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It’s the most exciting time of Charles Melton’s career — and he’s spent much of it asleep. “There’s a lot of gratitude. I also never knew I was capable of taking so many naps in one day,” Melton says. “I’m just sleeping.” Oh, don’t get him wrong: The past few …

Earlier this year, the Academy Awards asked Jimmy Kimmel to return as host for the ceremony, marking his third time in the role. At the time, he grew weary about the recurring opportunity, saying: “Being invited to host the Oscars for a third time is either a great honor or …

Diana Nyad had been a world-class endurance athlete for years when, after swimming around Manhattan in a little under eight hours in 1975, she became a celebrity and a talk-show staple. At the age of 30, Nyad retired after breaking the open-ocean record by going from the Bahamas to Florida, …

Heist movies tend to operate by a narrative rule of three: You show the preparation; you detail the execution, bit by painstaking bit; and you map out how the criminals and/or their crew get away with it, or don’t. The Delinquents, Argentine writer-director Rodrigo Moreno’s left-of-center contribution to the genre, …

Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that she and husband Will Smith “had been living separate lives” for nearly six years and were attending the 2022 Oscars “as family, not as husband and wife,” when Will slapped Chris Rock over a joke he made about Jada. In an excerpt from her upcoming …

Bradley Cooper‘s Maestro, a biopic about composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia Montealegre that he co-wrote, directed, and stars in, looks set to become an award season contender once it premieres at the 80th Venice International Film Festival in September. But if it’s recognized for makeup design, you can …

This past awards season, Everything Everywhere All at Once was the little engine that could — an A24 immigrant-family saga with a mostly Asian cast made for around $20 million going up against studio titans like Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick. Before long, the underdog became …

Taylor Swift could soon be joining yet another illustrious group, with the pop star (and aspiring filmmaker) among those invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year. Swift was among 398 artists and executives invited the join the ranks of the Academy. Specifically, she was …

The Osage called it the “Reign of Terror.” Once upon a time, long after they’d been forcibly displaced and sold land in the Oklahoma territories deemed barren and unfruitful, the Indigenous tribe had discovered oil under the ground. And more oil. And still more oil after that. They became rich. …

Richard Dreyfuss criticized the Academy Awards’ diversity and inclusion standards — which go into effect in the Best Picture category in 2024 — in a new interview. “They make me vomit,” the Oscar-winning actor told PBS’ The Firing Line of the guidelines. “Because this is an art form. It’s also …