Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie)

Cannes 2013: For Octavia Spencer, a new stop with 'Fruitvale Station'

2013-05-17 06:30:00

CANNES, France -- You’d expect a savvy pro such as Octavia Spencer to have dropped in on the Cannes Film Festival once or twice over the years. But there she was on Thursday afternoon, taking it all in like a wide-eyed tourist. “First...

MTV Movie Awards: 'The Avengers' takes top prize

2013-04-14 21:40:00

The young fans who helped turn "The Avengers" into a blockbuster flex their muscles again at the MTV Movie Awards Sunday, as the superhero flick took home the night's biggest prize. At the annual awards show, held at Sony Pictures Studio Lot in Culver...

Sundance hit 'Fruitvale' to land in theaters in July, not October

2013-04-05 06:00:00

The critical darling of this year's Sundance Film Festival�will arrive in theaters sooner than expected. "Fruitvale," which won the festival's Grand Jury and Audience awards in January, is set to hit the big screen on July 26 -- three months before it...

On TV, the Oscars are more gray than gold

2013-02-23 11:10:00

Sunday's Academy Awards will feature many of Hollywood's shiniest stars, including Barbra Streisand, the cast of "The Avengers" and comic Seth MacFarlane. They'll be celebrating a slate of nine best picture nominees that includes six $100-million...

Indie Spirit Awards: Cooper, Lawrence, Wallis' last stop before the Oscars

2013-02-23 14:29:00

The Film Independent Spirit Awards are the penultimate stop before the Oscars -- but with just one day to go before the Academy Awards, 9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis had reached her red carpet threshold. As her publicist told her she had a few more...

'Silver Linings Playbook' wins best feature at Indie Spirit Awards

2013-02-23 15:42:00

David O. Russell's dramatic comedy "Silver Linings Playbook" took home the best feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon at a raucous ceremony hosted by Andy Samberg on the beach in Santa Monica. It was a big afternoon for...

Quiz: The money behind Oscar 2013 nominees

2013-02-23 09:05:00

Academy Awards nominations and Oscar statues can provide a big boost at the box office. Some films benefit enormously. The domestic box-office take for 2009 best picture winner "Slumdog Millionaire" jumped to $141.3 million from $98.3 million after...

Hollywood's outsiders come inside

2013-02-24 00:00:00

It's been nearly a generation since Quentin Tarantino burst on the scene with his raucous indie film "Pulp Fiction" in 1994, and Hollywood is a very different place. The once-vibrant independent film scene that Tarantino helped shape has shrunk to a...

Oscar predictions: Vegas lays odds, and the best bet goes to ...

2013-02-22 07:00:00

Are you feeling certain, like most, that Daniel Day-Lewis is going to win the lead actor Oscar on Sunday for his title turn in "Lincoln"? If you want to put some money behind that belief, you can, but, given his sure-shot status, you'd better be...

Oscars 2013: Here's what to look for on Oscar night [video chat]

2013-02-22 14:51:00

With the 85th Academy Awards set for Sunday night, the question on many's minds is whether "Argo," Ben Affleck's drama set amid the Iranian hostage crisis, will cap off its awards season run with a best picture win. But there are many other things to...

Oscar predictions 2013: We call the four acting races

2013-02-23 10:30:00

Gold Standard writer Glenn Whipp is sweeping through all 24 Oscar categories this week, assessing the races, predicting the winners and helping you prevail in your Oscar pools. Earlier he looked at the short films, sound categories, visual crafts races,...

'Gimme the Loot' director says film 'hit the jackpot'

2013-03-23 10:00:00

With its loose, freewheeling style, the unassuming "Gimme the Loot" has already led something of a charmed life. The film picked up the grand jury prize when it premiered at the South by Southwest film festival last year, going on to play the...

Quvenzhane Wallis is the youngest-ever actress nominee at the Academy Awards for her role as Hushpuppy in "Beasts of the Southern Wild."

2013-02-15 07:49:00

Quvenzhane Wallis accepts the Best Actress Award for "Beasts of the Southern Wild" at the 18th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards in January 2013. Wallis, age 9, is the youngest actor nominated for an Oscar in the Best Actress category.

2013-01-29 14:34:12

Quvenzhane Wallis, 9, stars in "Beasts of the Southern Wild." Wallis is among the best actress Oscar nominees for the 85th Academy Awards. MCT Photo

2013-01-16 22:20:00