After being forced to check his Academy Award on a trans-Atlantic flight, recent winner Pavel Talankin’s Oscar went missing before an airline tracked it down two days later.

Paul Thomas Anderson won big at the Oscars with “One Battle After Another” but “Sinners” also landed major wins.

Paul Thomas Anderson has won his first Oscar for best director, and it comes for his new film “One Battle After Another.”.

“KPop Demon Hunters” has won the Academy Award for best animated feature film.

Viola Davis has used her NAACP Image Awards moment to urge people to face hard truths and heal together.

Theodor Pištěk, a Czech costume and stage designer, has died at 93.

“Rental Family” is Brendan Fraser’s first leading role since winning the best actor Oscar for “The Whale.”.

Tom Cruise finally has an Academy Award.

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” is an Oscar contender unlike any other.

Who works harder than Questlove.

The Tony Awards are Sunday with a familiar host and a new venue, Lincoln Center’s David H.

The shortened version of the international broadcast of the 96th Oscars has faced harsh criticism in Ukraine for omitting the segment announcing the documentary feature category, which went to Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol.”.

A harrowing first-person account of the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, “20 Days in Mariupol” has won the best documentary Oscar.

Ranking some of the best Studio Ghibli films following the release of "The Boy and The Heron."

Hattie McDaniel’s best supporting actress Oscar in 1939 for “Gone With the Wind” is one of the most important moments in Academy Award history.

Michelle Yeoh says she is looking for new challenges including as a producer, as she credited perseverance, hard work and passion for her historic Oscar win last month.

Ariana DeBose’s stint as host of last year’s Tony Awards went so well she’s been asked to return this year.

Oscar winner Louise Fletcher has died at age 88.

Penélope Cruz has won one of Spain’s top cinema awards for her contribution to Spanish film.

Viola Davis’ latest honor is not for her acting, but for her writing.

Wanda Sykes said she felt physically ill after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock across the face at the Oscars.

The Oscars looked kindly on Jessica Chastain.

Anthony Hopkins has honored the late Chadwick Boseman after winning the best actor Oscar, hailing his fellow performer as a man “taken from us far too early.”.

Frances McDormand has two more Oscars.

Daniel Kaluuya has used a lead role to win a best supporting actor Oscar.

Anthony Hopkins has won his first Oscar since he was victorious for playing Hannibal Lecter.

This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Frances McDormand, left, and and David Strathairn in a scene from the film "Nomadland." (Searchlight Pictures via AP)NEW YORK – Chloé Zhao's “Nomadland" cemented its Oscar front-runner status Wednesday, winning the top award at the 32nd annual Producers Guild of America Awards. But if any film could claim that mantle, it's “Nomadland,” winner of the Golden Globe best picture award for drama. The PGA Awards are watched especially closely as an Oscar bellwether. The producers use the same preferential ballot as the film academy, and their best-picture fields often nearly mirror each other.

NEW YORK – Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page, the star of “Juno," “Inception” and “The Umbrella Academy,” came out as transgender Tuesday in an announcement greeted as a watershed moment for the trans community in Hollywood. And I love that I am queer," Page said in a statement on social media. “I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self,” Page wrote. Netflix, maker of the comic book series “The Umbrella Academy," said, “So proud of our superhero! We love you Elliot!”"Elliot Page has given us fantastic characters on-screen, and has been an outspoken advocate for all LGBTQ people,” said Nick Adams, GLAAD’s Director of Transgender Media.

“Empire” star Taraji P. Henson has enjoyed wealth, celebrity, a Golden Globe win and an Academy Award nomination. “It’s OK to not be OK," Henson, the latest recipient of the Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion, told The Associated Press via email. In 2018, the Washington, D.C., native started the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation to stop those with mental illness from being stigmatized — especially Blacks, who she says are less likely to seek treatment. This year, with the coronavirus pandemic complicating people's mental health struggles, Henson's foundation has been helping African Americans — who've been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 — access free online therapy. “We need more people like Taraji to continue to eliminate the stigma around mental health across all our communities in America.”___Follow AP New England editor Bill Kole on Twitter at http://twitter.com/billkole.

PRAGUE Jiri Menzel, a Czech director whose 1966 movie Closely Watched Trains won the Academy Award for the best foreign language film has died. Three years ago, Menzel underwent a brain operation and was kept in an artificially induced coma for several weeks after it. Unlike colleagues such as Milos Forman, Jan Nemec and Ivan Passer, Menzel didnt emigrate after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Closely Watched Trains was his first feature movie. His 1985 comedy My Sweet Little Village was nominated for the Academy Award for best foreign film.

Getty ImagesNEW YORK - Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated actress and singer who won critical acclaim as the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series as "Julia," has died. Carroll's daughter, Susan Kay, told The Associated Press her mother died Friday in Los Angeles of cancer. Carroll played Julia Baker, a nurse whose husband had been killed in Vietnam, in the groundbreaking situation comedy that aired from 1968 to 1971. During her long career, Carroll earned a Tony Award for the musical "No Strings" and an Academy Award nomination for "Claudine." Copyright 2019 The Associated Press.

Ranveer Singh gives an interview while attending the "Gully Boy" premiere during the 69th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Friedrichstadtpalast on February 09, 2019, in Berlin, Germany. Producer Farhan Akhtar announced on Twitter that the movie is India's official entry for the 92nd Academy Awards. "Gully Boy," which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February, focuses on the life of an aspiring rapper in Mumbai's Dharavi slum. US rapper Nas also served as an executive producer for "Gully Boy," which has grossed an estimated $37 million worldwide. "We are so thrilled that #GullyBoy has been selected as India's official entry to the 92nd Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film Category," Singh said on Twitter.

Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Crown." Netflix has announced that is the date Season 3 of "The Crown" will debut. This time around there's a new queen as Academy Award winner Olivia Colman takes over the role from Claire Foy, who played Queen Elizabeth II the first two seasons. Colman may be able to continue that award streak with "The Crown." Her predecessor, Foy, won a Primetime Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her portrayal of the current British monarch.

Academy Award-winning director Quentin Tarantino supports The Art of Elysium, which is a charity that encourages the art community to volunteer time to children who are battling serious medical conditions. Hide Caption

(CNN) - Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood" exceeded expectations this weekend becoming the director's highest-grossing opening weekend ever. 2 spot at the domestic box office this weekend. The big weekends from "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood" and "The Lion King" was welcomed news for the domestic box office, which has been sluggish so far this summer. The 2019 North American box office was down about 8% heading into Friday. This weekend's box office totals were up roughly 5% compared to the same weekend last year, according to Comscore.

2003: Singer-songwriter and guitarist Elliott Smith, best known for his Academy Award-nominated song "Miss Misery," dies at age 34 in Los Angeles from two stab wounds to the chest. At the time of his death, Smith was living with his girlfriend, Jennifer Chiba, who told authorities she was taking a shower when she heard him scream and then found him with a knife in his chest. She pulled out the knife and called 911, but Smith died later in the hospital. The autopsy evidence was inconclusive as to whether Smith's wounds were self-inflicted. Hide Caption

2010: "The Social Network," starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake, and directed by David Fincher, premieres in theaters. The movie, which portrays Mark Zuckerberg's founding of Facebook and the resulting lawsuits, would receive widespread acclaim and eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, but won only for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing. However, the film would win Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score. Garfield, Timberlake and Eisenberg are seen here at the film's Paris premiere. Hide Caption

2002: Actress Kim Hunter (second from right) dies of a heart attack at age 79 in New York City. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film "A Streetcar Named Desire," and went on to star opposite Humphrey Bogart in 1952's "Deadline U.S.A." After being blacklisted from film and television in the 1950s amid suspicions of communism in Hollywood, she went on to portray Zira, the sympathetic chimpanzee scientist in the 1968 film "Planet of the Apes" and two sequels, and earned a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 1980 for her role on the long-running TV soap opera "The Edge of Night." Hide Caption