STEVEN SPIELBERG

They came from beyond the stars to kick our butts - these are the best alien invasion movies of all time.

One surprising loser Sunday: Oscar bait.

The dual directing team known as the Daniels have won the Oscar for best director.

With the Oscars on Sunday, Fox News Digital takes a look at the Academy Awards nominations and what to expect during Hollywood's biggest night.

Hollywood’s biggest night is finally here: the Oscars!

The Academy Awards will be presented this Sunday, March 12, in Los Angeles.

The Academy Awards are Sunday, but did last year’s Oscars ever really end.

Director Steven Spielberg speculated about the surge in alleged UFOs and UAP sightings and suggested the government needed to be more transparent about them.

The 95th Academy Awards are nearly here, and Associated Press Film Writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr predict a big haul for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” solidified its status as the frontrunner for the best picture Oscar by taking the top prize at the Producers Guild of America Awards.

The Directors Guild of America handed its top prize for feature filmmaking to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” putting them on course to win at the Academy Awards next month.

Motion picture academy president Janet Yang told a room full of Oscar nominees that the organization's response to Will Smith's onstage slap of Chris Rock during last year's ceremony was inadequate.

The slap sat front and center at Monday's Oscar nominees luncheon. “I’m sure you all remember we experienced an unprecedented event at the Oscars,” Yang told a crowd that included Tom Cruise, Angela Bassett, Cate Blanchett and Steven Spielberg during her opening remarks.

A nod for a nonagenarian and a surge of first-time acting honorees are among the notable numbers stemming from the Oscar nominations announced Tuesday.

The nominations to the 95th Academy Awards are now out.

"Everything Everywhere All at Once," "The Fabelmans" and "Top Gun: Maverick" could be in the Oscar nomination mix.

The sci-fi indie hit “Everything Everywhere All at Once” leads nominations to the 95th Academy Awards with 11 nominations.

Glittering rock ‘n’ roll, women warriors and kings, spellbinding multiverses and stories of friendship and family permeated 2022 cinema and the AP Top 25 Movies list.

There were, admittedly, some notable distractions at last year's ceremony, so you might have missed it: The old Oscar rules have gone out the window. When nominations are announced Tuesday, popcorn will be on the menu. “Top Gun: Maverick,”“Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Elvis” all look assured of best-picture nods.

Drew Barrymore recalled that she had the "biggest" crush on Corey Feldman and Steven Spielberg arranged their first date.

Keep an eye on Cate Blanchett for best actress, after Michelle Williams's snub by the Screen Actors Guild.

Oscar chances for “Top Gun: Maverick” just went into hyperdrive.

He continued his warm sentiments for the legendary filmmaker, blended with the jab at Ye: “That’s how good you are. You changed Kanye West’s mind.” FRAZER HARRISON/JNSOn Tuesday night’s Golden Globes awards broadcast, host Jerrod Carmichael took a comedic shot at antisemitic rapper Ye (formerly Kanye West) and praised the power of director Steven Spielberg’s filmmaking. Carmichael said after a commercial break, “I want to take out a second to shout out Steven Spielberg, who is here. He continued his warm sentiments for the legendary filmmaker, blended with the jab at Ye: “That’s how good you are. Kanye West is seen leaving the VOGUE World: New York during September 2022 New York Fashion Week on September 12, 2022, in New York City.

Memorable moments at the Golden Globe Awards, back on TV after a year off, included a wrongly accused pianist.

After years of scandal, these awards were about survival not simply ceremony. But the so-called "party of the year" was stunted by a hodgepodge of honors and a host whose caustic comedy didn't fit.

Tuesday night doesn’t really scream “glamorous awards show.” Hollywood, in large part, turned out too, acting as though it wasn’t a rainy weekday in Southern California and as though they hadn’t just a year ago protested the existence of the show. Brad Pitt and Angela Bassett came.

The Golden Globe Awards returned in 2023 after it was canceled last year due to the HFPA having no Black members. Here's a complete winners list, including Austin Butler, Steven Spielberg and Jennifer Coolidge.

The Golden Globes returned to the air Tuesday with a red carpet flush with celebrities and comedian Jerrod Carmichael as a hesitant emcee.

“Top Gun: Maverick,” Steven Spielberg and the stars of “The Banshees of Inisherin” collected awards at Sunday night’s National Board of Review Awards in New York.

The original mechatronic model of the alien from Steven Spielberg's 1982 classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial headlined a weekend auction of Hollywood artifacts.

An auction house sold a mechatronic model used to bring E.T. to life in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic. It's missing skin, but it still works.

Acclaimed director Steven Spielberg said in a BBC interview that he feels the blockbuster movie “Jaws” is responsible for the decimation of shark populations.

And no one knows it better than he does.

It might be rapidly approaching 50 years old, but Close Encounters of the Third Kind is still a masterpiece of sci-fi cinema.

“Top Gun: Maverick,” 2022′s biggest box-office hit, has been named the best film of the year by the National Board of Review.

Tom Cruise is getting his first major honor of awards season.

“The Fabelmans” centers on Steven Spielberg’s coming of age as a filmmaker.

The listing agent for the Victorian home featured in the “The Goonies” film in Astoria, Oregon, says the likely new owner is a fan of the classic coming-of-age movie about friendships and treasure hunting, and he promises to preserve and protect the landmark.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” has won best feature at the 32nd Gotham Awards.

Thanksgiving often serves up a feast of new family movies at the box office, but the Walt Disney Co.’s animated offering “Strange World” fizzled with audiences out of the gates.

Common Sense's Media's guide to this week's family movies and TV shows.

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age-tale is both quintessentially honest and sentimental.

The box office roared back to life with the long-awaited release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”.

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian man whose unusual life inspired films such as Steven Spielberg's “The Terminal,” died at Charles de Gaulle Airport Saturday. He lived there for 18 years.

French officials say an Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” has died in the airport

French officials say an Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and loosely inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” has died in the airport.

An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” died Saturday in the airport, officials said. Merhan Karimi Nasseri died after a heart attack in the airport’s Terminal 2F around midday, according an official with the Paris airport authority. Police and a medical team treated him but were not able to save him, the official said.

The director tackles his most challenging material: his own childhood.

“The Fabelmans” is Steven Spielberg’s most autobiographical movie, but the introspection it required wasn’t done in isolation.

One of the most successful directors of epics began as a child besotted with filming toy train wrecks with an 8mm camera. But Spielberg's latest is a semi-autobiographical drama about his parents, touching on a family secret he had buried for years.

Preview: The Academy Award-winning director known for epic blockbusters talks about his semi-autobiographical film, "The Fabelmans," and about revealing a family secret.

A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the #1 Sunday morning news program, hosted by Jane Pauley.

Be on the lookout for these new releases and events in the coming months.

One of the best movies of the year is a deeply personal project from one of our all-time best filmmakers.

Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical coming-of-age drama “The Fabelmans” won the Toronto International Film Festival’s top prize, the People’s Choice Award, solidifying its early status as Academy Awards frontrunner.

The first fully reopened edition of TIFF concludes this weekend. But with a film industry still reeling from box office declines and changing audience habits, the award season remains in flux.

Ferocious feminism and film love were two overriding themes at the first in-person edition of Toronto International Film Festival since the coronavirus pandemic hit

Steven Spielberg premiered his much-anticipated “The Fabelmans” to thunderous applause at the Toronto International Film Festival, debuting his most autobiographical film and one the 75-year-old filmmaker said he’s been building toward his whole life

Steven Spielberg premiered his much-anticipated “The Fabelmans” to thunderous applause at the Toronto International Film Festival, debuting his most autobiographical film and one the 75-year-old filmmaker said he’s been building toward his whole life.

An emotional Harrison Ford has unveiled a trailer for the fifth Indiana Jones film, saying this one will be his last.

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Little Big Town and Marcus Mumford, “The Handmaid’s Tale” returns with high stakes for the future of Gilead, and twin brothers go to their mother’s house for a stay but find something is off about her in the film “Goodnight Mommy.”.

A-list celebrities have paid multi-billion-dollar divorce settlements and tens of millions of dollars in legal bills

When the 47th Toronto International Film Festival unfolds beginning Thursday, it will follow two editions that were much diminished by the pandemic.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” swings back on top of the box office during a holiday weekend where American theaters aimed to lure moviegoers with discounted $3 tickets.

Insight Editions releases a special anniversary salute to 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' with never-seen images and interviews in a new visual history.

A rundown of notable films coming out this fall, which range from Disney+'s “Pinocchio” adaptation to Ana de Armas playing Marilyn Monroe in the Netflix film “Blonde.”.

For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear.

Bob Rafelson, a co-creator of “The Monkees” who became an influential figure in the New Hollywood era of the 1970s, has died.

Steven Spielberg is bringing his highly personal film “The Fabelmans” to the Toronto International Film Festival this fall.

For centuries, mysterious blocks of beeswax and Chinese porcelain have washed up on the Oregon coast, leading to legends of pirates, treasure, and a sunken Spanish galleon. It became known as the Beeswax Wreck, and it inspired centuries of treasure hunters—and maybe even Steven Spielberg, as he created The Goonies. Now, researchers have found nearly 330-year-old timbers from the ship in a hard-to-access cave. This is the story of how a team of volunteer archeologists are working to solve one of the most enduring mysteries of the Pacific Northwest, using old-school detective skills and one well-timed natural disaster.

Journalist Ken Auletta writes about the Hollywood power broker and his fall after allegations of serial sexual abuse exposed during the #MeToo movement led to his conviction and imprisonment.

The cherished family-friendly movie we know and love started life as something much darker

Steven Spielberg, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Daisy Ridley, Yo-Yo Ma, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and a full house turn out to celebrate the storied composer at 90.

After more than six decades of making bicycles soar, sending swimmers panicking and other spellbinding close encounters, John Williams is putting the final notes on what may be his last film score.

The 90-year-old composer is being honored June 23 at the Kennedy Center with a National Symphony Orchestra birthday bash featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Steven Spielberg and Anne-Sophie Mutter.

Steven Spielberg’s film predicted how having more convenience would mean sacrificing personal freedom.

“E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” which hit theaters 40 years ago this month, was more than a hit. It was a bona fide phenomenon.

The award-winning actress won an Oscar for her role in the 1961 film and laughingly recalled her inaccurate prediction.

“Jurassic World: Dominion” took a mighty bite out of the box office with $143.4 million in North American ticket sales according to studio estimates Sunday.

Brian Selznick’s next book was inspired in part by a famous friend, Steven Spielberg.

Brad Johnson, who jumped from rodeo cowboy to portraying the Marlboro Man in cigarette spots and film and TV roles including Steven Spielberg’s “Always” and “Melrose Place,” has died. Johnson died Feb. 18 in Fort Worth, Texas, of complications from COVID-19, his agent, Linda McAlister, said Saturday. Johnson played opposite Holly Hunter in 1989’s “Always,” a remake of a 1943 film (“A Guy Named Joe”) about firefighting pilots.

With London’s stages closed for much of the pandemic, Mark Rylance — one of the theater’s most soulful actors — made six films.

Fresh off her breakthrough role in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” Rachel Zegler will star in Lionsgate’s planned “Hunger Games” prequel.

Tom Cruise got his first $100 million opening weekend with “Top Gun: Maverick.”.

Billionaire Moshe Kantor has severed his longstanding ties to Tel Aviv University — joining a growing list of Russian Jewish oligarchs who have scaled back their philanthropic activities after coming under international sanctions for their ties to President Vladimir Putin.

The group of eight celebrities, which includes Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, and Rihanna, is collectively worth $15.6 billion.

Classic film lovers know the importance of a grand entrance and the folks at Turner Classic Movies are pulling out all the stops for the return of the TCM Classic Film Festival this week in Hollywood. After two years of virtual editions because of the pandemic, the festival kicks off Thursday with the help of Steven Spielberg, who will be on hand to celebrate the 40th anniversary of “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.”

Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, has died in Israel at the age of 107.

“The original is a masterpiece … but it’s also a bit of a tough watch today.”

Jane Campion has won the best director Oscar for “The Power of the Dog.”.

Ariana DeBose lived up to Oscar predictions and followed the path of her “West Side Story” predecessor Rita Moreno.

DeBose is the first openly queer woman of color to win an Oscar for her acting.

A slate of pieces about some of this year’s nominated films and the artists behind them.

The unlikely Oscar contender “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” recently became the first film from the small Asian nation of Bhutan to be nominated for best international film.

Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.

The Academy Awards have always loved a comeback story.

“West Side Story” star Rachel Zegler may get her Oscars moment after all.

The stage musical about the making of the classic film “Jaws” has speared its leading man — Jarrod Spector.

The Academy Awards return this Sunday, but they face a battle to raise their viewing figures.

“CODA” has won the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, giving momentum to the possibility that the small film could have a big night at next week’s Oscars.