The Obamas Congratulate ‘American Factory’ Filmmakers On Oscar Nomination, Says Docu Is What They “Hope To Achieve With Higher Ground”

Spike Lee has signed on to direct a movie based on the Broadway show “David Byrne’s American Utopia” with Participant acting as lead financier and executive producer.

Parasite’s” historic Oscar nominations haul includes editor Yang Jinmo, who won for dramatic feature at the Jan. 17 American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards. Yang’s win for “Parasite” was the first time a film in a foreign language won. Historically, in 11 of the past 15 years, the winner of the dramatic feature ACE award has gone on to win the Oscar for editing.

Flatiron Books, the publisher of Jeanine Cummins’ novel “American Dirt,” has decided to cancel the scheduled tour for the book’s launch citing safety concerns and “specific threats” made towards booksellers and the author.

Conceding that LGBTQ patients encounter a desert of knowledgeable and culturally competent doctors, the American Medical Association announced today a national fellowship program that will train physicians and promote best practices on LGBTQ health while decreasing LGBTQ health disparities. Photo: iStock

After losing out three times in Oscar's best documentary category, American Factory co-director Julia Reichert is certainly ready to finally take home an Academy Award."I'll be real honest, it would be extremely meaningful after four nominations and my age and my state of life, it would be very meaningful," Reichert, who is undergoing chemotherapy as she battles terminal cancer at age 73, told THR. "There's no cure for what I have.

Mxmtoon is giving her fans what they want. Following the release of her latest single "Fever Dream," she's officially announcing a brand new tour. 

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.

Editor Lindsay Utz admits filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert never fully counted the hours of footage shot for the Oscar-nominated documentary “American Factory,” but she puts it close to 2000 hours.

continues to turn back time as the anthology series executive produced by Ryan Murphy revisits true events that shaped the American landscape. Following and, the third season depicts the 1998 impeachment trial of . 

“GLOW” star Betty Gilpin is set to play Ann Coulter in “Impeachment: American Crime Story” at FX.

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Billy Eichner will play Matt Drudge in the upcoming TV series about the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.

EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Emmy nominee and “American Horror Story” alum Billy Eichner is joining FX’s Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky sex scandal limited series “American Crime Story: Impeachment” in the role of famed journalist and Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge. It was the Drudge Report that first broke news of the White House affair on Jan. 17, 1998, then reporting that Newsweek editors were sitting on a story by investigative reporter Michael Isikoff.

Rüfüs Du Sol’s profile in America has been steadily on the rise the past five years, thanks in no small part to incessant touring — the trio has played everywhere from Michigan’s Electric Forest to such festivals as San Diego’s CRSSD. Since their 2015 breakthrough single in the United States, “You Were Right,” the act has been winning over not just dance music purists, but increasingly alternative rock fans, with strong songwriting at the root of it all.

Theron is nominated for the Best Actress prize for her role in "Bombshell" but, after already losing out at the Golden Globes and Critics' Choice Awards, her children aren't getting their hopes up for success, reports aceshowbiz.com. "It's been a thrilling couple of weeks. I was nominated for a Golden Globe.

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Hulu has renewed “Wu Tang: An American Saga” and “Dollface,” each for a second season.

Snoop Dogg is one of the many performers getting sports fans ready for Super Bowl LIV! 

Cynthia Erivo’s could soon become the youngest EGOT (Emmy, Golden Globe, Oscar and Tony Award) winner in history after landing two nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards on Monday (January 13, 2020).