Oscar Smith was sentenced to death for the killings of Judith Robirds and her two teenage sons in Nashville's Woodbine neighborhood. Due to changes in the state's lethal injection protocol, Smith ...

Oscar Franklin Smith has learned the date of his death four times. Twice, the inmate's execution was delayed during the pandemic. On the third date, Smith was served the meal he had picked to be ...

Some Oscar voters who’ve long since made it into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have apparently embraced the latter. Last month, the elite film-industry group announced a new ...

Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who helped reset the rules in Hollywood as the co-creator of “Bonnie and Clyde,” and later received mainstream validation as the writer-director of ...

Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and director who helped redefine American cinema with “Bonnie and Clyde” and “Kramer vs. Kramer,” died Sunday of natural causes at his home in ...

There was time when studios thought premiering a film in Cannes in May could turn out to be a major hindrance to that movie’s Oscar chances nine months later. It was a logical assumption.

The Hollywood Reporter's executive editor of awards coverage weighs in from the Croisette. By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards Exactly one week after the opening of the 2025 Cannes Film ...

The festival’s top prize was renamed the Palme d’Or in 1955, and its first winner under the new name was Delbert Mann’s romantic drama “Marty,” which went on to win the Oscar for Best ...

All six Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles gathered at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 23 for an inaugural wienie race. The Slaw Dog, the Wienermobile that represents the "Saucy South," took home ...

The result was a film that earned the duo an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay (it contained uncredited contributions by producer-star Warren Beatty and Robert Towne). The film was ...

The state of Tennessee has executed Oscar Franklin Smith, sentenced to death for the 1989 killings of his estranged wife Judith Robirds Smith and her two teenage sons, Chad Burnett and Jason ...