The film also wins also best supporting actor for Mahershala Ali and best original screenplay.

The post comes a day after producers announced that Smollett’s character would be removed from the final two episodes of the season.

Glenn Close, the most-nominated living actor never to win an Oscar, is poised to win best actress at the Academy Awards for a role she performed with generations of women from her family in mind.

As she recovered from a family tragedy, the Portland writer found herself telling a part of her own story in her second play, premiering this week at Portland Stage.

How the stars could learn a thing or two from Sidney Poitier at the Oscars in these dire days of the acceptance speech.