Airing on CBS for the second year in a row, the 82nd annual Golden Globes ceremony hit 10.1 million viewers on Sunday night. That total was measured by VideoAmp rather than Nielsen, the industry standard, as CBS’ parent company Paramount Global is currently in a contract dispute with Nielsen. 10.1 million viewers represents a 7% […]

Aubrey Plaza has shared a statement after the death of her husband Jeff Baena, who was found dead in a Los Angeles residence on Jan. 3. He was 47. The L.A. County Coroner’s Office determined the cause of death to be suicide. “This is an unimaginable tragedy. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has […]

Once again, the Golden Globes opened televised awards season in the run-up to a Donald Trump presidency. But this time, things looked a little different.  At the 2017 ceremony, for instance, Meryl Streep used her Cecil B. DeMille lifetime-achievement awards speech to decry the incoming President. A year later, following reporting around sexual misconduct in […]

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual […]

As awards season kicks off, so too does viral, film-inspired merch. While nothing will beat the “Saltburn” bathtub water candle from last year, this year’s innovative cinephile product is a Nosferatu candle holder, whose design casts an eerie shadow of Count Orlok — a perfect piece of decor for Halloween, or a gift for the […]

Lisa Hamilton Daly, who joined Hallmark Media in 2021, is out. On Monday morning, the company announced that her position as EVP of programming had been eliminated. “Hallmark is aligning its consumer-facing touchpoints, including content, under a single leader, chief brand officer Darren Abbott, with a focus and expertise in the expression of the Hallmark […]

After watching the scene in “The Substance” where Elisabeth Sparkle, played by Demi Moore, repeatedly applies and wipes off lipstick in front of a mirror — a chilling metaphor for identity, erasure and self-loathing — I couldn’t have imagined that critics and awards voters would embrace it. Yet here we are, with Moore emerging as […]

Will Smith may be choosing between the red and blue pill, but the Oscar-winning actor isn’t entering the Matrix for a movie. Warner Bros. previously announced a fifth “Matrix” installment with “The Martian” screenwriter Drew Goddard attached to write and direct, but knowledgable sources confirmed to Variety that Smith (at least at this point) isn’t […]

When “The Piano Lesson’s” hair designer Andrea Mona Bowman was first told she was tasked to create a wig for singer Erykah Badu, she was elated. She immediately began designing what would be fitting for the Queen of Soul’s cameo as Lucille, the rousing bandleader at a jazz club, in Malcolm Washington’s film adaptation of […]

Dana White, CEO of mixed martial arts powerhouse UFC — and a good friend of Donald Trump — is joining Meta’s board. Meta announced White’s election to its board of directors Monday, alongside John Elkann, CEO of European investment firm Ekon, and Charlie Songhurst, former head of global corporate strategy at Microsoft. The three additional […]

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had its most-watched induction ceremony ever on New Year’s Day, with ABC’s primetime special hitting an average 4.6 million viewers. That’s a 49% increase from the year before, when the induction ceremony reached 3.1 million viewers. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony also improved its […]

Nikki Glaser earned widespread acclaim for her hosting duties at the 2025 Golden Globes, where her monologue poked fun at Diddy, Ben Affleck and Timothée Chalamet’s mustache. But what about the jokes that didn’t make it to air? Glaser appeared on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio the morning after the awards ceremony (via US Weekly) to […]

Ahead of Oscar voting starting up Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially announced the 323 feature films eligible for the 97th Academy Awards. 207 were deemed eligible for Best Picture, with major contenders like “Anora,” “The Brutalist” and “Conclave” all listed. In order for a film to be eligible in the […]

Stars, nominees and presenters including Zoe Saldana, Anna Sawai, Jessica Gunning, Pamela Anderson, Elle Fanning, Kerry Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jodie Foster and more stopped by the official Golden Globes portrait studio on Sunday before heading into the International Ballroom at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills for the show. The night’s winners included Zoe Saldana, who […]

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” is the first No. 1 song of the year after a 20-week climb to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The Grammy-nominated collaboration (up for song and best pop duo/group performance of the year) debuted at No. 3 on the list in late […]

Joey King (“A Family Affair,” “We Were The Lucky Ones”) and Cooper Koch (“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” “They/Them”) have been tapped to announce the nominees for the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards this Wednesday, Jan. 8. Netflix’s YouTube channel will carry the announcement beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET / 7:30 a.m. […]

LG highlighted its plans to bring AI capabilities to all of its devices on Monday at CES. This included products used in the home, car and office; for audio, it launched a new brand developed and designed with will.i.am, who made a guest appearance. Will.i.am highlighted LG’s CES press conference to introduce the new line […]

For TV-news outlets, 2025 is shaping up to be a year of out with the old and in with the….who? With the economics of newsgathering less certain as info-hounds move to streaming and social media for their early facts, traditional TV-news venues have been parting ways with veteran anchors and correspondents. Whether the decisions are […]

On Jan. 7, August Wilson gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — a fitting tribute for a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright who is one of the most celebrated and important American storytellers of the last 50 years. But there’s a touch of irony to that Hollywood setting because in his […]