The singers from five Oscar-nominated songs will reprise their performances live at next month’s Academy Awards

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday that Olivia Colman, Rami Malek, Regina King and Mahershala Ali will present during the Feb. 9 ceremony.

Issa Rae says her comment “Congratulations to those men” was the result of being told to banter to kill time during announcement of the Oscar nominations.

“The Shining” writer took to Twitter early Tuesday to weigh in on the controversy that ensued after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated a nearly all-white slate for acting Oscars.

Antonio Banderas has received his first Academy Award nomination. John Williams was nominated for the 52nd time. Monday’s Oscar nominations are full of historic achievements and trivial tidbits.

In the 44-year history of the NBC sketch comedy series, with its long lineage of cast members that have gone on to movie stardom, none of them have gone on to win an Oscar. The streak will stay alive for at least another year as two “SNL” veterans considered contenders for nominations this year were shut out on Monday.

Continuing another troubling trend that the Oscars cannot seem to shake: In the acting nominations, it was almost #OscarsSoWhite, with Cynthia Erivo of “Harriet” the only acting nominee of color out of 20 nods. Golden Globe winner Awkwafina (“The Farewell”) was denied a chance at an Oscar....

And it was a tough morning for high-wattage stars like Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce and...

Fans are calling for “Justice for J.Lo” after Jennifer Lopez was excluded from the Oscar nominations on Monday, viewing her omission as another example of the Academy omitting artists of color from its annual nominations, according to NBC News.

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On Monday, Issa Rae and John Cho announced the...nominees for the 2020 Oscars..., which noticeably left out female directors. Making the Achievements in Directing shortlist for the 92nd Academy Awards were Quentin Tarantino for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, “The Irishman’s” Martin Scorsese, “1917” director Sam Mendes, Bong Joon-ho for “Parasite” and Todd Phillips for “Joker.”...

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Just like that, Cynthia Erivo is one step closer to becoming an EGOT. Erivo is...nominated for two Oscars at the 2020 Academy Awards.... The star of HBO’s The Outsider is up for playing Harriet Tubman in the Harriet biopic, as well as co-writing the song from the movie, “Stand Up.”...

Erivo burst on the Hollywood scene in 2015 with a...

Beyoncé’s “Spirit” was nominated for best original song at this month’s Golden Globes, but lost to John and Bernie Taupin’s “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from “Rocketman.” John, who is nominated with Taupin, won an Academy Award with Tim Rice for “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from the original “The Lion King.”

See the full list of nominees for this year’s Academy Awards.

“Joker” is the leading nominee for the Academy Awards with 11 nominations, with “The Irishman” close behind. There are nine nominees for best picture. They are: “Ford v. Ferrari”; “The Irishman”; “Jojo Rabbit”; “Joker”; “Little Women”; “Marriage Story”; “1917”; Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”; “Parasite.” The nominations will bring about endless speculation about who will...

The Oscar race has only just begun. On Monday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the nominations for its 92nd annual Academy Awards. Front runners for the biggest prizes of the ceremony, which will take place on Feb. 9 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, include “1917,” “The Irishman,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,”…

Last year’s Oscars attracted 29.6 million viewers, second-smallest in the show’s history but 12% more than in 2018, which ended a four-year slide in viewership. Comedian Kevin Hart was originally announced as host, but he backed away when some anti-gay tweets he posted a decade ago resurfaced.

Robert De Niro will receive the Screen Actors Guild’s life achievement award. The guild announced that De Niro will be the 56th recipient of its highest honor at its SAG Awards on Jan. 19, 2020.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Monday invited 842 members from 59 countries to the Oscars organization and, for the first time, reached gender parity in its new class of inductees.

Evelyn “Brandy” Foster, who managed her daughter Jodie’s career from her child-prodigy years through two Academy Awards, has died, her family said Thursday.

Take a look at the 2019 Academy Award nominations for Best Picture.

When Steven Spielberg speaks about the business of Hollywood, everyone generally listens and few dissent. But reports that he intends to support rule changes that could block Netflix from Oscars-eligibility have provoked a heated, and unwieldy, debate online this weekend.