Hollywood will convene Sunday night for a nail-biter Academy Awards that’s steering toward a coronation for either Paul Thomas Anderson or Ryan Coogler.

The “Bridesmaids” cast has reunited at the Dolby Theatre as Oscar presenters.

The Oscars producers are turning this year’s nominated songs into big showpieces that celebrate the films behind them.

The Oscars team says the 98th Academy Awards aims to feel warm, tight and built for both the room and viewers at home.

Ryan Coogler’s blues-steeped vampire epic “Sinners” led all films with 16 nominations to the 98th Academy Awards, setting a record for the most in Oscar history.

Dwayne Johnson transforming into MMA pioneer Mark Kerr for “The Smashing Machine” and Louis Tomlinson releasing his third solo album are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released shortlists for 12 Oscar categories Tuesday, including best song, score, and the new casting prize.

The Oscars are making room for one more award on their live broadcast in 2026.

Adam Sandler will be the next recipient of AARP’s Movies for Grownups career achievement award.

Mary Bronstein has returned to filmmaking with “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” a film exploring a mother’s existential crisis.

Stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze kicked off the 77th Emmy Awards Sunday with a comedy sketch that poked fun at the television industry, noting it's “a world where the finest artists craft stories of staggering beauty that millions of people will watch on their phones while they’re sitting on the toilet.”.

Radio host Howard Stern has returned to SiriusXM.

Radio host Howard Stern has left SiriusXM.

Kendrick Lamar and Barack Obama were both winners at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Bob Odenkirk ducks into a West Village coffee shop wearing sunglasses and a Chicago Cubs cap.

Veteran producer Lynette Howell Taylor has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited 534 new members to its organization on Thursday, adding recent Oscar nominees and many more to Hollywood’s most exclusive club.

It didn’t occur to Ben Wang right away that in taking on “Karate Kid: Legends,” he’d be the franchise’s first Asian American “Kid.”.

Oscar voters will no longer be able to skip watching some of the nominated films.

Stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze will host the 77th Emmy Awards.

On a night when half a dozen people made jokes about this being the last-ever Mark Twain Prize, Conan O’Brien made sure the ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ended on a high note.

Conan O’Brien is returning to the Oscars stage in 2026.

Johanna Faries took on her role as president of Blizzard Entertainment just over one year ago.

Smaller movies didn’t mean smaller viewer numbers for the Oscars.

Greenlanders have been pushed into the global spotlight in the weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump said America could take over their Arctic homeland.

When Sean Baker’s “Anora” swept the 97th Academy Awards, its five wins, including best picture, heralded a different kind of Oscar winner.

Oscar winners and losers partied together at post-show galas across the Los Angeles area.

“Flow,” a wordless cat parable that became the first Latvian film to win an Academy Award, prompted a sleepless night for Latvians celebrating the historic accolade.

What you see on the television broadcast is only part of the story at the Oscars.

“Anora” has won best picture at the 97th Academy Awards.

It’s almost time to see how the biggest nailbiter Oscar season of recent years concludes.

"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.

Last year’s Oscars was by all accounts a successful show, with memorable performances and unscripted moments, and a winning movie that most people had seen.

The Oscars telecast hosted by Conan O’Brien and Kate Hudson playing a pro basketball team president in a new Netflix series called “Running Point” are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases.

Until a few weeks ago, the biggest news to come out of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.

The Berlin International Film Festival is kicking off with the world premiere of Tom Tykwer’s “The Light.”.

After devastating wildfires tore through Los Angeles, the 97th Academy Awards are going forward.

Rose Byrne plays a mother in the midst of a breakdown in the experiential psychological thriller “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”.

Oscars host Conan O’Brien says he’s still unable to live in his home due to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles and that the show’s organizers “want to be sensitive to what’s happened” to residents.

Mikey Madison of “Anora” watched the Oscar nominations from her hotel room bed, screaming along with her mother on FaceTime.

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 annual Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday in Park City, Utah.

Carrie Underwood might not be Beyoncé or Garth Brooks in the celebrity superstar ecosystem.

Comedian and host Conan O’Brien is the newest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy.

Hollywood’s awards season has all but come to a rare halt as the wildfires continue to disrupt life and work in the Los Angeles area.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled shortlists in 10 categories, including for documentary, international feature and best song and score.

Jason Kelce will try his hand at late-night television early next year.

A year after turning to comedian Jimmy Kimmel to host their big show, the Academy Awards will pivot to another familiar TV funnyman — Conan O’Brien.

Before flying to Italy’s southern Puglia region to meet world leaders at the Group of Seven summit, Pope Francis hosted a very different audience at the Vatican celebrating the importance of humor.

The media industry is crumbling, and late-night comedy on television has less than half of the audience than it had a decade ago.

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Taylor Swift's eagerly anticipated album “The Tortured Poets Department,” a family of ducks is coaxed into flying south for the winter in the kid-friendly animated movie “Migration” and Conan O’Brien makes himself the brunt of jokes in his new travel show “Conan O’Brien Must Go” for Max.

Does time and a new host heal all wounds.

Robert Caro is still busy working on the presumed last volume of his series on Lyndon Johnson.

President Joe Biden has sat down with former late-night television host Conan O’Brien for an interview on the comedian’s podcast.

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album of rock songs by Dolly Parton, the first half of the final season of “The Crown” returns to Netflix and three dudes from “Saturday Night Live” get their first feature-film shot.

Musical artist Kelly Clarkson will host the 12th annual NFL Honors awards show Feb. 9 in Phoenix, recognizing the league’s best players, performances and plays from the 2022 season.

Jay Leno says he's doing OK after suffering serious burns in a gasoline fire.

Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres are among the celebrity moderators joining former first lady Michelle Obama on tour for her upcoming book, “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times.”.

The ranks of late-night television comedy are thinning.

Jimmy Kimmel is celebrating his 20th anniversary as ABC’s late-night host early, signing a three-year contract extension for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”.

Howie Mandel has a bone to pick with his longtime friend Jay Leno.

Leave it to Mel Brooks to blurb his own memoir.

Conan O’Brien stayed true to form as he wrapped up his TBS late-night show “Conan” after nearly 11 years.

President Donald Trump wipes his face during a break in an NBC News Town Hall, at Perez Art Museum Miami, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, in Miami. NBC News chief executive Cesar Conde said Thursday that NBC scheduled Trump out of fairness after Biden did a town hall at the same time last Thursday. There were apparently still hard feelings, given that Muir twice mentioned a nameless “another network” holding a Trump town hall. “Has there ever been two more different presidential candidates than Trump or Biden?” asked The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler in a tweet. At a rally in North Carolina on Thursday, Trump called NBC “the worst" and said he was being set up with the town hall.

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