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Jodie Foster will receive Cannes Film Festival's honorary Palme d'Or this year. She will be a special guest of the opening ceremony on July 6 to pick up her award. The prize, which has previously been given to the likes of Jeanne Moreau, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Fonda, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Manoel de Oliveira…

UPDATED with video: George Clooney, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jim Gianopulos and more gathered virtually on Tuesday, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Motion Picture Television Fund, and lay the foundation for its future, as a means of support for working and retired industry members. During the press conference…

With the Golden Globes ceremony going virtual, the dress code was far from formal for several nominees who opted for a rather casual look. Social media was abuzz Sunday night over the Hawaiian shirt sported by Bill Murray, nominated for his role in On the Rocks, who completed the tropical vibe with a martini in his…

Rosamund Pike, Jodie Foster, and Andra Day pulled off some sweet upsets among the three actress categories tonight at the Golden Globes, but in terms of predictable winners the rest of it went as you might have expected based on pundits’ forecasts. But what it means for Oscars is anybody’s guess at this point. This is…

The Golden Globes usually pop off a surprise or two, and Sunday they continued the tradition in some marquee categories. The most notable upset was Andra Day, in her first acting role, winning Actress in Motion Picture – Drama for Hulu’s The United States vs. Billie Holiday and taking a strong category that included…

UPDATED with video: Jodie Foster is adding another Golden Globe statuette to her collection. The actress nabbed her third Golden Globe win for Best Supporting Actress In A Motion Picture for her performance in the legal drama, The Mauritanian at tonight’s ceremony. “I think you made a mistake. I’m a little speechless…

STX Entertainment’s The Mauritanian follows the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was unjustly jailed by the U.S. for 14 years in Guantanamo Bay for being a 9/11 plot suspect, and his attorney Nancy Hollander who crusaded against the legal system for his freedom. French actor Tahar Rahim plays Slahi and Jodie…

Jodie Foster is back in the awards game this season, having recently been Golden Globe-nominated for her supporting role in The Mauritanian and getting renewed Oscar buzz as well. This represents her eighth Globe nomination (she is also a past recipient of the Hollywood Foreign Press’ Cecil B. DeMille Award), the…

True stories provide fertile breeding ground for awards-season contenders, but few biographies are as rich and strange as that of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who spent 14 years in Guantanamo Bay on flimsy terrorism charges as the U.S. fought an often-directionless war on terror. The story of how he came to be tracked and…

Spike Lee was honored by his peers and associates Thursday as he became the 34th recipient of the American Cinematheque Award, given to a filmmaker or star who has achieved, and continues to achieve, great success in their career. The honor, usually presented during a glitzy tribute dinner, had to go virtual this year…

The Mauritanian asks a lot of its audience. Its central figure, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, spent years locked up at Guantanamo Bay by the U.S. government, accused but never directly convicted or charged of being a terrorist in league with and aiding those who attacked the United States on 9/11, and even confessing to that…

Though she has starred in some of the most indelible movies in cinema history—Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, The Accused—and won two Oscars for doing so, Jodie Foster's output has slowed in recent years. And it is not a paucity of roles, she says, but rather a decision to become more selective about what she…