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    Oscars Survey Says: Most Americans Have No Idea What's Nominated for Best Picture, Who's Hosting the Show

    2017’s Academy Awards will be handed out this Sunday night, and forecasters increasingly expect it to come down to a battle between Damien Chazelle’s La La Land and Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight for Best Picture. According to a new poll on all things Oscars by The Hollywood Reporter, however, couldn’t name those two films — or any of the other seven contenders — as nominees for the award. According to THR’s survey (conducted with the National Research Group in February), 60 percent of the 800 peop

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    Denzel Washington Balanced Acting and Directing for 'Fences': Go Behind the Scenes to See How He Did It in Exclusive New Featurette

    This Sunday, Denzel Washington and Viola Davis will both be up for Oscars — he in the Best Actor category, she for Best Supporting Actress — for their work in Fences, an adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play that’s also a contender for the Academy’s biggest prize, Best Picture. Making Washington’s performance even more impressive is that he pulled it off while also directing the acclaimed film, and in a new behind-the-scenes featurette, debuting exclusively at Yahoo Movi

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    Oscar Nominee Spotlight: 'Fences' Star Viola Davis's Busy Awards Season

    With the 2017 ceremony just two weeks away, the nominees are busy doing their last minute campaigning in hopes of taking home that Oscar gold. Third-time nominee Viola Davis, who reprises her Tony-winning role in Fences, has been picking up trophies and momentum as the big night draws near. Let’s take a look back at the veteran star’s busy road to the Academy Awards.

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    Denzel Washington (Mostly) Remembers His Famous Movie Lines

    Denzel Washington may have seen every film he’s ever appeared in, but the question is, can the actor remember his most famous lines from those movies? During Tuesday’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel put Washington through his paces, asking him to distinguish lines that he had said in movies from quotes that he hadn’t uttered. “Nah, I never said that,” Washington replied with conviction, before throwing his hands up in disbelief when it was revealed he uttered the line in the 2010 dra

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    SAG Awards: 'Hidden Figures,' Denzel Washington, Emma Stone Lead the Way

    Taraji P. Henson, from right, Janelle Monae, Octavia Spencer, Kimberly Quinn, and Saniyya Sidney, foreground left, accept the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture for “Hidden Figures” at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Los Angeles. Fox’s historical drama Hidden Figures won top SAG Award for top ensemble cast on Sunday in an awards show that also saw Fences, Moonlight and La La Land receive re

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    SAG Awards: Biggest Snubs and Surprises

    The 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild went as expected — it’s an organization that has a habit of rewarding frontrunners and repeat winners, after all. So it came as little surprise that Emma Stone and Viola Davis took home trophies. Read More: Awards: The Contenders

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    Our Predictions for the 2017 Oscar Nominations

    The nominations for the 89th annual Academy Awards will be doled out at the crack of the Los Angeles dawn on Tuesday morning — and you can watch the livestream here at Yahoo Movies starting 5:18 a.m. PT/8:18 a.m. ET. As always, there’s a healthy dose of suspense in every major race, particularly in three of the four acting categories. (The Oscars themselves will be handed out at the ceremony on Feb. 26.)