Jean Hersholt

Apr 10, 1968: Arrivals at the Academy Awards outside the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium....

List of 85th annual Academy Award winners The Associated Press List of the 85th annual Academy Award winners announced Sunday in Los Angeles: 1. Best Picture: "Argo." 2. Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln." 3. Actress: Jennifer Lawrence,...

They all talk about the phone calls — Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks. What binds them is the relentless prodding they’ve all received from Hollywood’s most bullish fundraiser, Jeffrey Katzenberg. At the fourth-annual...

List of 84th Academy Award winners  The Associated Press   List of the 84th Annual Academy Award winners announced Sunday: 1. Best Picture: "The Artist." 2. Actor: Jean Dujardin, "The Artist." 3. Actress: Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady." 4. Supporting...

James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey and makeup artist Dick Smith received honorary Oscars at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Governors Awards ceremony Saturday night, where the mood was jovial as guests moved past the events of a week that saw...

It seems a little odd that her O-Ness, Oprah Winfrey, should be included with James Earl Jones as recipient of the honorary awards at the upcoming Academy Awards. Her footprint on the big screen has been tiny — a nomination for “The Color...

Winfrey was a supporting actress nominee for "The Color Purple" from 1985; Anjelica Huston won that year for "Prizzi's Honor." TV stardom could be the next stop for Huston, who is delightful as a determined Broadway producer in NBC's "Smash," which will...

Is there any reason why Oprah Winfrey should be getting an honorary Oscar?...

SO YOU KNOW Elizabeth Taylor’s star blazed brightly in Danville during the summer of 1956, when she came to town with fellow stars Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin and Rod Taylor for the filming of the Civil War epic “Raintree...

Walter Seltzer, a Hollywood press agent-turned-producer who started out at MGM in the 1930s and made an enduring mark on the industry in the 1980s as a tenacious fundraiser for the Motion Picture and Television Fund, has died. He was 96. Seltzer died...

Los Angeles Times file photo [Update: This turned out to be more of a mystery than I expected. It’s from “The Climax.� According to imdb, there is a deteriorating copy of the silent version at UCLA, so it may qualify......

Elizabeth Taylor, the glamorous queen of American movie stardom, whose achievements as an actress were often overshadowed by her rapturous looks and real-life dramas, has died. She was 79. Hospitalized six weeks ago for congestive heart failure, Taylor...