Sean Penn picked up an Oscar this week after all. Not the Oscar – the one he won Sunday for his performance in One Battle After Another – but a fairly reasonable facsimile thereof made from the war-damaged metal of a Ukrainian railcar. Penn, a strong supporter of Ukraine, skipped Sunday’s…

The 98th Oscars audience slipped to a four-year low this year with 17.86 million viewers across ABC and Hulu on Sunday. That’s down about 9% from last year, when the show tallied nearly 20M viewers after Disney accounted for PC and mobile viewing. So, it’s possible this number might go up…

The Cannes Film Festival was part of the awards season conversation once again this year having world premiered Best International Feature Film winner Sentimental Value as well as rival nominees It Was Just an Accident, The Secret Agent and Sirāt and animated feature hopefuls Arco and Little Amélie or…

The golden statues are just the appetizer; the after-parties are the main course. The minute the 98th Academy Awards wrapped, Hollywood's heaviest hitters embarked on the ultimate late-night sprint, party-hopping their way from the Governors Ball to the Vanity Fair Oscars Party, Netflix, Warner Bros., and Madonna…

Jane Fonda will always tell you what she really thinks. The Grace and Frankie star playfully commented on Barbra Streisand’s tribute to Robert Redford at the 98th Academy Awards Sunday night. "I wanna know how come Streisand was up there doing that for Redford,” she quipped to Entertainment Tonight…

An incident at the end of the 98th Oscars involving One Battle After Another star and Best Supporting Actress nominee Teyana Taylor and a security guard has gotten the attention of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The altercation involved an employee of the Oscars’ outside…

Teyana Taylor was seen throughout the Oscars broadcast cheering her fellow artists on as they took the stage following their win. The One Battle After Another actor was nominated in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role category, but lost to Weapons villain Amy Madigan. When Zoe Saldaña…

It was a big night for original movies; Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another and Ryan Coogler's Sinners duked it out across the 98th Oscars. It was, as described by Rob Mills, EVP Unscripted & Alternative Entertainment at Walt Disney Television and the man in charge of the telecast…

Sean Penn was a notable absentee from Sunday night’s Oscars as he scooped the Best Supporting Actor prize for his star turn in One Battle After Another. Turns out he was on a different continent, spending time with his good friend Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian president posted on X…

Whoopi Goldberg broke out in tears, Ana Navarro was disappointed in the tame tone, and everyone was impressed by what Goldberg called the best In Memoriam segment in memory. The Oscars was hot topic No. 1 on ABC’s The View today. “I don’t generally do this,” moderator Goldberg said at the…

Hamnet’s Jessie Buckley made history Sunday night at the 98th Academy Awards when she became the first Irish actress to take home the Best Actress Oscar, and her home country and its President Catherine Connelly, are celebrating her win. “Jessie Buckley's award is an historic moment, with…

Always a Bridesmaid? Well, not for Wendi McLendon-Covey last night. McLendon-Covey did not take her rightful place alongside Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Ellie Kemper and Maya Rudolph when the Bridesmaids cast reunited on the Oscar stage to present the Best Score and Best Sound…