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The class of 2020 won't have the opportunity to don graduation robes or receive their diplomas in front of their families and friends, but iHeartMedia has assembled a star-studded slate of commencement speakers to offer up virtual words of wisdom. Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Fallon, John Legend and a dozen others are recording speeches specifically for seniors who are missing their graduation due to the coronavirus pandemic.

By Peter White

The class of 2020 won't have the opportunity to don graduation robes or receive their diplomas in front of their families and friends, but iHeartMedia has assembled a star-studded slate of commencement speakers to offer up virtual words of wisdom.Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Fallon, John Legend and a dozen others are recording speeches specifically for current seniors who are missing their graduations due to the coronavirus pandemic.

On March 13, the British Academy revealed that the BAFTA Games Awards had became one of the first major awards ceremonies on the creative industry’s calendar to be impacted by the coronavirus crisis. It may not have been wholly unexpected given the event's date of April 2 and a planet grappling with what the World Health Organization had just a day earlier officially declared to be a global pandemic.

By Ted Johnson

Brad Pitt has revealed that his newfound skill in the acceptance-speech game is not due to having hired a speechwriter, but that he wrote them with the help of “very funny friends”.

While it was loaded with various surprising and exciting moments, let’s just acknowledge once and for all, that this year’s award season was all about Brad Pitt and his outstandingly witty and hilarious acceptance speeches. The man ended up collecting accolade after accolade at every prestigious award ceremony and left the audience and his fans in splits with some of the most savage, sharp and candid comments about everything from his unsuccessful to politics.

If the Academy had a category for best acceptance speeches, the Oscar would, without any doubt, go to Brad Pitt. The actor, who ended up winning many prestigious awards for his role in the film Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, owned this year’s award season with his hilarious and witty acceptance speeches with comments about his personal life, unsuccessful relationships and his children.

If there were an award for funniest speech during award season, Brad Pitt would reign supreme.

The biggest flop of the award show season? The award show itself.

Brad Pitt is an independent man who don’t need no ghostwriter! Throughout the 2020 awards season, the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star has been making audiences and viewers at home crack up with his witty acceptance speeches — all of which he apparently wrote on his own.

Brad Pitt has denied hiring writers to script his acceptance speeches throughout the 2020 awards season.

Parasite on Sunday was named best picture at the 2020 Oscars, picking up its fourthwin of the night. It is the first best picture win for indie distributor Neon, which was founded in 2017 by Tom Quinn.The film also received honors Sunday night for best director, best foreign film, and best screenplay.The category was introduced by Jane Fonda, who said, "Here are the films that made the greatest impact this year" as she presented the nominated films.

The 92nd Academy Awards show ended on a high note. Parasite was undeniably the star of the awards show this year as it bagged four major awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (presented to Bong Joon Ho.) While the South Korean drama brought the Dolby Theatre down with their wins, Oscar 2020 played witness to some powerful speeches.

By Patrick Hipes

The Oscars are here! In the lead-up to Hollywood's biggest night, it's a contest between Sam Mendes' war epic 1917, which picked up the Golden Globe and BAFTA big prizes, and Bong Joon Ho's Parasite, which won the SAG Award for Best Drama Ensemble and the WGA's Best Original Screenplay award. However, you can't count out Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Greta Gerwig's Little Women, to name a few.

Even the most devoted awards fans will tell you that watching all three and a half hours of the 92nd Annual Academy Awards is kind of a lot. If only you could just get the snippets of the best speeches, hilarious jokes, and show-stopping moments ... Oh wait, you can with TV Guide's Oscars recap in GIFs!

The Oscars are here! In the lead-up to Hollywood's biggest night, it's a contest between Sam Mendes' war epic 1917, which picked up the Golden Globe and BAFTA big prizes, and Bong Joon Ho's Parasite, which won the SAG Award for Best Drama Ensemble and the WGA's Best Original Screenplay award. However, you can't count out Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Greta Gerwig's Little Women, to name a few.

One of the highlights of this year’s awards season has been Brad Pitt’s acceptance speeches for his performance in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

The Oscars are here! In the lead-up to Hollywood's biggest night, it's a contest between Sam Mendes' war epic 1917, which picked up the Golden Globe and BAFTA big prizes, and Bong Joon Ho's Parasite, which won the SAG Award for Best Drama Ensemble and the WGA's Best Original Screenplay award. However, you can't count out Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Greta Gerwig's Little Women, to name a few.

Although the 2020 Oscars will be hostless, five-time Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais managed to lambaste Hollywood’s biggest stars all the same.

Results have been delayed in the Iowa caucus, as Democratic Party officials were seeking to reconcile “inconsistencies” in the initial tabulations.

Remember Marlon Brando’s stirring words on winning an Oscar for 1972’sThe Godfather? Or Dalton Trumbo’s noble oration when he received a screenplay award forThe Brave One? Of course you don’t. Because those speeches were never spoken.Over nine decades of Oscar, there’ve been countless nominees who didn’t get the chance to thank their agents, mothers and God, in that order.

For decades, artists have used the Grammy stage to raise awareness on pressing political issues, call out systemic inequality and encourage social change.

"There are a lot of long speeches in the film, and I spent months learning Fletcher's speeches," Grant recalled.

Music category winners’ speeches are among the most memorable in the awards show’s history.Below are a select few from the Academy Awards website (which contains transcripts of over 1,500 acceptance speeches), edited for brevity.Isaac HayesAward: Song - Original for the Picture"Theme From Shaft" - Shaft, 1971"...

It should come as no surprise to hear that Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag picked up not one, but two awards at the Golden Globes on Sunday night.