LOS ANGELES — Oscar voters will no longer be required to see certain nominated films in a theater to cast their ballots. The Academy of Motion ...

Actor Seymour Cassel is on the phone and, when asked what he's been doing, says, "Well, I'm looking for work."

An Oscar highlight (or lowlight, depending on your point of view) was the first lady giving the award for Best Picture. This phenomenon was all the mo...

LOS ANGELES — While the giant Oscar statues are still being washed off and stowed away, planners are already struggling with the timing for next...

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...

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...

Kirby Dick spoke with me about The Invisible War's success, the courage of the soldiers who shared their stories, and what it will take to make sure these victims are no longer invisible to the press, the public and those in power.

We can hope our favorite movie will come away with the big prize, but in the long run, some of the best pictures ever made did not receive Best Picture Oscars.

Cheap, amateurish and sometimes just plain hard to watch, Beasts enjoyed a wave of overwrought critical hosannas, going all the way back to when the film first was shown more than a year ago at the Sundance Film Festival.