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''Oppenheimer'' overwhelmed the competition at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, winning seven Oscars, including the one for best picture, and at long last cementing Christopher Nolan's status as the [...]

“Oppenheimer” overwhelmed the competition at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, winning seven Oscars, including the one for best picture, and at long last cementing Christopher Nolan’s status as the [...]

Byline: Brooks Barnes The awards telecast has been losing viewers for years. New leadership wants to reverse that starting Sunday, and ensure the financial well-being of the organization. The stage [...]

The kind of critically praised dramas that often dominate the awards season are falling flat at the box office, failing to justify the money it takes to make them. A [...]

Netflix has two films in the running for a best picture Oscar: ''The Power of the Dog,'' with 12 nominations, and ''Don't Look Up,'' with four. In a year when [...]

TV ratings for awards shows have been in free fall, especially during the pandemic, and Hollywood doesn't want the viewing public to toss its premier showcase into the entertainment dustbin. [...]

Byline: Brooks Barnes Hollywood's highest-profile award event will be in April rather than February, and the eligibility period for the film awards will be extended. LOS ANGELES - The Academy [...]

Byline: Brooks Barnes and Nicole Sperling The streaming giant has a leading 24 nominations, but forecasters don't expect it to win many Academy Awards on Sunday. LOS ANGELES - Ballots [...]

''The Irishman,'' ''Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood'' and ''1917'' each received 10 nominations. Black actors and actresses were largely overlooked. LOS ANGELES -- The 92nd Academy Awards will [...]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Just a couple of years ago, Participant Media, a film and television company founded in 2004 by the eBay billionaire Jeff Skoll, seemed to have lost [...]

Byline: BROOKS BARNES LOS ANGELES -- Alarmed by plunging television ratings for the Academy Awards, the organization behind the Oscars said on Wednesday it would add a category for blockbuster [...]

Byline: BROOKS BARNES LOS ANGELES -- Last week, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that John Bailey would serve as its next president, succeeding Cheryl Boone [...]

Byline: BROOKS BARNES and CARA BUCKLEY Correction Appended LOS ANGELES -- It's one of Hollywood's most secretive and unusual jobs: Brian Cullinan, a partner at the accounting firm PwC, and [...]

Byline: BROOKS BARNES LOS ANGELES -- Smiling and clapping through marathon rubber-chicken awards banquets. Week after week, month after month. Racking up frequent-flier miles (New York to Los Angeles to [...]

Byline: BROOKS BARNES LOS ANGELES -- As a brash, young executive at New Line Cinema in the 1990s, Michael De Luca championed risky films like the porn industry drama 'Boogie [...]

The article focuses on the success of Will Smith's latest film, "Bad Boys: Ride or Die", which debuted at number one with 56 million U.S. dollar in ticket sales, marking his 15th first-place debut as a leading man and indicating that moviegoers have forgiven him for his actions at the 2022.

LOS ANGELES -- The next marquee event at Hollywood's film academy: ''Identity Crisis -- Part 2.'' On Tuesday, the 51-member governing board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and [...]

LOS ANGELES -- ''The movies themselves seem pass in California now,'' Christopher Rand wrote in ''Los Angeles: The Ultimate City,'' published in 1967. Brushing aside Hollywood in a single paragraph, [...]

Byline: BROOKS BARNES PARK CITY, Utah -- With the outcry over an all-white field of acting nominees for the coming Academy Awards, and the shutout of several films focused on [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Every year at this time, a few dozen actors are paraded through Hollywood like livestock before judges at a really fancy state fair. There they stand, all [...]

The article focuses on Participant Media, renowned for producing socially conscious films, facing financial challenges and reduced profitability due to changes in the entertainment industry, leading its founder, Jeff Skoll, to cease operations partly due.

Byline: MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES LOS ANGELES -- In a triumph long deferred, '12 Years a Slave' won the best picture Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards on Sunday [...]

Start your Oscar Ballot here. LOS ANGELES - Torture. Terror. Mental illness. Revolt. Where's Uggie the dog when you need him? The 85th Academy Awards season jolted into place on [...]

LOS ANGELES -- This month Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, got a laugh from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences when he rose to present an honorary [...]

The article focuses on Jimmy Kimmel's return as the host of the 96th Academy Awards telecast, bringing his strong ratings track record and aiming to restore luster to the Oscars ceremony after a period of declining viewership and controversies.

It gives Hollywood hairstylists only a whisker of added industry respect, but there is celebrating nonetheless in the celebrity blow-out and bun-knotting world: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The Oscar statuette stands 13 and a half inches tall and weighs eight and a half pounds. They may want to think about shrinking it. The Academy [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Flattery will get you everywhere. ''The Artist,'' a love letter to Hollywood, got hugs, kisses and the best-picture Oscar on Sunday at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED 9:47 a.m. Updated LOS ANGELES - A chaotic Oscar season found some order on Tuesday as ''The Artist,'' a mostly silent tribute to old Hollywood, and ''Hugo,'' another [...]

LOS ANGELES THE Oscar race now comes down to one man's hand, and how he intends to play it. The best picture contest is usually well defined by early December, [...]

5:28 p.m. Updated Billy Crystal has agreed to take over the role of Oscar host from Eddie Murphy. Mr. Crystal lit up the blogosphere late Thursday afternoon by posting a [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED LOS ANGELES -- ''The King's Speech,'' the period drama about King George VI of Britain and his vocal coach, won best picture and three other trophies at the [...]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- They came, they smiled, they poured on practiced you-deserve-it-not-me humility. Behind it all? Daggers and crossed fingers that half the room will go kersplat in the [...]

LOS ANGELES HOLLYWOOD'S awards marathon, a seven-month series of cocktail parties and prize banquets culminating with the Oscars, does not come with a survival guide. If it did, one entry [...]

The article focuses on a report of Nielsen which reveals increase in viewership for ABC's telecast of the 95th Academy Awards.

The article reports on the nominations of several streaming studios for awards at the 94th Academy Awards. Among the nominees are Apple TV+'s streaming service film "CODA" and the Netflix film "The Power of the Dog." Also cited are how firms like Apple and Amazon are revolutionizing the film and television industries, and Amazon's acquisition of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its bid to boost its Prime Video service.

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The article reports on the alleged exclusion of women filmmakers in the Oscar awards race for best director as of December 2019. Also cited are the films "The Farewell,' directed by Lulu Wang, and "Little Women," directed by Greta Gerwig, and "Booksmart," directed by Olivia Wilde, as well as the Oscar frontrunners "The Irishman," directed by Martin Scorsese, and "Marriage Story," directed by Noah Baumbach.

The article details the plan of filmmaker Steven Spielberg to propose rule changes that would block films that are primarily distributed online from competing the Oscars. Topics discussed include the impact of the proposed rule changes on the eligibility of Netflix and other streaming services for the Oscars, Spielberg's plan to present his proposal to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the decision of the academy's board of governors to maintain its eligibility rules.

The article focuses on diversity during the 2019 Academy Awards and criticism on the selection of "Green Book" as the best-picture winner. Topics discussed include background on other choices for best picture including Ryan Coogler's "Black Panther," "Roma" and Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman" and the racial makeup of the people who made "Green Book" that intensified frustration over its victory.

The article reports on the preparations for the 91st Academy Awards program in Los Angeles, California as of February 2019. Also cited are the request by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officials to program lead producer Donna Gigliotti to keep the awards telecast to three hours, the claim by academy chief executive Dawn Hudson that they prioritize to maintain audience engagement, and the scheduled presenters like actors Angela Bassett, Jason Momoa, and Chris Evans.

The article reports on the move by streaming video provider Netflix to hire Oscar-campaign veteran Lisa Taback to promote the art film "Roma" in its bid to win at the 91st Academy Awards in February 2019. Also cited are the film's director Alfonso Cuaron, the inclusion of the film in the best picture category, the possible effects of an award for the film to the industry, and the move by major players like Disney, WarnerMedia and Apple to enter the streaming services industry.

The article focuses on the voting by roughly 8,200 movie industry insiders for the 91st Academy Awards which ends on February 19, 2019. Topics covered include the approach used by voters when voting using a private website to mark their choices, how Oscar voting has become about personal prejudices and grievances among the voting pool which remains predominantly male and white despite years of diversification efforts, and the opinions of insiders about the best-picture candidates.

The article reveals that Netflix's film "Roma," directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starring Yalitza Aparicio, got 10 Oscar nominations. Topics discussed include plot of the film, number of nominations allowed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and films nominated at the Oscar which includes "The Favourite," "Black Panther," and "Bohemian Rhapsody."

The article discusses the 90th Academy Awards telecast in Los Angeles, California in 2018 in which host Jimmy Kimmel addressed the Hollywood sexual harassment scandals. Topics covered include the emergence of the #MeToo and Time's Up movement following the revelations on producer Harvey Weinstein, the presentation of award nominees and winners, and information on the story lines of nominated films. Also noted is the growing diversification of the academy's membership.

The article focuses on how movie awards shows become a part of political activism of liberal-minded celebrities in the U.S. Topics include the appearance of Hillary Clinton at the Grammy Awards narrating the gossips on U.S. President Donald Trump featured in the book "Fire and Fury," the tolerance of the public about politics and Hollywood, and the challenges facing the producers and writers of the awards shows, such as the Academy Awards, to tie Trump and the #MeToo movement.

The article focuses on the fantasy film "The Shape of Water," directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Sally Hawkins, which topped and dominated the 90th Oscar Awards or Academy Awards nominations for 2018. Topics discussed include the brief overview of the film, its contenders including the films "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," "Get Out," and "Lady Bird," and the acting nominations received by Hawkins, Gary Oldman, and actors of color Octavia Spencer and Mary J. Blige.

The article offers information on efforts made by Latinos in the U.S. to create their own identity as well as a bigger presence in the motion picture industry, especially in the Academy Awards. Several issues being presented include the #OscarSoWhite social media outcry as well as harassment and whitewashing or casting white actors as nonwhite characters.

The article discusses mistakes happened in announcing the winners due to the exchanging of envelopes at the Hollywood's Oscar award ceremony. It mentions mistake and apologize by a partner at the accounting firm PwC, Brian Cullinan for announcing the wrong name for the best picture at the 89th Academy Awards as "La La Land" instead of "Moonlight" and mentions that this mistake was happened because of identical sets of sealed envelopes.

The article discusses the winners of the Academy Awards 2017, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel with the current political atmosphere as the background, including the best Motion Picture 'Moonlight' by Barry Jenkins, 'La La Land' which won 6 awards and 'Zootopia' the best animated film. Also the current political climate and its fallout are presented in a lighter vein while departure from previous editions in terms of awards given to black, Muslim and south American artists are highlighted.