Latest Oscar buzz

• OPINION: Rock delivered medicine to a so-white Oscars, but was it strong enough?

  Sunday's conflicted Oscars telecast (Should we have felt bad for watching? Should we have summoned the resolve to skip it altogether? Can a satisfyingly diverse film industry ever come to pass?) turned out to be just as long as an unplanned stay on Mars and as self-satisfied as any other Oscar telecast of the last decade or so. Fury Road? More like Suppressed Anger Boulevard.

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  Oscars’ backstage moments rival those on camera

  While audiences around the world watch the glamorous Oscars proceedings on TV, a whole different array of memorable starry moments are happening off-camera.

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  Foreign directors flip the script on Hollywood story ideas

  A scene in the new Turkish film “Sivas” shows a boy in the cruel mountains of Anatolia peering through an old View-Master at images of Lassie. It is a hushed, startling moment that is at once a homage to American film and a comment by director Kaan Mujdeci on how Hollywood fantasy often translates in strange and absurd ways to the lives and rhythms of distant lands.

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  Films once were an escape from work. Now, they celebrate it. What gives?

  There was a time when Americans went to the movies to escape the workplace. These days, in keeping with the way our offices have taken over our lives, filmmakers have turned the big screen into one long career day.

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  An analysis of the best picture race makes you wonder if we are having a Trump moment

  Like the presidential primary season, this year’s Hollywood guild awards do not come as a perfect or predictable whole.

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  #OscarsSoWhite joins a long line of Oscar controversies

  The #OscarsSoWhite uproar over the lack of diversity in the Academy Award nominations the last two years and the subsequent call by some for a boycott of the ceremony played a role in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences changing the rules regarding the organization’s membership.

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  Q&A with 'The Big Short' director Adam McKay

  Adapting "The Big Short," Michael Lewis’ dense book about the housing bubble and financial crisis, for the big screen ought to have been an impossible task. But Adam McKay, whose always slyly political comedies have become blunter as the years have gone on, pulled it off.

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  Will films like 'Furious 7' finally get some academy respect?

  It was a bold and cocky bit of theater last spring when Vin Diesel proclaimed that his film "Furious 7," which went on to gross more than $1.5 billion worldwide, was a blockbuster worthy of an Oscar if, of course, the Academy Awards wanted to remain relevant for a younger, culturally diverse generation.

• Hart, Del Toro, Goldberg among Oscar presenters
• Short reviews of Oscar-nominated short films
• Uproar over Oscar nominations begs the question: Did racial bias, conscious or not, come into play?
• 'Anomalisa' director explains exacting process behind his amazing stop-motion film
• Spike Lee to boycott Oscars ceremony, blames studios for lack of diversity
• Academy selects an all-white group of acting nominees – again
• Sentiment at Golden Globes could be Oscars bellwether