Awards and Prizes

Marion Cotillard wears Dior at Cannes 2013 'Blood Ties' premiere

2013-05-21 08:11:00

Marion Cotillard wore a strapless Dior gown with eye-catching color blocks of blue, yellow, black and pink on a white background to the Cannes Film Festival premiere of "Blood Ties" on Monday. The dress was shown Saturday in Monaco as part of Dior's...

Oscars: Seth MacFarlane leaves host gig open, but who wants it?

2013-05-21 06:00:00

Now that Seth MacFarlane has tweeted that he simply can't find the time to host the Oscars again, is it too early to say: "Tina Fey, come on down!" "I think that's too hard," Fey tells The Times over the phone, when asked if she'd take the job. "Too...

Justin Bieber booed at Billboard Awards, says he's no 'gimmick'

2013-05-20 11:40:00

Justin Bieber was booed big time at Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. The "Beauty and the Beat" singer took the stage Sunday to accept the first-ever Milestone Award, presented to him for being the first 19-year-old with five No. 1...

2013 Billboard Music Awards: Swift dominates, Bieber deflates

2013-05-20 07:53:00

LAS VEGAS -- On the Billboard stage, there’s not much room for surprises, at least not where the awards are concerned.�This is a ceremony dictated by radio, sales, streaming and fan voting. So it should be�expected that Taylor Swift and Justin...

The 20 greatest Dodgers of all time, No. 1: Sandy Koufax

2013-05-17 11:00:00

We recently asked you to list your choices for the 10 greatest Dodgers of all time, and vote you did, as we received an amazing 12,231 ballots. So many people voted that we have decided to expand the list from the top 10 to the top 20. Each weekday at...

Clayton Kershaw is a Dodgers star now but it almost didn't happen

2013-05-18 18:05:00

On the morning that would deliver to the Dodgers their greatest arm in two generations, Clayton Kershaw awoke with a thought. The baseball draft was not televised in 2006. Each team made its picks on a secure conference call line with the league office....

New UCLA basketball Coach Steve Alford's honeymoon was very short

2013-05-18 13:45:00

UCLA and Steve Alford. A basketball program of unmatched pedigree led by a former prodigy who became a national champion and Olympic gold medalist before making a steady climb up the coaching ladder. On paper, a harmonic convergence. How they came...

PASSINGS: Vincent G. Dowling, John La Montaine

2013-05-16 21:43:00

Vincent G. Dowling Actor, director gave Tom Hanks early break Actor and director Vincent G. Dowling, 83, who left behind a long career with Ireland's national theater to run a Shakespeare festival in Cleveland where he gave a young Tom Hanks an...

Kennedy Center changes Honors process after Latino groups' outcry

2013-05-17 06:50:00

After saluting just two Latino performers in 35 years with its Kennedy Center Honors awards, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts says it has revised the selection process to be more inclusive. The changes were announced Thursday in a news...

West Hollywood says a hearty spasibo to Russian veterans

2013-05-11 20:29:00

Some of the speakers' attempts to speak Russian in the warm West Hollywood auditorium were clunky, but one word was repeated over and over Saturday afternoon. Spasibo. Thank you. In a Plummer Park auditorium decorated in red and white balloons and...

American Cinematheque to celebrate the late Roger Ebert

2013-05-12 13:21:00

Thumbs up to the American Cinematheque. The independent, nonprofit cultural organization is paying homage to the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic Roger Ebert with a new film series, "The Great Movies: A Tribute to Roger Ebert." The influential...

Emmy campaigning is more competitive than ever

2013-05-16 06:00:00

When the producers of "Modern Family" claimed in a full-page Variety ad two years ago that curvaceous star Sofia Vergara would run naked down Sunset Boulevard if the ABC sitcom won the Emmy (it did, and she didn't), it may have seemed as if award...

Donald and Mary Jane Spickler receive the preservation award from Washington County Commissioner Terry Baker on Tuesday at the annual John Frye Historic Preservation Awards ceremony.

2013-05-21 00:00:00

John Seburn, president of the Hagerstown Aviation Museum receives the restoration award from Washington County Commissioner Terry Baker on Tuesday at the annual John Frye Historic Preservation Awards ceremony.

2013-05-21 00:00:00

Just what was Kid Rock on when he came out to present Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with the Best Rap Song Billboard Music Award? He clearly wasn't entirely with it, which added insult to the fact the rap group was already stuck in a separate hotel from the awards show for their performance.

2013-05-19 18:22:00