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For 97 years, Academy of Motion Pictures members were allowed to vote for or against movies they had not bothered to watch.  

Remember when actor Will Smith strode onto the 2022 Oscars stage and slapped Chris Rock across the face after the comedian made a joke at the expense of his Smith’s wife? Oh, how everyone laughed. Said nobody.

The streaming platform Hulu, a subsidiary of Disney, has apologized for tech glitches and outages during its livestream of the Oscars telecast on Sunday.

Last night’s Academy Awards had a handful of surprises though none were as shocking as those seen on the red carpet. 

Kieran Culkin reminded his wife of a deal they made to have more children, after he had won an award for Best Supporting Actor at the 2025 Oscars for his role in the film “A Real Pain.”

This year’s swag bags for Oscar nominees are valued over $200,000, with dozens of gifts ranging from liposuction vouchers to international resort stays — and in the wake of the historic Los Angeles wildfires, some of the freebies may help victims with repairing or rebuilding their properties or family members’ homes.

Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, late Wednesday night.

Acclaimed actress Angela Bassett publicly reacted to her losing the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Black Panther II.

Netflix broke its silence on the scandal surrounding its drug cartel musical, Emilia Pérez, in which the film’s transgender star, Karla Sofia Gascón, has come under fire for his previous social media posts disparaging Muslims, the Chinese, and black people.

Netflix has taken the extraordinary step of removing best actress Oscar nominee Karla Sofia Gascón from its Academy Awards campaign for “Emilia Perez,” cancelling appearances by the transgender performer and deleting any reference to Gascón from its Oscar-themed advertisements.

“Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofía Gascón — the first transgender performer ever nominated for an Academy Award — also penned a lengthy apology amid the continued publicity crisis over the actor’s past social media posts in which Gascón repeatedly insulted Muslims, mocked George Floyd, and ridiculed diversity.

Oscar-nominated “Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofia Gascón has come under fire after old tweets have resurfaced showing Gascón making derogatory comments about Muslims, George Floyd, the COVID-19 vaccine, and Oscars diversity.

The Oscar race for best actress is getting nasty, with Karla Sofia Gascón — the first transgender performer ever nominated for an Academy Award — accusing the team behind a rival nominee of launching a smear campaign.

This pathetic culture of ours marches on with the news that Best Actress nominee Fernanda Torres has been forced to apologize for a 17-year-old blackface skit.

Oscars host Conan O’Brien says he’s still unable to live in his home due to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles and that the show’s organizers “want to be sensitive to what’s happened” to residents.

The United States may have swung to the political right by re-electing President Donald Trump and putting the Republicans in charge of both houses of Congress, but Tinseltown’s progressive politics were on full display Thursday.

Barely anyone turned out to see the controversial Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice” when it opened in cinemas late last year. But Academy voters clearly loved it enough to reward its two main actors — Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong — with Oscar nominations on Thursday.

Karla Sofía Gascón — the transgender star of Netflix’s narco-musical “Emilia Perez” — has earned an Academy Award nomination for lead actress, making Gascón the first openly trans actor ever to receive an Oscar nomination.

The Oscar nominations for 2025 are being pushed back almost a week from their original date as the California wildfires continue their deadly rampage.

This year’s Oscar nominations announcement has been delayed by 48-hours due to the deadly wildfires raging across vast swathes the Los Angeles area.

HBO’s “Succession” star Brian Cox has trashed the Academy Awards as “absolute nonsense,” saying the Oscars focus primarily on prestige movies released during so-called awards season.

Late-night comedy show host Conan O’Brien will front the next Academy Awards a year after comedian Jimmy Kimmel was tapped for the second time to host the annual show.

The Academy Museum has finally agreed to fix its antisemitic exhibit attacking Hollywood’s legendary founders. 

An assistant costume designer on Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon is suing Apple Studios for racial discrimination.

The Academy Awards is doubling down on its embrace of woke social justice activism and DEI. The latest change: the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award — a staple of the Oscars since the 1950s — will now focus, at least in part, on equity.

Actress Patricia Heaton has blasted Mark Ruffalo over his decision to use the Oscars to make political statements on abortion and Gaza.

With only 19.5 million viewers, Sunday night’s Academy Awards bombed with the fourth-lowest viewership in Oscar history.

Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel said he was told not to read former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post during Sunday’s live ABC telecast.

The Academy Awards are the belle of the ball of award season, where starlets and studs get to step out in their most glamorous ensembles.

The Academy Awards went big on diversity this year. The results would make a woke activist break down in tears: “Oppenheimer,” a movie about straight white men without a single minority in its cast, triumphed with seven Oscars, including awards for best picture, director Christopher Nolan, and actor Cillian Murphy.

Native American actress Lily Gladstone has drawn waves of sympathy and anger after she missed on the Best Actress award at the Oscars for her role as Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.

Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel waited to the very end of the Oscars broadcast on Sunday to take aim at former President Donald Trump and the MAGA base.

The Academy Awards went big on Ukraine on Sunday, with 20 Days in Mariupol winning the Oscar for best documentary.

Academy Award host Jimmy Kimmel wasted little time getting political during Sunday’s telecast on ABC, mocking Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) by comparing her to the Frankenstein-like heroine of “Poor Things.”

Hollywood celebrities used the Oscars red carpet on Sunday to demand a “permanent ceasefire” in Gaza, with Billie Eilish, Rami Youssef, and Ava DuVernay among the attendees sporting red lapel pins in support of the group Artists for Ceasefire.

As celebrities prepare for their red carpet close-ups on Sunday’s telecast of the 96th Academy Awards, another part of Hollywood is worried about putting food on the table, paying rent, and finding work to support their families.