Academy Scores Record Diversity With New Members – But What About Next Year?
AMPAS invited hundreds of women and minorities to join, but they’ll have to do it again and again to reach their goal
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For the Record: Wanna Know Just How White And Male the Motion Picture Academy Is?
After years of stalling, AMPAS lays out its ethnic and gender makeup
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Academy Invites Michael B. Jordan, Oscar Isaac in Huge Diversity Push
Record-setting list of new member invitations is a direct response to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy
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Will Academy’s #OscarsSoWhite Makeover Begin With New Election, Board Meeting?
AMPAS has an opportunity to change its membership and its leadership, but don’t expect a revolution
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How Many Oscar Contenders Have Emerged From First Half of 2016?
“Everybody Wants Some!!” and “Zootopia” might defy the odds as rare Academy Award nominees from first six months of the year
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Happy 90th Birthday, Mel Brooks! 10 Funniest Lines From His AFI Tribute
At 2013 event Robert De Niro asked: “Who do I have to f— to get into a Mel Brooks movie?”
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5 Burning Questions for Final Day of Emmy Nominations Voting
While we await the nominations on July 14, let’s talk about vote-splitting, old favorites and those wild short-format categories
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Cameron Crowe on ‘Roadies': Why Music Fans Need to Put Down Their Phones
“The thing that’s missing so often in shows about music is the joy of loving music,” writer-director tells TheWrap
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Why Constance Zimmer, Steve Zissis Have Better Emmy Oddzzz This Year
Hint: We’re talking about the alphabet here
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11 Things We Learned at AFI Tribute to John Williams
Kobe Bryant reveals why he used “Star Wars” music for inspiration when he returned from injury, among other stories
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GKIDS Teams With Angelina Jolie to Produce Taliban Tale ‘The Breadwinner’
Based on Deborah Ellis’ book, film marks first production effort for animated distributor
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LA Film Festival Beats Low Expectations With East LA Drama ‘Lowriders’
The festival lineup, long on diversity and short on big names, doesn’t have much buzz, but its opening film was a pleasant surprise
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Cannes Recap: Can Any of This Year’s Movies Crash the Oscar Race?
Cannes movies won nine Academy Awards in February, but the next crop looks a lot thinner
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Ken Loach’s ‘I, Daniel Blake’ Wins Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or
In an awards ceremony filled with upsets, top acting prizes go to Jaclyn Jose for “Ma’ Rosa” and Shahab Hosseini for “The Salesman”
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Cannes Report, Day 11: For a Change, Women Dominate the Palme d’Or Race
Two women are among the frontrunners, and most standout films featured vibrant, unforgettable female characters
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‘Risk’ Director Laura Poitras on WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and US Election: ‘It’s Pretty Bleak’
Cannes 2016: Oscar-winning documentarian ends her new film with a tape recording of an FBI agent calling her “anti-U.S.”
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‘The Neon Demon’ Cannes Review: Elle Fanning Potboiler Is Gloriously Lurid and Stupidly Entertaining
If the supermodel knife fight in Nicolas Winding Refn‘s movie doesn’t do it for you, maybe the necrophilia masturbation scene will
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‘Gimme Danger’ Cannes Review: Jim Jarmusch Delivers a Playful Tribute to Iggy Pop
This rock doc couldn’t be further from Jarmusch’s other Cannes movie, “Paterson,” though it’s the more conventional of the two films
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‘Risk’ Cannes Review: Laura Poitras Takes Intimate Look at WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
Oscar-winning director tackles a controversial figure who wants to talk about politics, not feelings
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Cannes: ‘Toni Erdmann’ Director Maren Ade Reveals How She Made the Festival’s Hottest Movie and Craziest Nude Scene
The German director’s blend of drama and comedy brought the house down, winning rave reviews and a deal with Sony Classics
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‘The Unknown Girl’ Cannes Review: Guilt and Murder Meet Quiet Naturalism
The Dardenne brothers are looking to become the first to win three Palme d’Ors
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Bullets, Vampires and Hippies: Cannes Gets Invaded by English-Language Indies
Un Certain Regard sidebar is playing host to the terrific indies “The Transfiguration,” “Captain Fantastic” and “Hell or High Water”
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‘Julieta’ Cannes Review: A Subdued Pedro Almodovar Is Still Weird Enough
At a festival full of the kind of transgressive filmmaking he pioneered, Almodovar has gotten downright decorous
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‘Hands of Stone’ Cannes Review: Nice Robert De Niro Celebration, Routine Boxing Movie
The movie about Roberto Durán got a big boost from his presence — and from an emotional salute to De Niro
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Sex, Skin & Nerve in Cannes: 5 Top Lessons From the French Film Festival So Far
Steve Pond: Good or bad, film after film at this year’s festival has been bold, audacious and even a little nuts
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‘Bright Lights’ Cannes Review: Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Documentary Is Very Funny, Brutally Honest
“We didn’t know it was going to get that dark,” co-director Fisher Stevens tells TheWrap
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‘From the Land of the Moon’ Cannes Review: Marion Cotillard Shines in Conventional Period Piece
Restrained drama is quietly subversive in its look at female sexuality
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‘The BFG’ Cannes Review: Steven Spielberg, Roald Dahl Have a Great Character, Not a Great Movie
Mark Rylance‘s performance as the Big Friendly Giant is the melancholy heart of an adventure story that misses the magic
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‘The Handmaiden’ Cannes Review: Park Chan-wook Turns Up the Kinkiness
Korean director moves into clear NC-17 territory with lavish sex scenes in period thriller
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‘Toni Erdmann’ Cannes Review: Spectacular Father-Daughter Comedy Knocks the Festival for a Loop
In a festival whose films often deal in shades of darkness, this delightful blast of exuberance is also deeply touching
