Lincoln (movie, 2012)

On New Year's Day 1863, Quinn Chapel, a black church in Chicago, hosted a celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation. According to the Tribune's account, after Scripture was read and the choir sang, J. Stanley recited a poem he'd written for the...

Daniel Day-Lewis' career was playing out before an audience of 2,000 at Santa Barbara's Arlington Theatre, but the two-time Oscar winner couldn't bear to watch the 10-minute highlight reel that played before last weekend's Santa Barbara International Film...

"IN REAL life things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press," said Joaquin Phoenix. Hmmm. That is only sometimes true. And if the news that Jennifer Lawrence braved a bad case of pneumonia to attend the SAG Awards wasn'...

After the coffee. Before the beignets and gumbo. The Skinny: About half the TV industry is in Miami for a programming convention, and the other half is in New Orleans for some football game. Either way, they are warm and dry. Monday's headlines...

The swing of the awards season pendulum that now favors "Argo" is dramatic -- but don't rule out the possibility of another switcheroo come the Oscars. With Producers Guild feature film and Screen Actors Guild ensemble awards Saturday and Sunday, the...

Ben Affleck's “Argo” seems to be unstoppable. The film about a CIA plot to rescue American hostages in Iran in 1980 won the 19th Screen Actors Guild Award on Sunday night for ensemble in a motion picture. The win came hours after the film,...

Ben Affleck's "Argo," a drama about the Iranian hostage crisis, won the highest acting honor Sunday night at the 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards. The CIA thriller, which won best ensemble cast, also won the directing honor at the Golden Globe Awards two...

It's no surprise that Sally Field, who grew up in a showbiz family and has worked on screen since her teens, feels at home among her fellow actors. On the red carpet of the SAG Awards on Sunday night, the "Lincoln" star, who was nominated for supporting...

He famously was left in the Academy Awards cold. But could Ben Affleck get a warm welcome from the Directors Guild of America? Following double weekend wins for "Argo" -- at the Producers Guild of America Awards (where it won best feature on Saturday)...

"Argo" walked away with the night's top prize at the 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night, winning the award for performance by a cast in a motion picture. So what does it mean for the bigger awards season? And what was it like being at the...

You would think nothing could surprise multi-hyphenate Ben Affleck after he'd promoted his CIA thriller "Argo" for the past five months, but the actor-director-producer was clearly stunned Sunday night when the movie nabbed the ensemble prize at the...

It's been a roller coaster of an awards season for the cast and crew of the political thriller "Argo." In the weeks since director and star Ben Affleck was passed over for an Oscar nomination for best director, the film has won big at the Golden Globes,...