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During the opening of the Oscarson Sunday, Regina King made mention of the recentDerek Chauvin verdict. "It has been quite a year, and we are still smack-dab in the middle of it," King began.

Hollywood is marking the culmination of an unprecedented awards season on Sunday night, as the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony is underway. In top categories,Chloé Zhao won best director forSearchlight'sNomadland, becoming only the second woman ever to claim that honor at the Oscars.Yuh-Jung Youn won best supporting actress forMinari, becomingthe first ever Korean actor or actress to win an Oscar.

The Oscars may be a little different this year,thanks to the pandemic, but there is still a red carpet — and plenty of stars who walked it ahead of Sunday's show. Oscar nomineesCarey Mulligan, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun, Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya, Leslie Odom Jr., Chloé Zhao, Paul Raci, Glenn Close and Diane Warren were among those who hit the carpet for the 93rd annual Academy Awards.

Ahead of the 2021 Oscars, this year's nominees and presenters are walking the red carpet outside of the ceremony's primary venue of Los Angeles' Union Station. A few media outlets are stationed along the carpet, including the ABC-owned TV stations, which are airing their own preshow in 86 markets and across 20 countries.

Giorgio Armani has been Glenn Close’s preferred designer for more than 30 years, starting with the first suit she purchased at Barneys (the look still resides in her closet). The legendarydesigner dressed Close in 1990 for the Kennedy Center Honors, where the actress paid tribute to Katharine Hepburn.

Zadrian Smith and Sarah Edmiston had roughly six days to put together the two looks Ariana DeBose is wearing at this year’s Academy Awards, a scenario that was further complicated by the fact that they were both in London when they got the call. "It’s been fast and furious,” Smith tells The Hollywood Reporter.

On Sunday night at the 93rd Academy Awards, when Andra Day is singled out as a best actress nominee for her performance as Billie Holiday in The United States vs. Billie Holiday, veteran Oscar watchers might well experience a moment of déjà vu.Forty-eight years ago, another popular singer, Diana Ross, was sitting in that same seat, having been nominated for her breakthrough portrayal of Holiday in 1972’s Lady Sings the Blues.

The screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz — whose life is the inspiration for Mank, heading into the Academy Awards with 10 nominations, the most of any film — was himself an Oscar winner in 1941 for Citizen Kane, sharing the honor with Orson Welles. But Mankiewicz did not attend the ceremony.

The National Football League is partnering with Clubhouse to exclusively produce a lineup of programming during the 2021 NFL Draft. Beginning April 26, the NFL will host a series of rooms on Clubhouse, the social media app which is audio-based, invite-only and free to download — such as a pre-draft assessment of the prospective players, draft debriefs, a conversation with Crimson Tide alumni, and more.

A special virtual edition of the annual "Night Before" extravaganza raised nearly $2 million for the Motion Picture & Television Fund on Saturday night with help from Gary Oldman, Andra Day, Renée Zellweger and many more. One of the key events of Oscar weekend, the "Night Before" party — an exclusive, invitation-only affair that typically draws a list of Hollywood who's-who as well as past Oscar winners and current nominees — is typically held the night before the Academy Awards ceremony.

Marty Bauer, co-founder of the United Talent Agency, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. He was 74.

Israeli fashion designer Alber Elbaz, best known for being at the helm of Lanvin from 2001 to 2015, has died at the age of 59, luxury conglomerate Richemont said. The cause of his death was COVID-19, The New York Times reported.

While this year's Oscar Sunday will look different from any before it, that doesn't mean the celebration is off. Hotels and restaurants throughout L.A., open with lessened COVID-19 restrictions, are offering a wide variety of themed cocktails to celebrate this year's nominees and an end to a topsy-turvy awards season.

Reflecting the pent-up demand to see new movies on the big screen, the weekend box office saw a spirited — and unexpected battle — between Mortal Kombat and Japanese anime pic Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train. Warner Bros.' Mortal Kombat topped the North American chart with $22.5 million from 3,073 locations, while Aniplex and Fumination's Demon Slayer followed with an estimated $19.5 million from 1,605 sites.

Hip-hop legend and actor Earl "DMX" Simmons was celebrated on Saturday by family and close friends with a musical-filled memorialheld at Brooklyn's Barclays Center. Photographic footage of the New York rapper, who was behind such iconic songs as "Party Up (Up in Here)" and the star of action movies includingExit Wounds,was projected above and below the stage as the Sunday Service Choir performed a number of songs under deep red lighting.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk will host Saturday Night Live's May 8 episode with Miley Cyrus as the musical guest. The announcement comes after Musk's SpaceX launched a group of astronauts to the International Space Station in the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft — marking the company's second operational crew launch for NASA and its third to date.Musk's company has now sent 10 astronauts to space in under a year.

Milva, one of Italy's most popular singers in the '60s and '70s who was also beloved by many fans abroad, died Saturday at her home in Milan. She was 81.

MARIA BAKALOVA IN GARDEN PARTY REVIVAL "Collaboratively, Maria and I wanted to go very romantic and very pretty," says Jessica Paster. For a March BAFTA panel, the best supporting actress Oscar nominee for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm wore a flora-and-fauna-themed Zimmermann gown with dreamy 3D appliques fluttering down the bodice and billowing sleeves that evoke a feeling of renewal for spring.

Scott Rudin will resign from the Broadway League. The producer revealed his resignation from the national trade association as well as apologized for his behaviorin a statement to the New York Times on Saturday.

The COVID-19-hastened demise of ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres and its crown jewel — the Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard — sent film lovers into a tailspin of despair. And for good reason: The beloved structure is a monument to movie history, a masterpiece of '60s modernist architecture and, six decades on, was still one of the best places to catch a state-of-the-art feature on a giant screen.

Helen Uffner, founder of New York's costume rental house Helen Uffner Vintage Clothing, recalls how she got her start working with Hollywood. "A friend of mine had a vintage store in Soho and Woody Allen’s people came in and they were interested in getting things for their [1983] movie Zelig," recalls Uffner.

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It has often been said that we watch movies to escape reality. If that is so, then there has rarely been a better year for movies.

Just months after Sia's feature directorial debut Music shocked awards observers by landing two Golden Globe nominations, the poorly-reviewed film has secured the dubious distinction of topping the 2021 Razzie Awards, celebrating the worst in film. Music, which ultimately didn't win anything at the Golden Globes, won three Razzie awards: worst actress (Kate Hudson), supporting actress (Maddie Ziegler) and worst director (Sia).

Star Trek: Discovery has paused production in Toronto for two weeks due to an off-set exposure to COVID-19, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed with CBS. The interaction occurred between a Zone A member of the production and a COVID-19 positive individual who was not associated with the series, and took place away from Discovery's Pinewood Studios set.

Few have loomed so large and for so long over the entertainment industry as famously autocratic late billionaire Sumner Redstone, who passed last year at 97 years old after years of illness and isolation, not to mention rampant rumors of incapacitation and bitter infighting among his family and a couple of his significantly younger former girlfriends and care takers.

Screenwriter Michael Chabon, a longtime collaborator of Scott Rudin,is speaking outin the wake of The Hollywood Reporter's April 7 cover story on allegations made against the producer.

Charles W. Fries, the prolific producer and executive who was known as the "Godfather of the Television Movie," died Thursday in Los Angeles, his family announced.

Netflix co-CEOs Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos each saw their compensation rise in 2020, as the pandemic pushed Netflix to new subscriber heights. Hastings earned $43.2 million, compared tothe $38.6 million package that hemade in 2019.