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Country stars gear up for ACM Awards

Country star Miranda Lambert is channeling “Barbie Elvis” for her ACM performance with Elle King, while Maren Morris gets to ...

Keith Urban, Mickey Guyton have chemistry as ACM hosts

The 2021 Academy of Country Music Awards will host a very special crowd who will finally get to see live music performances ...

2 documentaries up for Oscars tell stories of nonagenarians

The Oscar isn’t the only one celebrating its 93rd trip around the sun at the Academy Awards ceremony this year. The shorts ...

Viola Davis is named Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year

Viola Davis was named Woman of the Year on Friday by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals. “Viola has inspired our ...

The pandemic has upended the Oscars. Good, producers say

Ninety seconds. That’s how quickly Steven Soderbergh believes the Academy Awards will convince viewers that this year’s ...

12-time Oscar nominee Diane Warren hopes for 'awesome' win

For a dozen and more reasons, Diane Warren would be overjoyed to win a best original song Oscar for her work in “The Life ...

Venice Film gives lifetime achievement to Roberto Benigni

The Venice Film Festival said Thursday it will give its lifetime achievement award this year to Oscar-winning director and ...

Disabled nominees hope their Oscar moment becomes a movement

Right down to its production design, the Oscars have not always felt like the most welcoming place for people with ...

Oscar nominees include three films featuring the disabled

Three films featuring the disabled are nominated at the Academy Awards: "Sound of Metal," "Feeling Through" and "Crip Camp.

Disabled hope their Oscars moment becomes a movement

The disabled have a moment in the Oscar spotlight that they hope becomes a movement. "Crip Camp" co-director Jim LeBrecht ...

Oscar nominees include three films featuring the disabled

Three films featuring the disabled are nominated at the Academy Awards: "Sound of Metal," "Feeling Through" and "Crip Camp.

Disabled hope their Oscars moment becomes a movement

The disabled have a moment in the Oscar spotlight that they hope becomes a movement. "Crip Camp" co-director Jim LeBrecht ...

On 'Promising Young Woman,' consent, and a harrowing ending

“Man. That ending!” That’s likely what you’d hear everyone saying on the way out of the multiplex — if we were all still ...

ACM nominee engineer Gena Johnson crafts hit records

Inside the Nashville basement studio of audio engineer Gena Johnson, she has mementos from many of the artists she's helped ...

Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt join Oscars starry presenting cast

The Oscars are aiming to be more like a movie than a television show and enlisting A-list stars like Harrison Ford, Brad ...

Winners of the 2021 British Academy Film Awards

Winners of the 2021 British Academy Film Awards, presented Sunday: Film — “Nomadland” British Film — “Promising Young Woman” ...

Chloé Zhao becomes 1st woman of color to win top DGA honor

Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” continued its tour of dominance through awards season Saturday night, when Zhao took top honors at ...

'Nothing less than a giant': Rapper-actor DMX dies at 50

DMX, the iconic hip-hop artist behind the songs “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” and “Party Up (Up in Here)” whose distinctively gruff ...

How an Irish town became home for an animation powerhouse

The medieval town of Kilkenny in the southeast of Ireland is an unlikely home for a perennial Oscar contender. But there, ...

Small Icelandic town rallies behind Oscar-nominated song

The writers behind the Oscar-nominated song “ Husavik (My Hometown) ” knew that they wanted it to be an emotional core to the ...