It's 3 a.m. The lights come up. The magic is over. The waiters are cleaning up, and Ang Lee and I are the last ones eating sliders and still chatting.
The Academy Awards are known as Hollywood's biggest night, but with a bevy of winners, presenters and others with ties to Illinois, the Oscar limeligh...
Last night marked the telecast of the 85th Annual Academy Awards, which means there were a number of viewing parties taking place across the globe. An...
This is a film of slant lights and gray finickiness that always recalls, in every slight gesture, both the inconclusive happy world outside and that of the youthful past, even as it threatens every moment to erupt into absolute darkness and hostility.
The 85th Annual Academy Awards took place on Sunday night, with Best Actor of 2013 going to Daniel Day-Lewis. Day-Lewis, who played President Abra...
The 2013 Academy Awards took place on Sunday, and Chris Terrio, who adapted "Argo," took home the award for Best Adapted Screenplay. "Beasts of th...
The 85th annual Academy Awards were held on Sunday and "Brave" took the Oscar for Best Animated Film. "Frankenweenie," "ParaNorman," "The Pirates!...
Christoph Waltz captured the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 2013 Oscars on Sunday in Los Angeles. Waltz won the award for his role as Dr. King...
LOS ANGELES — Daniel Day-Lewis has joined a select group of Academy Award recipients with his third Oscar, taking the best-actor trophy Sunday f...
LOS ANGELES — Some dressed down in jeans and hoodies. Others looked camera-ready in suits or chic dresses and spiky stilettos. But all of the s...
LOS ANGELES — Giant coffee table books, iPod Shuffles, signed letters from directors, even "Lincoln" turkey roasting pans. That's just some of t...
Secretary of State John Kerry sent well wishes to actor and director Ben Affleck ahead of the 2013 Academy Awards. Affleck's film "Argo" is nominat...
From film scoring to production, direction and acting, African Americans have touched many facets of the film genre. As we approach this year’s 8...
The Oscar-nominated actors and actresses who don't take home a gold statue from this year's Academy Awards will still get a goody bag worth $47,802. ...
The film is a life lesson about the transformative power of art (arts education has never been more endangered than it is today) and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America, its "children."
Since the beginning of the new year, I have heard again and again about the new work of Austrian film maker Michael Haneke, whose signature works includes "Funny Game," "The White Ribbon," and "Cache."
LOS ANGELES -- Oscar is going on a road trip. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says one of the golden statuettes that are handed out a...
By Dana Mathews It looks like Young Hollywood is taking over the biggest night in Tinseltown. I've seen nearly every Oscar contender and can confid...
CHICAGO — The company that makes the gold-plated Oscar statues will lay off almost 100 employees in the process of being bought out. But some wo...
LOS ANGELES -- Oscar host Seth MacFarlane is inviting college students to join him on stage at the Academy Awards. The "Family Guy" creator made a su...
So just when legend Quentin Tarantino decided this was his lucky year, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peter Jackson, Kathryn Bigelow, Tom Hooper, and more just felt in their bones as well -- that 2013 was going to give them that longing prize. Bad timing.
Earlier this month, Jimmy Fallon revealed that 2013 would not be his year to headline the Oscars. But whose year will it be?
The 84th annual Academy Awards will likely go down as a moderate success. After all, the telecast was the shortest in 30 years, earned better ratings ...
