John Jurgensen

From the “Moonlight” envelope mixup to “the slap,” the Oscars ceremony has featured a lot of plot twists in recent years–and not the fun kind for the show’s overseers. This Sunday, leaders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are determined not to get caught flat-footed. For the first

Jimmy Kimmel plopped onto the stage of the 95th Academy Awards from a faux parachute to kick off the ceremony on an earnest note, celebrating a year in which audiences went back to the movies where they were “intended to be seen: in a theater.” After some gentle celebrity ribbing, however, he got t

“Navalny” director Daniel Roher’s Oscar moment was more urgent than celebratory. The subject of his film, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, is in prison and the Russian war he has denounced grinds on in Ukraine. The director dedicated the award to Mr. Navalny, “He remains in solitary confin

To set the emotional tone for the grand-scale tragedy of World War I, German composer Volker Bertelmann started with just three notes. Played on a harmonium, a pump organ that belonged to the composer’s great-grandmother, the distorted notes drive an opening scene in which uniforms from dead soldier

Even Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name has more to say than Keanu Reeves’s dogged assassin.

From snacks to Tetris, BlackBerry and Air Jordans, the hit products of yesteryear are getting their closeup. Behind Hollywood’s obsession with consumer brands as entertainment.

The showrunners of the new Peacock series on what’s so scary about a benevolent artificial-intelligence bot and why they picked a nun to fight it.

Tom and Shiv are at each other’s throats—and at a party no less. The directors on how they used a party to build up to that moment

A son’s breakdown might have cost him everything.

Who won the series finale of ‘Succession’? In the end, it was the fans foremost.