Along comes Hollywood and casts its film-making aurora, shadowing the facts, insuring the CIA gets the credit. So instead of Ken Taylor and his staff being in the script as those who protected the hostages, the CIA ends up as hero.

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...

PARIS -- "Amour" and "Argo" are taking home prestigious prizes – and Kevin Costner may be taking home a horse – after a French film award ...

LONDON -- Iran-hostage drama "Argo" continued its journey from awards-season outsider to favorite Sunday, winning three prizes, including best-picture...

LOS ANGELES -- Ben Affleck has won the top film honor from the Directors Guild of America for his CIA thriller "Argo," further sealing its status as b...

LOS ANGELES — "Girls" star Lena Dunham has won the TV comedy directing prize from the Directors Guild of America, while the musical portrait "Se...

After viewing Affleck's future Oscar-winner yesterday, I got stuck on a few items of semi-importance. None of them will go away. Argo deserves high praise from cynics.

Argo, the gripping new Ben Affleck film, packs a 1-3 punch. The film dramatically connects the dots between people, power and intrigue running Washington, Hollywood and Tehran during the hostage crisis.

"Argo" has done something few films this year can claim: Connect both audiences and critics in unison. Ben Affleck's Oscar favorite opened with $5.3 m...

Ben Affleck has made a real "movie-movie" that leaves its audience wrung out, exhilarated and misty-eyed. Bravo. Prepare for the Oscar, kid.

Ironically the picture's greatest strength as a movie arguably becomes its greatest flaw as a film. It is not really about anything other than itself, refusing to infuse its narrative with any deeper meaning beyond our own knowledge of what happened next.

Movie fanatics and policy wonks alike are buzzing over Ben Affleck’s "Argo," the true-life thriller about a special CIA exfiltration mission during ...

-- A movie about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis probably doesn't sound like it would be a laugh riot – or should be – but that's just on...

BY DAVID GERMAIN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood is in its usual hazy head space when it comes to the Academy Awards race. The di...

It's time to start asking: what will win the Oscar for best film next year? Or maybe it's too early for such questions, but I've just returned from the Toronto International Film Festival, so forgive me for jumping the gun.

TORONTO — Sundance is the festival for low-budget filmmaking. Cannes and Venice are glitzy industry showplaces. The Toronto International Film F...

It's the classic dilemma: You're at the movie theater with your significant other and the two of you can't agree on what to see. "I want to see the mo...

Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. That's what Warner Bros. is realizing, as the studio has to find room on its release calendar for two...

A shaggy-haired, bearded Ben Affleck holds court in a new image from his next directorial feature, "Argo." Affleck, who will also star in the film,...

Ben Affleck is deep into character on the set of his upcoming action thriller, "Argo." In fact, after stealing Margot Tenenbaum's coat, he's kind of ...