Joaquin Phoenix and Renee Zellweger will look to solidify their Oscar chances Sunday night when the 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are presented at the Shrine Auditorium, with Brad Pitt and Laura Dern also hoping to cement their front-running status for supporting roles. Phoenix appears to be the man to beat in the lead-actor category for his chilling portrayal…

See the full list of nominees for this year’s Academy Awards.

“Joker” is the leading nominee for the Academy Awards with 11 nominations, with “The Irishman” close behind. There are nine nominees for best picture. They are: “Ford v. Ferrari”; “The Irishman”; “Jojo Rabbit”; “Joker”; “Little Women”; “Marriage Story”; “1917”; Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”; “Parasite.” The nominations will bring about endless speculation about who will...

The Oscar race has only just begun. On Monday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the nominations for its 92nd annual Academy Awards. Front runners for the biggest prizes of the ceremony, which will take place on Feb. 9 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, include “1917,” “The Irishman,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,”…

The 77th Golden Globes will be handed out Sunday night, just about a week before the nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards will be announced. For those looking to get a head start on their Oscar ballot predictions, it’s tempting to use the Globes as a barometer for which films and actors will likely hoist the glittering gold...

In the decade drawing to a close, the conversation about diversity and inclusion moved to the front burner of our popular culture as never before. One of the most visible changes was in attitudes toward LGBT people, with TV shows like “Pose” and “Transparent,” and even children’s programs introducing gay and lesbian characters. This was the decade of #OscarsSoWhite, and...

The nuance of “Bombshell” is showing all the different facets of sexual harassment in the workplace. For every famous woman who has resources to survive making a public accusation, there are scores of powerless victims too.

Kevin Hart wants to let bygones be bygones....

At the Jumanji: The Next Level premiere on Monday night, the comedian revealed that despite his...2019 Oscars controversy..., he is open to the possibility of hosting the 2020 Oscars, should the Academy ask him again....

With Dwayne Johnson by his side, Hart humbly told Variety he would be down to co-host the ceremony...

Spike Lee will receive Film at Lincoln Center’s 46th Chaplin Award. Lincoln Center announced Thursday that the 62-year-old filmmaker will be honored in its annual fundraising gala on April 27.

Brad Pitt made the first move with James Gray. In 1995, he saw Gray’s debut “Little Odessa” and decided to call up the young filmmaker behind the grim Brooklyn crime drama. They’ve been talking ever since — about films, life and working together. But it would take almost 25 years for the stars to finally align, fittingly, for an ambitious,...

Richard Williams, a Canadian-British animator whose work on the bouncing cartoon bunny in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” helped blur the boundaries between the animated world and our own, has died. He was 86 years old. The Oscar-winning artist died from cancer at his home in Bristol, England, on Friday, his daughter Natasha Sutton Williams said Saturday. Williams’ career straddled the...

Marvel’s push for more women and people of color in its immensely popular film franchise is extending to behind the camera as it launches its next round of films after the massive success of “Avengers: Endgame.” Of the five films the superhero studio announced at Comic-Con on Saturday, only one is set to be directed by a white man.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Monday invited 842 members from 59 countries to the Oscars organization and, for the first time, reached gender parity in its new class of inductees.

Universal Music unveiled a previously unheard and unreleased song by the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.

Steven Spielberg, a child of the 1950s, grew up with stirring Hollywood dramas about the sacrifices of World War II. But with “Saving Private Ryan,” the Oscar-winning director set out to make a war film unlike any that he — or audiences around the world, for that matter — had ever seen. “Saving Private Ryan,” a no-holds-barred epic about D-Day...

Eight times a week, Daniels feels the pulse of the play in front of a live audience. While Jim Crow laws have gone by the wayside, he said the story is still relevant today when it comes to racial bigotry.

Take a look at the 2019 Academy Award nominations for Best Picture.

Peele knows how to get under your skin and stay there, and it’s what made him the must-see horror filmmaker of the moment.

Following their first Oscar nomination for best picture, Netflix responded to Steven Spielberg’s critical comments on Monday, tweeting that they promote film access for people who can’t travel to theaters.

When Steven Spielberg speaks about the business of Hollywood, everyone generally listens and few dissent. But reports that he intends to support rule changes that could block Netflix from Oscars-eligibility have provoked a heated, and unwieldy, debate online this weekend.