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Alejandro G. Inarritu, whose Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths is Mexico's submission for the international feature Oscar this year, is an Academy favorite: His films have been [...]

Breaking down the best original song category for the films of 2004 is like going up and down the radio dial. Hits, inspirationals, world music and rockers are all wing [...]

THE AVIATOR Composer: Howard Shore Director: Martin Scorsese Studio: Miramax Plot: Howard Hughes builds his aviation empire. Howard Hughes, 1927-47: 'It's an interesting period because when Hughes made (1930's) 'Hell's [...]

The 72nd Annual Academy Awards will be broadcast on 26 March 2000, hosted by Billy Crystal. Speculation surrounds the winner of the Best Picture award, with 'American Beauty' or 'The Cider House Rules' expected to win.

With the recent Oscar nominations of Morgan Freeman and Samuel L. Jackson, movie lovers are hoping that these fine actors will join a small, select group of Black Academy Award [...]

There's a strange resonance in the sobering number of major film composers who passed away in 2004. Elmer Bernstein, Michel Colombier, Jerry Goldsmith, Gil Melle and David Raksin represented a [...]

Avenue Montaigne, a deftly joyful, nuanced comedy from director Daniele Thompson, is this year's official foreign-language Oscar entry from France. Set on the infamous avenue named after French writer Michel [...]

Byline: Devin Gordon Technically speaking, yes, they can. With ballots for Academy Award nominations due on Jan. 21, all that voters have to do to honor Andy Serkis's momentous work [...]

Playing what one critic called a "slangy, come-hither" beauty in Carmen Jones (1954), Dorothy Dandridge was the first African-American to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Through Aug. 28, […]

Errol Morris, the director of the film 'The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara', has won the Oscar award for the year 2004. The film has aroused controversy as it portrayed Robert Strange McNamara, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's secretary of defence during the Vietnam War, as the architect of the Vietnam War.

Michael Seth Starr's warm and rewarding ``Art Carney: A Biography'' is just out in paperback. As a parting shot, Starr notes that although Carney won six Emmys over the years [...]

LOS ANGELES -- It's awards season in Hollywood. The three we attended were the American Cinematography Awards, the ACE Eddys and the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards. First up was [...]

How a large cast that didn't work together collectively created a great ensemble film performance. Michael Douglas knew he was a part of something special from the first day he [...]

Studios and indies are putting a lot of time, energy and money into something that they're not even sure they believe in: screeners. This year, the annual flurry of vidcassettes […]

During, an interview last month, Sidney Poitier said he was happy that he was finally going to have some company (Denzel Washington) in his exclusive club. Poitier was the only [...]

Filmmaker Blake Edwards, who has given movie lovers such indelible images as Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and Peter Seller's Inspector Clouseau in the 'Pink Panther' series, […]

HOLLYWOOD -- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences released a record breaking list of 54 candidates for the 2002 foreign-lingo Oscar nominations on Monday. The number beats last [...]

In a way my real award was simply to watch the movie happening. When I stood in the Chinese bedroom of Wrotham Park, watching Robert Altman direct 'Gosford Park,' my [...]

In 2002, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences stuck to its pattern of agreeing with the Writers Guild of America 60% of the time. Indeed, Oscar and the [...]

For Renee Zellweger, the challenge of playing Bridget Jones wasn't nailing the perfect British accent, gaining the appropriate amount of weight or even balancing the pressures of bringing a well-loved [...]

In 'The Man Who Wasn't There,' Frances McDormand plays Doris, the woman married to that metaphorically absent title character. In real life, she's married to the director of the film, [...]

Brit actress Maggie Smith has been creating unforgettable characters onscreen since the 1960s, ranging from the title role in 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' to Miss Bartlett in 'A [...]

According to 'A.I. Artificial Intelligence' co-producer Bonnie Curtis, Jude Law was Steven Spielberg's only choice to play Gigolo Joe, the android love machine who befriends abandoned mecha child David (Haley [...]

Ben Kingsley should be ashamed of himself. He's a fraud. For 35-plus years he's had this polished facade of an erudite, uncommonly civilized gentleman of enormous talent, with decades of [...]

Even though Naomi Watts was convincing as all-American Betty Elms in David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive,' she's not American. Watts' family lived in England until Naomi was 14, when they emigrated [...]

Audrey Tautom knew she was one lucky mademoiselle when she landed the title role in 'Amelie,' but even a Baccarat crystal ball couldn't have predicted the film's buoyant success on [...]

Tilda Swinton has a problem with the word 'main stream.' She has been acting in films for over 15 years, but only now, after her spellbinding performance as Margaret in [...]

If Nicole Kidman was the subject of a book, one might title the current chapter of her career 'The Turning Point.' And what a year it's been. In December, the [...]

I feel as though I'm sailing into darkness,' writer Iris Murdoch says in Miramax's 'Iris.' The task of shedding light on the closing down of the mind due to the [...]

I have this condition,' the character Leonard explains again and again in 'Memento,' the story of a man who cannot make new memories. It's a character defined by what we [...]

When 'Chinatown' came out in 1974, Jack Nicholson was lauded for his willingness to walk around for half the movie with his nose bandaged. Tom Cruise took that disregard of [...]

Forget Billy, Whoopi or even Steve. Wouldn't it be something if Hedwig hosted the Oscars? 'I don't really do Hedwig anymore, but I'd probably make an exception to sing a [...]

When Gene Hackman huddled with director Wes Anderson a couple of years ago in New York, the veteran actor was intrigued by the idea for a film called 'The Royal [...]

While the awards season chatter has become obsessive on the topic of the wide-open race, another subject -- with far greater history-making import -- has thus far gone little noticed. [...]

The academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences on Wednesday tapped the eight pics that will face off Feb. 6 in the f/x biz's annual bakeoff. This year's competish to [...]

The life and career of US actor Jason Robards are discussed. His range of roles on the stage, in television and film are described and his memorable performances in 'All the President's Men' and 'Julia' are highlighted.