LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Parasite,” a dark social satire from South Korea, won the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, making history as the first film in a language other than English to claim the movie industry’s highest honor. “Parasite,” about the gap betwee... More »
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean social media erupted in celebration on Monday after the dark comedy “Parasite” became the first non-English language movie to win the Best Picture award, already having netted three other Oscars in a historic first for the countr... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – At an Oscars ceremony nearly devoid of acting nominees of color and lacking any women among the contenders for best director, it fell to an Asian filmmaker and his cast to bring diversity to the American film industry’s highest honors. ... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Academy Awards, the highest honors in the movie industry, were handed out on Sunday at a ceremony in Hollywood. Following is a list of winners in key categories: Best Picture “Parasite” (Neon) Best Actor Joaquin Phoenix – “Joker” Be... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “American Factory,” a Netflix film from Barack and Michelle Obama’s nascent production house chronicling what happened to a group of Ohio autoworkers laid off during the 2008 recession, won the Oscar for best documentary feature on Sund... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Three-year-old independent film distributor Neon upstaged the traditional Hollywood studios and streaming giant Netflix Inc on Sunday to grab the coveted best picture Oscar for South Korean have-and-have-nots tale “Parasite.” The movie ... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – South Korean Bong Joon Ho won the best director Oscar for dark social satire “Parasite” on Sunday, becoming the first person from the Asian nation to win the award. The film was one of the biggest winners at the Academy Awards, having a... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Joaquin Phoenix won his first Oscar on Sunday for his terrifying performance as an isolated loner who becomes one of the world’s best known comic book villains in “Joker,” and invoked his late brother River Phoenix in one of the most em... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Renee Zellweger was crowned best actress at the Oscars on Sunday for her portrait of Hollywood legend Judy Garland in “Judy,” a biographical drama exploring the singer’s personal and professional turmoil at the end of her life. It marke... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – South Korea’s “Parasite,” a pitch-black comedy about haves and have-nots in modern Seoul, won the Oscar for best international film on Sunday after also taking home the award for best original screenplay. The thriller, showing how strug... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Newly minted Grammy winner Billie Eilish will perform live at the Oscars ceremony next month, organizers said on Wednesday, raising speculation she may debut her recording of the new James Bond movie theme song. Eilish, 18, swept the Gr... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The 2020 Oscars ceremony in February will again have no host, the head of ABC Television Entertainment said on Wednesday. “Let me confirm it now. Together with the Academy (of Motion Pictures), we have decided there will be no tradition... More »
(Reuters) – Comedian Kevin Hart stepped down on Thursday from hosting the 2019 Oscar ceremony after “insensitive words” about gays he tweeted in the past resurfaced online. The 39-year-old comedian and “Ride Along” actor had announced on Tuesday that he would ... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – Actress Emmanuelle Seigner on Sunday rejected an invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in a column in which she slammed the “hypocrisy” of a group that expelled her husband Roman Polanski two months ago. Seigner,... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expelled television’s Bill Cosby and Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski on Thursday as the Academy Awards presenter responded to sexual misconduct allegations roiling Hollywood. Cosby a... More »
90th Academy Awards – Oscars Show – Hollywood – Frances McDormand accepts the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Frances McDormand left the Oscar stage after winnin... More »
90th Academy Awards – Oscars Show – Hollywood, California, U.S., 04/03/2018 – Host Jimmy Kimmel and actors are shown on the big screen as they deliver candy to people in a movie theatre next door to the Dolby Theatre. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson entLOS ANGELES (Reut... More »
90th Academy Awards – Oscars Show – Hollywood, California, U.S., 04/03/2018 – Guillermo del Toro (L) accepts the Oscar for Best Picture for “The Shape of Water.” REUTERS/Lucas Jackson LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Romantic fantasy“The Shape of Water” won the best pi... More »
90th Academy Awards – Oscars Backstage – Hollywood, California, U.S., 04/03/2018 – Best animated short film – Kobe Bryant reacts while being directed to the photo stage with Glen Keane after winning the Best Short Film (Animated) Award for “Dear Basketball”. R... More »
90th Academy Awards – Oscars Backstage – Hollywood, California, U.S., 04/03/2018 – Alexandre Desplat holds the Oscar for Best Original Score for “The Shape of Water” as Guillermo Del Toro is seen accepting the Best Director Oscar on the television screen. REUT... More »
Frances McDormand won the best actress Oscar on Sunday for playing an angry woman seeking justice in the dark comedy "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." More »
Allison Janney won her first Oscar on Sunday for her supporting role as the demanding and abusive mother to Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding in the mockumentary "I, Tonya." More »
90th Academy Awards – Oscars Show – Hollywood, California, U.S., 04/03/2018 – Ashley Judd, Annabella Sciorra and Salma Hayek. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Women filmmakers and artists of color celebrated a year of diversity at the 90th Academy... More »
90th Academy Awards – Oscars Show – Hollywood, California, U.S., 04/03/2018 – Guillermo del Toro accepts the Oscar for Best Picture for “The Shape of Water” from presenter Warren Beatty. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The Academy Awards, or Osc... More »
Gary Oldman won his first Oscar on Sunday for his performance as British wartime leader Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour." More »
A dessert plate is displayed during a media preview of this year’s Academy’s Governors Ball in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 1, 2018. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Three-hundred pounds of Miyazaki Wagyu beef will be sliced, 1,500 quail e... More »
A statue of Harvey Weinstein on a casting couch made by artist Plastic Jesus is seen on Hollywood Boulevard near the Dolby Theatre during preparations for the Oscars in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. March 1, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson LOS ANGELES ... More »
FILE PHOTO: Laurie Metcalf (L-R), Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan pose backstage with their Best Motion Picture -Musical or Comedy award for ‘Lady Bird.” at the 75th Golden Globe Awards Photo Room in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., January 7, 2018. REUTERS/Luc... More »
FILE PHOTO: Michael Stuhlbarg, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer and Richard Jenkins attend the premiere of “The Shape of Water” in Los Angeles, California, U.S. November 15, 2017. REUTERS/David McNew LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The Acad... More »
FILE PHOTO: Casey Affleck arrives for the 89th Academy Awards, Oscars Red Carpet in Hollywood, California, U.S. February 26, 2018. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Oscar-winning Casey Affleck, who has been accused of sexual harassment b... More »
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences building is seen in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. October 14, 2017. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Academy of Motion Pictures, the body that chooses the Oscars, has adopted a code of conduct... More »
Donald Sutherland, the star of "MASH," "The Hunger Games" and more than 140 other movies, is to get a lifetime achievement Oscar, along with Belgian director Agnes Varda, Oscar organizers said on Wednesday. More »
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) President Cheryl Boone Isaacs arrives at the 89th Oscars Nominee Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., February 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni The departing president of the Academy of Motion Picture A... More »
89th Academy Awards – Oscars Awards Show – Hollywood, California, U.S. – 26/02/17 – Martha Ruiz (R, in red) and Brian Cullinan (upper R) of PricewaterhouseCoopers confer on stage after the Best Picture was mistakenly awarded to ”La La Land” instead of ”Moonlig... More »
Martha Ruiz (L) and Brian Cullinan of PricewaterhouseCoopers confer on stage after the Best Picture was mistakenly awarded to ‘La La Land’ instead of ‘Moonlight’. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Security has been stepped up for the two accountants responsibl... More »
Brian Cullinan (L) and Martha Ruiz of PricewaterhouseCoopers look on as presenter Warren Beatty holds the card for the Best Picture Oscar awarded to ‘Moonlight,’ after announcing by mistake that ‘La La Land’ was the winner. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Roy More »
It’s high fashion on a small scale, as the Oscar gowns worn by some of Hollywood’s biggest names got re-imagined into child-sized versions by a Los Angeles photographer. More »
Brian Cullinan (R) and Martha Ruiz (L) of PricewaterhouseCoopers confer on stage after the Best Picture was mistakenly awarded to ‘La La Land’ instead of ‘Moonlight’. Cullinan gave presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway the wrong envelope for the Best Pictu... More »
89th Academy Awards – Oscars Backstage – Hollywood, California, U.S. – 26/02/17 – Anousheh Ansari and Firouz Naderi pose with the Oscar they accepted on behalf of Asghar Farhadi, who won the Best Foreign Language Film for ”The Salesman”. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson ... More »
89th Academy Awards – Oscars Vanity Fair Party – Beverly Hills, California, U.S. – 27/02/17 – Floriana Lima and Best Actor winner Casey Affleck for Manchester By The Sea. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok ABC’s Sunday night broadcast of the Academy Awards hosted by comic... More »
89th Academy Awards – Oscars Backstage – Hollywood, California, U.S. – 26/02/17 – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara hold their Oscars for Best Documentary Short Subject for ‘The White Helmets’. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson For Raed Saleh, the leader of the ... More »
89th Academy Awards – Oscars Awards Show – Producer Jordon Horowitz holds up the card for the Best Picture winner Moonlight. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson African-American coming-of-age tale “Moonlight” won the Oscar for best picture on Sunday on a big night for Holl... More »
89th Academy Awards – Oscars Backstage – Hollywood, California, U.S. – 26/02/17 – Casey Affleck poses with his Oscar for Best Actor for ‘Manchester by the Sea’ REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Silicon Valley crashed Hollywood’s biggest awards show on Sunday as Amazon.com... More »
Jimmy Kimmel host. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson First-time Oscar host Jimmy Kimmel turned President Donald Trump into a comic foil in absentia at the Academy Awards on Sunday, poking fun at the political tumult roiling the United States and the world since the forme... More »
89th Academy Awards – Oscars Awards Show – Director Barry Jenkins and producer Adele Romanski celebrating the best picture win for ”Moonlight.” REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson “Moonlight,” a drama about a gay black youth coming to terms with his sexuality in an impover... More »
89th Academy Awards – Oscars Awards Show – Hollywood, California, U.S. – 26/02/17 – Casey Affleck speaks as he accepts the Oscar for Best Actor for ‘Manchester by the Sea’. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Casey Affleck won the best actor Oscar on Sunday for his role as... More »
The 2017 Academy Awards, the highest honors in the movie industry, were handed out at a ceremony in Hollywood on Sunday hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel. More »
89th Academy Awards – Oscars Awards Show – Best Actress winner Emma Stone accepts her award for La La Land. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Emma Stone won her first Oscar on Sunday for her lead role as a struggling actress who falls in love with a jazz musician in musi... More »
89th Academy Awards – Oscars Awards Show – Damien Chazelle accepts the award for winning Best Director. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Damien Chazelle became the youngest ever winner of a best directing Oscar on Sunday after picking up the prize for his third feature ... More »
89th Academy Awards – Oscars Awards Show – Viola Davis accepts the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in ‘Fences.’ REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Viola Davis won her first Oscar on Sunday for her supporting role as a long-suffering housewife in the African... More »
89th Academy Awards – Oscars Red Carpet Arrivals – Hollywood, California, U.S. – 26/02/17 – Emma Stone. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni Roy More »
Actor Denzel Washington. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni Denzel Washington plays a talkative, bombastic, larger-than-life dad whose personality leaps off the screen. More »
Oscar statues wait for a fresh coat of gold paint as preparations begin for the 89th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, U.S., February 22, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake The 2017 Oscars, or Academy Awards, the highest honors in the movie industry, will be hand... More »
Heidi Klum, Cate Blanchett and Emily Blunt pose on the red carpet before the 2016 Academy Awards. REUTERS/Staff It’s not just women who are getting ready for the Oscars’ red carpet on Sunday. More »
Ryan Gosling (L), Emma Stone and Damian Chazelle pose together after ‘La La Land’ won the award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, as well as individual awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Gosling, Best... More »
File Photo: Actor Ryan Gosling attends a premiere event for ”La La Land” in Tokyo, Japan, January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo From “Singin’ in the Rain” to “The Wizard of Oz,” musicals haven’t traditionally seen much love from the Oscars. But “... More »
Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, director of Oscar-nominated documentary ‘I Am Not Your Negro,’ poses for a portrait at the 89th Oscars Nominee Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., February 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni Roy More »
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) President Cheryl Boone Isaacs arrives at the 89th Oscars Nominee Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., February 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni Roy More »
Actor Jackie Chan reacts as he accepts his Honorary Award as actor Chris Tucker (C) looks on at the 8th Annual Governors Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 12, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni Roy More »
Actor Jackie Chan poses for the cameras at the announcement of the beginning of production for the science fiction action film ‘Bleeding Steel’, which has been billed by producers as the biggest budget Chinese film ever shot in Australia, in Sydney, Australia ... More »
LOS ANGELES Catholic Church abuse movie “Spotlight” was named best picture, the top award at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, after a night peppered with pointed punchlines from host Chris Rock about the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that has dominated the industry. In ... More »
LOS ANGELES The 88th Academy Awards, the highest honors in the movie industry, were handed out a ceremony in Hollywood on Sunday hosted by comedian Chris Rock. Following is a list of winners in key categories for the awards, also known as the Oscars. BEST PICT... More »
LOS ANGELES They were supposed to free up Oscar recipients to say something profound during their 45 allotted seconds on stage. But the thank-you scrolls that ran at the bottom of the screen for the first time at the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday didn’t notice... More »
LOS ANGELES Comedian Chris Rock launched his return stint as Oscar host on Sunday by immediately and unabashedly confronting the racially charged elephant in the room – the furor over the all-white field of performers nominated for Hollywood’s highest honors. ... More »
LOS ANGELES Vice President Joe Biden made a special appearance at the Oscars ceremony on Sunday to advocate for victims of sexual assault and introduced a powerful performance by Lady Gaga that featured survivors of sexual abuse. Biden came on stage to rousing... More »
LOS ANGELES Mexico’s Alejandro Iñárritu won the best director Oscar on Sunday for drama “The Revenant” about a fur trapper who survives a bear attack and treks across a desolate landscape in winter. Iñárritu was the first filmmaker in more than 60 years to win... More »
LOS ANGELES Brie Larson won her first Oscar for best actress on Sunday for her moving portrayal of a young woman held captive for years with a son in the emotional thriller “Room.” Larson, 26, won praise for her role as ‘Ma’ in the film in which she plays an a... More »
LOS ANGELES Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar on Sunday, taking home the best actor statuette for his role in revenge movie “The Revenant.” DiCaprio, 41, had been nominated four times previously for an acting Oscar over a career spanning 25 years. He was ... More »
Fashion watchers gave Reuters their top fashion hits – and faux pas – on the Oscar red carpet, as stars took a twirl down the world’s most watched runway on Sunday. ERIC WILSON, INSTYLE FASHION NEWS DIRECTOR: Best dressed: Cate Blanchett “To see the flowers al... More »
LOS ANGELES Open Road Films, a small movie producer founded by two theater chains just five years ago, upstaged Hollywood’s big studios on Sunday by winning the coveted best picture award and a likely sales boost for its Catholic Church scandal drama “Spotligh... More »
NEW YORK Shares of 21st Century Fox (FOXA.O) could be set for a rare Oscar rally if the global media conglomerate takes home gold at this Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony. The Oscars, which draws some of the biggest audiences of any single annual television ev... More »
LOS ANGELES Celebrities might be flocking to the front rows of this week’s London Fashion Week shows, but some designers are swapping the runway for Hollywood’s awards season red carpets as the fashion world seeks new ways to draw attention. Ahead of Sunday’s ... More »
It is not just the Oscars that have a diversity problem. Women, minorities and the LGBT community are vastly under-represented throughout Hollywood, according to a report published on Monday ahead of the Academy Award ceremony. The report looked at 109 films a... More »
Director Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith said on Monday they will boycott next month’s Academy Awards ceremony because black actors were shut out of nominations, and the Academy acknowledged it needed to do more to promote diversity. The Oscar acting ... More »
LONDON Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated five times for an acting Oscar and Kate Winslet, his co-star in the 1997 blockbuster “Titanic”, says he may finally win the golden statuette next month. DiCaprio got a nod for his lead role in survival drama “The Rev... More »
