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By Lisa Respers France, CNN The faces may look familiar, but the nominations are brand new. When the nominations were announced Tuesday for the 95th Academy Awards, there were 16 first-time nominees across the four major acting categories: Austin Butler, Hong Chau, Kerry Condon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ana de Armas, Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, Brendan

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Khloe Kardashian wrote a touching tribute to her former partner Tristan Thompson’s late mother, Andrea Thompson. A funeral was held for Thompson, also grandmother to the former couple’s 4-year-old daughter True and their 5-month-old baby boy, last week. The reality star paid tribute through photos on Instagram and wrote, “I have

By Marianne Garvey, CNN The party is over for Panic! At the Disco. The band’s frontman, Brendon Urie, announced on social media Tuesday that the group will go their separate ways after shows in Europe and the UK in February and March. Urie also explained that he will soon be a dad. “Sometimes a journey

By Lisa Respers France, CNN All hail the Queen! Angela Bassett’s powerful performance as Queen Ramonda in the “Black Panther” sequel “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” earned her a best supporting actress nomination Tuesday for the 95th Academy Awards. While it was not her first nomination, (Bassett was received a best actress nomination for her portrayal

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Remember when Issa Rae was presenting the Oscar nominations for best director in 2020 and quipped “Congratulations to those men”? It’s déjà vu. In a year that saw many critically acclaimed films helmed by female directors, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is again taking heat for failing

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Shailene Woodley says she had a tough time filming last year because of what she was going through personally. In a recently published interview with “Porter,” the actress talked about her experience working on “Three Women,” the Showtime adaptation of Lisa Taddeo’s New York Times bestselling study of the sex

By Lisa Respers France, CNN The strange and sentimental film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” led among the films nominated for the 95th Academy Awards on Tuesday, scoring 11 nominations. “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “The Banshees of Inisherin” followed with nine nominations each. Blockbusters “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN The family of missing British actor Julian Sands have thanked “heroic” search teams in California for their efforts to locate him as crews continue to scour the Mt. Baldy area. The 65-year-old, best known for his roles in films “A Room with a View” and “Arachnophobia,” was first reported missing on

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN At a time when roughly half of crime-movie ideas seemingly get stretched out to seven or eight episodes, “Accused” smartly goes in the opposite direction, presenting crisp little yarns in a single hour. While there’s a hit-miss element to that, the best entries in this Fox anthology series sustain suspense

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN In case you were wondering, Rita Moreno very much has still got her groove. The Oscar winner, 91, appeared on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on Monday with her “80 for Brady” co-stars Jane Fonda, Sally Field and Lily Tomlin, where Moreno told a story from the set that had everyone howling.