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For the second year in a row, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs has mispronounced the name of an Oscar nominee.

“Wow, the acting categories are VERY white this year”. This is despite well-received movies such as Creed, Concussion, Straight Outta Compton and Beasts of No Nation receiving nominations in other awards this year.

Golden Globe nominee Saoirse Ronan will be making a big screen appearance in Cambridge next week, as Cineseries brings Brooklyn to the city.

NBC chief Bob Greenblatt said he would be open to having John Travolta, who played Tracy Turnblad’s mother Edna in the 2007 version of “Hairspray”, reprise his role in the TV version.

Cinematography: “Carol”, “The Hateful Eight”, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “The Revenant”, “Sicario”.

(The problem’s on a higher level: More movies with diverse casts, and diverse stories, need to get made – and watched.) Elba, in “Beasts of No Nation”, seemed to have a good shot (and received a SAG nomination, for supporting), but the votes weren’t...

Five of the seven people who were killed in the daylight assault Thursday were among the attackers, according to Indonesian officials.

He also attached a photo of himself posing with some original artwork from the series, which hangs in his home.

The “Tonight” show host hurt himself in falls three times within five months past year, the most serious in June requiring delicate hand surgery after he caught his ring finger on a countertop.

The Revenant, the 20th Century Fox frontier revenge tale featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, was nominated for a dozen Academy Awards, including for best picture, leading the pack in the annual race for Hollywood’s highest honours. The Revenant also has two acting nominations:...

His latest film, The Hateful Eight, particularly lends itself to the stage, considering nearly the entirety of the procedure unfolds in the solitary setting of Minnie’s Haberdashery.

Music legend David Bowie, whose death on Sunday surprised the world, was secretly cremated soon afterwards in NY.

The network used its platform Wednesday at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour to announce its follow-up to critical success The Wiz and its predecessors, Peter Pan and The Sound of Music.

The city of Chicago has released video showing the 2013 shooting of an unarmed black teen, Cedrick Chatman.

Let’s look back at his road to the Academy Awards, including his previous nominations and who won that year.