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Lady Gaga soared sky high with the theme song to 2022's Top Gun: Maverick, with "Hold My Hand" earning her an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.Given her history with the Oscars, including several stunning performances and touching moments presenting with Liza Minnelli, fans are wondering what Gaga will bring to the ceremony this year.

The stand-up comedian Jerrod Carmichael will serve as host of the Golden Globes next month, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Thursday.It's the first time the tarnished film and television awards ceremony will be broadcast since a 2021 scandal over the ethics and diversity of the H.F.P.A., the group behind the Globes.

Rose Champagne, or tequila martini?That's one choice actors like Michelle Yeoh and Colin Farrell might face after the 95th Academy Awards on March 12, when the lights go up and drinks begin flowing.And at least one of their colleagues will be pretty familiar with the copper-tinged bubbles in everyone's flutes.

Directors Daniel Kwan (left) and Daniel Scheinert pose with their best director trophies for Everything Everywhere All at Once.Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images If you've ever worked on an annual project of any kind maybe it's an event, maybe it's a report, maybe it's the Academy Awards you've probably been part of a debriefing process, wherein various stakeholders gather to discuss what went right, what went wrong and what went really wrong.

Culture NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Samata Pattinson, CEO of RCGD Global about their partnership with the Academy Awards to encourage sustainable clothing on this year's red carpet.Copyright 2023 NPR.All rights reserved.Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.

Justine Triet, winner of the Palme d'Or for Anatomy of a Fall, poses for photographers following the awards ceremony at the 76th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Saturday.Daniel Cole/AP Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall won the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in a ceremony Saturday that bestowed the festival's prestigious top prize on an engrossing, rigorously plotted French courtroom drama that puts a marriage on trial.

Schrader earned his first Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for 2018's "First Reformed."Paul Schrader has made a career out of bluntly speaking his mind and gleefully disregarding public opinion, so it's not surprising that he doesn't particularly care about the Oscars.In a new conversation with Oscar Isaac published in Interview Magazine, the "Master Gardener" director explained that he advises his collaborators to avoid viewing award shows as a measure of success - even if he admits that it's fun to win.

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Daniel Giménez Cacho as Silverio in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's 'Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,' 2022.(© Limbo Films, S. De R.L. de C.V. Courtesy of Netflix)



'Tis the season for head-scratchingly ambitious, indulgent, overblown and overlong movies.

Demi Lovato and Katy Perry previously voiced Smurfettes in the franchise.Step aside Trolls: Rihanna is here to slay as a Smurf.With Universal's animated musical "Trolls" franchise going strong with the upcoming "Trolls Band Together," Paramount Pictures during Thursday's CinemaCon presentation unveiled an untitled "Smurfs" animated film starring Oscar-nominated Grammy winner Rihanna as Smurfette.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The 2023 Academy Awards made history with some groundbreaking firsts and major career milestones.Best actress Michelle Yeoh is the first person from an Asian background to be named best actress.

Getty Images / Realtor.comThat's a wrap!Famed Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is selling his four-bedroom, 4.5-bath, Westlake Village, CA, abode for $3.25 million.The inviting home was on the market for a little more than a week and has gone into contingent-sale status.If del Toro gets his full asking price, he'll land a tidy profit on the place he picked up in 2012 for $1.65 million.

The question is almost as old as the art of marketing itself (and yes I said art not science).First we must get to the question of what is great?What is the measurement of great?Is it winning awards, is it sales increasing 100 fold, is it internal staff pride in the brand, is public praise, a pat on the back from the CEO?

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 384th day, we take a look at the main developments.Here is the situation as it stands on Tuesday, March 14, 2023: The International Criminal Court is close to opening war crimes cases and issuing arrest warrants against several Russians accused of being responsible for the mass abduction of Ukrainian children and the targeting of Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, according to reports.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Dame Judi Dench has described Ada Salter as a heroic woman as a blue plaque was unveiled to the former green space campaigner.The Oscar-winning actress, 88, is patron of the Salter Centenary, which last year celebrated the 100th anniversary of the year the social reformer became London's first female mayor and Britain's first female Labour mayor when she was elected mayor of Bermondsey in 1922.

This article contains spoilers for the film The Quiet Girl.For the first 55 minutes of The Quiet Girl, the film's audience does not know why the titular child has been sent to live with strangers in the Irish countryside.Cait (Catherine Clinch), 9, does not know either.Her parents do not talk to her, and they barely speak to each other.

The Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey pleaded not guilty in a hearing at a London court on Friday to seven more charges of sexual misconduct, the BBC and other British news outlets reported.Britain's Crown Prosecution Service, which authorized the criminal charges in November, had said previously that the charges related to allegations of sexual assault, indecent assault and causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.

All Quiet on the Western Front has won the Oscar for best international feature film at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.The German-language first world war film is an adaptation of Erich Remarque's landmark 1928 novel; an earlier Hollywood adaptation, directed by Lewis Milestone, won the best picture Oscar in 1930.

Burt Bacharach, the Grammy and Oscar-winning composer who churned out timeless hits including "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," has died.He was 94.The prolific pop songwriter died of natural causes Wednesday at his Los Angeles home, his publicist said Thursday.

Raquel Welch in "Myra Breckinridge"

In interviews, it became clear that Welch was sharp-witted, candid, and very aware of her position and her need to improve as an actress, even if a run of poor films asked little of her.She lobbied to get the leading role in a film adaptation of Gore Vidal 's audacious "Myra Breckinridge" (1970), in which she crossed swords with top-billed Mae West both on screen and off and dined out on Mae stories for the rest of her life.

Terry Matalas is the kind of dad who owns a DeLorean time machine (two, actually).The 1981 brushed-stainless-steel classic sits in his California garage with - we can only hope - the gullwing doors open to show any visitor that this is a man living a certain Hollywood fantasy life.As the showrunner, producer, and screenwriter on TV series like 12 Monkeys, the MacGyver reboot, the forthcoming Witch Mountain, and, most recently, the critically acclaimed third season of Star Trek: Picard, Matalas has certainly earned all the trappings.

Stomp, the long-running show that repurposed mundane items like brooms and metal garbage can lids to create a gritty percussive stage spectacle, will close in New York on Jan. 8, the show announced on Tuesday.Its North American and European tours will continue to run.Created and directed by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, Stomp made an immediate splash when it opened at the Orpheum Theater in the East Village on Feb. 27, 1994.