Usually, it’s a very, very bad idea to let your child go with someone who wants to make a movie with them. But in each of these cases, it totally paid off
Funny fares so poorly at the Academy Awards that we should cheer whenever a comedy takes home the prize — except in these five cases, when the voters got it so, so wrong
A prickly Harvard student who creates Facebook. A struggling novelist who’s definitely not drinking any merlot. A Sacramento teenager who wants to be called Lady Bird. Here are the movies up for Oscar’s biggest prize that made us laugh the most — even if they weren’t, strictly speaking, comedies
The Academy almost never gives its biggest prize to a funny movie. But there are exceptions — here’s a guide to how a handful of comedies beat the Oscar odds
