As Mariska Hargitay reflects on the past year in her life – a momentous one for the actress and filmmaker – a word comes to her mind to describe it: "cathartic." She completed her 27th season starring as Capt. Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU and in May made her Broadway debut in the drama Every…

Actor Martin Short is hotter than ever – literally. He has been sweltering in London this summer where the temperatures have soared to extraordinary levels: Thursday's forecast calls for a high of 97°F (36°C), the latest furnace blast in a succession of UK heat waves. "What’s amazing is that…

If they ever create a Mount Rushmore-style tribute to the greatest comedians in American history, Mel Brooks's face would surely be carved in rock. Hand a chisel to Judd Apatow and he'd start the work. "[Mel’s] the reason why so many of us went into comedy because he was a master at directing…

Only a few years ago, Nazila Azizi was dodging bullets fired by the Taliban and trying to climb aboard one of the last evacuation flights out of Kabul. Today, the Afghan native is an architect and filmmaker, with a documentary in contention for Academy Award recognition. LineOut, now on an Oscar…

UPDATED with quotes from Marty, Life Is Short director Lawrence Kasdan and from Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man! directors Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio: Emmy voters showered stars with attention Wednesday morning, and not just in the acting categories. Celebrity documentaries also dominated the…

It's shaping up as another open-ended race for Best Documentary Feature at the 99th annual Academy Awards. As we move deeper into 2026, no single film has emerged as a clear frontrunner, but there are plenty of contenders even before potential candidates premiere at the Venice Film Festival…

EXCLUSIVE: David Borenstein, the Oscar-winning director of Mr. Nobody Against Putin, is coming on board a documentary that's a contender for next year's Academy Awards. Borenstein announced he will serve as an executive producer on A Fox Under a Pink Moon, the film directed by Mehrdad Oskouei…

Actor Martin Short can go small, as in the movie Clifford, where he played a mischievous 10-year-old. Or he can go big, in a fat suit as Jiminy Glick, the portly entertainment journalist with the outsized appetite and outsized laugh. In fact, Short can do just about anything: sing, dance, sketch…

When Octavia Spencer, the narrator and executive producer of Investigation Discovery's three-part docuseries Lost Women of Alaska, decided to get involved in telling the story of indigenous women living on societal fringes who were targeted and murdered by serial killer Brian Steven Smith, she had a…

Jimmy Donaldson has finally created a spectacle. Now known more commonly as MrBeast, the content creator got his start doing outrageous challenges on YouTube, including a nearly 24-hour-long video of Donaldson counting to 100,000. Other early videos included attempting to break glass using a…

The men and women hold signs, but do not speak. Words in Hebrew on their placards — each bearing the face of a child — do all the talking: "Ahmed Abu Sief, 9 yrs old. Was and is no more, May 7, 2025." "Ghazal Ismail Mahmud Abu Layla, 7 yrs old. Was and is no more, June 20…

UPDATED to reframe the relationship between Ajike Owens and filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir. "She had big dreams," Pamela Dias says of her late daughter, Ajike Owens, a working mother of four who was raising her kids in Ocala, FL. "She would kind of toss around different ideas, entrepreneurial…