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Buckle up, the Academy Awards are upon us with La La Land set to face off against Manchester By The Sea and Ryan Gosling to battle for the little golden statue with Casey Affleck.

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La La Land has a record 14 nominations for the 89th Academy Awards, but will Lion roar or Moonlight step out of the shadows to prevent the musical sweeping all before it? Stay tuned for our blow-by-blow account as it happens.

Iranian film director and screenwriter Asghar Farhadi has snapped up the Oscar for best foreign language film despite boycotting the 89th Academy Awards to protest Donald Trump's travel ban. 

A Sydney storm chaser has coordinated a worldwide tribute to Twister star Bill Paxton, using GPS coordinates to spell out the late actor's initials over Tornado Alley in the US.

Like Hugh, he says Logan will be his final X-Men film.

If Natalie Portman wins the best actress award at the Oscars tonight, she won't be there to accept it.

American actor Bill Paxton, who rose to stardom with roles in Hollywood blockbusters such as Aliens and Titanic, has died at age 61 after complications from surgery, his family said in a statement on Sunday.

The visual effects supervisor saw a scene that made him think "that's my dream job".

Certain results are sure things but there are reasons hot favourite La La Land might not win best picture.

Aussie Oscar nominees hit the party circuit as LA locks down for Hollywood's night of nights.

Past winner Donald Trump still hasn't collected his Razzie Award, for a B-movie cameo in 1991.

The actress played the grim-faced daughter of The Addams Family before she could even read.

When it comes to handing out Oscars, should the off screen behaviour of the likely recipient count a little, a lot or not at all?

Actress Emma Thompson will not reprise her role in the romantic comedy after the death last year of co-star Alan Rickman.

For more than a decade Brad Pitt has been carefully building a plan B, as a producer. It looks to be paying off big time.

Just like TV, it seems the future of cinema is streaming.

The original, unaltered Star Wars trilogy is rumoured to be re-released this year to mark the 40th anniversary of A New Hope.

Our job is becoming other people, taking on another life, says the 76-year-old star of Star Trek and The X-Men.

An average cast, heavy-handed symbolism and "bewilderingly disjointed" editing make poor work of this dark period in Soviet history.

I know you are, but what am I?

The ''boy from Oz'' was having dinner with Jerry Seinfeld when he decided his next lupine outing would be the last.

Revisiting this much loved classic was always a risky proposition but Danny Boyle has delivered on expectations.

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The favourite to win a batch of Oscars doesn't deserve the slamming it's been getting from disappointed viewers.

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It has been widely reported that the Australian's ninth outing in the role will be his last. It really should be but not for the reason that you think.