Actor Ethan Hawke has slammed the Oscars, saying it creates unnecessary competition in the movie industry.

Renowned film reporter and BBC show host Tom Brook on why Argo should win an Oscar, and why Bollywood actors only get cameos in Hollywood movies

He stands only 13.5 inches (34 centimeters) tall and weighs just 8.5 pounds (3.85 kilos) -- but Oscar, in all his bald gold-plated glory, is the holy grail of Hollywood.

Filmmaker Ang Lee's Life of Pi would be a clear winner for best picture at Academy Awards this year if the prize giving was based on the least amount of movie errors, says a survey conducted by MovieMistakes.com.

Barbra Streisand will perform for the first time in 36 years, Adele will sing Skyfall, and the stars of Chicago will reunite 10 years after their Academy Awards triumph.

Oscar nominees who don't end up with a coveted gold statuette at the Academy Awards on Sunday won't go home empty handed after all.

Director Ang Lee wanted to offer filmgoers an immersive experience with Life of Pi, his Oscar-nominated 3D fable about an Indian boy trapped on a boat with a tiger. Claudio Miranda helped him do it.

Although he is nursing hopes of an Oscar, Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke says he feels doomed to failure with his latest project -- a staging of a Mozart opera in Spain.

Oscar-nominated Palestinian director Emad Burnat lamented that US border guards detained him and his family at the Los Angeles airport as they arrived for the awards show. Burnat, whose Five Broken Cameras is up for...

Actor Ben Affleck says it was a nightmare becoming a film director because of snobbery from Hollywood bigwigs.

Veteran French actress Emmanuelle Riva, 85, the oldest ever Academy award nominee for her role in Michael Haneke's Amour, says it would be great to win the best actress Oscar at this stage of her life.

Academy has added actors Salma Hayek Pinault, Melissa McCarthy, Liam Neeson and John Travolta to its star-studded list of Oscar presenters.

Multiple Grammy winner Adele is reportedly practising Chinese Qi Gong breathing therapy in a bid to beat her stage fright ahead of her comeback performance at the Oscars next week.

How accurate is Zero Dark Thirty? Is Lincoln an epic of historical recreation or a high school history lesson? What did you think of Django Unchained? Can we get Anne Hathaway something to eat, already?

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