2024 was a big year for dance at the Oscars, including a history-making performance, a heart-pumping ensemble number, and a surprise addition to the “In Memoriam” segment. We’re still rooting for a “Best Choreography” category as dance continues to be an integral part to each year’s nominated films. But until then, we still enjoy seeing […]

There may not be an Academy Award for choreography, but there’s still outstanding dancing in the movies nominated for Oscars this year.

The 2023 Academy Awards ceremony was a particularly memorable one—and not just because the iconic “red carpet” was, for the first time in decades, not red.

Dance will be thrillingly represented at the 2023 Oscars ceremony in a tribute to “Naatu Naatu,” the smash hit nominated for best original song from the blockbuster Telugu-language film RRR.

Nope, there’s still no Oscar for Best Choreography. So Dance Magazine‘s sister publication created the Dance Spirit award for Best Movie Choreography of 2019. Though we’re big fans of all seven of the nominated choreographers, and think each one deserves to be acknowledged for their contributions to some of our favorite films this year, based […]

Ballroom teachers Maksym Kapitanchuk and Elena Krifuks Kapitanchuk never anticipated that their classes would provide inspiration for a documentary, let alone an Oscar-nominated one. But this Sunday—when the Academy Awards air at 5 pm Eastern on ABC—they’ll be sitting in the audience as Walk Run Cha-Cha competes for the title of Best Documentary Short Subject. […]

It’s been a while since we checked in on Lin-Manuel Miranda, who at this point really needs no introduction. Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the Broadway debut of In the Heights, Miranda’s first big hit that laid the groundwork for him to revolutionize the Great White Way with Hamilton. Sounds about right. Happy Heights […]

The 2018 Oscar noms are here. Which is fun and all; we’ll never not get excited about a night of glitz and glamor and, when we’re lucky, pretty great dancing. But we’d be a heck of a lot more excited if the Academy Awards included a Best Choreography category. And really—why don’t they? Last year, […]