The San Francisco Silent Film Festival brings Clara Bow's 1927 hit "It" to the Castro Theatre, celebrating the original "it ...

This week brings the 30th edition of Berlin & Beyond (March 19-23), which first launched in 1996 in a very different San ...

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences hosted their first annual Academy Awards on May 16, 1929 — a short, 15-minute ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with tickets that cost the ...

A new best picture will be named at the 98th Academy Awards on March 15. We rank all 97 movies to win the Oscars' top prize.

As Kaya Scodelario celebrates her 34th birthday, we look back at Effy Stonem—the silent, fishnet-clad enigma who didn't just ...

Compared to today's Academy Awards, the first Oscars held in 1929 was a quaint dinner party that honored a history-making best picture.

The Jazz Singer” starring Al Jolson is often cited as marking the end of the silent era, with its synchronized recorded music ...

Everybody has their own idea of what makes a best picture winner at the Oscars. Perhaps a biopic or something huge in scale such as "Dances With Wolves" and "Titanic," or a scruffy action dramedy ...

One of the most famous stars in Hollywood, she suffered severe setbacks in the last years of her life. This obituary was ...

Which of the 97 films anointed as Best Picture by the Academy are, in reality, the best? And which are the worst? Almost ...

Shadow of a Doubt, Heaven Can Wait, and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp are all great movies from the year 1943 that we now consider classics.