Here’s How Alejandro Iñárritu Just Made Oscar History
Alejandro Iñárritu, who won the Academy Award for Best Director on Sunday night for The Revenant, made history at the Oscars, and not just because he’s the first director to win two consecutive years...
View ArticleWatch Leonardo DiCaprio Finally Win His Oscar
Of all the prophesies fated to come true on Oscar Sunday, Leonardo DiCaprio’s win for Best Actor—his first ever Academy Award—was perhaps the most strongly willed by pundits and fans. When his name...
View ArticleHere’s How the Internet Reacted to Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar Win
At the 2016 Academy Awards, Leonardo DiCaprio finally took home an Oscar for his role in The Revenant—after six nominations over the course of 22 years. He wasn’t the only one waiting for it to...
View ArticleWatch Spotlight Win Best Picture at the 2016 Oscars
In one of the few true surprises at Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony, Spotlight closed out the evening with top honors, the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film, which dominated early Oscar buzz but...
View ArticleThe Oscars Were Still Too White, but There’s Hope for Next Year
Change is in the air already. But for now, the 88th Academy Awards have been put to bed, and the show — in addition to being one of the most well-tuned and least boring in years — may have opened the...
View ArticleOscars In Memoriam Segment Honors TIME Film Critic Richard Corliss
Most of the people recognized during the Oscars’ in memoriam segment Sunday night were those who made movies, whether in front of the camera (Maureen O’Hara, Alan Rickman) or behind it (Albert...
View ArticleWatch Leonardo DiCaprio Try to Remain Calm as His Oscar Gets Engraved
As you may have heard, Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar Sunday night for his role in The Revenant. The win generated more than 400,000 tweets per minute, becoming the most-tweeted moment in...
View ArticleWatch the 2016 Oscars in Less Than 2 Minutes
The 88th Academy Awards aired Sunday night honoring the work of Hollywood. Some took the stage to address the diversity issues confronting the film industry. Comedian Chris Rock hosted the Oscars and...
View ArticleWhat Chris Rock Got Wrong About the Oscars Diversity Debate
The Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday night was, at least according to host Chris Rock’s opening monologue, the “wildest, craziest Oscars to ever host” because of the controversy that has surrounded...
View ArticleHere’s Exactly How Hard the Oscars Worked to Combat #OscarsSoWhite
The Academy of Motion Pictures was under significant pressure Sunday night to deliver a show that ran counter to its image as a mostly-white organization dragging its feet on matters of inclusion....
View ArticleHere Are All the MTV Movie Award Nominees
Star Wars: The Force Awakens may not have earned a Best Picture nomination at the 2016 Oscars, but it’ll have its shot at a top movie prize at this year’s MTV Movie Awards. The box office...
View ArticleAcademy Apologizes For ‘Tone-Deaf’ Asian Joke at Oscars
UPDATE: The Academy has a released a statement in response to a letter calling out the show’s “tone-deaf approach to its portrayal of Asians.” “The Academy appreciates the concerns stated, and regrets...
View ArticleSony World Photography Awards Winners Revealed
Iranian photojournalist Asghar Khamseh has won this year’s coveted $25,000 L’Iris d’Or Photographer of the Year award at the Sony World Photography Awards, coming ahead of 230,103 entries. The winning...
View ArticleHow the Industrialization of the Amazon Is Transforming Brazil
It’s dusk. A group of young boys scale a tree, jumping from branch to water along a riverine neighborhood in Brazil. Pulsing through the center of one of the world’s last remaining rainforests,...
View ArticleBritney Spears Will Receive Billboard’s Millennium Award
The Billboard Music Awards, which will take place on Sunday, May 22, already have one big winner: Britney Spears. The “…Baby One More Time” artist will be following in the footsteps of Beyonce and...
View ArticleHow to Get Your Kid Interested in Theater—and Why
American theater has a big night when the Tony awards are passed out and people who can’t always get to the theater get to see some of its stars. But you don’t have to watch an awards ceremony on TV...
View ArticleRead the Full Transcript of Jesse Williams’ Powerful Speech on Race at the...
Grey’s Anatomy actor Jesse Williams was awarded BET’s Humanitarian Award on Sunday night. The outspoken human rights activist—who executive produced the recent documentary, Stay Woke: The Black Lives...
View ArticleJesse Williams Continues to Speak Out: ‘People Are Out Here Suffering’
Jesse Williams — who earned wide praise for his speech about racial inequality at the BET Awards on Sunday — continued to speak out about injustice in interviews after the show. “What I’d like to see...
View ArticleThese Are the Best iPhone Photos of 2016
The winners of the ninth annual iPhone Photography Awards—an international photography contest that fosters iPhone and mobile photography—have been announced, with Siyuan Niu of Xinjiang, China,...
View Article7 Firsts From Nobel Peace Prize History
As they do every year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce this year’s Nobel Peace Prize honoree on Friday morning. The peace prize is one of five endowed in Alfred Nobel’s will, awarded to...
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