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By late morning, AMPAS members and their assistants and messengers were arriving at a rate of 15 to 20 an hour to deliver their white envelopes.By late morning, AMPAS members and their assistants and messengers were arriving at a rate of 15 to 20...

Some 500 of the Academy's 5,765 voting members, including actors, directors, makeup artists and hairstylists, reside abroad.Some 500 of the Academy's 5,765 voting members, including actors, directors, makeup artists and hairstylists, reside abroad.

The LES Film Festival, which will run March 6-18 in Manhattan, has announced its 2012 lineup with films starring Dolly Parton, Dustin Lance Black, Olivia Munn and Lizzy Caplan. The festival also features an expanded list of Lower East Side...

George Brizan, a former prime minister who was a founder of Grenada’s ruling party, died Feb. 18 at a hospital in the capital, St. George’s. He was 69. The death was confirmed by Prime Minister Tillman Thomas. He said Mr. Brizan died of...

Paramount says the son of The Godfather author Mario Puzo is tarnishing the legacy of the studio’s films by attempting to publish a new sequel to the original novel. So it’s suing the Puzo estate in U.S. District Court in New York to...

Hello from an alternate universe! Here, Brett Ratner never uttered his infamous gay slur about rehearsing, and Eddie Murphy is still hosting the Academy Awards instead of Billy Crystal. Since, for all intents and purposes, the larger races are a...

America is currently enmeshed in two campaigns: one for the presidential election and the other for the winners of the 2012 Oscars. And with every campaign comes controversy. With actors releasing desperate, and often inappropriate,...

What films does Oscar like best?

'The Descendants' and 'The Ides of March' earn the Academy Award-winner his sixth and seventh nominations.By Kevin P. Sullivan George Clooney in "The Descendants" Photo: Fox Searchlight At this point in his career, almost 30 years after...

With less than a week until the Oscars, The Weinstein Company is planning to expand the box-office reach of Best Picture front-runner "The Artist."  Erik Lomis, The Weinstein Company's head of distribution, told TheWrap that...