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As Lupita Nyong’o accepted an award from the Harlem School of Arts — and entered the stage to Beyoncé’s anthemic hit “Brown Skin Girl” — the actress mainly had two people to thank for fueling her passion for the arts as a child: her parents.

Helen Hunt was involved in a car accident on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told People the incident occurred in Los Angeles’ Mid-City area on the corner of San Vicente and Tremaine Avenue.

Cuba Gooding Jr. has pleaded not guilty to an indictment alleging two instances of sexual misconduct after he turned himself into police Tuesday morning.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is facing a new undisclosed charge in his sexual misconduct case. Prosecutors revealed on Thursday that the charge is contained in a new indictment against the Oscar-winning “Jerry Maguire” star’s case. Gooding appeared Thursday at a Manhattan court for possible jury selection for his trial. He now must be arraigned on the new indictment next week before...

Lupita Nyong’o reveals how she reacted to Beyoncé namechecking her in “Brown Skin Girl” and brings out her rapping alter ego to freestyle.

Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated actress and singer who won critical acclaim as the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series as “Julia,” has died. She was 84.

Probation officials said there was “no victim” or any “actual or intended loss” in Felicity Huffman’s role in the college admissions scandal, court documents revealed Wednesday. While the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System’s report does not explicitly recommend a sentence for Huffman, the report clearly came down on the side of the Oscar-nominated actress and her bid to avoid...

It’s over between Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx. E! News has confirmed that the Dawson’s Creek alum and the Oscar winner, who first sparked romance rumors in 2013, are going their separate ways. A source tells E! News that the duo has not been together since May. This split news has emerged just days after Foxx was spotted holding hands...

Richard Williams, a Canadian-British animator whose work on the bouncing cartoon bunny in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” helped blur the boundaries between the animated world and our own, has died. He was 86 years old. The Oscar-winning artist died from cancer at his home in Bristol, England, on Friday, his daughter Natasha Sutton Williams said Saturday. Williams’ career straddled the...

Faye Dunaway’s former assistant alleges in a lawsuit she called him “a little homosexual boy” and fired him after he complained about being discriminated against for being gay. In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court, Michael Rocha said that he started working as an assistant for Dunaway while she was a part of the play “Tea at Five,”...

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Steven Spielberg, a child of the 1950s, grew up with stirring Hollywood dramas about the sacrifices of World War II. But with “Saving Private Ryan,” the Oscar-winning director set out to make a war film unlike any that he — or audiences around the world, for that matter — had ever seen. “Saving Private Ryan,” a no-holds-barred epic about D-Day...

Moby has penned a public apology to Natalie Portman after she took offense to and contested comments he made about allegedly dating her. In his memoir “Then It Fell Apart,” the 53-year-old musician wrote that he met the Oscar-winning actress in 1999 when she was 20–in reality, she was 18. He said he kissed her during a night out in...

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Demian Bichir, who is an Oscar-nominated actor, announced the sudden death of his wife, Stefanie Sherk,

Canadian actress and model Stefanie Sherk has died at the age of 37.
Sherk’s husband, actor Demian Bichir, shared the heartbreaking news in a message to his followers on Instagram.

Tom Hanks surprised a New Mexico woman celebrating her birthday at an Albuquerque restaurant when he treated her to a special performance of “Happy Birthday.”

Can’t stop watching Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s Oscar-night performance of “Shallow”? You’re in luck: Warner Bros. is bringing a special encore version of “A Star Is Born” back to the big screen Friday with nearly 12 additional minutes of footage. The studio said Wednesday that the new edition will feature extended performances of songs sung by Gaga like “Alibi,”...