Troy Kotsur to Receive Spotlight Award at ReelAbilities Film Festival

Meghan Markle is to receive another award – this time for her “lifelong advocacy for women and girls”. The Duchess of Sussex, 41, has been named as one of this year’s Ms. Foundation Women of Vision – a prize run by America's oldest women's foundation.The award will be presented to her by political activist and friend Gloria Steinem, who Meghan has been seen with on several occasions.

Disney and Lucasfilm are really hoping to send the “Indiana Jones” franchise off into the sunset with a bit of a bang.

Sun Valley Film Festival runs from March 29th to April 2nd and will feature 18 narrative and documentary titles, including opening night selection, “Fancy Dance,” which is the directorial debut of co-writer Erica Tremblay, and the world premiere of Anthony Mandler’s “Surrounded,” which will close the festival. Award honorees include Josh Brolin (“No Country for Old Men,” “Outer Range”), who will receive the Vision Award, and Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets,” “The Book of Boba Fett”), who will be given the Rising Star Award. “Last year, people were dying to get out, and this year our ticket sales are outpacing 2022. Once again, there’s a strong appetite for live events,” says festival founder and executive director Teddy Grennan.

Riley Keough shared what it was like for her to receive the Caméra d’or prize for her directorial debut in War Pony at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Charna Flam The Sun Valley film festival announced Emilio Estevez is set to receive the Pioneer Award at the festival’s upcoming pioneer party.  Estevez joins previously announced Sun Valley film festival honorees including Variety‘s 10 Producers to Watch, Josh Brolin, Sophie Thatcher and Nina Yang Bongiovi, who are set to receive the Vision Award, the Rising Star Award and the Variety Creative Impact Award in Producing, respectively.  On March 31, Estevez will receive his Pioneer Award, and on April 1, will host a special screening of his 2011 feature, “The Way.” 

Jay Ruderman One year after the landmark success for Best Picture winner “CODA” at the Academy Awards, the 2023 Oscars presented the latest opportunity for Hollywood to show the world where it stands on inclusion and diversity. On Oscars night, through a combination of memorable moments and inclusive components of the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences demonstrated its growing commitment to embracing inclusion and accessibility for all. For the second time, a free ASL livestream was available on the Academy’s YouTube channel. The livestream was updated this year to enhance accessibility for viewers. On the red carpet, a team of ASL interpreters helped participants more effectively engage with fans and viewers at home, with members of the media receiving guidelines on how to make their pre-show coverage more accessible. Meanwhile, stage accessibility included not only ramp access but a stage wheelchair lift for the first time as well.

After Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Oscar, she contacted her dog walker before anyone else. During an emotional interview on "Today," the 64-year-old actress explained the reason why she reached out to her dog walker first.

Angela Bassett did not reign victorious like her character Queen Ramonda from the "Black Panther" franchise at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday. Bassett was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category, but the award was given to Jamie Lee Curtis for her portrayal of Deirdre Beaubeirdre in the critically acclaimed, and Academy Award Best Picture winner, "Everything Everywhere All at Once." During the ceremony, cameras were focused on all five nominees as presenters Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur announced Curtis' name, much to her shock.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Apple took home its first animated short Oscar for “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,” a magical fable featuring a star-studded voice cast and luxurious hand-drawn animation. The film won at the 95th Academy Awards over the category’s other nominees: Pamela Ribon and Sara Gunnarsdóttir’s buzzy “My Year of Dicks”; “The Flying Sailor” from Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby; “Ice Merchants” from João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano; and Lachlan Pendragon’s “An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It.” “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” is based on the book of the same name by British artist and author Charlie Mackesy. Apple Original Films acquired the film last year and it debuted on Apple TV+ on Christmas Day 2022. The film was presented in partnership with the BBC, which made it available on broadcast and streaming in the U.K.

Everything Everywhere All At Once actor Ke Huy Quan left the Oscars audience and viewers at home in floods of tears with his winners speech.The Vietnamese-born actor, 51, triumphed in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role as Waymond Wang, the metaverse travelling husband of Joy Wang, played by Michelle Yeoh.The award was presented by last year’s Best Supporting winners Ariana de Bose and Troy Kotsur, with the former bursting into tears as she announced Quan’s name. As he made his way to the stage, the actor – who had his first brush with fame as a child star in Indiana Jones in the 1980s – was in floods of tears and it wasn’t long before fans tuning in at home were too.

WATCH: Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at Oscars 2022Per Academy Awards tradition, the reigning Best Actor award-winner presents the following year’s Best Actress with her statue.With King Richard star Will Smith out for the count, we’re all wondering who will present Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchett, Ana de Armas, Michelle Williams or Andrea Riseborough with the Best Actress in a Motion Picture award at the 95th Academy Awards.See the best red carpet looks from the 2023 Academy AwardsCate is nominated for Best Actress, but if she wins, who will present the award?So far, the event organisers are staying tight-lipped on who exactly will present the award but have revealed there will be a shake-up.“I came in and everyone says, ‘This is what we used to do' and there is no more, ‘This is what we used to do,’” Oscars co-producer Ricky Kirshner said.“We rethought the show and we put presenters together in ways that make sense for the category and you’ll see on Sunday night.”Host Jimmy Kimmel address last year's controversy in his opening monologue.

After making history last year as the first deaf male actor to win an Oscar for his performance in Apple Original Film’s CODA, Troy Kotsur briefly lost his the trophy after his jeep was stolen.

Ke Huy Quan has closed it out with his first, historic Oscar win for Best Supporting Actor. The 51-year-old star took home the prize for , closing a nearly 40-year gap since Haing S. Ngor became the first performer of Asian descent to win the category in 1985.  «Thank you, thank you,» Quan tearfully said as he delivered another delightful and emotional acceptance speech on Sunday night after being presented the Oscar by last year's supporting actor winners Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur.«My mom is 84 years old and she's at home watching.

Oscars are here, and the red carpet is underway. Er, make that the champagne carpet. Indeed, the Academy mixed things up this year and eschewed the traditional red tones for a champagne-colored carpet, but one thing remains the same: the nominees are looking terrific.If you’re wondering how to watch the Oscars red carpet, you can see all the goings-on in the livestream video embedded above.

2023 Oscars was a date night for some of Hollywood's hottest couples! The stars used the occasion to have a glamorous night out together Sunday as they posed for pics on the champagne-colored carpet before entering the Dolby Theatre for the 95th Academy Awards. star Jamie Lee Curtis stepped onto the carpet hand-in-hand with her husband, Christopher Guest. Curtis dazzled in a sparkling long-sleeved gown that matched the tone of this year's much lighter carpet, with Guest rocking a black tuxedo.

Indiana Jones is coming to the Oscars.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Kuwaiti-born writer-director Zeyad (also known as “Z”) Alhusaini, whose action movie with comedic undertones “How I Got There” recently won the audience award at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival, has joined United Talent Agency for representation in all areas. The groundbreaking film about two best buddies from childhood, named Salem and Asad, who stumble upon a gun shipment and try to seize this opportunity to get rich quick is set entirely in the Persian Gulf. “How I Got There” provides a relatively realistic glimpse of Kuwait’s present-day melting-pot of cultures, and its underworld of gun-running mercenaries, gangs, and terrorists, plus the local rap scene.

Hugh Grant, Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh have become the latest A-list names to join the star-studded list of presenters at this year’s Academy Awards in Los Angeles. The British household names will appear alongside fellow industry heavyweights including Antonio Banderas, Sigourney Weaver and Elizabeth Banks at the annual event on Sunday, as the Academy of Motion Pictures and Science rewards the best and brightest film talent to have emerged in the last twelve months.

The Movie Academy has padded the presenter ranks for the 95th Oscars this weekend. Halle Bailey, Antonio Banderas, Elizabeth Banks, Jessica Chastain, John Cho, Andrew Garfield, Hugh Grant, Danai Gurira, Salma Hayek Pinault, Nicole Kidman, Florence Pugh and Sigourney Weaver will present statuettes Sunday.

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