(UPDATED with Will Smith statement) With their options rather limited, the  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors has just decided that Will Smith will not be able to attend the Oscars for 10 years for slapping Chris Rock on-stage at the 94th Academy Awards on March 27. “The Board has…

Ricky Gervais gave fans a more fulsome idea of what his jokes would have been, had be been in Chris Rock’s place at the Oscars. Gervais, who has hosted the Golden Globes five times, said in a recent video chat with fans that Rock’s joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair was “like the tamest joke I would've ever…

Kimberly Akimbo, Assassins, Prayer for the French Republic and The Chinese Lady were among the Off Broadway productions receiving multiple nominations for this year’s Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off Broadway, announced today. Among the innovations in this year’s 37th Annual Lortel Awards are the…

EXCLUSIVE: The 2022 CMT Music Awards have added more performers to its inaugural broadcast on CBS. Jason Aldean will perform with Bryan Adams, while Jimmie Allen and Monica will join up with the previously announced Little Big Town. Walker Hayes and Thomas Rhett will also croon alongside Riley Green from the Nashville…

UPDATED with latest: There was a glut of great TV, movies and music to celebrate in 2021, but 2022 isn’t allowing much room for celebration. Many awards events were canceled, moved or modified as New York and Los Angeles smashed daily Covid records due to Omicron. The winter months were challenging for red carpet and…

The Emmys are set for 2022. The Television Academy and NBC said Wednesday that the 74th annual fete will air live, coast to coast, on September 12. The show will air from 5-8 p.m. PT/8-11 p.m. ET on a Monday. Yippee? The 2022 Creative Arts Emmy Awards will take place over two consecutive nights on Saturday, September…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday said that it is moving up an annual meeting by 10 days to more quickly address possible sanctions for Will Smith after his now-infamous slap of Chris Rock on live TV during the Oscars last month. AMPAS president David Rubin wrote in a letter to the Board of…

The quest to land atop the awards season’s best-dressed list is often as heated as the race for Oscar. There is the edginess of the Grammys followed by the glamour of Cannes and then the rush of the fall festivals. Finally comes the frenzy and flashbulbs of the awards season proper in winter. There are award-winning…

The New York Film Critics Circle will hold its annual Gala Awards dinner on Wednesday, January 4, 2023 at TAO Downtown. Jordan Hoffman will serve as the 2022 Chairperson of the NYFCC and Stephen Garrett will continue as the group's General Manager. "Man plans and God laughs, as the old saying goes, but I feel…

Gerda Weissmann Klein, who as a teen survived the Holocaust before becoming an author, activist, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and subject of a 1995 Oscar-and-Emmy winning film, died yesterday according to that film’s director, Kary Antholis. She was 97. Born in 1924, Weissmann Klein was sent to Nazi…

Jon Batiste hauled home five trophies at the 64th Grammys, including Album of the Year for We Are. He went into the night with 11 nominations and ended up with Album of the Year, American roots performance and American roots song, best score soundtrack for visual media (in a tie with Carlos Rafael Rivera’s score for Th…

Grammys host Trevor Noah kicked off a video tribute to recently-deceased Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins with the following words: “This was the moment in the show when I was supposed to be introducing the Foo Fighters. We would have been celebrating with them as they won three Grammy awards earlier today. But…