When Sean Baker’s “Anora” swept the 97th Academy Awards, its five wins, including best picture, heralded a different kind of Oscar winner
"Anora,” a strip-club Cinderella story without the fairy tale ending, was crowned best picture at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, handing Sean Baker’s gritty, Brooklyn-set screwball farce Hollywood’s top prize
Hollywood’s never-ending awards season can make it easy to get a little lost in the run-of-the-mill “best” categories
One of the greatest American actors of the 20th century was voted “least likely to succeed” by his first theater school, wasn’t a star until he was 40 and possessed a face he once described as “your everyday mineworker.”
By the time the Oscars wind around after months of other award shows and constant handicapping, the prizes can feel almost predetermined
“Captain America: Brave New World” soared on opening weekend, but crash-landed in its second go-around with audiences
The papal thriller “Conclave” won best ensemble at the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards, a surprise twist that added one final wrinkle in an unusually unpredictable awards season
The Oscars are more international than ever
In a James Bond shakeup that stirred the film industry, MGM Amazon announced that the studio has taken the creative reins of the 007 franchise after decades of family control
The inner-Vatican machinations of “Conclave” have nothing on this year’s Oscar race
Paul McCartney has staged a surprise performance before a small crowd in New York
For the first time in recent history, the percentage of top-grossing films featuring female protagonists equaled the percentage of films with male protagonists, according to a pair of annual studies released Tuesday
On a quiet winter weekend at the box office, DreamWorks Animation’s “Dog Man” chased its own tail, repeating as the top movie in theaters
Did a wide-open Oscar race just get a frontrunner
DreamWorks Animation's “Dog Man” fetched $36 million in ticket sales at the weekend box office, making it the biggest debut yet in 2025
Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” is an Oscar contender unlike any other
Critics lambasted it and audiences didn’t grade it much better
Over the years, Guy Pearce has been good in most all things
As fresh fires raced across the Los Angeles region, an embattled movie industry has lined up behind the Netflix narco-musical about transgender identity “Emilia Pérez” in Oscar nominations Thursday
The SXSW Film & TV Festival will kick off on March 7 with the world premiere of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s “The Studio,” the Apple TV+ comedy series starring Rogen as a fictional Hollywood studio head
Steven Soderbergh isn’t just the director and cinematographer of his latest film
As the Toronto International Film Festival winds down after a week of wall-to-wall premieres, there has been no more fraught turf than the land that families try to eke out a life on, amid geopolitical storms knocking on the front door
Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction,” a biting satire starring Jeffrey Wright as a disillusioned academic, has won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, a much-watched bellwether in the Oscar race
“The Nun 2” and “A Haunting in Venice” virtually tied for the No. 1 spot in U.S. and Canadian theaters over the weekend, with a slight edge carrying the horror sequel over the Hercule Poirot mystery
The Toronto International Film Festival may be over but it’s biggest sale has just gone through
US Justice Dept to ramp up staffing for immigration cases
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China’s foreign minister criticizes US tariffs and accuses the country of ‘meeting good with evil’
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The photographer capturing the ‘indescribable magic’ of Australia’s landscapes
King Charles reveals music soundtrack to his life to mark Commonwealth Day
