Reuters – Civil rights drama “The Help” got a leg up in the Oscar race on Sunday when the movie won three awards from the Screen Actors Guild, including best cast in a surprise over silent movie romance “The Artist.”

On the day film lovers around the globe tuned in to find out this year's Oscar contenders, the world of cinema mourned the loss of one of its most respected figures.

Martin Scorsese's “Hugo,” with 11 Academy Award nominations, and Golden Globe winner “The Artist,” with 10, lead the list of best picture Oscar contenders announced Tuesday.

Reuters – Hollywood has often criticized Tehran for stifling movie-making, but the acclaimed film “A Separation” is breathing life into Iran’s hopes for a rare Oscar success.

Christian Bale gets into a scuffle with the Chinese government — possibly costing the country an Oscar for “Flowers of War.”

The Oscar given Orson Welles for “Citizen Kane” some 70 years ago sold for $861,542 in an online auction that ended Tuesday, a Los Angeles auction house said.

Charlize Theron won an Oscar for covering up her beauty and finding grains of sympathy, as well as revulsion, for the serial killer Aileen Wuornos in “Monster.”

Charlize Theron won an Oscar for covering up her beauty and finding grains of sympathy, as well as revulsion, for the serial killer Aileen Wuornos in “Monster.”

Charlize Theron won an Oscar for covering up her beauty and finding grains of sympathy, as well as revulsion, for the serial killer Aileen Wuornos in “Monster.”

Reuters – Two Oscar foreign-language contenders, Iran’s “A Separation” and Turkey’s “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia,” were the big winners at Thursday’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards, which took place in Queensland, Australia.