... trying to improve the quality," said composer Bruce Broughton, who heads the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "There's been a lot of talk about the songs in films, the lack of memorability compared to ...

... exclusive Hollywood club that votes on the Academy Awards. Others among the 134 people asked to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences include recent acting nominees Taraji P. Henson, Amy Ryan, Melissa Leo, Casey Affleck, Viola ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. The Academy Awards picture cleared up a bit Thursday as "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Doubt" and "Frost/Nixon" led with five Golden Globe nominations apiece.

... in "Batman Begins"), the Oscars can go this way, or they can go that way. In recent years, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has increasingly honored independent films that haven't exactly done huge box office business. ...

... Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles C. Lee issued a final ruling late Tuesday in favor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which sued heirs of Rogers' second wife, Beverly, in August to prevent public sale of the ...

CHICAGO -- Film critic Gene Siskel, known for the thumbs-up and thumbs-down reviews he and Roger Ebert shared on their popular TV show, died Saturday. He was 53.

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... coveted statuettes, which vanished from a trucking company loading dock. Spokesman John Pavlik said the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said late Thursday that it is believed the Oscars "have been stolen." He declined to give other ...

... Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson, respectively), and both had that elaborate period thing that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences finds so irresistible. This year, it's different. Although "American Beauty" and "The Cider ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Katharine Hepburn has four. Tom Hanks has two. But, for a while at least, salvage man Willie Fulgear had more Academy Awards than Kate, Tom, Woody, Meryl and Barbra put together.