Russell Williams II, the first African American to win multiple Academy Awards in any category and an American University professor of film and media arts, says that the real problem has less to do ...

If you’ve been keeping up with our ongoing coverage so far, you may know that The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has been releasing regular panel sessions called Academy Dialogues as ...

Jeffrey Wright, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Daniel Brooks are some of the nominees at the biggest award show of them all: The Oscars– our TV pick of the week.

Will Moonlight pull the upset, or will La La Land’s unstoppable celebration of cinematic Whiteness prevail? Will Uncle Denzel and Viola and Mahershala walk away with hardware? Will we have another ...

It’s time to welcome a new class into the most elite membership in the film industry. On Tuesday, The Academy announced it is welcoming 819 new members. Per a press release sent to The Root, the ...