Zendaya, Whoopi Goldberg and Michaela Coel Honored at Essence’s Black Women in Hollywood Awards

Love triangle? Peter Hermann revealed what it’s like to share his wife, Mariska Hargitay, with her longtime TV partner Christopher Meloni.

Kirk Douglas and for 65 years by no means the lesser half of one of the most fascinating and enduring marriages in Hollywood. She and Douglas met in Paris in 1953 when he was looking for a bilingual publicist for the film company he was planning to start.

Anne Douglas, the wife of late actor Kirk Douglas and the stepmother of Michael Douglas passed away aged 102 on Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills. Anne's death comes almost a year after the death of her husband, actor Kirk Douglas in February 2020.

When Mia Neal, Jamika Wilson and Sergio Lopez-Rivera won the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for their work on Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Neal and Wilson became the first Black women to win the honor. When Neal took the stage at Union Station to accept the award she used this opportunity to give shine to other Black, Asian, Latinx, Indigenous, queer, trans and everyone in the margins and said of her monumental win: “One day it won’t be unusual or groundbreaking, it’ll just be normal.”

NEW YORK -- “The Mole Agent” infiltrated a nursing home in Chile, and countless of hearts around the world including inside the film academy.The moving documentary about an octogenarian hired as a rookie spy to investigate whether a client’s mother is suffering abuse in the facility is competing for an Oscar this Sunday, but director Maite Alberdi constantly doubted whether she would have enough for a movie.“I think the main challenge was that we were walking on eggshells,” said Alberdi, who on

Gallery: Oscars Hosts Throughout The Years (And How They Were Ranked) (ELLE (UK))The actress and writer used her own experience of sexual assault to tell the story of Arabella, who rebuilds her life after she is assaulted in London, in the acclaimed comedy-drama. And Michaela recalled arriving in Los Angeles to meet executives to pitch I May Destroy You to them and being so jet-lagged that she ended up falling asleep in a truck outside the offices.

Zendaya is being honoured at the 14th annual ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards. The awards show, which streamed as a virtual experience Thursday night, donned the theme, “Mastering Our Stories,” which focused on “the resiliency of Black women in Hollywood through the years – including during the unprecedented pandemic.” Zendaya was one of five honorees at Thursday night’s show including Whoopi Goldberg and Andra Day.

Gallery: Hey, I'm talking to you! The most memorable moments of the SAG Awards (BANG Showbiz)Michaela also believes those she pitched to probably thought she was "unstable" because she didn't present them with a treatment or pilot for the show. She shared: "When I look back at that meeting, I think the executives deemed me unstable.

Zendaya is being honored at the 14th annual Black Women in Hollywood Awards.

Apple Original Films has picked up Number One on the Call Sheet, two documentary features about pioneering Black actors and actresses, with backing from Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Angela Bassett and Halle Berry. Apple will debut the companion films globally on Apple TV+.

Jamie Foxx and Kevin Hart will produce a pair of documentary films for Apple Studios that will focus on the challenges faced in Hollywood by Black actors and actresses. “Number One on the Call Sheet” will be two companion films: one specifically focused on what it takes for Black leading men to find success in entertainment, and another that will focus on the challenges faced by Black leading women.