Oscars 2025 Backstage Photos From Official Photographer John Shearer

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo sharing a moment of triumph after a crowd pleasing opening performance. Conan O’Brien jokingly trying to steal Adrien Brody’s Oscar. These moments from the 2025 Oscars didn’t make the ABC broadcast, but John Shearer — who this year served as an in-house, all access photographer for the Academy and Getty Images — captured them and many more. …

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Vance and Trump Played Zelensky with an Old Hollywood Trick

What Vice President J.D. Vance did in the Oval Office on Feb. 28, when he picked a fight with embattled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and emboldened President Trump to angrily call off an agreement that was expected to be signed that afternoon, is what I have always called “The Stranger in the Room.” I was a screenwriter for 30 years, …

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How to Watch Oscar-Winning Movie ‘The Substance’ Online for Free

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. The Substance is officially an Oscar winner. The body-horror film starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley took home the Academy Award for best makeup and hairstyling by Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli. For those looking …

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Tate McRae Earns First No. 1 Album in U.S. With ‘So Close To What’

Tate McRae topped the Billboard 200 on Sunday, earning the pop star her first No. 1 album in the U.S. The 21-year-old Canadian singer released her third studio album, So Close to What, on Feb. 21, featuring singles “Revolving Door,” “It’s OK I’m OK” and “Sports Car.” McRae performed the latter and another song from the album, “Dear God,” last …

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Where to Stream 2025 Oscar-Winning Films ‘Anora,’ ‘The Brutalist’

Anora A young sex worker’s romantic entanglement with the son of a Russian oligarch gets very messy in this screwball comedy set in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach. Read THR‘s full review here. Oscar wins: Best picture (Alex Coco, Samantha Quan and Sean Baker, producers), best directing (Sean Baker), best actress (Mikey Madison), best supporting actor (Yura Borisov), best writing (Sean Baker), …

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Conan O’Brien Reveals How Adam Sandler’s Oscars 2025 Bit Came Together

After hosting the 2025 Oscars ceremony, Conan O’Brien is offering insight into the origin of his memorable monologue bit with Adam Sandler. O’Brien told Entertainment Tonight after the telecast that he initially reached out to his former Saturday Night Live colleague to involve him in a different way for the Academy Awards. In the bit that aired during Sunday’s ceremony, …

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Andrew Cripps Named Disney’s Head of Global Theatrical Distribution

That didn’t take long. Just week after leaving Warner Bros., Andrew Cripps has landed at Disney, where he’ll succeed Tony Chambers as head of theatrical distribution. He’ll begin the gig March 3. The position opened up after Chambers was elevated to overseeing Europe, the Middle East and Africa as part of a major restructuring of how Disney operates businesses in …

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Julia Fox, Olivia Wilde and More Naked Dresses at Oscars VF After Party

Oscars night has continued the Grammys naked trend. Last month for music’s biggest night, every iteration of bras, panties, corsets and more made an appearance at the 2025 Grammy Awards for an awards show that The Hollywood Reporter‘s style writer Laurie Brookins wrote could have been dubbed “the underwear Grammys.” (Kanye West’s wife, Bianca Censori, memorably skipped the underwear altogether on the …

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Big Picture Film Club Launches U.K. Distribution Arm (Exclusive)

London-based Big Picture Film Club (BPFC) on Monday unveiled a strategic pivot into U.K. and Ireland theatrical distribution with the acquisition of two new titles, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal. The events, media publishing and marketing consultancy has acquired sports documentary Fighters and environmental doc 50 Hours Underwater, both slated for a third-quarter release. Fighters, from Ben & Jack …

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