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The Best Actor Oscar has been the pinnacle for leading men since the first Academy Awards in 1929 when the film industry started honoring its best and brightest.

to Variety. She passed away in her Chicago home.

K.J. Yossman In 2013 Jamie Byng, CEO of publisher Canongate, gathered a host of familiar faces including Nick Cave and Gillian Anderson in a disused London church and persuaded them to read a bunch of letters in front of an audience for charity. Cave selected the message he’d sent to MTV turning down a nomination for Best Male Artist while Anderson re-enacted a letter Katharine Hepburn wrote to Spencer Tracy decades after he’d died.

Martin Scorsese is dishing on the actors he hasn’t worked with, but would have liked to.

Addie Morfoot Contributor Sin, forgiveness, the glamour of evil, Barbara Stanwyck, Marlon Brando, terrible preview screenings for “Goodfellas,” Robert De Niro‘s silence and, of course, “Killers of the Flower Moon” were all topics of conversation during Montclair Film Festival’s Filmmaker Tribute to Martin Scorsese on October 27 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The director, who has received 14 Oscar nominations, was in the Garden State for the festival’s annual “An Evening With Stephen Colbert” fundraiser. Colbert, a Montclair resident, has long been a booster of the event, which is currently in its 12th year.

Brian Cox is weighing in on the future of Turner Classic Movies (TCM) after executive changes at the cable network made Hollywood worry Warner Bros. Discovery was ready to pull the plug.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced its summer programming will include a new concert film series, public events, education programs and conversations with Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter and 14-time Oscar-nominee Diane Warren. The events begin on June 1 with a screening of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn’s “Desk Set,” followed by a post-screening Q&A with Claire L. Evans and Elizabeth Youle. On June 8, the screening series “A New Wave of K-Cinema: Korean Women Directors” will commence, followed by the June 10 concert film series, “Summer of Music: Concert Films 1959–2020.” The concert film series will kick off with a screening of “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” and conclude on August 23, with “Metallica: Through the Never in 3D” screening.

Gloria Estefan is hitting the big screen in her first-ever cinematic leading role, starring in a new remake of the beloved family story that centers the chaos of a wedding weekend in a colorful Cuban family.Only ET spoke with Estefan and her co-stars as closed out the Latino International Film Festival in Los Angeles earlier this month, and she raved about getting the opportunity to star as the mother of the film's titular bride, played by Adria Arjona, opposite legendary leading man Andy Garcia.«I moved everything around to make it happen, 'cause I I was pretty busy last year, but I was not gonna miss that opportunity,» Estefan shared with ET's Nischelle Turner. «It felt like, if I was gonna be in my first leading role it couldn't be with anyone other than Andy.

Gloria Estefan is revealing how the new “Father of the Bride” remake will differ from past versions of the film.

The trailer for Father of the Bride is finally here!

Variety is ranking his 15 best performances.Born in New Jersey, the die-hard Los Angeles Lakers fan has been an integral figure in the landscape of cinema for seven decades. His first credited film role was in the tiny B-movie “The Cry Baby Killer” (1958).

Andy Garcia is offering a glimpse of what to expect with the remake — it's the same but, simultaneously, also different.The 65-year-old actor spoke with ET's Nischelle Turner and they discussed a myriad of subjects, from the reboot of the Nancy Meyers-written flick starring Steve Martin and working with the magnificent Gloria Estefan to his new film,, and the secret to a four-decade marriage.Garcia, cast in the lead role in the Gaz Alazraki-directed film, says a lot of the conceptual elements from (beginning with the 1950 original starring Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor) and main premise of the past films (the 1991 remake and 1995 sequel) will carry into this reboot. But the approach to the original storyline is where the reboot separates itself from the rest.«In our case, it's a totally different approach,» Garcia explains. «The families are different.

Sidney Poitier died from heart failure, according to the actor's death certificate. Poitier passed away at his Beverly Hills home at the age of 94 from cardiopulmonary failure on Jan. 6, the certificate obtained by TMZ said.

(CNN)Sidney Poitier left behind a legacy of landmark performances, from his Oscar win for "Lilies of the Field" to the Oscar-winning "In the Heat of the Night," the latter coming in a year, 1967, that also saw him star in "To Sir, With Love" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."The richness of the filmography assembled by Poitier, who died Thursday at the age of 94, makes it difficult to choose a favorite film or role. On different days, that might be "Porgy and Bess;" "A Raisin in the Sun," reprising his part in from the play about a struggling Chicago family; or "The Defiant Ones," which earned him his first best-actor Oscar nomination as an escapee on the run chained to a Southern bigot played by Tony Curtis.

A pained observation: The only intriguing stories on Hollywood this week consisted of obits – all kinds of obits. There were obits reminding us of the remarkable lives of Sidney Poitier, Peter Bogdanovich and Betty White. Also speculative obits about the Golden Globes, sentimental obits about the extinct 20th Century Fox and even speculative obits about MGM and ICM.

Hollywood and the nation are mourning a Hollywood pioneer today. Click on the photo above to launch a photo gallery on the career of Oscar winner Sidney Poitier, who has died at 94.

Jonah Hill is joining the cast of a new comedy!

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Isabela Merced, who starred in Dora and the Lost City of Gold, has joined Andy Garcia and Gloria Estefan inWarner Bros.' remake ofFather of the Bride. Gaz Alazraki, who helmedClub deCuervos, is directing the feature, which goes before cameras in May.

Gloria Estefan is joining the cast of the upcoming Father of the Bride remake.

Here comes the bride. Adria Arjona is joining Andy Garcia in Warner Bros.' remake ofFather of the Bride.

Mindy Kaling gave her kids “classic” names so they wouldn’t be “furious” with her when they got older. The 41-year-old actress is mother to Katherine Swati, three, and Spencer Avu, three months, and she chose their monikers in tribute to Hollywood legends Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy but admitted she wouldn’t have “trusted [her] judgement” with more unconventional choices.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterWarner Bros is putting the wheels in motion on new Father of the Bride movie, with Matt Lopez penning the script. This latest reboot will revolve around a Latinx family, a first for the franchise.This marks the third retelling of the story that began with the Spencer Tracy original in 1950 and was most recently remade by Disney in 1991 starring Steve Martin.

Clayton Davis “I’m having an old friend for dinner”-Hannibal Lecter, “The Silence of the Lambs”Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Fredric March, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Spencer Tracy. Besides being some of history’s finest performers, they are also the select few that have won two Academy Awards for best actor, with just Daniel Day-Lewis surpassing them as the only three-time winner.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy’s romance was one of Hollywood’s greatest real-life love stories of all time. As complicated as it was, Hepburn and Tracy’s unbreakable bond stretched across three wonderful decades and always remained their little secret.