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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, takes place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
Meet Liza Powel, Conan O’Brien’s supportive playwright wife. Photo: @teamcoco/Instagram
Fame and celebrity

Who is 2025 Oscars host Conan O’Brien’s wife, Liza Powel?

Liza Powel O’Brien and Conan O’Brien’s meet cute was captured on camera after he showed up at her advertising agency when she was a copywriter; they married in 2002, and Conan’s ex Lisa Kudrow attended.

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American cinema

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India

Bollywood’s Aamir Khan almost retired during Covid, but Kiran Rao changed his mind

Rolex

Rolex and the Oscars: a century of timeless elegance and cinematic excellence

The partnership has cemented Rolex’s role in cinema away from the screen, supporting the Oscars and the Academy Museum Gala, the ‘Met Gala of the West Coast’.

Rolex watches have a long history of appearing on screen, as in this scene from the film Crazy Rich Asians, so it’s only appropriate that the brand is a partner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Photo: Handout
Malaysia

Michelle Yeoh says not being able to have kids ‘biggest sadness’ of her life

Yeoh’s candid reflection on infertility and acceptance offers a poignant perspective on navigating life’s challenges, and she has no regrets.

Fame and celebrity

Who is Leonardo DiCaprio’s estranged stepbrother Adam Farrar?

Adam Farrar’s mother married Leonardo DiCaprio’s father George, and the two boys lived a bohemian childhood together in Hollywood – but the similarities end there.

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Fame and celebrity

Tootsie and Young Frankenstein actress Teri Garr dies at age 79

The Oscar-nominated actress also appeared in Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and on TV series like Star Trek and Batman.

Actress Teri Garr arrives for an event in Los Angeles in May 2012. Photo: Reuters
Profile

Antonio Sánchez on composing the soundtrack to the Oscar-winning Birdman

Sánchez’s latest album features Dave Matthews and Trent Reznor on guest vocals; he also hung with Jeff Goldblum and Bill Murray.

Asian cinema

‘Time has come’ for Indian women directors with 3 set to vie for Oscars

Director of wife-swapping comedy Laapataa Ladies (Lost Ladies), Indian Oscars entry, hails ‘special moment’ for South Asian women filmmakers.

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Celebrity children

Who are Al Pacino’s children? The Hollywood great has 4 kids, aged 1 to 35

Pacino’s Shrek phone case was spotted when he was out and about with Jason Momoa – and Scarface has held on to it after making a promise to his kid.

Al Pacino (second from right) with his three adult kids (from left), Anton Pacino, Olivia Pacino, Al Pacino, and Julie Pacino . Photo: Getty Images
Obituaries

Kris Kristofferson, American country music star and actor, dead at 88

Kris Kristofferson became one of the most influential American singer-songwriters of his time and a successful actor.

Kris Kristofferson in 2017. File photo: AFP
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong picks action movie set in Kowloon Walled City for Oscars race

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In put forward as city’s entry for Academy Awards’ best international feature film.

American cinema

Is The Shawshank Redemption, 30 this month, the best movie of all time?

The Stephen King novella adaptation with Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins lost out to Forrest Gump at the 1995 Oscars but holds up 30 years on.

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Obituaries

James Earl Jones, acclaimed actor and voice of Darth Vader, dead at 93

The multi-award-winning actor was a dominating presence whether on stage, on screen or merely by sound.

James Earl Jones in 2017. The actor died on Monday at 93. File photo: Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions
Obituaries

Edward B. Johnson, second CIA officer in Iran for ‘Argo’ rescue mission, dies at 81

Rescue of 6 American diplomats who fled 1979 US embassy takeover in Tehran was immortalised in Ben Affleck’s Oscar-winning film Argo.

Edward B. Johnson, right, receives the CIA’s Intelligence Star from John N. McMahon, then the agency’s deputy director for operations, in 1980. File photo: Family of Edward B. Johnson / CIA via AP
American cinema

Netflix backs Kristen Wiig song from Will Ferrell trans film for Oscar

Comic actress co-wrote Harper and Will Go West for Will & Harper, a documentary about fellow Saturday Night Live actor Will Ferrell’s road trip with a friend who comes out as a trans woman.

Fame and celebrity

SNL alumni net worths, ranked: who’s Saturday Night’s highest-paid comedian?

These comedians have gone on to make fortunes with pioneering hit films, cult classic TV shows, and even profitable businesses – so who’s been laughing all the way to the bank?

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Obituaries

Donald Sutherland, star of M*A*S*H and The Hunger Games, dead at 88

One of Canada’s most famous sons, Donald Sutherland played dashing leading men as well as anti-heroes and villains.

Actor Donald Sutherland in 2017. File photo: AP
European cinema

Robot Dreams director on telling a tear-jerking story with ‘no words’

The director of Oscar-nominated Robot Dreams, Pablo Berger, opens up about adapting his animated movie from a tear-jerking graphic novel, and why it’s too real to be a children’s film.

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Fame and celebrity

Who is Ben Affleck’s mum Christopher Anne Boldt – and does she like J.Lo?

Affleck and Jennifer Lopez appear to be attempting to quash any rumours around their supposed marriage woes, as they were just spotted out and about with his mum

Fame and celebrity

Who’s Queen Latifah’s partner Eboni Nichols, choreographer and ex Laker Girl?

Nichols and Latifah have reportedly been together since 2013 and now share a son – the talented choreographer also has a busy career working on Rihanna’s tour and the 2022 Oscars

Queen Latifah and Eboni Nichols pose in complementary black outfits at the 2024 Met Gala in New York. Photo: Reuters
European cinema

Review | Robot Dreams: story of dog and robot is an animated masterpiece

Set in New York in 1984 and adapted from a comic of the same name, Robot Dreams uses the relationship between a dog and a robot to explore brilliantly the profundities of inter-human behaviour.

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A still from Robot Dreams (category I), directed by Pablo Berger.
Obituaries

Actor Bernard Hill, of Titanic and Lord of the Rings, dies at 79

In Lord of the Rings, the British actor played Théoden, King of Rohan and in Titanic, he went down with the ship as captain Captain Edward Smith.

United States

Biden honours Malaysia’s Michelle Yeoh with top US civilian award

The list of 19 Medal of Freedom honorees pays homage to ‘firsts’ in their field, including the Everything Everywhere All at Once star, the first Asian to win the Oscar for Best Actress.

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Cannes Film Festival

Trump movie The Apprentice headed to Cannes Film Festival

The biographical film, starring Marvel actor Sebastian Stan as young property tycoon Donald Trump, was announced on Thursday as part of the festival being held in France in May.

Former US president Donald Trump is to be the subject of a film set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Photo: AFP
Timepieces

5 luxury watches worn by Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan at red-carpet events

From his favourite Omegas to a ‘skeleton’ Cartier, the Everything, Everywhere All at Once star has impeccable tastes in timepieces

Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan has been turning heads for the timepieces he dons at the red carpet. Photos: Getty Images/AP
Fame and celebrity

What happened to Haley Joel Osment, the child star of The Sixth Sense and A.I.?

The child actor from Forrest Gump and The Sixth Sense has been enjoying a low key Hollywood career this whole time – but not everyone has noticed given his radically different appearance

United States

Louis Gossett Jnr, star of ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ and ‘Roots’, dies at 87

Gossett’s nephew said that the actor died on Thursday night in Santa Monica, California. No cause of death was revealed.

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