A screening committee drawn from the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members has winnowed a field of 69 entries down to 10 semi-finalists for the Best Animated Short Oscar …
Lupita Nyongo won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress three years ago for her feature film debut, “12 Years a Slave.” This fall’s “Queen of Katwe” marked h…
I’ve highlighted the many tunes from animated features and documentaries that could contend for Best Original Song at this year’s Oscars. Now we turn our attention to the musical…
Watch the full one-hour White House ceremony as President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday. The 2016 event was a star-studded affair with the selection of…
While Emma Stone (“La La Land”) still leads in the Oscar race for Best Actress — with sixteen of our 26 Oscar experts derived from major media outlets continuing toÂ…
It is a good time to be an Oscar voter if you are a fan of animated fare. Last week, Disney delivered academy members a screener of “Zootopia,” the current frontrunner t…
“La La Land” is still far ahead in the Oscar race for Best Picture. Twenty of our 26 Oscar experts derived from major media outlets continue to back Damien Chazelle&#…
“That’s the hall pass that gets me in the room,” exclaims composer Lin-Manuel Miranda about his ability to craft songs for Broadway, film, and television. During our rec…
The 2016 American Music Awards were held on Sunday night, November 20. The ceremony aired live on ABC and was hosted by Gigi Hadid and Jay Pharoah. But while many prizes were handed out, …
Ariana Grande pulled off a surprise victory for Artist of the Year at the 2016 American Music Awards — all the more surprising because it was her only nomination. Though perhaps we sho…
They can act, they can dance, but can they sing? Gold Derby’s frontrunner to win Best Picture and Best Score at the Oscars is “La La Land,” Lionsgate’s whimsical roma…
“I was petrified,” admits composer John Debney during our recent webcam chat (watch above) when asked about his work on “The Jungle Book,” a live-action reimaginin…
For one final time, President Barack Obama will present Presidential Medal of Freedom honors at the White House on Tuesday. The 2016 event will be a star-studded affair with the selection of…
“There’s a dress that Judy Garland wears in ‘A Star is Born’ — it’s this beautiful green dress, and that’s the hue we were going for because it was …
Walt Disney Studios enjoyed an embarrassment of riches this year, and three of its biggest hits from the first half of the year — “Captain America: Civil War,” “…
While Emma Stone (“La La Land”) still leads in the Oscar race for Best Actress, with fifteen of our 25 Oscar experts derived from major media outlets continuing to back her…
The 2017 Oscar race for Best Picture is shaping up to be a battle between a sweeping musical (“La La Land”), intimate dramas (“Manchester by the Sea,” “Moonl…
“La La Land” is still far ahead in the Oscar race for Best Picture. Nineteen of our 25 Oscar experts derived from major media outlets continue to back Damien Chazelle…
In Disney’s new poster art for its live-action adaptation of “Beauty and the Beast,” Dan Stevens and Emma Watson pose doing the iconic dance number from the 1991 animated f…
With across-the-board raves Damien Chazelle‘s musical romance “La La Land” enters this awards season an undisputed juggernaut. The picture, which has swept one audience aft…
Last month, six new Broadway productions announced that they will be joining the already-bountiful 2016-17 season. The calendar below details the opening dates for each of the 34 productions…
“This is the dream. It’s conflict and it’s compromise. It’s very, very exciting,” says Ryan Gosling in the new trailer for Lionsgate’s romantic musical &#…
"Oh, Hello on Broadway," a new stage play starring Nick Kroll and John Mulaney as their sketch comedy characters Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland respectively, recently opened on Broadway …
A new mounting of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" starring Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber opened on Broadway on October 30. Adapted from a 1782 French epistolary novel, the show follows former l…
Sally Field's upcoming Broadway role in "The Glass Menagerie" puts her in place to earn her third jewel in the Triple Crown of acting (winning a Tony, an Oscar and an Emmy.) Twenty-two other…