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An assistant costume designer on Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon is suing Apple Studios for racial discrimination.

Actress Patricia Heaton has blasted Mark Ruffalo over his decision to use the Oscars to make political statements on abortion and Gaza.

With only 19.5 million viewers, Sunday night’s Academy Awards bombed with the fourth-lowest viewership in Oscar history.

Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel said he was told not to read former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post during Sunday’s live ABC telecast.

The Academy Awards went big on diversity this year. The results would make a woke activist break down in tears: “Oppenheimer,” a movie about straight white men without a single minority in its cast, triumphed with seven Oscars, including awards for best picture, director Christopher Nolan, and actor Cillian Murphy.

Native American actress Lily Gladstone has drawn waves of sympathy and anger after she missed on the Best Actress award at the Oscars for her role as Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.

Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel waited to the very end of the Oscars broadcast on Sunday to take aim at former President Donald Trump and the MAGA base.

Academy Award host Jimmy Kimmel wasted little time getting political during Sunday’s telecast on ABC, mocking Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) by comparing her to the Frankenstein-like heroine of “Poor Things.”

Hollywood celebrities used the Oscars red carpet on Sunday to demand a “permanent ceasefire” in Gaza, with Billie Eilish, Rami Youssef, and Ava DuVernay among the attendees sporting red lapel pins in support of the group Artists for Ceasefire.

As celebrities prepare for their red carpet close-ups on Sunday’s telecast of the 96th Academy Awards, another part of Hollywood is worried about putting food on the table, paying rent, and finding work to support their families.

The Oscars will be conducted behind a massive screen of chain-link fencing this year as organizers are faced with threats of disruption.

The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly slammed Hollywood’s obsession with Ozempic in a commercial released Thursday, ahead of the Oscars, criticizing people who have taken the weight loss drug for “vanity,” without an obesity diagnosis.

The value of this year’s Oscars goodie bags have soared to about $180,000 in gifts, even as Americans’ average income is not even half of that

Disney’s ABC is teaming up with the Chinese social media app TikTok for Oscars red carpet coverage on Sunday.

After Breitbart News exposed the numerous loopholes in the Academy Awards’ new DEI quotas, the New York Times has published its own version of the story, which includes unnamed Hollywood insiders trashing the diversity rules as little more than window dressing — “flimsy and showy.”

And the Oscar for most loopholes goes to… the Academy’s own diversity requirements.

On Sunday, the 96th Academy Awards ceremony will mark a new, woke milestone for Hollywood. It will be the first Oscars to have implemented the Academy’s new diversity requirements, which lay out labyrinthine quotas for race, gender, and sexuality.

Hollywood is preparing to put its best face forward for the Academy Awards on Sunday. But behind the scenes, the entertainment business is girding itself for a possible calamity in the making — a potential strike by the thousands of “below the line” crew members who keep the industry running.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) announced this month that it would be adding the new category of Best Casting.

Disney’s ABC is reportedly struggling to sell commercials for its upcoming broadcast of the Academy Awards, with ad space still available a mere two weeks from the March 10 show.

We’re a long way from the days when the imprimatur of an Academy Award nomination excited the public enough to spin box office gold.

Not that normal people care anymore, but the 2024 Oscar nominations are out, and it looks like a good night for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”

NEW YORK — Hattie McDaniel’s best supporting actress Oscar in 1939 for “Gone With the Wind” is one of the most important moments in Academy Award history. McDaniel was the first African American to win an Oscar, and it would be half a century before another Black woman again won an acting award.

Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen laughed at a journalist who asked about the lack of diversity in the actor’s latest movie — the 18th-century historical drama The Promised Land.

A prominent Hollywood awards columnist is pushing Sound of Freedom for Oscars contention, as the anti-child trafficking drama has emerged as the surprise box-office success of the summer.

Every totalitarian movement needs its Orwellian euphemisms, and Big Trans is no exception. Case in point: “gender confirmation” and “gender affirmation,” which are now ubiquitous in the media. Even Wikipedia automatically directs searches for “sex change operation” to the page

The basement-rated Academy Awards not only put on a terrible show every year, these idiots always blow the In Memoriam segment. They blew it so badly this year that I can hardly believe it.

Newly minted Academy Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis has announced she is giving her best supporting actress Oscar statuette “they/them” pronouns in honor of her transgender “daughter” Ruby.

With a pathetic 18.7 million viewers, it’s official: the Academy Awards are doornail dead.

Following yet another disastrously low-rated Academy Awards, acclaimed filmmaker and screenwriter Paul Schrader offered his own morning-after analysis, declaring that “the Oscars mean less each year” due to the Academy’s financial challenges and “scramble to be woke.”

As always, I watched the Academy Awards red carpet so you didn’t have to. This year, there were exceptional looks from some of the biggest talent in Hollywood and some duds from try-hards, wannabes, and has-beens.

The 2023 Oscars In Memoriam segment on Sunday night has drawn criticism for those Hollywood names left unregarded including Anne Heche, Tom Sizemore, Paul Sorvino, Charlbi Dean, and Leslie Jordan. To name a few.

Actor Hugh Grant had an awkward interview on the champagne carpet at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday night, referring to the event as a “vanity fair,” then giving literal answers to questions without offering any embellishment.

The metaphysical multiverse comedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won best picture at the 95th Academy Awards, along with awards for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

In the evening’s most explicitly political moment, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” co-director Daniel Scheinert defended drag queens and drag children while accepting his Oscar for best director Sunday at the 95th annual Academy Awards.

In a sharp rebuke to the Oscars, Tom Cruise and James Cameron were both conspicuously absent at the 95th annual Academy Awards.