Academy and Grammy Award winner Jennifer Hudson stars in new a...

JAN 28 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently announced the nominations for the 2015 Oscars. Several biographical and historical movies are seen as strong contenders for big awards. Half of the eight Best Picture ...

LOS ANGELES: If ordinary Americans voted for the Academy Awards, American Sniper, Clint Eastwood's portrait of a sharpshooter in the Iraq war, would be the best picture winner, according to the annual Reuters/Ipsos Oscars poll. The film starring ...

LOS ANGELES, CA The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences launches in February a new screening series, Return to Oz: Costuming the Big Adventures of 1985, and continues the series Two Sides of a Costume Designer, both in conjunction with the ...

J. Christian Jensen was still sleeping at 5:30 a.m. last Thursday when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science announced the list of Oscar nominations. His 20-minute documentary "White Earth" had already won a Student Academy Award, and he ...

School (state) Students accepted Students who enrolled in fall 2013 Yield United States Military Academy (NY) 1,380 1,176 85.2% United States Naval Academy (MD) 1,408 1,200 85.2% Principia College (IL) 159 127 79.9% ...

MIAMI Rapper Pitbull is expanding his Miami charter school. The Miami native announced the expansion of SLAM! Academy Charter School during a ceremony Thursday. Gov. Rick Scott was also on hand to present Pitbull, whose real name is Armando ...

PECO is celebrating African American History Month with support of many local arts, educational and diversity events in February that commemorate those who have shaped the past and those who are continuing to make history. This year's programs and ...

The Great American Songbook Foundation, founded by Grammy-nominated vocalist, Michael Feinstein , announces the opening of the 2015 application process for The Songbook Academy, a music and performance intensive for high school students! The ...

Other accolades have included four Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prizes, the Scowcroft Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems and lyric essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, ...