The Academy Award for best picture is considered the highest honor in movies. Winning that marquee Oscar also means cementing a place in the history books–though the anointed films are not exempt from ...

Times columnists spent the 2026 Oscars ceremony discussing the winners, speeches, presenters and much more. Here's their take ...

From the technical mastery of Saving Private Ryan to the cultural revolution of Pulp Fiction, we revisit ten cinematic masterpieces that were famously denied the Oscar for Best Picture. The Academy ...

The nearly 100-year history of the Academy Award for best actor tells the story of the movies themselves. From performers playing towering real-life figures to those depicting the struggles of the ...

George Arliss was the first British actor to win an Oscar. A play actor originally, Arliss first starred in the 1911 Louis Napoleon Parker play "Disraeli," which was later turned first into a silent ...

Karabash used to be called “the most polluted city in the world,” but then, in 2025, it achieved fame thanks instead to the documentary film Mr. Nobody against Putin. Now the film is up for an Oscar.

At the 76th Berlin International Film Festival, held from February 12 to 22, 2026, audiences were introduced to Black Lions, Roman Wolves: The Children of Adwa, a sweeping documentary by the Ethiopian ...

From Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier's historic wins to Ellen DeGeneres' iconic selfie, relive some of the most memorable ...

From the rusty tape reels stacked from floor to ceiling in the long-forgotten archives of Congo-Brazzaville's national ...

The USS Nimitz is retiring this year, at the venerable age of 51. Here are 10 memorable pieces of history from her past five ...

If paint doesn't feel good coming off the brush, you pretty much have nothing,” said the artist, whose canvases depict humanity in all its rollicking riot and contradiction.

For undiluted violence, few city public house battles have matched what unfolded at The Lyndhurst pub ...