Smaller movies didn’t mean smaller viewer numbers for the Oscars.

When Spanish actress Penélope Cruz announced that “I’m Still Here” was the winner of best international film at the Academy Awards, Brazilians roared at home and on the streets, where Carnival festivities have been ongoing since Saturday.

Sean Baker has won best director at the Oscars for “Anora,” the story of a Brooklyn exotic dancer who marries the impetuous son of a Russian oligarch.

First-time Academy Award nominee Daniel Blumberg is now an Oscar winner.

“Anora” has won best picture at the 97th Academy Awards.

The patio of the storied Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel was packed to the brim with Hollywood stars on the night before the Oscars.

"Anora,” a strip-club Cinderella story without the fairy tale ending, was crowned best picture at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, handing Sean Baker’s gritty, Brooklyn-set screwball farce Hollywood’s top prize.

Emma Stone knows her way around the Dolby Theatre, but the even the two-time Oscar winner needs a little rehearsing.

Awards season is in full-swing and up next, The Oscars. From BAFTA to Cannes to the Academy Awards, film critic Ward W. Bond has seen it all. We talked to him about this year's lineup of movies, actors, and moments you don't want to miss at Sunday's 97th academy awards.

The Oscars telecast hosted by Conan O’Brien and Kate Hudson playing a pro basketball team president in a new Netflix series called “Running Point” are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases.

The Oscars are more international than ever.

Kris Bowers embraced a new challenge with his first animated film, turning his signature storytelling through music into an Oscar-nominated masterpiece.

Did a wide-open Oscar race just get a frontrunner.

The 2025 Oscar nominations are here.

Hollywood’s awards season has all but come to a rare halt as the wildfires continue to disrupt life and work in the Los Angeles area.

A year after turning to comedian Jimmy Kimmel to host their big show, the Academy Awards will pivot to another familiar TV funnyman — Conan O’Brien.

Quincy Jones, casting director Juliet Taylor, filmmaker Richard Curtis and James Bond producers Michael G.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the Oscars, announced 17 people elected to its board of governors Monday.

Jacqueline Stewart is leaving her post leading the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to return to the University of Chicago.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a $500 million fundraising campaign Friday to ensure long-term, global support for its Oscar prizes, museum, educational programming and screenings in view of its 100th anniversary in 2028.

The 97th Academy Awards will be held March 2.

Disney shareholders have rallied behind longtime CEO Robert Iger.

The U.K. government says that the Oscar-winning “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan and his producer wife Emma Thomas will receive a knighthood and damehood for their services to film.

Can you feel the Kenergy.

“Barbenheimer” brought a bump not a boom to Oscars ratings.

The Academy Awards were full of sure-things, long-awaited anointments and easy predictions.

It's almost time for the Oscars.

“Oppenheimer,” a solemn three-hour biopic that became an unlikely billion-dollar box-office sensation, was crowed best picture at a 96th Academy Awards that doubled as a coronation for Christopher Nolan.

On the Friday before the Oscars, the center of Hollywood seemed to be at a private home in Los Feliz.

The Oscars are poised to do something on Sunday that they haven’t done in a very long time: Hand its top award to a blockbuster.

With just a few days to go until the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, the show’s producers are feeling good about what they’ve put together.

The Tirelli atelier in Rome's Prati neighborhood has woven itself into the fabric of Italian and international film history, with its costume designs behind 17 Academy Awards for costume design.

Through one of the most tumultuous periods in Oscar history, through flub and slap, Jimmy Kimmel has emerged as the steadying hand and abiding face of the Academy Awards.

After some rough patches, the Oscars may have finally met the moment with a diverse, global membership and a batch of best picture nominees that reflect global cinema.

The Oscars just got an infusion of Kenergy.

“The Bear” and “Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse” are among the early winners at the Producers Guild of America Awards.

Inside the ballroom at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, “Oppenheimer” was front and center — literally and figuratively — snagging the night’s top prize along with awards for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. Ahead of this year’s Academy Awards, Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster increasingly looks like the run-away favorite.

“Oppenheimer” continued to steamroll through Hollywood’s awards season on Saturday, winning the top prize, for outstanding cast, along with awards for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards.

“Oppenheimer” and “Poor Things” are the leading contenders for Sunday's British Academy Film Awards.

After a winter barrage of award shows — the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Grammys — the grandaddy of them all, the Academy Awards, are around the corner.

The casts of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer are gathered alongside far less famous Oscar hopefuls at the annual Academy Award nominees luncheon.

Casting directors are some of the most important creatives in Hollywood but have never been celebrated as such on Hollywood’s biggest night.

It’s that time of year again...awards season!

Here's a look at some notable facts and figures from this year's Oscar nominations.

Hollywood’s awards season can feel a little gratuitously self-congratulatory, but Tuesday night some of the biggest movie stars in the industry gathered to celebrate someone other than themselves.

Eminem has played concerts on nearly every major stage you could think of. From the Academy Awards to The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame stage, he’s been everywhere. But now, he can add a concert inside of the popular video game Fortnite to his list.

Academy Awards enthusiasts won’t have to stay up quite as late to hear the best picture winner in March.

Jimmy Kimmel is returning as host of the Academy Awards for the second straight year and fourth time overall.

The Oscars are enlisting a group of live television veterans to oversee its 96th show in March.

Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s next book will be one for music lovers.

Angela Bassett is going to have to wait a little bit longer to get her Oscar.

Angela Bassett may have gone home empty handed at the Oscars in March, but the two-time nominee will be getting a golden statuette this year after all.

The theatrical requirements for movies vying for the Oscars top prize just got a little tougher.

Whether it was the lingering drama of “The Slap” or the prominence of blockbusters in the best picture race, a bigger audience was lured back to the Oscars this year.

Ke Huy Quan’s comeback story from childhood star of ’80s flicks to win a best supporting actor Oscar, coupled with Michelle Yeoh’s historic win as the first Asian best actress winner ever had viewers of Asian descent shedding happy tears — and grinning.

One surprising loser Sunday: Oscar bait.

The Academy Awards winners have been announced.

The dual directing team known as the Daniels have won the Oscar for best director.

Ke Huy Quan has won the supporting actor Oscar to complete an inspiring Hollywood comeback story.

It’s almost time for the Oscars.

The metaphysical multiverse comedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once” wrapped its hot dog fingers around Hollywood’s top prize Sunday, winning best picture at the 95th Academy Awards, along with awards for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

There’s scant time to binge all those Oscar-nominated films before Sunday's Academy Awards broadcast.

Many things about the Academy Awards have changed over the years, but for the past six decades there has been at least one constant: The red carpet.

Will Joel and Ellie finally reach the doctors in “The Last of Us”.

The Academy Awards are Sunday, but did last year’s Oscars ever really end.

“A toast to the disruptors,” Edward Norton’s tech billionaire says in Rian Johnson’s Oscar-nominated “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”.

The 95th Academy Awards are nearly here, and Associated Press Film Writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr predict a big haul for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”.

Angela Bassett won entertainer of the year at Saturday’s NAACP Image Awards on a night that also saw her take home a television acting trophy for “9-1-1.”.

Calling all movie lovers and film critics! Oscar’s season is upon us! Today on Houston Life, we were joined by Doug Harris, President of Houston Film Critics Society, and T.J. Callahan, Past Secretary from the Houston Film Critics Society to discuss the annual Houston Film Critics Awards Show!

Motion picture academy president Janet Yang told a room full of Oscar nominees that the organization's response to Will Smith's onstage slap of Chris Rock during last year's ceremony was inadequate.

Easy listening, some called Burt Bacharach's music, and not always kindly.

A nod for a nonagenarian and a surge of first-time acting honorees are among the notable numbers stemming from the Oscar nominations announced Tuesday.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” has won best feature at the 32nd Gotham Awards.

An aide to the Pakistani prime minister says a ban on the Oscar-entry “Joyland" has been lifted but some scenes would be cut before the movie opens in Pakistan.

Actor Sean Penn has loaned one of his two Oscars to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and told him: “When you win, bring it back to Malibu.”.

After a year spent off air, the Golden Globe Awards are returning to NBC in January, when the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association will seek a primetime comeback.

Rapper and actor Common will make his Broadway debut this fall in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Between Riverside and Crazy.”.

Nearly 50 years after Sacheen Littlefeather stood on the Academy Awards stage on behalf of Marlon Brando to speak about the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has apologized to her for the abuse she endured.

Will Smith has again apologized to Chris Rock for slapping him during the Oscar telecast, saying in an online video that his behavior was “unacceptable.”.

The Oscars are getting back to normal, eligibility-wise.

Next year’s Academy Awards will take place March 12.

New Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose will host this year’s Tony Awards.

Chris Rock won't just have one show - he now has a second show coming to Sugar Land, the Smart Financial Centre announced on Thursday.

Chris Rock is still holding his head high after the Oscars ‘slap heard around the world’ and he is coming to a stage near you -- sooner than you think.

Jada Pinkett Smith, the subject of the joke that led her husband Will Smith to slap Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards on Sunday, called for “healing” on Tuesday

A local comedian "Blame the Comic" knows first hand how it feels to be in the hot seat -- or stage -- that Chris Rock found himself on at Sunday night's Academy Awards. Houston's "Blame the Comic" speaks to KPRC 2 about the Oscars slap heard around the world.

Dee Ware, style expert and founder of C.H.I.C. Shopping Tours, shared her take on the trends of the evening, and how to get the celeb looks for less.

The next time someone tells you the Oscars are boring, remind them of the 2022 ceremony.

At the Oscars, they said gay.

The 94th Academy Awards are right around the corner.

Once again, it’s every movie lover’s favorite time of the year: The Oscars.

“CODA,” the Oscar-nominated film about a singing teenage daughter in a deaf family, is being developed as a stage musical by the Los Angeles-based Deaf West Theatre.

The Academy Awards have always loved a comeback story.

The Oscars will feature a unique all-star music collaboration: Sheila E.

What's going to win best picture at the 94th Academy Awards.

The Oscar race may be heating up, but you wouldn’t know it to peek in on the nominees luncheon Monday in Los Angeles.

Several top Myanmar celebrities who were detained for criticizing the army's seizure of power have been released from prison under pardons issued by the military government.

The Academy Awards are happening in March, and in the 94 years the event has been running, only 20 Black actors have won an acting Oscar.