JEREMY O. HARRIS

(AP Photo) (Uncredited)Recent Oscar winners Ariana DeBose, Troy Kotsur and Billie Eilish are among the 397 individuals who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. If the invitees accept, which most do, they will have voting privileges at the 95th Academy Awards. In the music branch, Eilish’s brother Finneas O’Connell was also invited, alongside Dan Romer (“Luca”) and Nathan Johnson (“Knives Out”). And writing branch invitees include Jeremy O. Harris (“Zola”), Adele Lim (“Crazy Rich Asians”), Alex Ross Perry (“Listen Up Philip”), Jon Spaihts (“Dune”) and Craig Mazin (“The Hangover Part II”). The 2022 class of invitees, for instance, includes 71 Oscar nominees and 15 winners.

Recent Oscar winners Ariana DeBose, Troy Kotsur and Billie Eilish are among the 397 individuals who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Bob Saget, the comedian and actor known for his role as a widower raising a trio of daughters in the sitcom “Full House,” was found dead Sunday in Florida.

Amid calls for inclusivity and equity, these Tony Awards campaigned hardest for the return of theatergoers.

The red carpet for Sunday's Tony Awards has started and stars are praising the return of live theater after the pandemic shuttered theaters for more than a year.

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(Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP, File) (Taylor Jewell)NEW YORK — (AP) — It's not easy to put a finger on Janicza Bravo's cinema. In describing her work, which now encompasses nine shorts and two feature films, including the new film "Zola," you want to use words like surreal, disturbing, satirical, absurd, otherworldly. "Zola," which A24 will release in theaters Wednesday, is the most vivid look yet at the 40-year-old Bravo as an emergent filmmaker. It’s something kind of familiar but we go to 11.”Bravo's "life at high volume" filmmaking has drawn widespread admirers. For Harris, “Zola” represents more than your average Hollywood breakthrough.

“Zola” is very possibly the first feature film adapted from a Twitter thread.

The long-delayed Tony Awards have been given a fall air date and a four-hour streaming canvas to celebrate the pandemic-shortened Broadway season that upended the theater world.

After more than a year of uncertainty and ever-fluctuating release schedules, there will be a summer movie season.

Gorman, the 22-year-old poet who stirred America at the inauguration of President Joseph Biden, again commanded the spotlight on one of the countrys biggest stages, the Super Bowl. That Gorman brought poetry to the Super Bowl was an almost unthinkable collision of grace and glitz. She seemed to grasp the unlikeliness of her pre-game reading, the first in Super Bowl history. “Poetry at the Super Bowl is a feat for art and our country, because it means we’re thinking imaginatively about human connection even when we feel siloed,” Gorman said Sunday on Twitter. Here’s to them, to poetry and to a Super Bowl like no other.”

FILE - This JuNe 9, 2019 photo shows a view of the stage prior to the start of the 73rd annual Tony Awards in New York. Nominations for the American Theatre Wings 74th Annual Tony Awards will be announced on Thursday, Oct. 15. Nominations for Tony Awards will be announced Thursday with just 18 eligible plays and musicals making the cut, a fraction of the 34 shows the season before. One category — best musical revival — has no eligible shows at all. The 2020 Tony Awards ceremony will be broadcast digitally and take place this fall, at a date still to be announced.