2012 Oscar awards

Jess Righthand

Find out what Post critics thought of the top flms, and get showtimes for the ones playing now.

Ann Hornaday

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has instituted what amount to the showbiz equivalent of campaign finance reform for the Oscar season.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — When the Dramatists Guild Fund honors composer John Kander at a star-studded gala next month, there is very likely to be one person reluctant to be there. That would be John Kander.

Jen Chaney

In his Huffington Post blog, the actor declares, among other things, that Lena Dunham’s character should get a job waiting tables.

Associated Press

CANNES, France — There was Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman, red carpet glamour and a crop of new Academy Award contenders — but this was also the year the global financial crisis exploded onto movie screens at Cannes.

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LEWISTON, Maine — As he received an honorary doctorate Sunday, Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro told Bates College graduates that despite his own lack of formal education, he made out OK.

Sarah Anne Hughes

Kim Kardashian, Kristen Stewart and Freida Pinto wore dresses with thigh-high slits on various red carpets.

Associated Press

CANNES, France — Zac Efron felt uncomfortable filming his revealing role “The Paperboy” — and he says that’s the way he wanted it.

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Will Smith may not want to talk about what happened last week in Moscow, but Tommy Lee Jones sure does.

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CANNES, France — Jacques Audiard is on a quest to revive the B movie.