Hot Docs: Stanley Nelson to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor

Patti Smith is being awarded the 2020 PEN Literary Service Award, Rolling Stone reports. The award annually recognizes an author who write about “the human condition.” Previous recipients include Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, and Bob Woodward. Smith will receive the award at PEN’s annual gala on May 19 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Rihanna will receive the President’s Award during the 51st NAACP Image Awards this month.The NAACP announced Tuesday (Feb. 4) that it had selected the 31-year-old pop star and fashion icon for her “groundbreaking career as an artist and musician, but (someone who) has also distinguished herself as a stellar public servant.”Rihanna will be given the award during the Feb.

Black History Month is here and it's time you add a new show to your queue.

"Pinch me. This couldn’t have worked out better for this project," Byrne says.

Willie Nelson, who has shaped American culture over six decades as a performer, recording artist, actor, author and activist, was honored first and foremost as a songwriter at the Americana Music Association’s 7th annual pre-Grammy concert Saturday night (Jan. 25) in Los Angeles.

Among the artist’s who will be achieving Grammy gold the night of Jan. 26, Iggy Pop will receive the high honor of lifetime achievement from the Recording Academy! The 71-year-old rocker, known as the “Godfather of Punk,” curated a storied career since he first started out in the 1970s. Before the “Real Wild Child” walks the Grammy Awards stage to accept his achievement, here are five things you need to know about him.

A young Scots tot battling a rare form of cancer is to receive life-changing stem cell, from a US donor. Adeline Davidson, 3, suffers from myelodysplasia, an extremely rare form of blood cancer that affects only one in 250,000 children.

LOS ANGELES — Actor Johnny Depp and musician Alice Cooper joined Aerosmith on Friday at a gala dinner and performance in Los Angeles to celebrate the band’s 50-year career as one of the best-selling American hard rock bands of all times.

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The eighth annual CMA Touring Awards were held Tuesday night at Nashville’s Marathon Music Works ,where the men and women who work tirelessly behind-the-scenes within the country music industry were celebrated.Tony Conway, founder/owner of Conway Entertainment Group/Ontourage Management, was presented with this year’s CMA Touring Lifetime Achievement Award by Marty Stuart. “The beauty of Tony is, his handshake is better than a pile of contracts,” Stuart said.

The phone of Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos was hacked after receiving a file sent from an account used by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, United Nations experts said Wednesday.The two experts called for an "immediate investigation" by the United States into information that suggests that Bezos' phone was likely hacked after he received an MP4 video file sent from the Saudi prince's WhatsApp account in May 2018, after the two exchanged phone numbers at a dinner in

Oh, what a night! Robert De Niro walked away with a high honor on Sunday, January 19, as this year’s Lifetime Achievement recipient at the 2020 SAG Awards.

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Mariah Carey’s 2020 is already starting off big. The Honey singer will officially be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame after decades in the music game.

A watch enthusiast is hoping to turn back time and unite an antique timepiece with its original owner’s relatives.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Eddie Murphy looked back at his nearly 40 years of being an actor while accepting the lifetime achievement award at the 2020 Critics' Choice Awards on Sunday night."Being able to make a living as an actor is a privilege and a blessing. And to make a living making people laugh, there's no higher — you're the luckiest person on Earth to be able to do that," Murphy said.