Venice Film Festival draws to a close and will announce its awards, which can give an Oscars boost

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When Spanish actress Penélope Cruz announced that “I’m Still Here” was the winner of best international film at the Academy Awards, Brazilians roared at home and on the streets, where Carnival festivities have been ongoing since Saturday.

What you see on the television broadcast is only part of the story at the Oscars.

Mikey Madison has won the best actress Oscar for “Anora” in an upset over Hollywood veteran Demi Moore.

“I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, gave Brazil its first Oscars win on Sunday in the best international film category.

“Anora” has won best picture at the 97th Academy Awards.

Brazil’s Carnival muse this year isn’t one of the divas or drum queens parading with the Rio de Janeiro samba schools.

The patio of the storied Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel was packed to the brim with Hollywood stars on the night before the Oscars.

"Anora,” a strip-club Cinderella story without the fairy tale ending, was crowned best picture at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, handing Sean Baker’s gritty, Brooklyn-set screwball farce Hollywood’s top prize.

By the time the Oscars wind around after months of other award shows and constant handicapping, the prizes can feel almost predetermined.

The inner-Vatican machinations of “Conclave” have nothing on this year’s Oscar race.

The film academy had plenty of surprise nominations Thursday for the 97th Oscars.

As fresh fires raced across the Los Angeles region, an embattled movie industry has lined up behind the Netflix narco-musical about transgender identity “Emilia Pérez” in Oscar nominations Thursday.

The 2025 Oscars season is in full swing but figuring out where to watch everything can be overwhelming.

Political resistance in movies often takes the form of protest, hunger strike or armed uprising.

“Wicked” topped nominations to the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday, landing a leading five nominations including best ensemble, and individual nods for Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey.

The Golden Globes nominated more than 40 individual films Monday and yet still managed to overlook quite a bit.