Academy Invites Eddie Redmayne, Bong Joon-ho: Eclectic and International Talent that may help to diversify future Oscar choices.
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) movie review: Charlize Theron is the de facto ‘hero’ in George Miller’s post-apocalyptic actioner. Tom Hardy costars.
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Teresa Wright was one of the ‘Oldest’ Oscar Winners and the earliest surviving Best Supporting Actress winner at the time of her death.
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Teresa Wright: Actress Made Oscar History for her work in The Little Foxes, Mrs Miniver and The Pride of the Yankees - feat still unmatched.
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Catherine Deneuve: César Award Best Actress Record-Tier after her latest nomination. Article includes list of rare Anglophone César nominees.
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Kristen Stewart and Catherine Deneuve have achieved remarkable César Award feats. One is a First; the other one is a Record-Tier.
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Sean Penn will receive the Honorary César. The two-time Best Actor Oscar winner is the latest Hollywood celebrity to take home the award.
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Cecil B. DeMille Award winners range from Walt Disney to George Clooney while women are for the most part snubbed no matter how prestigious their careers.
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Selma (2014) movie review: Ava DuVernay’s ‘Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama’ drama is a reminder that Civil Rights events remain disturbingly relevant.
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Luise Rainer Dead: At 104 years old first Two-Time Oscar Winner in the acting categories was oldest surviving Academy Award recipient.
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Interstellar (2014) movie review: Christopher Nolan sci-fier is a grandiose achievement that ultimately fails to fulfill its thematic promise.
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Gotham Awards winners include Hollywood stars Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton plus controversial political refugee Edward Snowden.
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Best Documentary Short Oscar Contenders: The prospect of death and Illness are key topics plus art, oil and a hotline for war veterans.
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Whiplash (2014) movie review: Damien Chazelle directs a visually and aurally accomplished drama that gives J.K. Simmons a devil of a role.
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Christopher Reeve: Superman movies, Somewhere in Time and other films remembered 10 years after his death plus surprise Oscar speech.
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Best Foreign Language Film Record Entries include a number of highly political movies with controversial topics.
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Honorary Oscar NON-winner Doris Day inexplicably snubbed by the Academy. Why? Other women include Danielle Darrieux, Liv Ullmann and Mia Farrow.
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Honorary Oscars have bypassed women for decades. Is the Academy biased? Angela Lansbury, Lauren Bacall among rare winners.
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Hayao Miyazaki. Honorary Oscars 2014: Hayao Miyazaki, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Maureen O’Hara; Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award goes to Harry Belafonte One good thing about the creation of the Academy of…
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Featuring elements from a few ‘dystopian future prevention’ thrillers, Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past is a superhero film for adults.
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Meryl Streep in Into the Woods: Oscar date and several early predictions. Oscar date & early predictions The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC has announced the…
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) movie review: Another first-rate Marvel-Disney effort. Chris Evans and Robert Redford star.
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Oscar selfie becomes most retweeted tweet of all time: Ellen DeGeneres, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie, and Oscar 2014 company. Oscar selfie +…
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Kelly Greyson in Alone Yet Not Alone. ‘Alone Yet Not Alone’ song has Oscar nomination revoked: Nod for obscure Christian movie had left many scratching their heads Last night, Jan.…
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Best Picture tie surprise: Gravity was one of the winners. Producers Guild of America Awards: ‘Gravity’ & ’12 Years a Slave’ tie for Best Picture Earlier this evening, Jan. 19,…
Oscar Winners: Meryl Streep Breaks Two Academy Award Records, Neil Patrick Harris in his underwear and politically controversial documentary winner.
Golden Globes Winners: Early Technical Glitch Led to Much Ado About Nothing while Julianne Moore took home 1 statuette as expected.
Maureen O’Hara Oscar: Honorary Award given to feisty, red-headed The Quiet Man and Rio Grande actress and John Wayne leading lady.
Neil Patrick Harris: Oscar Host. Good Choice? The Tony and Emmy winner will be first openly gay (male) Academy Awards host ever.
Honorary Award bypassed Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson and Rita Hayworth among dozens of other women as Academy focused on male recipients.
Boyhood (2014) movie review: Richard Linklater brilliantly tackles the effects of the passage of time. Ethan Hawke and Ellar Coltrane costar.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) movie review: An excellent Ralph Fiennes shines in Wes Anderson’s visually and thematically expansive feast.