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In 2029, the year the telecast moves from ABC to YouTube, the ceremony itself will move from its longtime home at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood to downtown Los Angeles and the Peacock Theater, 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) away. The Academy announced Thursday that it has reached a 10-year agreement with AEG, which operates the L.A. Live complex where the Peacock Theater sits.

This year’s red carpet for the 98th Academy Awards was a bit boring, with most actors dressed in the same color palette, black and white, as well as the same four major fashion houses.

Sean Penn won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s political drama “One Battle After Another.”

Oscar-winning director David Borenstein claimed his Academy Award on Sunday night and used the moment to rant against governments that commit murder on the streets and unnamed oligarchs who “take over the media.”

The 98th Academy Awards on Sunday night will be the “most protected event in Oscars history,” with more than 1,000 law enforcement personal protecting the celebrity elites gathered to celebrate themselves.

Sharon Osbourne has a message for Hollywood elites when they are accepting awards: keep your mouth shut about your politics.

The 98th Academy Awards on Sunday night will be the usual explosion of a champagne-fueled, self-obsessed celebrity glory orgy — that comes, every year, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in free luxury gifts thrown in. This year’s swag bag price tag reached a value of nearly $350,000 for the select 25 Oscar nominees, given free for simply getting out of bed and attending.

Starting in 2029, the irrelevant Oscars will have its annual irrelevant Academy Awards show broadcast on — lol — YouTube.

Acclaimed “Good Will Hunting” and “Dune” star Stellan Skarsgård agreed with filmmaker James Cameron that Netflix should not be able to qualify for the Academy Awards without a proper theatrical run.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Cruise, at 63 still the biggest movie star in a room full of them, finally got to hold his own Oscar on a Hollywood stage on Sunday night.

Actor Billy Bob Thornton is sick and tired of his fellow actors pushing their political positions onto fans at awards shows.

Depending on who you talk to, director Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest epic “One Battle After Another” is either an unparalleled masterpiece worthy of an Oscar sweep or a pro-Antifa screed that endorses left-wing revolutionary violence; acclaimed author Brett Easton Ellis thinks it all comes down to the audience’s personal politics.

Beloved actor Denzel Washington revealed that he does not make make movies to win Oscars, adding that he makes them out of passion for the work.

Actress Zoe Saldaña won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar this year for her performance in “Emilia Pérez” and the statue apparently went transgender in the process.

Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning writer and director of “Kramer vs Kramer,” has died in his US home, his representative said Tuesday. He was 92.

For 97 years, Academy of Motion Pictures members were allowed to vote for or against movies they had not bothered to watch.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) announced on Thursday that it will finally include a “Best Stunt Design” category.

Remember when actor Will Smith strode onto the 2022 Oscars stage and slapped Chris Rock across the face after the comedian made a joke at the expense of his Smith’s wife? Oh, how everyone laughed. Said nobody.

The streaming platform Hulu, a subsidiary of Disney, has apologized for tech glitches and outages during its livestream of the Oscars telecast on Sunday.

Last night’s Academy Awards had a handful of surprises though none were as shocking as those seen on the red carpet.

This year’s Academy Awards broadcast attempted to walk a fine line to avoid annoying viewers by steering clear of politics and controversy as much as possible. Donald Trump was not mentioned, for instance, and even the winners who won their Oscars for a transgender movie did not use the word transgender on the stage.

Kieran Culkin reminded his wife of a deal they made to have more children, after he had won an award for Best Supporting Actor at the 2025 Oscars for his role in the film “A Real Pain.”

This year’s swag bags for Oscar nominees are valued over $200,000, with dozens of gifts ranging from liposuction vouchers to international resort stays — and in the wake of the historic Los Angeles wildfires, some of the freebies may help victims with repairing or rebuilding their properties or family members’ homes.

Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, late Wednesday night.

A Hollywood Jewish group called out those in the industry looking to wear red hand pins in support of Gaza at the 2025 Oscars.

Acclaimed actress Angela Bassett publicly reacted to her losing the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Black Panther II.

Netflix broke its silence on the scandal surrounding its drug cartel musical, Emilia Pérez, in which the film’s transgender star, Karla Sofia Gascón, has come under fire for his previous social media posts disparaging Muslims, the Chinese, and black people.

Netflix has taken the extraordinary step of removing best actress Oscar nominee Karla Sofia Gascón from its Academy Awards campaign for “Emilia Perez,” cancelling appearances by the transgender performer and deleting any reference to Gascón from its Oscar-themed advertisements.

“Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofía Gascón — the first transgender performer ever nominated for an Academy Award — also penned a lengthy apology amid the continued publicity crisis over the actor’s past social media posts in which Gascón repeatedly insulted Muslims, mocked George Floyd, and ridiculed diversity.

Oscar-nominated “Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofia Gascón has come under fire after old tweets have resurfaced showing Gascón making derogatory comments about Muslims, George Floyd, the COVID-19 vaccine, and Oscars diversity.

The Oscar race for best actress is getting nasty, with Karla Sofia Gascón — the first transgender performer ever nominated for an Academy Award — accusing the team behind a rival nominee of launching a smear campaign.

This pathetic culture of ours marches on with the news that Best Actress nominee Fernanda Torres has been forced to apologize for a 17-year-old blackface skit.

Oscars host Conan O’Brien says he’s still unable to live in his home due to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles and that the show’s organizers “want to be sensitive to what’s happened” to residents.

The United States may have swung to the political right by re-electing President Donald Trump and putting the Republicans in charge of both houses of Congress, but Tinseltown’s progressive politics were on full display Thursday.

Barely anyone turned out to see the controversial Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice” when it opened in cinemas late last year. But Academy voters clearly loved it enough to reward its two main actors — Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong — with Oscar nominations on Thursday.

Karla Sofía Gascón — the transgender star of Netflix’s narco-musical “Emilia Perez” — has earned an Academy Award nomination for lead actress, making Gascón the first openly trans actor ever to receive an Oscar nomination.