Lincoln, the 2012 historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field. Lincoln received widespread...

This awards season, several movies that contended for Best Picture prizes came in for an unusual degree of scrutiny regarding their historical accuracy -- or lack of it. But playing fast and loose with history is nothing new.

LONDON — He may just be a footnote to history, but Dr. Isachar Zacharie is having a posthumous mini-moment, thanks to the Hollywood-sparked surg...

My hope is that Zero Dark Thirty wins the best picture crown. Ironically, that was the film I did not want to see. I was afraid.

NEW YORK — The scene: Tehran's Mehrabad airport, January 1980. Six U.S. diplomats, disguised as a fake sci-fi film crew, are about to fly to fre...

NEW YORK — Nancy Zwiers was genuinely psyched to see "Lincoln," but something happened between the ticket purchase and the credits. Off screen, ...

Oscar season: When Pulitzer Prize winners fight with Congressmen over movies. On Tuesday, Congressman Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) blasted Steven Spielbe...

HARTFORD, Conn. — As Rep. Joe Courtney watched the Oscar-nominated "Lincoln" over the weekend, something didn't seem right to him. He said Tues...

I spent several weeks this winter immersed in spreadsheets full of historical Oscar data to explore methods of using fundamentals to predict Oscar winners.

In order to win Best Picture, a movie must conjure up a person who Academy members are rooting for. In other words, the film with the best face behind the title wins.

The most exciting movie-to-movie competition in this year's Oscars is between Ben Affleck's Argo and Steven Spielberg's' Lincoln, which will play out in three categories: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

For almost exactly a hundred years, Hollywood has been complicit -- no, salient -- in promoting pro-Confederate falsehoods about the Civil War and Reconstruction. Now Spielberg and Kushner and everyone involved in Lincoln have at last declared, "Enough!"

This week marks the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. With the Academy Awards just a month away, there is a long history of Hollywood mai...

Thirteen Oscarologists are backing Lincoln, compared to 10 for Argo and one for Silver Linings Playbook.

Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" has made over $150 million in North America since its release in November, but it will look slightly different for intern...

LONDON — Historical biopic "Lincoln" leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, with 10 nominations including best picture and best act...

Charlie Rose presented the Best Picture award to Zero Dark Thirty, noting its depiction of the greatest manhunt in history.

Movie Night is a rare event on Capitol Hill, so when Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell took a break from fiscal cliff brinksmanship to host a Dec. 19 screening of Lincoln, it was a given that they would serve politics with the popcorn.

Daniel Day-Lewis wasn't fooling around when he decided to play Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," going so far as to send text messages ...