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After weeks of awards shows, the biggest one is finally almost here: On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its 2017 nominees. The winners will then be revealed when the Oscars take place Feb. 26. Damien Chazelle’s musical La La Land, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, led the nominations with a whopping 14. The Best Picture nominee ties with 1997’s Titanic and 1950’s All About Eve for the most nominations the Oscars has ever handed out in its 89-year history. Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight and Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival followed with eight nominations each, also including Best...

Seven people of color were among the 20 acting nominees, while 'La La Land' earned a record-tying 14 noms and Mel Gibson landed a best director nod.

NEW YORK (AP) - Shia LaBeouf wants you to know: “He will not divide us.” For the first few days of Donald Trump’s presidency, the actor has been repeating that sentence into a live camera mounted on a wall outside a New York City museum, usually with a backdrop of everyday New Yorkers chanting and singing along. The livestream from outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens is for a participatory public art project LaBeouf and two collaborators intend to have running for the duration of Trump’s presidency. The camera went live the morning of the inauguration, along...

On Saturday Night Live, have they ever lampooned New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo? As it turns out, no, they haven’t. And it’s not because being governor of New York is too obscure to merit mention on a national television show. SNL repeatedly lampooned Cuomo’s predecessor, David Paterson, for being blind. Classy. But Cuomo has never come been the target of SNL’s scorn. It’s all in on attacking his potential presidential political opponent – Donald Trump – but it’s never laid a glove on him. Which has no connection, I’m sure, to the fact that Andrew Cuomo feeds Saturday Night Live...

Actor Michael Keaton is reportedly not a fan of his fellow actors' resistance towards new U.S. President Donald Trump, insisting they "should give him a chance". The Batman star was reportedly overheard discussing politics with Al Pacino and John Travolta at the Tower Bar in West Hollywood, California on Saturday (21Jan17) night and he vented his frustrations to the actors. According to the New York Post's Page Six, the 65-year-old didn't support Trump during the election, but he is willing to wait and see how he governs before criticising the property tycoon, who was sworn in on Friday (20Jan17). "Enough...

Katie Rich, a “Saturday Night Live” writer who mocked Barron Trump, the youngest child of President Donald Trump, in a tweet during Friday’s inaugural festivities, has been suspended from the late-night comedy show. Rich was suspended immediately after the tweet, and will be suspended indefinitely, according to a source familiar with the matter but not authorized to comment publicly. In the original message, Rich predicted that 10-year-old Barron would become “the country’s first homeschool shooter.” The message was soon deleted by Rich, who also temporarily deactivated her personal Twitter account, but not before it drew widespread condemnation online. On Monday,...

After leading a Women’s March during the Sundance Film Festival, talkshow host Chelsea Handler sat down with Variety‘s Elizabeth Wagmeister for an interview. During the chat, she was asked if she would ever interview Donald Trump. She’s already told other outlets she would never do that, but this time, the follow-up question was whether she’d ever consider Melania Trump.

Ten-year old Barron Trump, Trump's youngest son and the first boy in the White House since JFK Jr., was shamelessly called both a “rapist” and a “school shooter” by left-wing writers and comedians on Twitter over the course of the weekend. These attacks come after Rosie O'Donnell made an unsubstantiated claim during Trump's campaign that Barron Trump was “autistic.” On Friday, “Saturday Night Live” writer Katie Rich tweeted: “Barron will be this country's first homeschool shooter.” Ms. Rich later deleted her tweet as well as her account, but there has been no apology from either her or NBC. Rich's credits...

James Franco, who stripped down in an eyebrow-raising video supporting Hillary Clinton, says he’s “spiraled into a depression” following the Democratic presidential nominee’s election loss to President Trump. “I mean, I’ve been reacting really badly!” the actor, star of the new film “I am Michael,” tells The Daily Beast in an article published Monday. “I’ve spiraled into a depression and I’ve been questioning everything that I am, and how I’ve been doing things,” Franco, 38, says. The performer made headlines when he bared some skin last fall as part of an ad campaign dubbing Clinton “the most interesting woman in...

What was once Episode VIII is now The Last Jedi. When cameras started rolling last year on the eighth film in the Skywalker family story, writer-director Rian Johnson used the tongue-in-cheek working title “Space Bear,” and numerous rumors (most of them false) about the possible real title have circulated ever since.

The following piece appeared on the Coach is Right website in August of 2014. Two years and one presidential election later, Coach Collins’ prophetic observation that, “Together we are much more powerful than Hollywood,” has been proved correct. By Kevin “Coach” Collins Hollywood’s enemies of American freedom are busy undermining the life we have built and hope to keep. These social parasites, who have the wherewithal to live anywhere after they complete the destruction of America, are opening their checkbooks to the Democrats who will carry out the end game for America if we let them. People like Leonardo DiCaprio,...

Actor and performance artist Shia LaBeouf is back with his latest art installation — a four-year-long live-stream set up at a New York City museum at which Americans concerned by Donald Trump’s presidency can film themselves speaking out in protest. The 30-year-old Transformers star unveiled his latest project Friday morning — hours before Trump swore the oath of office to become America’s 45th President — at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The installation consists of a camera set up on a wall, with the phrase “He Will Not Divide Us” scrawled on...

Actress Kristen Stewart is really excited about her next project and she swears it’s “going to kick ass.” But given the topic matter, it’s bound to be a flop. While promoting her new movie Come Swim at the Sundance film festival, the Twilight star, on Friday, told The Hollywood Reporter: “My next thing is going to kick ass. It’s about gun control.” Before she starts shooting this anti-gun flick, Stewart might want to ask her fellow thespian Jessica Chastain about well her gun control movie Miss Sloane did. According to The Washington Free Beacon’s Stephen Gutowski, that anti-gun screed had...

Malia Obama, the oldest of former President Obama’s daughters, is set to intern for Hollywood super-producer Harvey Weinstein this winter. Malia, 18, will begin her internship at the New York City offices of The Weinstein Co. in February, the New York Post reported. The eldest Obama daughter is currently headed to Palm Springs, Florida with her family to began a vacation. The former First Family boarded Executive One, the civil aircraft for former U.S. presidents, Friday after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. President Obama relied heavily on Weinstein during both of his...

Democratic Party rock singer Bruce Springsteen spoke out against President Donald Trump at a concert in Perth, Australia on Sunday, declaring, “We are the new American resistance.” The show was the opening night of Springsteen and his E Street Band’s ‘Summer 2017’ tour of Australia and New Zealand. View image on Twitter View image on Twitter Follow Dave Clark @DaveClarkTV #Springsteen smashed it! The seats were pretty good too #Perth 10:36 AM - 22 Jan 2017 3 3 Retweets 64 64 likes Springsteen, who has become a Democratic Party shill, playing campaign concerts for every Democratic presidential campaign since 2004...

FULL TITLE: Scarlett Johansson left fuming at Women's March when her emotional Planned Parenthood speech was cut short after she goes after Ivanka Trump Scarlett Johansson was left fuming when her emotional speech at the Women's March was cut short after she mentioned Ivanka Trump. The Hollywood actress was at the height of her speech asking listeners to support clinics such as Planned Parenthood when music started playing and her mic was turned off on Saturday. She was visibly annoyed that her impassioned plea was cut off after she requested Trump to offer her daughter the same 'privileges' that were...

Madonna made a surprise Saturday appearance at the Women’s March on Washington, the cornerstone of the massive worldwide protests following President Trump’s inauguration. In her speech at the pre-march rally, the pop megastar declared that she was angry and that “good did not win this election.” “Are you still awake out there?” she asked the Washington, D.C., crowd. “Are you sure about that? Can you hear me? Are you ready to shake up the world? Welcome to the revolution of love, to the rebellion, to our refusal as women to accept this new age of tyranny. Where not just women...

Thousands of defiant New Yorkers filled President-elect Donald Trump’s backyard Thursday on the eve of his inauguration for a star-studded, full-throated statement of protest. Joined by celebrities, government leaders and union organizers, angry protesters flooded Columbus Circle, Broadway and several blocks of Central Park West. “There are those who are working to divide us,” said “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon. “We are not going back. We’re not turning around. “Yes we’ve had a setback. But we can see it as a setback or we can see it as a challenge. And where there is a challenge there is...

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—On a crisp November evening three weeks after the election, about 600 local activists gathered on a sound stage at the old Mack Sennett studios in Silver Lake where nearly a century ago the Keystone Cops slipped on banana peels and dodged pies in the face. The crowd, which quickly overflowed the available seats and sat on the bare floor, had been convened by Beau Willimon, the creator of the Netflix series “House of Cards,” and a still-idealistic veteran of Howard Dean’s insurgent 2004 presidential campaign. As Willimon took the microphone, a gray scrim hanging behind him bore the projected...