US President Barack Obama. (File Photo: Xinhua/Bao Dandan/IANS) Los Angeles, Jan 28 (IANS) US President Barack Obama has joined the outrage over two straight years of all-white acting nominees for the Academy Awards. He says…
Los Angeles, Jan 27 (IANS) Actor Sylvester Stallone has been tapped by the jury of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for this years Montecito Award. The honour will be presented following a career retrospective…
Mumbai, Jan 26 (PTI) From bagging her first award for her American TV show to being one of the Padma Award winners, actress Priyanka Chopra says she is living a dream and the national honour…
Los Angeles, Jan 24 (IANS) Comedian-actor Chris Rock, who will be hosting the Oscar Awards ceremony this year, is working on a whole new script and is planning to include jokes on its ‘lack of…
Los Angeles, Jan 21 (IANS) The board members of the Academy Awards are holding a meeting on January 26 to fight a perception that the Academy is racist or elitist following allegations by actors and…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 20 (PTI) Music maestro Ilayaraja was today presented the prestigious ‘Nishagandhi Puraskaram’ by Kerala government in recognition of his valuable contribution to Indian film music. The award comprises Rs 1,50,000, a citation and…
New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) Aiming to promote the film industry, the government has decided to institute a new award category under the national film awards especially to recognise the states’ contribution to films. The…
Los Angeles, Jan 18 (IANS) “Mad Max: Fury Road” took as many as nine awards at the 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards. The movie won in Best Director (George Miller), Best Action Movie, Best Actress…
Mumbai: Actor Amitabh Bachchan with his wife Jaya Bachchan and daughter Shweta Bachchan Nanda during the 61st Britannia Filmfare Awards in Mumbai on January 15, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai: Actor Amitabh Bachchan with his wife…
Mumbai: Actor Sooraj Pancholi during the Big Star Entertainment Awards 2015 in Mumbai on Dec 13, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, Jan 16 (IANS) Sooraj Pancholi, who forayed into Bollywood with superstar Salman Khan’s production “Hero”,…
Los Angeles, Jan 15 (IANS) Actress Brie Larson started “shaking and crying” when she found out she had received her first ever Oscar nomination for her role in “Room”. It certainly took a while for…
New York, Jan 15 (IANS) Director Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Look of Silence”, based on the examination of the Indonesian genocide of the 1960s, has won the Top Documentary Award at the 9th Annual Cinema Eye…
Mumbai, Jan 15 (IANS) Hollywood actors Eddie Redmayne and Michael Fassbender, who have been nominated in the Actor in a Leading Role category of the upcoming 88th Academy Awards, have thanked the Academy of Motion…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) With nominations across six categories, including Best Picture, Anil Ambani-led Reliance Entertainment is among the front-runners for the 88th Academy Awards for the “Bridge of Spies”, which it presented with…
Chennai, Jan 15 (IANS) National Award winning Malayalam film “Ottaal” has been selected in competition for the Generation Kplus section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival February 11-21. Jayaraj-directed “Ottaal”, an adaptation of a…
Los Angeles, Jan 14 (IANS) Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant has topped the nominations list for the 88th Oscars having bagged nominations under 12 categories, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film, a semi-biographical…
Los Angeles, Jan 14 (IANS) Indian regional films — Court, “Jalam”, “RangiTaranga” and “Nachom-ia Kumpasar”, which were vying for a spot in different categories of the upcoming 88th Academy Awards, couldn’t make it to the…
Los Angeles, Jan 11 (IANS) The Revenant and Mozart in the Jungle emerged as the top winners at the star-studded 73rd edition of the Golden Globe awards, which took place here. The Revenant, a biographical…
Mumbai: Actor Amitabh Bachchan during the Big Star Entertainment Awards 2015 in Mumbai on Dec 13, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai: Actor Ranveer Singh during the Big Star Entertainment Awards 2015 in Mumbai on Dec 13,…
London, Jan 8 (IANS) British filmmaker of Indian origin Asif Kapadia’s documentary “Amy”, which is based on the life and death of singer Amy Winehouse, has been nominated in the Outstanding British Film and Documentary…