January 30, 2017 Iranian, Syrian entertainers to skip the Oscars due to Trump's travel order Several entertainers say they will be missing the biggest night in film because of the new regulations.
January 29, 2017 Film academy troubled by possible visa ban of Oscar nominee The motion picture academy calls "extremely troubling," the possible visa ban of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, whose feature film "The Salesman" is nominated for a best foreign language Oscar.
January 26, 2017 Iranian-born actress to boycott Oscars over Trump Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-nominated "The Salesman," says she won't attend the Academy Awards in protest of President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
January 25, 2017 'Fresh Off the Boat' actress Constance Wu rips Casey Affleck's award nomination “Fresh Off the Boat,” star Constance Wu is outraged over Casey Affleck’s Best Actor Oscar nomination for “Manchester by the Sea,” and she’s taken to Twitter to go after him and the Academy.
January 24, 2017 Michelle Williams has an Oscar nomination for 'Manchester by the Sea' but she hasn't seen it Maybe she’s superstitious?
January 24, 2017 #OscarsNotSoWhite: Diverse nominees help Academy recover from #OscarsSoWhite controversy In 2015 and 2016, there were no minority actors or actresses nominated in the Best Actor and Best Actress Academy Awards categories and it caused quite a stir.
January 24, 2017 ABC sorry for wrongly posting Tom Hanks, Amy Adams Oscar noms Amy Adams and Tom Hanks are not Oscar nominees this year, but for a moment Tuesday morning both were listed on the official Oscars website as having scored lead acting nominations.
January 24, 2017 After years as an outcast, Mel Gibson earns an Oscar nomination Gibson had long been shunned in Hollywood since an anti-Semitic tirade while being arrested for drunk driving in 2006 and a 2011 conviction for domestic violence.
January 24, 2017 Oscar nominations: 'La La Land' leads with 14 nods The 89th annual Oscar nominations are announced.
January 14, 2017 Oscars make slight change to nominations announcement The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is ditching its traditional method of announcing Oscar nominations to a live audience at its headquarters in favor of a more digital disclosure.