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Chloé Zhao won top honors Saturday night at the 33rd annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards for Nomadland, her adaptation of Jessica Bruder's nonfiction book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. “This is so beautiful,” Zhao said, holding up the trophy, and thanking Bruder for her book and for her…

Student filmmakers from USC dominated the 26th Annual DGA Student Film Awards for African American, Asian American, Latino and women directors, which are designed to honor, encourage and bring attention to exceptional diverse directors in film schools and universities across the country. A national awards ceremony…

Paul Westphal, a Hall of Fame basketball player who starred for USC and later in the NBA, died Saturday from complications of brain cancer. He was 70. NBA teams honored Westphal with moments of silence before Saturday night's games. NBA commissioner Adam Silver called him, "One of the great all-around players of his…

USC’s football game against Colorado scheduled for Saturday at the Coliseum has been canceled and will be declared a no-contest. The action was taken by the Pac-12 because USC does not have the minimum number of scholarship players available for the game at a specific position group as a result of a number of positive…

A video designed to lure athletic recruits to the University of Southern California has been pulled by the school after backlash on its insensitive tone. The video showed Trojans players and coaches attending a fake premiere and Hollywood Hills pool party. It was created by the school’s new BLVD Studios, a creative…

Pac-12 Conference officials said Thursday they have decided to reinstate the college football, basketball and winter sports seasons, reversing decisions made last month that saw one of the nation’s major college sports conferences postpone its 2020-21 campaigns because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Pac-12 CEO Group…

The Pac-12 has set a 10-game, conference-only fall schedule for football, including moving the USC-UCLA rivalry game to the first weekend of play in late September instead of its traditional closing weekend. The Pac-12 schedule will begin on Saturday, Sept. 26, the conference announced Friday. Besides USC-UCLA, the…

The USC School of Cinematic Arts will remove an exhibit devoted to actor John Wayne, a USC student and football player in the 1920s, after months of insistence from students denouncing the Hollywood star’s on-the-record racism and the portrayal of Indigenous Americans in many of his films. The removal was announced…

The USC School of Dramatic Arts Dean has resigned, admitting to dating a student in what he characterized as “evidence of irresponsibility.” Dean David Bridel’s resignation came after another woman revealed the relationship at a USC town hall meeting on Wednesday of this week. A day later, Bridel sent a letter to…

Universal Entertainment Group, The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media at Mount Saint Mary's University and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have entered a year-long partnership to pilot a Spellcheck for Bias resource to help support more authentic Latinx onscreen representation and casting opportunities…

Greta Gerwig took home top honors Saturday night at the 32nd annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards for Little Women, her adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel. “Little Women is the book of my life — reading and re-reading this book made my the woman I am today,” Gerwig said. “This is extraordinary. I am very…

UPDATE:  Several San Francisco 49ers players have come to radio analyst Tim Ryan’s defense in the wake of insensitive racial remarks that earned him a one-game suspension. Ryan, who normally provides color on 49ers broadcasts, was suspended for remarks that alluded to Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson’s skin…