CULTURE

Visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull, who was already enjoying his most high-profile year in some time, has been voted the Gordon E. Sawyer Award by the Academy's Board of Governors.

The bad news: only two more days until the TV series finale of one of the last remaining daytime soap operas, ABC's One Life to Live.

New rules in the Oscar documentary process are not going to make things harder for documentary filmmakers, director and AMPAS governor Michael Moore told TheWrap.

She's not even a week old, but the baby daughter of Beyonce and Jay-Z has become the youngest person ever to be credited on the U.S. Billboard chart.

The award-winning Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods is headed to the movies with Chicago director Rob Marshall, Walt Disney film studio said on Wednesday.

Ever since Snooki achieved her weight loss and slimmed down to a skinny goal weight of 98 pounds, there seems to be this new found confidence in the already energetic and upbeat Jersey Shore star. Snooki is beginning to come into her own, making better and cute outfit choices that perfectly fit her petit frame.

Khloe Kardashian Odom is furious with her father’s ex-wives for claiming she was adopted.

The 2012 People's Choice Awards countdown has begun with only hours to go before the stars start walking on the red carpet. The show will be aired live on CBS at 9:00 pm (EST.)

Chelsea Handler's new sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? premieres Wednesday on NBC and is based on her three best-selling memoirs. The comedian plays the role of her older sister in the sitcom based on the 36-year-old's life. However, Handler isn't the first celebrity to turn fact into sitcom fiction

Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge and a true style icon, had one of the most highly anticipated dresses last year: Her wedding dress. The bodice, skirt and underskit of Middleton's wedding dress were made of French Chantilly lace and English Cluny lace throughout

Outrage over the a video that shows Jarawa tribe members being forced to dance for tourists in the Andaman Islands has brought attention to an indigenous people close to extinction.

The 2012 People's Choice Awards are just hours away and many stars will be taking to the red carpet before the show is aired on CBS at 9:00 pm (EST.)

A new photo of pop star Britney Spears has caused some eyebrows to raise over its unusual details. Skeptics think photo, which shows a visibly slimmed-down Spears, was digitally altered.

Molly Sims announced her pregnancy to her fans through her Website, but her husband Scott Stuber, found out the news by cracking open a fortune cookie.

Courtney Stodden acts as the featured guest in the premiere episode of The Donny Clay Show starring Jason Alexander, a spoof skit on the hilarious sketch Web site Funny or Die.

Sort of. The 'audience' was responsible for the final five.

Ford Motor Co. has issued a recall for about 450,000 minivans and SUVs in the U.S. because of problems regarding the powertrain and braking systems. These problems could lead to dangerous losses of power or even fires.

Hostess Brands, maker of the Americana Twinkie cake, filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday, begging the question: Who's going to keep making Twinkies?

Could Hollywood be racist? George Lucas hints at that sentiment after saying that he had a hard time attaining a $58 million budget to work on his upcoming movie Red Tails just because the cast and director of the film were all African-American.

Changes are coming for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the hopes of becoming a serious contender in the arena of contemporary art, the museum is bringing prominent London curator Sheena Wagstaff on board to head the museum's Modern and Contemporary Art Department.

The American Society of Cinematographers announced the 2011 nominees

First exposed by tribal rights group Survival International in 2010 and brought to light by an unsettling video uploaded by British newspaper The Observer, dozens of visitors to the remote Andaman Islands queue up daily to visit so-called human safaris.

The first lady told CBS This Morning anchor Gayle King she hasn't read Jodi Kantor's new book on the Obamas, which describes tensions between her and her husband's staff. But she still took offense to reports she clashed with White House top brass as well as grew frustrated with the constraints of being a president's wife.

Amber Rose may have apologized for calling Kim Kardashian a homewrecker but it is because she felt she stooped to Kardashian's level.

Damien Hirst may have slowed down since bursting onto the scene as unofficial leader of the Young British Artist movement in the 1990s, but he remains one of the most divisive figures in the art world today.

Katrina Bowden has got it all - a killer body, a mega-watt smile and a flourishing career started on 30 Rock. Now the beautiful 23-year-old can add Maxim cover girl to the list.

Luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd said its U.S. sales could overtake China this year, revving up the British company for record global revenue in 2012.

Is Halle Berry headed to her third wedding?

Less than a month after a teaser trailer for the prologue was leaked on the Internet, and just as quickly as they went on sale, tickets for a midnight IMAX screening of The Dark Knight Rises have sold out.