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.
Former President Donald Trump, the 2024 presumptive Republican presidential nominee, told Breitbart News exclusively that he was shocked late-night comedian and Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel walked right into his trap by reading his Truth Social post about Kimmel during the show.
Donald Trump took another pugilistic swipe at Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday, saying “he’s even dumber than I thought” after the late night host shared a critical appraisal from the former president at the Oscars ceremony.
Holocaust drama “The Zone Of Interest” filmmaker and Oscar-winner Jonathan Glazer is still earning pushback on his anti-Israel acceptance speech and now, even his film’s own executive producer is blasting him for attacking Israel during his comments on stage.
The Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation – USA slammed movie director Jonathan Glazer, who used his Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday to attack Israel for allegedly using the Holocaust to justify the war against Hamas in Gaza.
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 government of Israel condemned Oscar winner Jonathan Glazer’s comment Sunday evening that he and fellow filmmakers “refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being used to justify an occupation.”
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.
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.
Former President Donald Trump lashed out at Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel during the ceremony, calling him a “washed up” talent.
The Academy Awards went big on Ukraine on Sunday, with 20 Days in Mariupol winning the Oscar for best documentary.
“Zone of Interest” took home the Oscar for Best International Feature and its director used the moment to decry Israel’s attack in Gaza.
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.”
Da’Vine Joy Randolph proclaimed “God is good” upon winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards on Sunday night.
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.
Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters marched through the streets ahead of the 96th annual Academy Awards as they called for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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.
The Oscars will be conducted behind a massive screen of chain-link fencing this year as organizers are faced with threats of disruption.
The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly slammed Hollywood’s obsession with Ozempic in a commercial released Thursday, ahead of the Oscars, criticizing people who have taken the weight loss drug for “vanity,” without an obesity diagnosis.
The value of this year’s Oscars goodie bags have soared to about $180,000 in gifts, even as Americans’ average income is not even half of that
Disney’s ABC is teaming up with the Chinese social media app TikTok for Oscars red carpet coverage on Sunday.
After Breitbart News exposed the numerous loopholes in the Academy Awards’ new DEI quotas, the New York Times has published its own version of the story, which includes unnamed Hollywood insiders trashing the diversity rules as little more than window dressing — “flimsy and showy.”
With the Oscars days away, street art hit various iconic spots throughout Hollywood and West L.A. Wednesday shining a spotlight on America’s fentanyl epidemic and not-so-subtly hitting at the politicians who might be responsible for it, including President Joe Biden, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Most notably, the eye-popping artwork landed in the district of sitting Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Adam Schiff, who is also portrayed in the art.
And the Oscar for most loopholes goes to… the Academy’s own diversity requirements.
What’s keeping Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis in retirement is looking at 7,000 streaming choices and realizing none are worth a damn.
On Sunday, the 96th Academy Awards ceremony will mark a new, woke milestone for Hollywood. It will be the first Oscars to have implemented the Academy’s new diversity requirements, which lay out labyrinthine quotas for race, gender, and sexuality.
Hollywood is preparing to put its best face forward for the Academy Awards on Sunday. But behind the scenes, the entertainment business is girding itself for a possible calamity in the making — a potential strike by the thousands of “below the line” crew members who keep the industry running.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) announced this month that it would be adding the new category of Best Casting.
Disney’s ABC is reportedly struggling to sell commercials for its upcoming broadcast of the Academy Awards, with ad space still available a mere two weeks from the March 10 show.
We’re a long way from the days when the imprimatur of an Academy Award nomination excited the public enough to spin box office gold.
Actress and comedienne Whoopi Goldberg has rejected claims that director Greta Gerwig and actress Margot Robbie were “snubbed.”
Never one to let feminist outrage go to waste, Hillary Clinton made it all about herself on Wednesday when she offered comfort to Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig after they failed to earn best actress and director Oscar nominations for Barbie.
Ryan Gosling was thrilled to receive an Oscar nomination for his role as Ken in last year’s hit film, “Barbie,” but even with the gratitude he ended up criticizing the Academy for not also handing the film’s star Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig the same consideration.
Not that normal people care anymore, but the 2024 Oscar nominations are out, and it looks like a good night for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”
Smash hit Barbie came away with a glittering trove of Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning but fans of the film claimed one thing – or maybe a pair of things – were missing.
Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” received eight nominations, but she was surprisingly left out of the best director field in the 2024 Oscar nominations list.
On the night of Monday, January 15, 2024, my beloved father-in-law, John Frederick Hamlin Jr., passed from this earth into God’s arms at the age of 92, just two months shy of 93. He went peacefully with his daughters and grandchildren by his side.
