Movie awards

November 15, 2019 - 6:53 pm

A fresh batch of producers selected for the 92nd Oscars

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 92nd Oscars is getting some fresh faces behind the production. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says Friday that Lynette Howell Taylor and Stephanie Allain will produce the February show. While newcomers to the Academy Awards, both are veteran producers in the...
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November 08, 2019 - 3:54 am

Screenwriters honored with film academy's Nicholl award

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Five emerging screenwriters are getting their shot in Hollywood through the film academy's stamp of approval. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored them at the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting awards and presentation Thursday night. The five...
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FILE - This May 29, 2019 file photo shows actress Meryl Streep at the premiere of HBO's "Big Little Lies" season two in New York. Streep has been named as a co-chair of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
November 07, 2019 - 12:56 pm

Streep, Miranda and Stone are named as Met Gala co-chairs

NEW YORK (AP) — Next year's Met Gala may be the closest we'll ever come to getting a Miranda Priestly moment at the starry event. Meryl Streep has been named as a co-chair of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The Oscar-winner played Priestly, a thinly veiled fictional version of...
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FILE - This Oct. 5, 2019 file photo shows Spike Lee at the grand opening of Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta. Lee will receive Film at Lincoln Center’s 46th Chaplin Award. Lincoln Center announced Thursday, Nov. 7, that the 62-year-old filmmaker will be honored in its annual fundraising gala on April 27. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Invision/AP, File)
November 07, 2019 - 12:22 pm

Lincoln Center in New York City to honor Spike Lee in April

NEW YORK (AP) — Spike Lee will receive Film at Lincoln Center's 46th Chaplin Award. Lincoln Center announced Thursday that the 62-year-old filmmaker will be honored in its annual fundraising gala on April 27. For its 50th anniversary last year, Lincoln Center skipped a Chaplin Award honoree and...
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FILE - In this Jan. 30 1985 file photo, French actress Catherine Deneuve congratulates French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent after the presentation of spring-summer haute couture collection in Paris. Denueve's family said in a statement released Wednesday Nov. 6, 2019, that the 76-year-old actress suffered a "very limited and therefore reversible" stroke. (AP Photo/Alexis Duclos, File)
November 06, 2019 - 1:14 pm

Family: France's Catherine Deneuve hospitalized with stroke

PARIS (AP) — French actress Catherine Deneuve has had a mild stroke while filming her latest movie, the screen star's family said Wednesday. The 76-year-old Deneuve suffered a "very limited and therefore reversible" stroke, according to a family statement sent to The Associated Press by the media...
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November 05, 2019 - 7:00 am

Annette Bening to receive AARP Movies for Grownups award

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Annette Bening will receive AARP the Magazine's lifetime achievement honor at the Movies for Grownups Awards next year. The magazine announced Tuesday that Bening will accept the career achievement award at the ceremony on January 11, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. The 19th...
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Wes Studi accepts an honorary award at the Governors Awards on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, at the Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
October 28, 2019 - 3:30 am

Stars advocate for progress at honorary Oscars event

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Wes Studi and directors Lina Wertmuller and David Lynch are now officially Oscar winners. All three received honorary Oscars at the annual Governors Awards Sunday night in the heart of Hollywood, where Geena Davis was also given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Stars...
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This image released by A24 shows Awkwafina, center, in a scene from "The Farewell." The film received three Gotham Awards nominations, including one for best feature. The Gotham Awards are one of the first stops in Hollywood’s awards season but focus entirely on independent films as voted on by panels of journalists and filmmakers. (A24 via AP)
October 24, 2019 - 11:07 pm

'Marriage Story,' 'Farewell,' 'Uncut Gems' top Gotham noms

NEW YORK (AP) — Noah Baumbach's "Marriage Story," Lulu Wang's "The Farewell" and the Safdie brothers' "Uncut Gems" led the 29th annual Gotham Awards with three nominations apiece, including best feature. The Independent Filmmaker Project, which puts on the Gothams, announced the nominations...
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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2015 file photo, co-founder of Japan's prestigious Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata, stands in front of his office at Studio Ghibli in suburban Tokyo after an interview about his animated film "The Tale of The Princess Kaguya." The vast catalog of storied Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli is heading to the new HBO Max streaming service. Films such as “Princess Mononoke,” “My Neighbor Totoro” and Oscar-winner “Spirited Away” will be among the titles available to stream when HBO Max launches in Spring 2020. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)
October 17, 2019 - 8:50 pm

'Spirited Away,' other Studio Ghibli films head to HBO Max

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The vast catalog of storied Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli is heading to the new HBO Max streaming service. Films such as "Princess Mononoke," ''My Neighbor Totoro" and Oscar-winner "Spirited Away" will be among the titles available to stream when HBO Max launches in...
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FILE - In this Monday, March 18, 2013 file photo, Robert Forster arrives at the LA premiere of "Olympus Has Fallen" at the ArcLight Theatre in Los Angeles. Forster, the handsome character actor who got a career resurgence and Oscar-nomination for playing bail bondsman Max Cherry in "Jackie Brown," has died at age 78. Forster's agent Julia Buchwald says he died Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, at home in Los Angeles of brain cancer. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
October 12, 2019 - 2:38 am

Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for 'Jackie Brown,' dies at 78

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Forster, the handsome and omnipresent character actor who got a career resurgence and Oscar nomination for playing bail bondsman Max Cherry in "Jackie Brown," died Friday. He was 78. Publicist Kathie Berlin said Forster died of brain cancer following a brief illness. He...
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