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Denzel Washington and Halle Berry show off their best actor and actress awards they won at the 74th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 24, 2002, in Los Angeles. Washington won for his role in "Training Day" and Berry won for her role in "Monster's Ball."

Ahead of the 92nd Oscars, a look back at 10 great acceptance speeches

February 7, 2020 at 9:59 a.m.

In case any of this year's nominees are in need of inspiration, here are 10 great Oscar acceptance speeches from years past. Shirley MacLaine, 1984 (best actress, "Terms of Endearment")...

Zhao Shuzhen, left, and Awkwafina in a scene from "The Farewell."

Why it matters that the Oscars lack diversity — and what can be done about it

February 5, 2020 at 11:11 a.m.

The Oscars have a problem, and it's not going to be easily solved. In 2015, frustrated by yet another all-white slate of acting nominees (and the fact that seven out...

Author Jacqueline Woodson discusses her new book, "Red at the Bone," and how she juggles several writing projects at once.

Jacqueline Woodson on ‘Red at the Bone’ and her writing process: ‘Characters sneak up on you’

September 19, 2019 at 3:14 a.m.

Jacqueline Woodson's latest novel, "Red at the Bone," begins with an orchestra playing music, the murmur of a room full of relatives, a brownstone staircase on which a teenage girl...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

‘Francofonia’ review: The story of Nazis reaching the Louvre, finding it empty

June 11, 2018 at 11:10 p.m.

Alexander Sokurov's "Francofonia" occupies a sparsely populated middle ground between documentary and narrative feature; it's the story of a real place, and two real men, told in a circular, meandering...

‘The First Monday in May’ review: Anna Wintour, clothes make the doc

June 11, 2018 at 1:43 a.m.

"People underestimate the power of clothes to tell stories," says Andrew Bolton, the slender, skinny-suited curator of "China: Through the Looking Glass." The exhibit, which opened at the Metropolitan Museum...

“2046” (R)

August 22, 2021 at 3:07 p.m.

Who's in it: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, Faye Wong, Maggie Cheung What it's about: Chinese director Wong Kar-wai picks up where his 2000 film "In the Mood...

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