Best Documentary Oscar: Michael Moore Changes Miserable Failure? + ‘Subversive’ Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi in despite house arrest and smuggled movie.
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National Board of Review Awards make history as Kathryn Bigelow becomes 1st woman Best Director while 1 more top star is Best Supporting Actor.
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European Film Awards: Michael Haneke Best Director record as 2 French cinema veterans win their 1st award + Annie Awards bypass blockbusters.
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NYFCC Awards: Rachel Weisz Is Major Best Actress surprise + Sally Field Breaks and Daniel Day-Lewis Ties New York Film Critics Circle records.
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Jodie Foster: Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient Jodie Foster will be the next Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced – by way of Foster’s…
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Seth MacFarlane Oscars host confirmed: Unusual pick Seth MacFarlane, best known internationally for the comedy box office hit Ted, will host the 2013 Oscar ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 24, Oscarcast…
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Best Actor Oscar: Joaquin Phoenix a potential contender. 2013 Oscar predictions Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, Daniel Day-Lewis Joaquin Phoenix and Daniel Day-Lewis look like the two shoo-ins for the 2013…
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Honorary Oscar: George Stevens Jr. George Stevens Jr. is the founding director of the American Film Institute. During his tenure, the AFI established the Center for Advanced Film Studies and…
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Christian Petzold’s Barbara is Germany’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Christian Petzold drama ‘Barbara’: Germany Oscar Submission Starring Nina Hoss, writer-director Christian Petzold’s Barbara is Germany’s…
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Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis for Oscar 2013? Ever since it was announced that Steven Spielberg was going to direct an Abraham Lincoln biopic, film pundits, bloggers,…
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A Bill of Divorcement with Katharine Hepburn and David Manners: 1932 George Cukor drama. George Cukor ‘gay Woman’s Director’? Known as a refined “woman’s director,” George Cukor has had his…
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Avatar 2 news: Sequels to be filmed concurrently says Sigourney Weaver Avatar 2, 3, 4 to be filmed concurrently. [Photo: Sigourney Weaver in Avatar.] Audiences are clamoring for original fare,…
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Django Unchained trailer with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx Django Unchained trailer is out. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino of Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds fame, Django Unchained is set…
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On the Road interview: cast members Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley March 21 update: “It’s interesting to play characters that have existed,” says Kristen Stewart in an On the…
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First lesbian kiss? Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace go for it in Passion. Rachel McAdams kisses Noomi Rapace in Brian De Palma’s thriller Passion, a remake of Alain Corneau’s Crime…
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Emma Thompson back as Gareth Peirce? Two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson may once again play human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce, according to Screen Daily. Nearly twenty years ago, Thompson played…
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Harvey Weinstein “entourage” apparently includes the current French president. The Legion d’Honneur Chevalier was nominated by none other than Nicolas Sarkozy, whose behind-the-scenes support for the powerhouse Hollywood producer and…
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Kirk Baxter, Tina Fey, Bradley Cooper, Angus Wall. Presenters Tina Fey and Bradley Cooper pose with Oscar winners Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall backstage at the 84th Academy Awards, held…
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Maya Rudolph. Maya Rudolph attends the Governors Ball after the 84th Academy Awards ceremony held at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood on Feb. 26, ’12. Rudolph wasn’t nominated for any…
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‘The Artist’: Best Picture winner makes history. Best Picture winner ‘The Artist’: Two ‘First Times’ in Oscar history Pictured above are several cast members of Best Picture winner The Artist…
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Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw attend the Governors Ball following the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood on Feb. 26. Along with Kathleen Kennedy, Spielberg produced…
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Octavia Spencer. In this very artistic picture, Octavia Spencer admires her Oscar statuette at the Governor’s Ball, following the 2012 Annual Academy Awards from Hollywood, CA Feb. 26. Spencer was…
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Meryl Streep and husband Don Gummer: Oscar 2012. Meryl Streep and husband Don Gummer at the Governors Ball after 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood and Highland Center…
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Milla Jovovich and Tim Gunn. Milla Jovovich and Tim Gunn: Academy Awards’ Red Carpet Ukrainian-born actress Milla Jovovich (on Dec. 17, 1975, in Kiev, at the time part of the…
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Christopher Plummer and Elaine Taylor. Christopher Plummer and Elaine Taylor arrive for the 2012 Academy Awards from Hollywood, CA. The Oscar ceremony was held at Hollywood & Highland on Feb.…
Famous Children of Famous Parents: Edoardo Ponti and Nastassja Kinski, with Enrico Lo Verso in The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars. Edoardo Ponti & Bryce Dallas Howard live action shorts…
The Intouchables movie: France’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar entry. In the cast: Omar Sy as Driss, François Cluzet as Philippe. The Intouchables movie, France’s biggest French-language blockbuster at the…
Best Supporting Actress Nominees pre-1950 still alive, Oscar nonagenarians / centenarian. (Image: Ann Blyth Mildred Pierce, with Joan Crawford.) Following Celeste Holm’s death today and Ernest Borgnine’s death last Sunday,…
Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur While delivering her intro for the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony, Mistress of Ceremonies Bérénice Bejo waxed poetic: “If festivals are…
Little Caesar (movie 1931) review: Edward G. Robinson is an iconic all-American gangster in Mervyn LeRoy’s landmark but creaky crime drama. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. costars.
Jean Dujardin. Jean Dujardin made film-award history after he won the 2012 Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as a fading silent film matinee idol in Michel Hazanavicius’ The…
Meryl Streep Best Actress Oscar: When Margaret Thatcher stares back, need for Women’s Museum and faulty Academy Award history knowledge.