STEVEN SPIELBERG

A nod for a nonagenarian and a surge of first-time acting honorees are among the notable numbers stemming from the Oscar nominations announced Tuesday.

Some of the nominated films are still in theaters but many are also available online to stream now. Butler snagged a best actor nomination and the film received a nod for best picture and director. Spielberg is nominated for best director and his film is nominated for best picture, while Michelle Williams up for best actress. Best animated film nominee. The film, nominated for best song, topped Netflix's streaming charts over the summer and is still available to watch there.

The nominations to the 95th Academy Awards are now out.

Released back in March, the A24 film has proved an unlikely Oscar heavyweight against the expectations of even its makers. For the first time, two sequels — “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water” — were nominated for best picture. Tom Cruise missed out on an acting nomination, but the film credited with bringing many moviegoers back to theaters walked away with seven nominations. Baz Luhrmanns' bedazzled biopic "Elvis" came away with eight nominations, including a best actor nod for star Austin Butler and nominations for its costumes, sound and production design. John Williams, his longtime composer, extended his record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person.

NEW YORK — (AP) — The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards are being announced. They aired live on ABC's "Good Morning America" and livestreamed on Oscars.org, Oscars.com and on several of the academy's social media platforms. Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan's multiverse-skipping tale could walk away with the most nominations Tuesday, including nods for Michelle Yeoh and comeback kid Ke Huy Quan. John Williams, his longtime composer, extended his record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person. Another nod for best score will give Williams his 53rd nomination, a number that trails only Walt Disney's 59.

"Everything Everywhere All at Once," "The Fabelmans" and "Top Gun: Maverick" could be in the Oscar nomination mix.

If things go as expected, "Top Gun: Maverick," "Avatar: The Way of Water," "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" and "Elvis" could all rack up somewhere between six and nine nominations. John Williams, his longtime composer, should extend his record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person. Another nod for best score will give Williams his 53rd nomination, a number that trails only Walt Disney's 59. Many questions remain, though, like whether the love for "Top Gun: Maverick" will go far enough to win Tom Cruise a best actor nomination. Last year saw flashes of triumphant resurrection for theaters, like the success of “Top Gun: Maverick,” after two years of pandemic.

The sci-fi indie hit “Everything Everywhere All at Once” leads nominations to the 95th Academy Awards with 11 nominations.

Glittering rock ‘n’ roll, women warriors and kings, spellbinding multiverses and stories of friendship and family permeated 2022 cinema and the AP Top 25 Movies list.

There were, admittedly, some notable distractions at last year's ceremony, so you might have missed it: The old Oscar rules have gone out the window. When nominations are announced Tuesday, popcorn will be on the menu. “Top Gun: Maverick,”“Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Elvis” all look assured of best-picture nods.

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The high-flying blockbuster, along with Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Everything Everywhere All At Once” and “Tár” have all been nominated for the Producers Guild of America’s top honor, the organization said Thursday. All five got top Directors Guild nominations just Wednesday. "The Fabelmans" and "Banshees" also won big at the Golden Globes earlier this week. The Producers Guild nominates 10 films annually for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures. Like the Directors Guild group, all 10 of the PGA-nominated films this year were directed by men, overlooking acclaimed features from female directors like “The Woman King” and “Women Talking.” Damien Chazelle's “Babylon" also missed the cut.

Oscar chances for “Top Gun: Maverick” just went into hyperdrive.

LOS ANGELES — (AP) — Standout moments from the Golden Globe Awards, which returned to television Tuesday night after a year's absence. “People on Twitter are mad like she’s playing people off, but it’s a track,” host Jerrod Carmichael said during the show. Spielberg, who has remained restrained winning bigger awards, got emotional when he won the best director Globe for "The Fabelmans." Cate Blanchett, winner of best actress in a movie drama for “Tár,” “couldn't be here tonight because she's on production in the UK," presenter Henry Golding said. “I actually saw it with Kanye," Carmichael said, “and it changed everything for him.”Spielberg responded with a “thank God” gesture.

Memorable moments at the Golden Globe Awards, back on TV after a year off, included a wrongly accused pianist.

After years of scandal, these awards were about survival not simply ceremony. But the so-called "party of the year" was stunted by a hodgepodge of honors and a host whose caustic comedy didn't fit.

Tuesday night doesn’t really scream “glamorous awards show.” Hollywood, in large part, turned out too, acting as though it wasn’t a rainy weekday in Southern California and as though they hadn’t just a year ago protested the existence of the show. Brad Pitt and Angela Bassett came.

The Golden Globe Awards returned in 2023 after it was canceled last year due to the HFPA having no Black members. Here's a complete winners list, including Austin Butler, Steven Spielberg and Jennifer Coolidge.

Spielberg’s autobiographical coming-of-age film “The Fabelmans” won best drama film and the dark friendship tale “The Banshees of Inisherin,” captured best film, comedy or musical. The Globes’ would-be comeback ended like many Globes ceremonies before it: with a triumphant Spielberg. Nominated 14 times by the Globes for best director, Spielberg also won the honor for the third time. Angela Bassett, a likely Oscar frontrunner, won best supporting actress for her performance in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever." Quinta Brunson, the show's creator and star, won best actress in a comedy series, and Tyler James Williams won for his supporting role.

The Golden Globes returned to the air Tuesday with a red carpet flush with celebrities and comedian Jerrod Carmichael as a hesitant emcee.

NEW YORK — (AP) — "Top Gun: Maverick," Steven Spielberg and the stars of "The Banshees of Inisherin" are set to collect awards at Sunday night's National Board of Review Awards in New York. Coming two days before the Golden Globes on Tuesday, the NBR Awards will help kick Hollywood's awards season into high gear. The National Board of Review, a long-running group of film enthusiasts and academics, names its winners ahead of its ceremony. "Top Gun: Maverick" was its pick for best film. Other awards include Steven Spielberg ("The Fabelmans") for best director, Colin Farrell ("The Banshees of Inisherin") for best actor, his co-star Brendan Gleeson for best supporting actor, Michelle Yeoh ("Everything Everywhere All at Once") for best actress and Janelle Monáe ("Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery") for best supporting actress.

“Top Gun: Maverick,” Steven Spielberg and the stars of “The Banshees of Inisherin” collected awards at Sunday night’s National Board of Review Awards in New York.

The original mechatronic model of the alien from Steven Spielberg's 1982 classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial headlined a weekend auction of Hollywood artifacts.

An auction house sold a mechatronic model used to bring E.T. to life in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic. It's missing skin, but it still works.

Acclaimed director Steven Spielberg said in a BBC interview that he feels the blockbuster movie “Jaws” is responsible for the decimation of shark populations.

And no one knows it better than he does.

It might be rapidly approaching 50 years old, but Close Encounters of the Third Kind is still a masterpiece of sci-fi cinema.

NEW YORK — (AP) — “Top Gun: Maverick,” 2022's biggest box-office hit, has been named the best film of the year by the National Board of Review. The National Board of Review, which announced its picks Thursday, additionally awarded best cinematography to Claudio Miranda for the “Top Gun” sequel. Steven Spielberg was awarded best director for his autobiographical family portrait, "The Fabelmans." Michelle Yeoh took best actress for her lauded performance in Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's "Everything Everywhere All at Once." Last year, the group awarded Paul Thomas Anderson's "Licorice Pizza" best film.

“Top Gun: Maverick,” 2022′s biggest box-office hit, has been named the best film of the year by the National Board of Review.

But if there was ever a role that showed the extent of Williams' remarkable range – her every-note-on-the-piano "emotional dexterity" – it's Mitzi. Williams’ performance in “The Fabelmans” – luminous, enthrallingly theatrical, delicately heartbreaking — is widely expected to land Williams her fifth Academy Award nomination. The role is almost antithetical to Mitzi; Williams’ character, Lizzy, is solitary and less expressive. Such moments making “The Fabelmans," Williams says, were so intoxicating that she wanted to “eat the air” on set. I cried in a way that caught me by surprise.”But there are parts of Mitzi living, still, with Williams.

“The Fabelmans” centers on Steven Spielberg’s coming of age as a filmmaker.

The listing agent for the Victorian home featured in the “The Goonies” film in Astoria, Oregon, says the likely new owner is a fan of the classic coming-of-age movie about friendships and treasure hunting, and he promises to preserve and protect the landmark.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” has won best feature at the 32nd Gotham Awards.

Thanksgiving often serves up a feast of new family movies at the box office, but the Walt Disney Co.’s animated offering “Strange World” fizzled with audiences out of the gates.

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Filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age-tale is both quintessentially honest and sentimental.

The box office roared back to life with the long-awaited release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”.

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian man whose unusual life inspired films such as Steven Spielberg's “The Terminal,” died at Charles de Gaulle Airport Saturday. He lived there for 18 years.

PARIS — (AP) — An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” died Saturday in the airport, officials said. Merhan Karimi Nasseri died after a heart attack in the airport’s Terminal 2F around midday, according an official with the Paris airport authority. Police and a medical team treated him but were not able to save him, the official said. He had been living in the airport again in recent weeks, the airport official said. His saga inspired “The Terminal” starring Tom Hanks, and a French film.

French officials say an Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” has died in the airport

French officials say an Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and loosely inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” has died in the airport.

An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” died Saturday in the airport, officials said. Merhan Karimi Nasseri died after a heart attack in the airport’s Terminal 2F around midday, according an official with the Paris airport authority. Police and a medical team treated him but were not able to save him, the official said.

The director tackles his most challenging material: his own childhood.

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One of the most successful directors of epics began as a child besotted with filming toy train wrecks with an 8mm camera. But Spielberg's latest is a semi-autobiographical drama about his parents, touching on a family secret he had buried for years.

Preview: The Academy Award-winning director known for epic blockbusters talks about his semi-autobiographical film, "The Fabelmans," and about revealing a family secret.

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One of the best movies of the year is a deeply personal project from one of our all-time best filmmakers.

Steven Spielberg's autobiographical coming-of-age drama "The Fabelmans" won the Toronto International Film Festival's top prize, the People's Choice Award, solidifying its early status as Academy Awards frontrunner. Toronto's audience award was announced Sunday as the largest North American film festival wrapped up its 47th edition and first full-scale gathering in three years. Last year, Kenneth Branagh's "Belfast" triumphed at a much-diminished hybrid Toronto International Film Festival. This year, no film came into the festival more anticipated than "The Fabelmans," Spielberg's memory-infused film about his childhood. The festival's audience prize for documentary went to "Black Ice," Hubert Davis' film about the history of Black hockey players executive produced by LeBron James.

Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical coming-of-age drama “The Fabelmans” won the Toronto International Film Festival’s top prize, the People’s Choice Award, solidifying its early status as Academy Awards frontrunner.

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TORONTO — (AP) — Steven Spielberg premiered his much-anticipated “The Fabelmans" to thunderous applause at the Toronto International Film Festival, debuting his most autobiographical film and one the 75-year-old filmmaker said he's been building toward his whole life. The film opens with a timid young boy outside a cinema going to see his first movie ("The Greatest Show on Earth"). “It's something obviously I've been thinking about for a long time,” Spielberg said on stage after the screening late Saturday. Spielberg said he first talked about what would become “The Fabelmans” with Kushner during the making of “Lincoln.” The playwright, Spielberg said, played the role of therapist as Spielberg unloaded his memories. Cinema in Spielberg's film is both a transformative power and something dangerous; a way to express genuine emotion and to hide from it.

Steven Spielberg premiered his much-anticipated “The Fabelmans” to thunderous applause at the Toronto International Film Festival, debuting his most autobiographical film and one the 75-year-old filmmaker said he’s been building toward his whole life

Steven Spielberg premiered his much-anticipated “The Fabelmans” to thunderous applause at the Toronto International Film Festival, debuting his most autobiographical film and one the 75-year-old filmmaker said he’s been building toward his whole life.

An emotional Harrison Ford has unveiled a trailer for the fifth Indiana Jones film, saying this one will be his last.

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Little Big Town and Marcus Mumford, “The Handmaid’s Tale” returns with high stakes for the future of Gilead, and twin brothers go to their mother’s house for a stay but find something is off about her in the film “Goodnight Mommy.”.

A-list celebrities have paid multi-billion-dollar divorce settlements and tens of millions of dollars in legal bills

When the 47th Toronto International Film Festival unfolds beginning Thursday, it will follow two editions that were much diminished by the pandemic.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” swings back on top of the box office during a holiday weekend where American theaters aimed to lure moviegoers with discounted $3 tickets.

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Bob Rafelson, a co-creator of “The Monkees” who became an influential figure in the New Hollywood era of the 1970s, has died.

Toronto Film Festival Steven Spielberg FILE - Director Steven Spielberg poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "The Post" in London, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018. Spielberg is bringing his highly personal film ‘The Fabelmans’ to the Toronto International Film Festival this fall, organizers said Friday, July 22, 2022. (Joel C Ryan)Steven Spielberg is bringing his highly personal film “The Fabelmans” to the Toronto International Film Festival this fall, organizers said Friday. It will be the world premiere for the film, which Spielberg has said is based on his early years, and will also mark the legendary filmmaker’s first time at the festival. The Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from Sept. 8-18, has previously said that it will also host the world premieres of Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” the Harry Styles-led drama “My Policeman” and Gina-Prince Bythewood’s historical epic “The Woman King,” with Viola Davis.

Steven Spielberg is bringing his highly personal film “The Fabelmans” to the Toronto International Film Festival this fall.

For centuries, mysterious blocks of beeswax and Chinese porcelain have washed up on the Oregon coast, leading to legends of pirates, treasure, and a sunken Spanish galleon. It became known as the Beeswax Wreck, and it inspired centuries of treasure hunters—and maybe even Steven Spielberg, as he created The Goonies. Now, researchers have found nearly 330-year-old timbers from the ship in a hard-to-access cave. This is the story of how a team of volunteer archeologists are working to solve one of the most enduring mysteries of the Pacific Northwest, using old-school detective skills and one well-timed natural disaster.

Journalist Ken Auletta writes about the Hollywood power broker and his fall after allegations of serial sexual abuse exposed during the #MeToo movement led to his conviction and imprisonment.

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Steven Spielberg, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Daisy Ridley, Yo-Yo Ma, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and a full house turn out to celebrate the storied composer at 90.

After more than six decades of making bicycles soar, sending swimmers panicking and other spellbinding close encounters, John Williams is putting the final notes on what may be his last film score.

The 90-year-old composer is being honored June 23 at the Kennedy Center with a National Symphony Orchestra birthday bash featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Steven Spielberg and Anne-Sophie Mutter.

Steven Spielberg’s film predicted how having more convenience would mean sacrificing personal freedom.

“E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” which hit theaters 40 years ago this month, was more than a hit. It was a bona fide phenomenon.

The award-winning actress won an Oscar for her role in the 1961 film and laughingly recalled her inaccurate prediction.

“Jurassic World: Dominion” took a mighty bite out of the box office with $143.4 million in North American ticket sales according to studio estimates Sunday.

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With London’s stages closed for much of the pandemic, Mark Rylance — one of the theater’s most soulful actors — made six films.

Fresh off her breakthrough role in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” Rachel Zegler will star in Lionsgate’s planned “Hunger Games” prequel.

Tom Cruise got his first $100 million opening weekend with “Top Gun: Maverick.”.

Billionaire Moshe Kantor has severed his longstanding ties to Tel Aviv University — joining a growing list of Russian Jewish oligarchs who have scaled back their philanthropic activities after coming under international sanctions for their ties to President Vladimir Putin.

Jane Campion has won the best director Oscar for “The Power of the Dog.”.

Ariana DeBose lived up to Oscar predictions and followed the path of her “West Side Story” predecessor Rita Moreno.

The unlikely Oscar contender “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” recently became the first film from the small Asian nation of Bhutan to be nominated for best international film.

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“West Side Story” star Rachel Zegler may get her Oscars moment after all.

The stage musical about the making of the classic film “Jaws” has speared its leading man — Jarrod Spector.

“CODA” has won the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, giving momentum to the possibility that the small film could have a big night at next week’s Oscars.

What's going to win best picture at the 94th Academy Awards.

Rita Moreno told her “Enjoy it, honey!”.

Sci-fi epic “Dune” has won five prizes and dark Western “The Power of the Dog” has been named best film at the British Academy Film Awards.

From Bradley Cooper to Steven Spielberg, some of Hollywood’s brightest stars came together to relax and sip wine in a fancy ballroom where everyone ended up walking away a winner at the American Film Institute Awards on Friday.

The Oscar race may be heating up, but you wouldn’t know it to peek in on the nominees luncheon Monday in Los Angeles.

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The 94th Oscar nominations were full of surprises in both satisfying and disappointing ways, but when there are only five nominees in most categories, it’s almost guaranteed that a few favorites will miss the cut.

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