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Could DiCaprio finally win coveted Oscar?
Could this finally be Leonardo DiCaprio's year?
26 February 2014
U2 to play Mandela song at Oscars
Irish rock veterans U2 will play their Oscar-nominated song "Ordinary Love" from the movie "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" at this year's Academy Awards.
13 February 2014
Stars hail Scorsese at pre-Oscar nominees' lunch
US actor Jonah Hill joked that he would paint Martin Scorsese's house if the film legend asked him to, as he and "The Wolf of Wall Street" star Leonardo DiCaprio praised the veteran director.
11 February 2014
Cambodia's Oscar-nominated director in fight for history
Director Rithy Panh was 15 when he escaped the horror of a Cambodian labour camp under the communist Khmer Rouge. He never saw his parents or his sisters again.
08 February 2014
Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead in New York
Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York apartment of an apparent drug overdose on Sunday.
03 February 2014
Academy kills Oscars nomination over email gaffe
Oscars organizers have withdrawn a best song nomination from a composer in a rare move because he emailed voting members to highlight his candidacy, which is strictly banned for Academy executives.
30 January 2014
Angela Lansbury returns to West End after 40 years
British-American actress Angela Lansbury, star of "Murder, She Wrote", is returning to London's West End for the first time in nearly 40 years -- in the same theatre where her mother made her debut in 1918.
24 January 2014
'Hustle," "Gravity' lead Oscar nominations in crowded race
Hollywood fired the starting gun Thursday on the most crowded Oscars race for years, with "American Hustle" and 3D space drama "Gravity" topping nominations but a wide field of movies hoping for glory on March 2.
17 January 2014
Hollywood awaits Oscar nominations
Hollywood is holding its breath for the unveiling Thursday of this year's Oscar nominations, with top Golden Globes winners "12 Years A Slave" and "American Hustle" leading a crowded field of contenders.
16 January 2014
Oscars broadcast to celebrate movie heroes
The 86th Academy Awards ceremony on March 2 will pay tribute to movie heroes from past and present, producers said Tuesday of the much-anticipated Oscars, the climax of Hollywood's awards season.
15 January 2014
Surprises, snubs in Oscars foreign film shortlist
Oscars organizers shortlisted nine movies including Palestinian, Danish and Hong Kong films Friday for best foreign language prize, offering surprises and some unexpected snubs.
21 December 2013
New Oscars logo puts spotlight on Academy
The body behind the Oscars has unveiled a new logo that it hopes will focus more attention on the organization's wider work in addition to Hollywood's biggest trophy fest.
18 December 2013
Disney gives folk tale cool makeover in 'Frozen'
Disney has given a chilly makeover to a traditional fairy tale in its latest animated release "Frozen," which could be in the running for an Oscar.
29 November 2013
Stars gather in Taiwan for Chinese 'Oscars'
Stars from China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan gathered in Taipei on Saturday for this year's Golden Horse Film Awards with Wong Kar-wai's martial arts epic "The Grandmaster" leading the race with 11 nominations.
23 November 2013
December 2015 release for new 'Star Wars' film
"Star Wars" fans finally have a date for their diary after filmmakers announced a long-awaited new instalment of the iconic sci-fi franchise will be released on December 18, 2015.
08 November 2013
Yermek Tursunov's Shal long-listed for Oscar
Shal (Old Man) by Kazakhstan director Yermek Tursunov has been included into the long-list of the American Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
30 October 2013
'Gravity' director Cuaron says Oscar talk premature
Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron said Wednesday he was surprised by the success of his space thriller "Gravity" and insisted that it was too soon to think about the Oscars.
18 October 2013
Shal by Kazakhstan's Yermek Tursunov nominated for Oscar
Shal (Old Man) movie directed by Yermek Tursunov from Kazakhstan has been submitted for the American Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
30 September 2013
Angelina Jolie, Steve Martin among Oscar honorees
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is to give a prestigious humanitarian award to Hollywood A-lister Angelina Jolie for her "impassioned" campaigning work.
07 September 2013
First-ever Oscars concert planned for nominated music
The Oscars will, for the first time, hold a concert in Los Angeles featuring the songs and scores nominated for Hollywood's most prestigious prize.
14 July 2013