Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2024

Hollywood has been able to put on a show of happiness and something akin to normalcy as it struggles to shake off the effects of the dual strikes and one of the most tumultuous years in industry history.

Yet Sunday's Academy Awards didn't sidestep the labor strife that left its...

Friday, Mar. 8, 2024

Writer-director Matteo Garrone had some trepidation about making a film, which eventually became Io Capitano (Italian for I Captain), centering on a pair of impoverished African teens seeking a better life by migrating to Europe. After all, with Italian middle-class roots,...

Monday, Mar. 4, 2024

Through one of the most tumultuous periods in Oscar history, through flub and slap, Jimmy Kimmel has emerged as the steadying hand and abiding face of the Academy Awards.

When Kimmel hosts the 96th Oscars on Sunday, he'll be emceeing the telecast for the fourth time. Only three people —...

Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024

Sean Wang's two grandmothers live together. They read the newspaper together. They dance together. They sleep in the same bed and complain about each other's farts. The older of the two, Yi Yan Fuei, is 96. The younger, Chang Li Hua, is 86. They're in-laws but they act more like sisters.

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Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024

A look at notable facts, figures and curiosities from Tuesday's nominations for the 96th Academy Awards, which saw "Oppenheimer" lead with 13 Oscar nominations, with "Poor Things" and "Killers of the Flower Moon" also running up big numbers.

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Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled shortlists in 10 categories for the 96th Academy Awards®: Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live...

Wednesday, Jun. 28, 2023

Taylor Swift, best supporting actor Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, “Elvis” star Austin Butler, “Nope’s” Keke Palmer and The Weeknd have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The organization behind the Oscars said Wednesday that it extended invitations to 398...

Monday, Mar. 13, 2023

Edward Dion Fariñas watches the Academy Awards every year but the Filipino American didn't expect to have such a visceral reaction when hearing Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh's awards announced.

"I had a squeal come out that I was not expecting," said Fariñas, who was watching Sunday from...

Monday, Mar. 6, 2023

Less than three months after Argentina won its third soccer World Cup trophy in Qatar, there is growing excitement about the possibility that the country could take home another major prize – an Academy Award.

A win at Sunday's ceremony for "Argentina, 1985," would be the country's third...

Friday, Mar. 3, 2023

It's not always emphasized, given that she's one of the most groundbreaking still photographers of the past 50 years. But Nan Goldin is a movie buff. Big time.

Seeing Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow-Up" as a 15-year-old is what made Goldin want to be a photographer in the first place. She...

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