Hugh Jackman will be the recipient of this year’s Kirk Douglas Award For Excellence In Film, presented for the 13th year by the Santa Barbara Film Festival. The black-tie awards gala will be held November 19 at the Ritz Carlton Bacara hotel. Jackman, riding high off the global box office success of 2017’s surprise hit…

EXCLUSIVE: With the indomitable spirit of Spartacus himself, Kirk Douglas celebrated his 101st birthday with family and friends on Saturday. Douglas’ Oscar winning son Michael flew in from New York just to be with his dad on the special day, and then was flying right back to where his eldest son Cameron is about to…

Kirk Douglas turns 100 on Friday, and he has found the perfect gift to celebrate. Running Press later today officially will be announcing the May 2 publication of a new book, Douglas’ 12th, written with his wife of 62 years, Anne Buydens Douglas, called Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollyw…

A weekly column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. It was, as usual this time of year, another big week on the awards circuit. From the standpoint of critics’ group love, Warren Beatty — who is no stranger to lots of awards in his legendary career — was AWOL from East Coast and Critics’ Choice…

Kirk Douglas doesn’t turn 100 years old until December 9th, but he got an early birthday celebration and a huge cake from the industry at last night’s 95th Anniversary show for the Motion Picture & Television Fund at the MPTF Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills. It was an irony lost on no one that perhaps the most…

EXCLUSIVE:  Spartacus at 99! Kirk Douglas celebrated his 99th birthday on Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills with wife Anne and  sons Michael, Peter, Joel and daughter-in-law Catherine Zeta-Jones as he held court under a huge banner made of red and white roses that spelled out “99 Today”. On the dining room table…

EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas has released a statement to Deadline regarding Trumbo,  a new movie he plays a key part in (even if he isn’t actually in the film itself). The movie, directed by Jay Roach and written by John McNamara, tells the story of famed screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted in Hollywood after…

Jane Fonda will receive the 10th annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the fest announced today.  The two-time Oscar winner “obviously has the right genes,” said original recipient Douglas, an old pal of Fonda’s dad Henry Fonda. “Her acting performances…

Actress Diana Douglas, mother of Michael Douglas and Joel Douglas, died today at the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland Hills, CA. The first wife of actor Kirk Douglas, she was 92 and died of cancer, her husband of 15 years Donald A. Webster said. Diana Douglas had a long career in movies, TV and in…

Robert De Niro on Saturday night became the latest recipient of the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence In Film at a Black Tie gala at Bacara Resort. The award is presented annually by the legendary actor to benefit the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Past recipients include Harrison Ford, Quentin Tarantino…

In what has to be a first for the normally sedate and reverential audiences at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theatre, members of Monday night's packed house for the 70MM presentation of 1960's classic epic Spartacus stood and repeatedly chanted "I Am Spartacus" shortly after its…

Recipients include the Motion Picture & Television Fund; Anne Douglas Center for Women at the Los Angeles Mission; the Center Theater Group’s Kirk Douglas Theater; Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, which houses the Kirk and Anne Douglas Childhood Center; and St. Lawrence University in New York, Kirk Douglas’ alma mater…