The smiling winners all thank "the Academy" on the Oscars stage. But who is the group behind the Academy Awards, and how is it changing?

Tom Cruise finally has an Academy Award. He received an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards. Cruise, 63, was celebrated for his four decades at the peak of the movie industry.

Unlike Dorothy’s other companions, the Cowardly Lion is a digital character, voiced in “Wicked: For Good” by Colman Domingo. The Cowardly Lion makes a brief appearance in the first “Wicked” film — though, it’s an easy connection to miss without knowledge of the full show.

Accepting his honorary Oscar at the 2025 Governors Awards, Tom Cruise remarked, "Making films is not what I do. It's who I am."

The Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival is teaming with the Asian Film Awards Academy for a second consecutive year to present a Hong Kong film program.

In recent years, Netflix has released its big, Oscar-adjacent movies (such as Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and The Irishman) on limited theatrical runs so they could be deemed eligible for the Oscars.

Its inclusion on the CCA shortlist is more or less a box for it to check on its way to a Best Song nomination at the Academy Awards. And with all of the likely contenders assembled into one place, it's difficult to imagine anything really giving "Golden" a run for its money.

The Oscars 2026 list of eligible movies being considered for Best Animated Feature is out, and the Indian film Mahavatar Narsimha has qualified. The official update was shared by the Academy itself, confirming that the movie is competing against 35 other films in the category.