the experience of the story on the page.

The 98th Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O'Brien, will air Sunday night. Ten films, including "Sinners," "One Battle After Another," and "Hamnet" are up for best picture.

Starting in 2029, the Oscars will be shown exclusively on YouTube. This announcement follows years of scandals and dwindling audiences for Hollywood's premiere awards show. NPR's A Martinez talks to Bill Kramer, the CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

This year's Oscar-nominated documentaries include a tale of terminal cancer, dispatches from behind bars in Alabama, and stories from Iran and Russia.

Sinners landed a record number of nods, while Avatar: Fire and Ash and Wicked: For Good fell short of their franchise predecessors.

Oscar nominations were announced Thursday morning in Hollywood.

Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards were announced early Thursday, including a new category debuting this year.

The Academy awards will be broadcast on Youtube beginning in 2029. It's a big change for Hollywood's biggest awards show, which draws millions of international viewers.