So excited was Goksu Uctas at the thought of becoming Turkey's first Olympic gymnast, she wanted the five Olympic rings tattooed on her arm.
The Cannes Film Festival will open on May 16 with Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom. The film has an all-star cast which includes the likes of Bruce Willis, Bill Murray and...
A collection of 15 Oscar statuettes which were handed out to recipients, including the writer for Citizen Kane, fetched more than $3 million at an auction here Tuesday, two days after the 84th Academy Awards ceremony.
Oscar-winning silent movie The Artist was originally shot in colour in case film bosses didn't want to show the picture in black and white.
HT City editor Sonal Kalra on her visit to the mecca of all things cinema — Hollywood — to attend the Oscar Awards.
The US government Monday congratulated Iranian director Asghar Farhadi after his film A Separation won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
When Asghar Farhadi’s brilliant familial drama, A Separation, won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Picture, it was the first ever Academy Award for Iran. In fact, Iranian films have been nominated only twice before, the first time in 1999 for Children of Heaven. It did not win. Gautaman Bhaskaran writes...
Nostalgia ruled at the Oscars, with the classic film homages The Artist and Hugo sharing the honours with five wins.
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The highlightsMeryl Streep cried, Jean Dujardin screamed, Billy Crystal sang, a winner dropped the F-bomb in his acceptance speech and even a dog went onstage... but what got most people talking, at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony was Angelina Jolie’s right leg. HT City Editor
Sonal Kalra reports from the Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles.
Silent movie The Artist won the Academy Award for Best Picture, crowning its triumphal procession through Hollywood's annual awards season. The French-directed black-and-white movie beat eight rivals for the top Oscars prize including...
Music maestro AR Rahman, who had performed at the Academy awards last year, returned to the prestigious ceremony as a part of the Oscars band. The 46-year-old composer pleased the audience with his instrumentals and vocals.
Saving Face, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge's film about a plastic surgeon who travelled to Pakistan from the UK to help victims of acid attacks, won the Documentary (Short Subject) Academy Award.
The stars who took the Oscar home at the 84th Academy Awards certainly came up with some colorful quotes on receiving the golden statuette. Here are some of them.
Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani walked the red carpet at the 84th Academy Awards at the Hollywood and Highland Centre.