Iconic horror author and far-left activist Stephen King is calling for the Academy Awards to be cancelled amid the wildfires still raging through the Los Angeles area.
The Oscars remain as scheduled, but it’s certain that they will be transformed due to the wildfires, and that most of the red-carpet pomp that typically stretches between now and then will be curtailed if not altogether canceled. With so many left without a home by the fires, there’s scant appetite for the usual self-congratulatory parades of the season.
Actress Halle Berry says she has been “eternally miffed” that no black woman has won the Best Actress award at the Oscars since her 2002 win.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures finally added an exhibit acknowledging the men who created Hollywood, but it mostly trashes them.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) announced this month that it would be adding the new category of Best Casting.
Ryan Gosling was thrilled to receive an Oscar nomination for his role as Ken in last year’s hit film, “Barbie,” but even with the gratitude he ended up criticizing the Academy for not also handing the film’s star Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig the same consideration.
Jimmy Kimmel is returning as host of the Academy Awards for the second straight year and fourth time overall.
In a room filled with several influential Hollywood figures, “Barbie” star America Ferrera used her platform to address an ongoing industry issue: Latino representation in film.
Hollywood’s new diversity inclusion standards are “thoughtless” and “patronizing,” Richard Dreyfuss said in an interview Friday. The Jaws star further claimed the new eligibility standards “make me vomit” as he defended Laurence Olivier’s 1965 “blackface” rendition of Shakespeare’s Othello.
The “free” $126,000 gift bags that were handed out to Hollywood A-list Oscars attendees also came with a hefty tax bill, according to reports.
The Oscars are once again nigh, and this year’s awards attendees are getting a swag bag worth $126,000, nearly two times the yearly income of the average American — but drastically reduced in value compared to just a few years ago.
Did the unconventional Oscar campaign that netted British star Andrea Riseborough a surprise Best Actress nomination this week violate Academy rules?
Actor Will Smith says he “respects” those who don’t want to see his new film, ‘Emancipation,’ after his Oscars controversy early this year.
This year, Hollywood and the news media took a knee for Sacheen Littlefeather. Woke news outlets including NPR, the New York Times, and Variety ran glowing articles identifying her as a Native American who was unjustly ridiculed and shunned by
When only 20 percent of your own Academy members view the Oscar telecast positively, Oscar has a big, big problem on its hands.
Nearly 50 years after Sacheen Littlefeather stood on the Academy Awards stage on behalf of Marlon Brando to speak about the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences apologized to her for the abuse she endured.
A criminal trial has begun against a Film Academy member facing eight counts of child molestation charges.
Rose Rock, the mother of Academy Awards host Chris Rock, said when actor Will Smith slapped her comedian son live on the air, she felt like she was being slapped, too.
Actor Harry Lennix, who stars in NBC’s “The Blacklist,” is calling on Will Smith to forfeit his Oscar in order to “redeem the integrity” of the motion picture Academy.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is moving up its meeting up 10 days to this Friday to address possible sanctions on Will Smith after the actor slapped Chris Rock over a joke the comedian told about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith during this year’s Academy Awards.
Will Smith has reportedly enlisted his attorneys to “beg” forgiveness from the motion picture Academy ahead of the star’s expected hearing before the organization’s board of governors.
The fallout from Will Smith physically assaulting Chris Rock at the Oscars will impact more than just Smith’s Hollywood career. Corporate partners who have allied themselves with Smith and his charitable foundation now face brand safety concerns over the actor’s newly toxic public image.
What is this, the Lindbergh kidnapping? Some big mystery?
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) said the investigation into Will Smith’s assault against comedian Chris Rock will “take a few weeks.”
Meet actor Carmine Caridi. You may not know him but he’s in an exclusive group with Harvey Weinstein, Roman Polanski, and Bill Cosby: All four men hold the dishonorable distinction of having been expelled from the Academy.
“The Academy does not condone violence of any form,” it tweeted, after Will Smith received an Oscar after assaulting Chris Rock.
Hollywood’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was so desperate to be multicultural, it snubbed the Jewish men who created the film business.
Five-time Oscar-nominated sound engineer Tom Fleischman has resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Faced with collapsing ratings, ABC reportedly threatened to cancel this year’s Oscars unless the Academy took the drastic step of cutting several categories from the live telecast.
The Academy Awards is taking the unprecedented step of demoting eight categories — including film editing and original score — from its upcoming live ABC telecast on March 27 in what appears to be an attempt to reverse the show’s plummeting ratings, which hit an all-time low last year.
The Academy Awards is aiming to lift its TV ratings out of the toilet with the introduction of a “fan favorite” award for best picture, which will be voted on by Twitter users. While the new award isn’t an official category and therefore won’t receive an Oscar statuette, the winner will be announced on ABC’s live Oscars telecast on March 27.
The Academy Awards is about to get a triple dose of left-wing wokeness as Amy Schumer is reportedly set to host this year’s Oscars ceremony along with comedian Wanda Sykes and Scary Movie star Regina Hall. Together, they have smeared Trump voters as racists, demanded the rollback of voter identification requirements, and joined forces with Michelle Obama to push vote by mail.
The Academy Awards reportedly won’t require the COVID-19 vaccination for in-person attendees of the March 27 ceremony, though attendees will have to submit a negative COVID-19 test taken the day of the Oscars.
Congratulations to newly minted Oscar nominees “Denoo Vellnoove,” “Korine Hines,” and “Yooakim Treer”– or as they’re known in real life, director Denis Villeneuve, actor Ciarán Hinds, and director Joachim Trier.
Hollywood’s annual ritual of self-congratulation is in danger of cancellation as the Los Angeles area experiences a three-fold rise in coronavirus cases due in large part to the omicron variant. Pre-Oscar events are already being canceled as the entertainment industry prepares for what could be another season of empty red carpets.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles officially opened its doors to the public on Thursday after years of planning, construction, and delays. And like many things in the movie business these days, the museum comes with prominent ties to Communist China.
Former president Donald Trump excoriated ABC’s telecast of the 93rd annual Academy Awards, noting the show’s record-low ratings while also urging the show to be less “politically correct and boring.”
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the 2021 Oscars telecast will be a live, in-person production next year, dispelling rumors of a virtual show.
Filmmaker Ron Howard said that his Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind would probably fail the Academy’s new diversity standards, which require that movies meet certain quotas on race and gender in order to be considered for the best picture category.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday that it will require films to meet extensive new “diversity” standards to be eligible to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
