Even casual students of the Oscars probably develop pet distastes among the Academy’s many awards categories. There’s the tendency in the Best Cinematography category to award the prettiest shots of ...

It's become an award that exists solely to honor people's desire to win it. There's got to be a better way.

The 26th Latin Grammy Awards has added a new field and two categories, the Latin Recording Academy announced Tuesday. Visual Media will now be recognized as its own field, intended to reward original ...

It’s the most maligned category of all the Oscars and deservedly so. I’d guess 90 per cent of most movies don’t even have songs and rare indeed is the movie in which a song is central to it. You might ...

Does anyone know the Academy’s reason as to why other fields have a category for Song, and Pop doesn’t? In particular, the Country field has Country Album, Country Solo, Country Duo/Group (pop has all ...

This essay was originally published in the NPR Music newsletter; subscribe here. Are you ready to hate-watch the Academy Awards? In our time of memeable, marketable outrage, dunking on Hollywood's ...

Look, if the Academy Awards hate the best song category so much, why don't they just dump it completely? First, only two songs instead of five were nominated for the best original song Academy Award.

We caught up with Wide Open Country’s 2024 Song Contest First and Second Place category winners to learn about the inspiration behind their songs. A Nashville-based singer-songwriter with an honest, ...