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Out with the old, in with the young: James Franco and Anne Hathaway will co-host the 83rd Academy Awards in February, an apparent bid to attract younger viewers to the telecast.

The 2012 Oscars will not be weeks earlier than usual, as had been speculated - a move that would have upended Hollywood's crowded awards season.

Eight short documentary films have cleared the first hurdle on the way to an Oscar at the 83rd Academy Awards.

Sixty-five countries, including first-time entrants Ethiopia and Greenland, have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign-Language Film category for the 83rd Academy Awards.

Gloria Stuart, a 1930s Hollywood leading lady whose first significant role in nearly 60 years -- as the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron's 1997 Oscar-winning film about the ill-fated ocean liner -- earned her an Academy Award nomination, has died.

I've just learned that, at tonight's Board of Governors meeting of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, members discussed moving up the 2011 Oscars to sometime in January. You read that right -- JANUARY! This would be a shocking change, not just because the ABC telecast of the 83rd Academy Awards would conflict with (or is it more like outfox?) NBC's competing Golden Globes broadcast. And bump up against the Super Bowl.

If you weren't watching the Tonys too carefully, you would have thought they had turned into the Oscars. Sunday's show was a night for celebrities and for the meaning of celebrity, when Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Catherine Zeta-Jones took home their first Tonys, and when the most honored play, "Red," was itself a meditation on art and commerce. Other familiar faces included Will Smith and Michael Douglas, Helen Mirren and Daniel Radcliffe, and "Glee" stars Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele.

Less than two weeks after taking home the best actress Oscar for her role in "The Blind Side," Sandra Bullock pulled out of the film's London premiere amid tabloid rumors that she is having marital troubles with ...

Fans of The Cove, the environmentally themed film that won the feature documentary Oscar Sunday night, will be happy to know there's more where that came from. A new television series about the controversial dolphin trade in Japan, tentatively titled Dolphin Warriors, has been green-lighted by Animal Planet.

A documentary producer who interrupted a director's Oscar acceptance speech Sunday night says she was the one who was "big-footed" on stage. Elinor Burkett, appearing Tuesday on HLN's "The Joy Behar Show," said Roger Ross Williams' charge that she ambushed him is wrong.