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The 84th annual Academy Awards will be handed out on Feb. 26.

Eastman Kodak eased away from the Hollywood spotlight on Wednesday, asking to have its name removed from the theater that hosts the Oscars.

Civil rights drama The Help got a leg up in the Oscar race on Sunday when the movie won three awards from the Screen Actors Guild, including best cast in a surprise over silent movie romance The Artist.

Movie fans don't need to wait until the red carpet is rolled out to get in on the excitement of this year's Academy Awards.

The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius was named the year's best feature film director by the Directors Guild of America on Saturday, further positioning the silent movie-era romance as a frontrunner for Oscars.

After months of talking and weeks of voting, Hollywood's actors finally name their picks for the best performances in the films and TV shows of 2011 at the annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday.

The Academy has made an unusual exception for The Tree of Life, determining that the film has four true producers and should not be limited by an AMPAS rule that limits the number of producers on a Best Picture nominee to three.

Lee’s point was that the filmmaking establishment cannot make authentic movies about black people the way an independent artist like he can.

Now that Oscar season has officially begun, it seems only right to take a look back at some of the films that weren't treated as well by the Academy. From King Kong and Rear Window to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Singin' in the Rain, here are fifteen iconic films never nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.

Now that the Golden Globe Awards have come and gone, the Oscars season is underway. Today, Tuesday, Jan. 24, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will make an announcement, which you can watch via live stream online, of the 2012 Oscar nominations.

Silent-era film The Artist and family drama The Descendants were the top film picks at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday in a loose-lipped awards show that even had host Ricky Gervais walking onto the stage with a drink in his hand.

The 2012 Golden Globe awards show Sunday gave plenty of gorgeous gowns, quippy quotes and even a wardrobe malfunction, but for many in the industry, the Hollywood evening out begs the question: Do the Golden Globes predict forthcoming Oscar winners? The answer is: Sort of.

Warner Bros. totally flipped the script on the Writers Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -- but it was all an innocent mistake.

Funny Or Die was also involved.

Dalton Trumbo, one of the best-known figures from Hollywood's blacklist era, has received a posthumous vindication, the Writers Guide of America, West announced Monday.

Longtime film and T.V. actor Dan Frazer, best known for his role as Captain Frank McNeil on the 1970s television crime series Kojak, died in his New York City home on Friday at the age of 90, according to reports.

Veteran television and film actor Dan Frazer died in New York on Friday at the age of 90. He was best known for his role as Captain Frank McNeil, on the TV series Kojak which lasted for 5 seasons.

Artist leads Golden Globes. Do Oscars await?

The actors of civil rights drama The Help topped Screen Actors Guild Award nominations on Wednesday with four nods including best film cast, leading a list of nominees that saw many surprises in Hollywood's current awards season.

Orson Welles' Oscar for writing Citizen Kane -- regarded as one of the best films ever made -- is going up for auction again later this month in a hot market for Hollywood memorabilia.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is enlisting some Hollywood heavy hitters to help raise money for the proposed Academy Museum.