
'Argo' named best film at Britain's Oscars
Iran-hostage drama "Argo" continued its journey from awards-season outsider to favorite Sunday, winning three prizes, including best-picture, at the ...
Tech innovators honored at Oscars dinner
A room full of engineers, computer whizzes and technicians brought the crew of the Starship Enterprise down to Earth for a night at the Sci-Tech ...
LL Cool J celebrates Grammy-hosting gig at dinner
LL Cool J spent the night before the Grammy Awards sipping Hennessy with some of his famous friends. The 45-year-old rapper-actor and returning Grammy ...
Grammys pay tribute to Shankar, King, Temptations
Ravi Shankar passed away in December before he could attend The Recording Academy's Special Merit Awards celebration where he was to receive a ...

Elton John shares Grammy stage with young rockers
Elton John still fills stadiums worldwide on his own, but he'll share the spotlight with a dozen other musicians at Sunday's Grammy Awards.

Winehouse producer Salaam Remi aims for Grammy
Salaam Remi has been producing music for more than 20 years, but he says he's not mad that he's just earning the top producer nomination at the Grammy ...

Mary J. Blige honored by Vibe at pre-Grammy party
Babyface called her an icon; Diddy said she was like a sister; and Anita Baker credited her for helping secure her latest Grammy nomination. There was ...

Grammy nominee Frank Ocean performs at Levi event
Frank Ocean is nominated for six awards and will perform at Sunday's Grammys, and he warmed up at an event for a few hundred people Friday night.

Kiefer Sutherland honored by Harvard theater group
Golden Globe-winning actor Keifer Sutherland has been awarded the pudding pot after being honored as Man of the Year by Harvard's Hasty Pudding ...

Diplo takes a different kind of path to Grammys
Don't bother calling Diplo if you want to make something that sounds like a Diplo record. He's not interested. "Producers in L.A. were hitting me up: ...

Black Keys ready for Grammys with 5 nominations
The Black Keys still feel like the black sheep of the Grammy Awards. "It's unexpected. I don't think we'll ever get used to this stuff," singer and ...

Davis gala 'bittersweet' year after Houston death
Last year, Whitney Houston died hours before Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy gala. This year, the music executive says she'll be remembered. "In saying ...

AP Interview: Oscar winner mulls activist career
Mira Sorvino's list of awards includes an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a host of nominations reserved for the world's best actors and actresses.

Music teachers now eligible for new Grammy honor
Music teachers are now eligible for a Grammy honor of their own. Recording Academy president Neil Portnow says the group has established a music ...

Playwright David Ives finds his timing perfectly
There was a moment this past December in Paris when playwright David Ives achieved what he calls "a moment of maximum fabulosity." Film director Roman ...

5 beautiful films with Janusz Kaminski
Steven Spielberg's longtime cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski, already has won two Academy Awards for their collaborations on "Schindler's List" and ...

Afghan boys from nominated film to walk red carpet
Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan ...

Breasts, buttocks banned by CBS from Grammys
CBS is asking stars not to bare too much skin at the Grammy Awards on Sunday. The network requests that "buttocks and female breasts are adequately ...

Video game composer taking 'Journey' to Grammys
Austin Wintory still can't wrap his head around the fact that he's up against "Star Wars" composer John Williams for a Grammy Award. "Thank God I've ...

For best musical theater Grammy, a vet vs. newbie
David Alan Grier would obviously love to win a Grammy when the awards are handed out this weekend. It's a small part of his master plan. If he wins ...

Elton John, Mumford & Sons to pay tribute to Helm
Elton John and Mumford & Sons will hit the Grammys stage to pay tribute to Levon Helm. The Recording Academy announced Wednesday that T Bone Burnett, ...

Grammys face more criticism with unknown nominee
Chances are you never heard of Al Walser before his surprise Grammy nomination for best dance recording. Even more surprising? Neither had most Grammy ...
Conn. congressman sees factual flaw in 'Lincoln'
As Rep. Joe Courtney watched the Oscar-nominated "Lincoln" over the weekend, something didn't seem right to him. He said Tuesday he was shocked that ...

Oscar-nominated set decorator Garrett Lewis dies
The set decorator who earned Oscar nominations for his work on "Beaches," ''Glory," ''Hook" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula" has died. A longtime friend ...

A Grammy maybe? Carly Rae Jepsen heads for gold
Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" became the soundtrack for endless viral online fun last year: U.S. infantry soldiers lip-synched to it in ...