New York Daily NewsLegendary actress Lauren Bacall, one of the leading ladies during the Golden Age of Hollywood, died at her New York City home after suffering a stroke Tuesday. She was 89. The sultry,…
Los Angeles TimesIn 1996, Bacall appeared as the meddling mother to Barbra Streisand in “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” a role for which she received her only Academy Award nomination as supporting actress. She was…
New York TimesRobin Williams, the comedian who evolved into the surprisingly nuanced, Academy Award-winning actor, imbuing his performances with wild inventiveness and a kind of manic energy, died on Monday at his home in Tiburon,…
Actor Robin Williams hanged himself, sheriff saysPress HeraldWilliams was a Juilliard-trained actor and uncontainably exhibitionist comic who became one of the most dazzling all-around talents in show business, winning an Academy Award for a dramatic…
DeMille Award Recipient Woody Allen Not Expected To Attend Golden GlobesDeadline.comIn fact, the only awards show he ever attended was the 2002 Academy Awards as an ambassador of New York, thanking Hollywood for its support…
Holts Academy graduate awards return for 2014Professional JewellerHolts Academy will celebrate its 15th anniversary in style by hosting its second Academy Awards and Graduation Ceremony evening on September 4. The awards evening, which made its…
TweakTownCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown is now taking a look at the mandatory smartphone ‘kill switch’ bill after it was passed by the state legislature. If Brown approves the bill, all smartphone devices sold in the…
The Plain Dealer – cleveland.com (blog)Robin Williams, left, and Matt Damon appear in a scene from the movie ‘Good Will Hunting.’ ‘Good Will Hunting’ was nominated for Best Picture in the 70th Annual Academy Awards,…
Ottawa CitizenRobin Williams, a standup comic who shot to stardom in the 1970s when he appeared in the Mork & Mindy television series, has died at the age of 63. Williams was pronounced dead on…
Press HeraldSAN FRANCISCO — Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and made him a gleamy-eyed laureate for the Information Age,…
Home»News»Entertainment»Robin Williams, Oscar-winning comedy star of …680 NewsFILE – This March 27, 2010 file photo shows actor Robin Williams speaking at The 24th American Cinematheque Awards honoring Matt Damon in Beverly Hills, Calif. Williams, whose…
Toledo BladeSAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and made him a gleamy-eyed laureate for the Information…
Indie WireWilliams also received two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Grammy Awards. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for playing an English teacher in “Dead Poets…
Hollywoodnews.comthe fault in our stars 600×338 Over the weekend, Josh Boone’s The Fault in Our Stars all but swept the 2014 Teen Choice Awards. Now, believe me when I say we shouldn’t put much stock…
VarietyLONDON — Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Ida” has been selected as Poland’s entry for the foreign-language film category of the Oscars. The black-and-white film, which follows a novice nun as she attempts to discover how her parents…
spyghana.comPrince Sam Anwuzia, CEO of Nollywood Entertainment Limited, United Kingdom and President of the African Film Festival and Academy Awards (ZAFAA), who confirmed this in a statement after meeting with officials of the BFI in…
Hollywoodnews.comPotentially, I could do this once a week with previous Academy Award ceremonies, so there’s a chance that this could turn into a long running thing. There are 86 of these to sift through after…
Hollywood Records Set To Release Academy Award®-Winning Composer A. R. …SYS-CON Media (press release)A. R. Rahman’s work has been recognized around the globe with numerous awards and honors including two Academy Awards, two Grammys, a…
Hollywood Records Set To Release Academy Award®-Winning Composer A. R. …PR Newswire (press release)BURBANK, Calif., Aug. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Hollywood Records will release the digital original motion picture soundtrack for “The Hundred-Foot Journey” on…
Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award submissions 2015Screen InternationalSubmissions for the Best Foreign-Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards are coming in and will continue until October, when the full list of eligible submissions will be…
VarietyShe said the Acad team is “very proud of all our programs,” but she mentioned specifically the growth in the Governors Awards, the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, and the Student Academy Awards, which have all…
VarietyLONDON — Hungary has selected Kornel Mundruczo’s “White God,” which won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes, as its entry for the Oscars’ foreign-language film category. The decision was made at a meeting of…
Today’s Zaman (blog)Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan poses with the Palme d’Or award for his film “Winter Sleep” on stage during the closing ceremony of the 67th Cannes Film Festival. “Winter Sleep” was this week named…
Los Angeles TimesActor Chris Hemsworth and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced the 86th Academy Awards nominations in January. On Tuesday, she was elected to a second one-year term….
Academy instructors Cassidy and Mullaly win Plein Air Easton awardsThe Star DemocratIn the “Local Color” exhibit at the Tidewater Inn, Cassidy was awarded one of three Awards of Merit judged by 2013 winner Garin Baker….
Naveen presents Odisha Bigyan Academy awardsOdishaChannelBhubaneswar, August 5: Several eminent scientists were felicitated at the investiture ceremony of different awards of Odisha Bigyan Academy for the year 2012 at a grand function held at the…
Today’s ZamanTurkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Palme d’Or prize-winning drama “Kış Uykusu” (Winter Sleep) has been selected to represent Turkey in the Best Foreign Language Film category in the upcoming Academy Awards, according to a…
Today’s ZamanDirector Nuri Bilge Ceylan (C), Palme d’Or award winner for his film “Winter Sleep”, poses on stage next to director Quentin Tarantino (R) and actress Uma Thurman (L) during the closing ceremony of the…
WalesOnlineWales’ World Cup campaign is set to get even tougher when they face Australia, who they have never beaten at a World Cup, tomorrow afternoon at Marcoussis (KO 2pm UK). Having faced the Aussies in…
Calgary Herald“It’s kind of like the Academy Awards for dog grooming,” the 49-year-old native Calgarian says, as Duvel’s auburn hair escapes from her comb to waft in the air all around us. “I’m pretty excited…
‘Tom in America’ With Two Academy Award Nominees East Coast Premieres …Free Press Release Center (press release)Oscar nominees Burt Young and Sally Kirkland star in the Flavio Alves’ film Tom in America which will have…
Oscar 2015 Predictions: Which Toronto Film Festival Films Could End Up as Top …Latin PostThe Weinstein Company’s sole selection “The Imitation Game” will also try to garner attention for awards. The Weinsteins have long been…
DAWN.comThe Pakistani Academy Selection Committee has invited Pakistani filmmakers to submit their films for Oscar consideration in the ‘Foreign Language Film Award’ category, for the 87th Academy Awards. The deadline for submission is August 25,…
‘Tom in America’ With Two Academy Award Nominees East Coast Premieres …DigitalJournal.comOther notable cast members attending include Actor Alex Kruz from the multiple award winning Native American film “Red Cloud: Deliverance” which currently plays at…
Deadline.comEMMYS: TV Academy To Honor Casting Queen Marion Dougherty With Governors Award; Announces Juried Casting director Marion Dougherty will be posthumously awarded the 2014 Governors Award, the Television Academy said today. It will be …Emmys:…
Hucknall TodayBulwell Academy students were rewarded for their hard work and commitment to learning in an end of year ceremony. School principal, Mr Paul Halcro, was present and acknowledged the efforts of many during the…
St. Mary’s Hospital one of several winners in the Design & Health …Canadian ArchitectSt. Mary’s Hospital, designed by Farrow Partnership Architects in association with Perkins+Will, was twice honoured at the annual Design & Health International…
Grimsby TelegraphPRESENTATION NIGHT: Principal award winners with their trophies at the Caistor Yarborough Academy Awards Evening. From left, Sophie Hopper, Edward Kaczmarek, James Rispin, Callum Mutton, head teacher Jeremy Newnham, Jamima Burgess and … …read…
CNNDonetsk, Ukraine (CNN) — An international team is attempting again Monday to enter the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in war-torn eastern Ukraine, a day after heavy fighting prevented it from getting near….
Royal Academy awards Fellowship to composites researcherReinforced PlasticsProfessor Ric Parker CBE FREng, Director of Research and Technology, Rolls-Royce Group, and Chair of the Academy’s Research and Secondments Committee, said: “Innovation is crucial to keep the…
Academy awards ‘imaging’ fellowshipLaboratory TalkThe Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) awards seven new fellowships to help scientists launch independent research careers. The projects that have been awarded research fellowships by the RAE have been selected…
Indie Wire (blog)Indeed last season’s Best Picture Academy Award winner (“12 Years a Slave”) premiered at TIFF in the fall of 2013. And while it didn’t officially premiere at TIFF, last season’s Oscar winner for…
Major League SoccerMLS academies were strongly represented in the US Soccer Development Academy’s year-end awards, announced this week in the wake of the DA’s championship finals at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., on Saturday. Chicago…
Argentinian Academy Awards entrant Wakolda coming to UK Cinemas this AugustThe Fan CarpetFrom Lucia Puenzo, the acclaimed novelist and award-winning director of XXY and THE FISH CHILD, adapted from her own eponymous novel, WAKOLDA is…
ForbesNvidia announced today two new members of the SHIELD family, the SHIELD tablet and the SHIELD controller for gaming. This comes on the heels of the Nvidia SHIELD portable released a year ago. I think…
Oscar-Nominated Film Now Aiming To WIN An Emmy For Netflix …Deadline.comOf course, the reverse is definitely not true and films that premiere in any kind of TV format before qualifying for Oscars theatrically are ineligible…
The Beverly Hills CourierHe received his only Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for the 1985 film “Murphy’s Romance.” In 2005, he accepted a Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild. Garner won an…
Sounders Academy pulls in year end awardsSounder At HeartAfter the season’s championship matches the USSDA named individual and team award winners at the three current Academy levels. Two Sounders Academy players made the West XI…
Let’s chat Emmys with TV Academy awards chief John Leverence (exclusive video)GoldDerbyLeverence has been on the job since 1980, overseeing the many fluctuations in Emmy voting that have occurred over the decades. He’s widely respected…
Can Andy Serkis win an Oscar for ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’?GoldDerbyDefinitely not a win, or even a nomination. Maybe a nomination for smaller critics’ awards, but honestly for a win, and for…
Red carpet outfits that broke the bankNEWS.com.auIn 2011, Anne Hathaway hosted the Academy Awards, arriving in a shop stopping, red silk faille Valentino dress worth a reported $80,000. Though her overall look was demure Hollywood,…
HitFixIn the acting categories this year, it was no surprise to see Matthew McConaughey chalked up for his work in HBO’s “True Detective” just four months after completing a near run of the movie awards…
Women of ChinaBeijing-born Liu Yulin, a third-grade postgraduate student from New York University, won silver medal in the Narrative Category at the 41st Student Academy Awards for her short film titled Door God at the…
Watch Academy Award Winning 1993 Short Film ‘Black Rider’Indie Wire (blog)It screened at several international film festivals, winning awards along the way, including: New York, Minsk, San Francisco, Montreal, Berlin, Valladolid, San Sebastian, Nordic Film…
NEWS.com.auWright, who died in 1985, won the Oscar back in 1942 for his work as art director of My Gal Sal, which starred legendary actress Rita Hayworth. The award was the film’s only Academy Award…
NEWS.com.auWright, who died in 1985, won the Oscar back in 1942 for his work as art director of My Gal Sal, which starred legendary actress Rita Hayworth. The award was the film’s only Academy Award…
OptaSense shortlisted in Royal Academy AwardEnergy GlobalSynonymous with spotting the ‘next big thing’ in the technology sector, the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert award is the UK’s longest running national prize for engineering. It identifies…
New York Daily NewsMazursky, who was nominated for five Academy Awards, made films that reflected their times in other ways, too. Outsiders and souls in transition often peopled his work. Always a great leveler and…
The National (blog)Academy Awards body want 1948 Oscar back. Saeed Saeed | July 3, 2014. An Oscar statuette is displayed. Brendan McDermid / Reuters. An Oscar statuette is displayed. Brendan McDermid / Reuters. The Academy…
Ashlee Simpson Hits E3; Inside The Student Academy AwardsAccess HollywoodAshlee Simpson Hits E3; Inside The Student Academy Awards. More info. Hide info. Info; Transcript. Ashlee Simpson Hits E3; Inside The Student Academy Awards. June 26,…
