The Latest Breaking News from Oscars

In today’s Diary: Tinie Tempah says NFTs free artists / Did BAFTAs spread Covid pre-Oscars? / Thesp fears theatre post-pandemic / Colbert and talking to lobsters / Nazanin: MP?

Ahead of the Oscars on Sunday, Olivia Petter looks back at some of the most memorable celebrity couple moments on the red carpet

"I am not afraid to go there," said Schumer, who wants the leader of a war-town nation to appear on the awards show

Stars including Jennifer Garner, Bill Murray and Elliot Page have signed up as presenters for this week’s Oscars ceremony.

LOS ANGELES — The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), which represents about 160,000 behind-the-scenes workers in the entertainment industry, has weighed into the backlash against the motion picture academy’s move to cut eight categories from the Oscars broadcast.

LOS ANGELES — Oscars co-host Amy Schumer is “not afraid” to address the war in Ukraine at this year’s ceremony. In fact, the comedian recently revealed she wanted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be part of the show.

LOS ANGELES — You might have noticed some social-media chatter several weeks ago about how everyone’s favorite guessing game suddenly wasn’t fun anymore — that it had tilted in a pretentious new direction. The game was becoming too obscure, for the average American player. People were having to think too…

Gee, Officer Krupke, didn’t you have one more ticket to the Oscars?

‘Don’t Look Up’, ‘The Power of the Dog’ and ‘Belfast’ will be among the films battling it out for the top prize