
Celebrity Birthdays: How Fan Culture Turned Simple Dates Into Full Events
A birthday hashtag is now a campaign, a charity drive, and a business line — and the machinery behind it explains a lot about modern fame.

A birthday hashtag is now a campaign, a charity drive, and a business line — and the machinery behind it explains a lot about modern fame.

One network feed from late October holds a promotion, an obituary, a Broadway warm-up and a documentary pitch — the whole genre in miniature.

The fanfare, the walk-up sting and the merciless play-off cue are all doing the same job: keeping a live broadcast on schedule.

Before any campaign or ballot, a film has to clear a checklist of eligibility rules — and each one has quietly reshaped the race.

The industry's biggest actors' group votes early, and its picks have a habit of showing up again on Oscar night.

The PGA votes the way the Academy does, and when its top two finish dead even, the season's Best Picture race is officially a split field.

The Oscar, the Emmy, the SAG Award and the rest are decided by very different voting bodies, and the differences shape which wins move careers.

The Oscar-nominated producer keeps the top job at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after a vote of the Board of Governors.

Networks and streamers are treating AR lenses and Sponsored Snaps as serious awards-season tools, and the platform's user numbers explain why.