Category: Oscars

Oscars best picture gaffe dominates after-party chatter

Academy Awards after parties are always swanky and star-studded. But this year, even disparate celebrations had a conversation topic in common: The best-picture gaffe that saw Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway award the night’s top prize to “La La Land,” only to correct themselves and present it to “Moonlight.”

Exercise reduces your risk of cancer no matter your weight

What a little cutie! Mel Gibson, 61, and girlfriend Rosalind Ross, 26, share FIRST picture of his newborn baby boy on Oscars red carpet as couple dress up their son in miniature tux to celebrate awards Meryl Streep wears an Elie Saab dress to the Oscars after unseemly feud with Karl Lagerfeld who accused her of ditching Chanel for a designer who would pay her New research shows that light exercise reduces your risk of cancer no matter what you weigh While many people at a healthy weight think they don’t need to be active, findings by Cancer Council NSW show that exercise is important for everyone.

Iranian director to skip Oscars over Trump’s travel ban

An Oscar-nominated Iranian director said Sunday he will not attend this year’s Academy Awards because of a travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump. Asghar Farhadi, an acclaimed director whose film, “The Salesman,” was nominated for best foreign language film, said the uncertainty surrounding his ability to travel to the United States was “in no way acceptable,” and that he would not attend next month’s ceremony even if an exception to the ban were possible.

Academy Awards 2017: Tanna’s unlikely nomination is emotional for directors

After two difficult and emotional years, Martin Butler was delighted by Australia’s first Academy Award nomination for best foreign-language film. One of the directors of the Vanuatu island romance Tanna was working on the film while his partner, journalist Liz Jackson, was dealing with a devastating diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, as revealed on Four Corners late last year.