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The festival, which prides itself on showcasing up-and-comers, opens Thursday in Park City, Utah. What films are generating buzz this year? We'll hear about some of them.

Deborah Dugan, the Recording Academy president and CEO, has been placed on administrative leave amid an investigation into misconduct allegations.

Nominations for this year's Academy Awards will be announced in Beverly Hills Monday morning. There could be as many as 10 films nominated for this year's Best Picture Oscar.

Artist John Baldessari died last Thursday at his home in Venice, Calif. The artist helped shape not just a movement — conceptual art — but the LA art scene itself. He was 88.

The 77th Golden Globes were held Sunday in Beverly Hills. Joaquin Phoenix, who played a terrifying Joker, and Renee Zellweger, who portrayed Judy Garland in Judy, won the drama movie actor honors.

Droids are every bit as important as jedis and princesses in the Star Wars universe.

Academy Award-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood created the look for the ladies of Fox News in the new movie, Bombshell.

Warner Brothers' new movie Richard Jewell is getting backlash from journalists who say its fictional portrayal of a real, but deceased, reporter falsely implies she was unethical.

Disney's popular "Baby Yoda" character from The Mandalorian is getting his own official toys, but they're not available until next year. Meanwhile, fans are taking matters into their own hands.

Repeating female images, geometric 3D wood cutouts and acts of violence: They're the semi-autobiographical signatures of a refugee, a survivor of war and domestic violence, and a busy artist.

Thanksgiving might be the most Oaxacan holiday in the U.S.; Guelaguetza, the name of the Lopez family's award-winning Los Angeles restaurant, is a Zapotec word meaning "to give and receive."

Actress Zhao Shuzhen made her U.S. film debut in this year's hit film The Farewell. Already well-known to audiences in her native China, she has just been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.

The drama Lionheart is the first film Nigeria has submitted for consideration for an Academy Award. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disqualified it because it's in English.

An American Werewolf in London, Maleficent, the ghouls in "Thriller": the costume designer has made some of film's great creatures. His four-decade career is collected in a new book, Metamorphosis.

Monster-maker Rick Baker has won seven Academy Awards for his work in films like An American Werewolf in London and Men in Black. Metamorphosis is a new two-volume book that chronicles his work.

Disney's dark fairy Maleficent returns to the theaters with Angelina Jolie reprising her role as the villainous godmother of Sleeping Beauty. The artists behind her look explain how it came together.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph plays a comedian in the new movie Dolemite Is My Name. The actress plays a strong, curvy, funny, black single mother who subverts stereotypes of the Blaxploitation era.

Director James Gray built sets sideways and dangled actors from wires. He also listened to space sounds on headphones as he created the lonely celestial world of an astronaut played by Brad Pitt.

The J. Paul Getty Trust will devote $100 million over the next decade to help preserve and promote understanding of the world's cultural history and heritage sites around the world.

From The Big Lebowski to Shawshank Redemption to Blade Runner 2049, cinematographer Roger Deakins has created some of film's most beautiful images. Now he has a new film out, The Goldfinch.