Awards
With Venice and Telluride over and the Toronto Film Festival wrapping, Times columnist Glenn Whipp looks at an Oscar season that seems delightfully unsettled.
Sept. 12, 2024
Movies
In Saturday’s edition of The Envelope: TIFF Daily, Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste vie for Oscars again three decades on, Orlando Bloom plays his boldest role yet and more.
Sept. 7, 2024
World premieres of ‘Nickel Boys,’ ‘Conclave’ and ‘Saturday Night’ see freshness colliding with nostalgia, while Angelina Jolie’s turn in ‘Maria’ doesn’t hit the rafters.
Sept. 1, 2024
Netflix will campaign for Wiig and co-writer Sean Douglas for the folksy ditty ‘Harper and Will Go West,’ the company confirmed exclusively to the L.A. Times.
Aug. 29, 2024
Robert Downey Jr., Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Jodie Foster and Lily Gladstone extended their 2024 awards seasons by earning Emmy nominations in the same calendar year as their Oscar honors.
Aug. 21, 2024
Politics
Move over Grammys. Oscars who? When it comes to Republican fashion, the national convention rules.
July 19, 2024
Hollywood Inc.
Jon Landau, an Oscar-winning producer who worked closely with director James Cameron on ‘Titanic’ and the ‘Avatar’ series, has died.
July 6, 2024
Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for “Chinatown,” has died. He was 89.
July 2, 2024
Times columnist Glenn Whipp wonders if Sean Baker’s “Anora,” which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, might finally stamp his ticket to the Oscars.
May 31, 2024
The motion picture academy also will honor “Love Actually” director Richard Curtis and veteran casting director Juliet Taylor at the ceremony on Nov. 17.
June 12, 2024