Delaware Sen. Chris Coons agreed with CNN host Michael Smerconish that funding a "Sesame Street" show in Iraq could be a good use of taxpayer funding to teach "values" to Iraqi children.

Gold Derby’s top news stories for Feb. 11, 2025. Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, and Zoe Saldaña win AACTA International Awards ...

Even after four kids, Peter Facinelli says his 2-year-old son shows him things he still needs to “work on” when it comes to fatherhood. “There’s a part of me that teaches them, and there ...

The Academy has issued a list of eligible producers in the Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and Best Picture categories, with the list making “Emilia Pérez” director Jacques Audiard a ...

Three of this group of Oscar nominees adapted their screenplays ... and Supporting Actress Isabella Rossellini — Peter Straughan elegantly adapted Robert Harris’ 2016 papal thriller. He captures the ...

Karla Sofía Gascón participates in the Q&A after the screening of Emilia Pérez on opening night of the American French Film Festival (TAFFF) at the Directors Guild of America on October 29 ...

Berger’s omission from the director Oscar lineup is a critical miss. However, that didn’t stop Ben Affleck’s “Argo” (2013), Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book” (2018), or Sian Heder’s ...

Coronation Street is to welcome back a familiar face to the cobbles when Julie Carp returns next month, after almost 10 years, to surprise her sister Eileen. It may be the eve of her wedding but ...

Oscar night, incoming. Meanwhile, Madison got a GQ feature that went meta on her press run, while also letting Baker do a lot of the speaking. On her increasing comfortability around media ...

Overall Oscars commentary (Updated Feb. 11, 2025): Final Oscar voting is underway. Since July, six films have occupied the No. 1 spot on Variety’s best picture charts, “Anora” among them.

By Nicole Sperling The actress’s old social media posts have threatened to derail the film’s Oscar campaign, but backlash has been building for months for other reasons. “Anora” scored big ...

Here’s everything we know so far. Who is nominated for an Oscar in 2025? Jacques Audiard’s divisive Emilia Pérez (the campaign for which has been rocked by scandal in recent days) leads the ...