Academy Awards airing Sunday, March 2 (ABC and Hulu, 7 p.m. ET/4 PT), we look back at the biggest Oscar snubs of all time.

Walt Disney has won 22 Oscars and four honorary awards. He won his first award, Best Cartoon Short Subject, for "Flowers and ...

Joe Pesci kept his acceptance speech quite short when he won an Oscar for Goodfellas, but other Oscar-winners have managed to ...

Our first roundup of 2025 features some major releases; given the state of things, we should be very thankful for that. Note ...

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios under the leadership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg enjoyed more success than any other ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author and film critic Kenneth Turan about his new book, "Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The ...

Oscar-winning actor Ke Huy Quan placed his handprints and footprints in cement in the forecourt of the TCL Chinese Theatre on Monday, Feb. 3, four days before the release of “Love Hurts,” his ...

In “Nobody’s Empire,” the debut novel from Belle and Sebastian singer and songwriter Stuart Murdoch, a young Scottish man named Stephen sees his life change radically with the onset of ...

Irving Thalberg (1899–1936) was the most famous producer in the history of the movies. He was known as the ‘Boy Wonder’ for his dominance of the industry from the age of twenty-one, and was famously ...

But one name was still missing. Indeed, it mostly never appeared on a film at all: Irving G. Thalberg, the second vice president and head of production, not yet 25 years old at the time of the deal.

It took until January 1926 to add the de facto studio boss Louis B. Mayer’s handle, and thus was born Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, almost immediately nicknamed MGM. But one name was still missing. Indeed, it ...