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CNN — The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were announced Thursday and it was a big morning for “Emilia Pérez,” “The Brutalist” and “Wicked.” After acknowledgement of the impact of ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles by Academy leadership, Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott revealed the nominees for the film industry’s top prize, previewing the race that will play out in the weeks to come, culminating at the March ceremony.

Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Sandra Bullock, Viola Davis, Helen Mirren... Carlos Gascon? Even though one of these things is not like the other, they all have something in common: They've been nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Actress." Look, I couldn't care less about the Oscars, and I'm sure most of you agree. Hollywood has long proven that it is out of touch with reality and out of touch with the rest of the country. But as a woman — an actual biological woman in case we have any confused liberals lurking around — I'm so sick of...

Kate Winslet, 47, floated her opinion Saturday on the infamous “Titanic” door debate using her experience with paddle boarding while appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. The debate — which has been going on for nearly 25 years since the film’s release — first floated to the surface during the climatic scene of James Cameron’s “Titanic,” where Rose (played by Winslet) is laying on a shattered door leaving her love interest Jack ( played by Leo DiCaprio) to freeze in the water. Several people who have watched the 1997 film have argued that if Rose had moved over, both...

Kate Winslet is calling out Hollywood for its rampant homophobia that has allegedly forced some stars to stay in the closet. “I can think of at least four actors absolutely hiding their sexuality,” the actress, 45, told The Sunday Times. “It’s painful. Because they fear being found out. And that’s what they say. ‘I don’t want to be found out.'” Winslet explained that the discrimination oftentimes begins as soon as actors and actresses launch their careers.

The Polish filmmaker, still a fugitive due to a statutory rape case, will direct Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin in the film based on the Dreyfus Affair. Roman Polanski, who has spent four decades as the accused, will explore one of the most famous miscarriages of justice in his new film, J'Accuse. French producers Legende Films confirmed that Polanski, who fled the U.S. after admitting to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977, will begin shooting on the film in Paris later this year.2018 by Scott Roxborough

"Collateral Beauty" has already had a bit of a hammering from film critics and fans, and things have just gotten worse. According to Entertainment Weekly, the film has now given star Will Smith the worst wide debut of his career. Ouch. Despite featuring Smith and a host of other big names, including Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, and Kate Winslet, the movie opened to just $7 million in ticket sales this weekend. That puts it at fourth place in the US box office, well behind the top-ranking "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," which took an estimated $155 million in its...

Fans of the iPhone and the iPad have long seen the late Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, as a messianic figure, whose drive and vision turned computers from clunky business machines into the epitome of cool. Danny Boyle's new biopic, starring Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet, will further burnish his remarkable reputation when it premiers next month. But one woman has a different and more traumatic view: Jobs's high school sweetheart Chrisann Brennan. She lived with Jobs and was an early Apple employee, only for the relationship to fall apart amid wild recriminations when she became pregnant with his...

The Hurt Locker was the big winner of The 2010 BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards, held at the Royal Opera House in London, winning six of the coveted Masks including Best Picture. Equally glamorous and award winning was the BAFTAs Red Carpet, filled to the brim with a multitude of glittery stars and celebs, stepping out, showcasing their gorgeous looks and exquisite ensembles, which set our fashionable hearts afire. Dorian Gray thespian Rebecca Hall amazed all of us, wearing a scintillating black Gianfranco Ferré Fall 2009 gown.

After learning about the mounting nursing home bills for Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, the stars and director of the top-grossing film have made a "considerable donation" to her care, the U.K.'s Independent newspaper reports. Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio and James Cameron have all contributed to a fund established for Dean, 98, who had bee selling her autograph to make ends meet. (Celine Dion has also been hit up, but she hasn't responded yet.) At 9 weeks, Millvina was also the youngest passenger of the Titanic. She now lives in Southampton, from where the...

We just got around to seeing "The Reader" this weekend (warning: plot spoilers below). I don't think I've ever seen a movie that I felt ruined my weekend. This was a first for me. If only there were an Oscar for worst excuse for sex in a film, "The Reader" could have garnered the Oscar it deserved. As it was, Kate Winslet won the best actress award for her sympathetic potrayal of an Auschwitz camp guard in the film. The first hour of the film is devoted to a graphic portrayal of the postwar affair between Winslet's character Hanna Schmitz...

Kate Winslet's chances of Oscar glory are being hit by an orchestrated campaign to dismiss her film The Reader as an apologia for Nazi Germany.

Last week we were totally blown away by Emma Watson’s William Tempest navy dress, and this week we applaud Kate Winslet, who wowed the crowd at the premiere of Revolutionary Road in Los Angeles. Kate Winslet arrived at the red carpet along with Leonardo DiCaprio in a slim black Balmain dress from the house’s fall collection. She complemented her outstanding ensemble with satin Louboutin shoes, a black clutch and a pair of jeweled bangles.