September 19, 2022 16:51 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 19: The International Feature Film Selection Committee of Nepal has decided to recommend the film 'Aaina Jhyal Ko Putali' directed by Sujit Bidari for the 95th edition of the Oscar Awards to be held in the USA next year.
April 1, 2022 14:05 pm
Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
March 31, 2022 16:18 pm
Chris Rock received several standing ovations before he told one joke Wednesday at his first comedy show since Will Smith slapped him in the face onstage at the Oscars. Rock only briefly addressed the slap to the sold out crowd in Boston, saying he was “still kind of processing what happened.”
March 20, 2022 15:25 pm
“CODA” won the top prize at Saturday night’s Producers Guild Awards, giving momentum to the possibility that the small film could have a big night at next week’s Oscars.
February 23, 2022 13:39 pm
To combat slumping ratings, the Oscars are undergoing a radical slimming down, with eight awards to be presented off-air during next month’s telecast of the 94th Academy Awards.
February 15, 2022 13:30 pm
After three years without a host, the Oscars are reportedly making up for lost time with three hosts for this year’s awards: Amy Schumer, Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes are in final talks to host the 94th Academy Awards, the trade publication Variety reported Monday.
April 27, 2021 14:23 pm
The Academy Awards television audience plunged to 9.85 million viewers on ABC, less than half of the Oscars’ previous low and continuing a startling trend of viewer tune out for awards shows.
April 25, 2021 13:01 pm
An Oscars unlike any before will get underway Sunday night, with history on the line in major categories and a telecast retooled for the pandemic.
April 21, 2021 18:51 pm
As Hollywood prepares to celebrate the Oscars on Sunday, movie theaters are trying to lure back audiences that have been streaming films at home for over a year. Some cinemas have closed permanently while others are trying to recover and hope that a string of delayed blockbusters will produce a moviegoing rebound.
March 22, 2021 14:25 pm
With nominations set and just over a month until showtime, details are trickling out about the 93rd Oscars and neither sweatshirts nor Zoom made the cut.
December 28, 2020 11:28 am
Nearly two years after the overthrow of autocrat Omar al-Bashir, Sudan is taking steps to rejoin the international community from which it was long shunned. That includes its film industry.
December 3, 2020 13:03 pm
There were a lot of speculations around how the Oscars would be held amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is now confirmed the award gala will not go virtual. "The Oscars in-person telecast will happen," a representative from the Academy told variety.com.
April 30, 2020 10:36 am
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will allow only films streamed online for the forthcoming Oscars in the wake of the industry-wide shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
February 13, 2020 15:01 pm
Actor-producer Natalie Portman may have made a statement at the Oscars through her dress embroidered with the names of all the snubbed women filmmakers, but some have called out her hypocrisy for never employing a woman director for her productions.
February 11, 2020 11:41 am
The 92nd edition of Academy Awards bestowed some of the most outstanding icons of the industry on Sunday and also gave the fashion police some serious business.
February 8, 2020 15:59 pm
Tom Ford brought fashion week to Hollywood on Friday night, with a runway show full of glamour and a front row jammed with A-listers, including Jennifer Lopez, Renée Zellweger, Miley Cyrus and Lil Nas X.
December 19, 2019 14:56 pm
Ten international films, including widely acclaimed offerings from South Korea, Spain and Senegal, are on the shortlist of movies vying for Academy Award nominations.
December 10, 2019 15:49 pm
Producer Ritesh Sidhwani says the 'Gully Boy' team is leaving no stone unturned to make sure the Ranveer Singh-starrer drama gets in the forefront at the Oscars race. The film has been selected as India's official entry in the International Feature Film category at the 92nd Academy Awards.
July 26, 2019 11:10 am
The Screen Actors Guild Awards will shift a week earlier than planned and avoid airing at the same time as the Grammy Awards.
February 25, 2019 11:00 am
LOS ANGELES, Feb 25: Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” took home two early Oscars on Sunday at an Academy Awards ceremony held without a host but filled with powerhouse music performances.
February 19, 2019 11:49 am
A year after best actress winner Frances McDormand used the Oscars stage to advocate for more women in front of and behind the camera, Hollywood is celebrating some progress - but remains far from reaching parity with men.
February 7, 2019 14:55 pm
This year’s Oscar ceremony will go ahead without an official host for only the second time in its history, an ABC television executive said on Tuesday.
July 24, 2018 12:20 pm
LOS ANGELES, July 24: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association says it has picked a date for next year’s Golden Globe Awards.
March 5, 2018 16:23 pm
No dress code, but plenty of references to MeToo at Oscarshere was no #MeToo or Time’s Up dress code on the Oscar red carpet. But the topic was, to no one’s surprise, a major theme of the evening — from Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue, to an emotional appearance by three Harvey Weinstein accusers, to Frances McDormand’s calling all female nominees to rise with her in unison.
March 5, 2018 11:05 am
The Shape of Water won Best Picture tonight at the 90th annual Academy Awards, and Guillermo del Toro won Best Director for The Shape of Water, his first Oscar win in four noms. It led all films tonight with four Oscars.
March 3, 2018 11:01 am
March 3: The 2018 Oscars — or the 90th Academy Awards, if you'd prefer — are headed our way on Sunday, March 4, bringing glitz, glamour and maybe even a headline-grabbing mix-up or two, like the 2017 snafu that was the "La La Land"-"Moonlight" debacle (as documented in the photo above). This year, nine films are up for best picture, just one of 24 award categories that will be featured in the Oscars broadcast.
March 3, 2018 10:56 am
March 3: He's going to the Oscars for the first time in four decades - but Star Wars' Mark Hamill says he'd rather be watching the ceremony in his pyjamas.
February 28, 2018 09:19 am
NEW YORK, Feb 28: Aside from the posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger (“The Dark Knight”) and best-animated film for “The Incredibles,” no superhero film has ever penetrated the top categories of the Academy Awards.
December 7, 2017 12:15 pm
NEW YORK, Dec 7: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science announced Wednesday that it has adopted its first code of conduct for its 8,427 members.
December 2, 2017 12:18 pm
Film on ‘Pakistan’s toughest woman’ makes a bid for the Oscars
October 16, 2017 11:11 am
LOS ANGELES, Oct 16: The board of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has voted overwhelmingly to expel Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein after the powerful media mogul was accused of sexual abuse and physical assault during the course of his career.
July 4, 2017 17:20 pm
Singer Rihanna, who is acting in ‘Valerian’ and ‘Ocean’s Eight’, says while nobody works especially to win awards like Grammy or Oscar, it’s always nice to get some “validation”.
February 5, 2017 13:18 pm
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, Feb 5: "La La Land" director Damien Chazelle has waltzed off with the top honor at the Directors Guild of America Awards held Saturday in Beverly Hills.
January 27, 2017 10:58 am
The Iranian star of the Oscar-nominated film 'The Salesman' on Thursday announced she would boycott the awards in protest against US President Donald Trump's "racist" ban on Muslim immigrants.
January 24, 2017 20:21 pm
The candy-colored love letter to musicals "La La Land" on Tuesday landed a record-tying 14 nominations to the Academy Awards, which fielded a notably more diverse field of nominees following two straight years of "OscarsSoWhite" backlash.
December 11, 2016 12:00 pm
TV personality Jimmy Kimmel’s parents came to know about the news of him hosting the 2017 Oscars ceremony when they read the news online because the popular talk show host forgot to tell them.
September 8, 2016 20:05 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 8: Min Bahadur Bham’s ‘Kalo Pothi’ (The Black Hen) is Nepal’s official submission for this year’s 89th Academy Awards (Oscars) in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
September 7, 2016 13:23 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 7: 'Kalo Pothi (The Black Hen)' directed by Min Bham has been nominated for the Oscars 2017 from Nepal under the Foreign Language category.