Oscar nominees set for Songwriters Hall of Fame celebration

A new stage musical adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald masterpiece The Great Gatsby is headed for Broadway, with music by Florence + the Machine’s Florence Welch and Oscar-nominated “Mystery of Love” song producer Thomas Bartlett.

At the 93rd Academy Awards, songwriter Diane Warren made the wrong kind of history, losing out in her 12th bid for Best Original Song.

Maria Bakalova and Paris Hilton pose for photos together as they head to an Oscars after party at the Sunset Tower Hotel on Sunday (April 25) in Los Angeles.

The Oscars may be a little different this year,thanks to the pandemic, but there is still a red carpet — and plenty of stars who walked it ahead of Sunday's show. Oscar nomineesCarey Mulligan, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun, Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya, Leslie Odom Jr., Chloé Zhao, Paul Raci, Glenn Close and Diane Warren were among those who hit the carpet for the 93rd annual Academy Awards.

If you tuned in at 8:00 PM EST for the Academy Awards, then odds are you missed some of the best moments of the evening. As expected, the Academy broadcast the Best Original Song performances during the pre-show, with standout performances by Celeste, H.E.R., Leslie Odom, Jr., Laura Pausini, Daniel Pemberton, Molly Sandén and Diane Warren mixed in with red carpet moments galore.

While this year's Oscar Sunday will look different from any before it, that doesn't mean the celebration is off. Hotels and restaurants throughout L.A., open with lessened COVID-19 restrictions, are offering a wide variety of themed cocktails to celebrate this year's nominees and an end to a topsy-turvy awards season.

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UPDATED, 12:00 PM: Steven Yeun is a surprise last-minute add the ensemble cast of Academy Award presenters, the Oscarcast producer said today. The Minari star is the first Asian-American Best Actor nominee in the Oscars’ 93-year history.

This year’s Oscars may be toned down, but the gift bag will be as glamorous as ever.

Hong Kong director Derek Tsang's harrowing youth drama Better Days is the rare Oscar best international film nominee that was both critically acclaimed and a massive commercial hit. Released in mainland China in October 2019, the film grossed $223 million, which is more than 40 times the total earnings of the other four international feature nominees combined.

Andra Day has shared her new single ‘Phone Dies’ – listen to it below.The track is the star’s fourth release of 2021 following three singles taken from the soundtrack of The United States vs. Billie Holiday.‘Phone Dies’ was produced by Anderson .Paak and was released today (April 16) via Warner Records.

One night, when Diane Warren was 15 years old, someone actually paid her to stop singing at a restaurant. “They had said, ‘Bring your guitar and play a couple of songs. Maybe you’ll get discovered.’ I got paid after one song to stop. $15. They said I was interfering with people’s dinners.”

In the months after the death of George Floyd, the country started to take a hard look in the mirror. We asked: Was this a nation built on white supremacy? Do we police African-Americans differently? Were we excluding people from opportunities based on the color of their skin? Protestors hit the streets, athletes boycotted games, and we demanded accountability from our politicians.

Academy Awards ceremony, originally set for February and delayed by the pandemic, airs April 25, the birthday of her late father, David Warren, and a coincidence that she calls “so cool.”“He believed in me so much he would take me to music publishers when I was 14 or 15,” Warren said. “My mom would be saying, ‘Why are you doing it? Why are you encouraging her? She can’t make a living off that.’”Warren, who drew up in Los Angeles, recounted her dad’s reply: “She has talent.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorGlenn Close is one of the most heralded actors in history, with a record eight Academy Award nominations — including this year, as best actress for “Hillbilly Elegy.” But to get there, even she has endured a series of bad auditions.

Oscar-nominee Hugh Jackman and Oscar-winner Laura Dern have been set to star in blue-chip feature drama The Son, writer-director Florian Zeller’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated movie The Father.

Writer-director Ramin Bahrani's The White Tiger journey began four years before the acclaimed 2008 novel hit stores. Author Aravind Adiga slipped early chapters to the filmmaker, his former classmate at Columbia University, and he was immediately hooked.