ANGELA BASSETT

The Associated Press was ridiculed after posting and then deleting what many considered a sensual tweet on Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh and Oscar nominee Angela Bassett.

Whether it was the lingering drama of “The Slap” or the prominence of blockbusters in the best picture race, a bigger audience was lured back to the Oscars this year.

Several moments were captured during Sunday’s Academy Awards, and many centered around Angela Bassett. One was her holding hands with Elvis actor Austin Butler. The viral clip featured Bassett gripping the actor’s hand as he anxiously sat through his name called among nominees for Best Actor in a Lead Role. Twitter user @NadineBabu shared a gif of… Continue reading Angela Bassett Comforting Austin Butler As Best Actor Oscar Was Being Announced Goes Viral

Angela Bassett and Jamie Lee Curtis were both up for Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars. Bassett appeared crushed when she lost to Curtis, receiving some backlash for her reaction.

“Black women are regularly overworked, underpaid, devalued, disrespected & ignored. Tonight that pain was palpable.”View Entire Post ›

Off-camera at the Academy Awards, there were plenty of other memorable moments including Hugh Grant's awkward interview and Rihanna's casual entrance.

Newly minted Academy Award winners kicked up their heels at post-Oscars parties.

Bassett lost out to Jamie Lee Curtis for her role in the awards juggernaut "Everything Everywhere All at Once."

Twitter had a lot of feelings about Curtis winning over Bassett — and they weren’t positive.

In 2019, Carter won her first Oscar for the first "Black Panther" film.

Salma Hayek posed on the red carpet with her daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault.

Angela Bassett got her second Oscar nod, for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," 29 years after her first. Now she's ready to explain her ineffable "regal" quality.

Bassett is nominated for her role in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," her first Oscar nomination since 1993's "What's Love Got To Do With It."

The 95th Academy Awards are nearly here, and Associated Press Film Writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr predict a big haul for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”.

The unlikely awards season juggernaut “Everything Everywhere All at Once” marched on at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, and even gathered steam with awards not just for best ensemble, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan but also for Jamie Lee Curtis.

Angela Bassett won entertainer of the year at Saturday’s NAACP Image Awards on a night that also saw her take home a television acting trophy for “9-1-1.”.

Austin Butler has taken some flack for holding onto his Elvis accent long after actually playing Elvis.

Austin Butler, you may have heard, has taken a bit of flack for sounding too much like Elvis now that he's no longer, um, Elvis. The 31-year-old breakout star of Baz Luhrmann's flamboyant biopic even had to be defended by fellow Oscar nominee Angela Bassett, who's explained that she, too, had a hard time shaking the Tina Turner vibe after playing her back in 1993. In any case, Butler says there’s something far more significant that's remained with him since making “Elvis”: a new relationship with fear.

The historian Stephen Kotkin and the Ukrainian journalist Sevgil Musaieva on a year of disaster, and the hopes for an end. Plus, Angela Bassett on playing the queen of Wakanda.

Motion picture academy president Janet Yang told a room full of Oscar nominees that the organization's response to Will Smith's onstage slap of Chris Rock during last year's ceremony was inadequate.

This week’s new entertainment releases include a fresh album from Shania Twain, the megahit film “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” lands on Disney+ and a new PBS “Frontline” documentary delves into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interaction with the last five U.S. presidents.

Angela Bassett, a supporting actress nominee for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” was thinking about the late Chadwick Boseman and his legacy.

Rihanna earned her first Oscar nomination on Tuesday for the song, "Lift Me Up" in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever."

Find out how the biggest stars in film are reacting to their 2023 Oscar nominations ahead of this year's Academy Awards.

Austin Butler and "Elvis", Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans" and "Abbott Elementary" nominated at Critics Choice Awards hosted by Chelsea Handler in LA.

Keep an eye on Cate Blanchett for best actress, after Michelle Williams's snub by the Screen Actors Guild.

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” has been nominated for 12 NAACP Image Awards, while “The Woman King” and “Abbott Elementary” will enter next month’s ceremony as other top nominees.

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” extended its box-office reign in its second week of release with $67 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates.

Four standing ovations in one night might seem a little over-the-top, even by Hollywood standards, but at the Governors Awards Saturday night, where Michael J.

Angela Bassett’s character models a trait that’s rare amid superhero chaos and violence: self-restraint.

The box office roared back to life with the long-awaited release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”.

This sequel to "Black Panther," "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," is all you could wish for.

Angela Bassett opened up about making "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" without Chadwick Boseman.

Boseman, who played King T'Challa in 2018's "Black Panther" and several other Marvel films, died in 2020 at age 43 after a private, four-year battle with colon cancer.

The spooky, sublime stop-motion animation worlds of Henry Selick are feasts for the eye that can burrow into the imaginations of young minds.

Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance marked their 25th wedding anniversary by saying they "can't wait to do 25 more!"

A new trailer for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" was unveiled on Monday.

An emotional Harrison Ford has unveiled a trailer for the fifth Indiana Jones film, saying this one will be his last.

Marvel Studios returned to Comic-Con's Hall H for the first time in three years with a massive presentation and new information about phases five and six of the ongoing Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Actress Angela Bassett is one of the most refined actresses in Hollywood, usually moving above reproach and never associated with drama. However, a lot of […]

Paul McCartney and Taylor Swift will induct new members into the Rock ‘n' Roll Hall of Fame next week, and actor Angela Bassett will do the honors for Tina Turner.

Fox's '9-1-1' star Angela Bassett looked amazing at the 2021 Emmy Awards. She shared her outfit on Instagram and people are amazed that the actress is 63.

This week’s new entertainment releases include new music from Lizzo and Ben Platt and an animated series on Disney+ that features a bevy of heroes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in reimagined events called “What If.

Aug. 16 marks the What’s Love Got to Do with It actress’s 63rd birthday. We wonder if she’ll be celebrating with Tina Turner. Angela Bassett

Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance have been a Hollywood power couple for over 2 decades. Here's what we know about how they met, when they got married, and their adorable family.

LeBron James, Russell Westbrook and a slew of networks are among those releasing documentaries based on the tragic backstory of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

Megan Thee Stallion and DaBaby are the prom queen and king of the 2021 BET Awards.

The Oscars are aiming to be more like a movie than a television show and enlisting A-list stars like Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Halle Berry and Reese Witherspoon to help.

Rich Polk/Getty ImagesThe 78th Annual Golden Globes were anything but traditional. It was hosted by Tina Fey at New York City's Rainbow Room and Amy Poehler at the Beverly Hilton, while nominees were encouraged to stay home. Stars presented in person in front of a small audience of essential workers. Most nominees opted to glam up at home and post on their social media accounts. And then there was Jason Sudeikis, who accepted the award for "Ted Lasso" in a hoodie.

She’s only the second woman in the history of the Globes to win, and the first since Barbra Streisand won for “Yentl” in 1984. Its star, guerilla comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, also won best actor in a comedy. “The Queen's Gambit” won best limited series, and best actress in the category for Anya Taylor-Joy. “Schitt's Creek,” the Pop TV series that found a wider audience on Netflix, won best comedy series for its final season. Catherine O'Hara also took best actress in a comedy series.

in a purple Dolce & Gabbana gown with thigh-high slit and feathery trim at the skirt and shoulder. She added earrings and a ring by Graziela. Angela BassettTodd Williamson/NBC

This image released by Netflix shows, from second left, Norm Lewis, Clarke Peters Isiah Whitlock Jr., and Delroy Lindo in a scene from "Da 5 Bloods," named one of the top 10 films of the year by The American Film Institute. (David Lee/Netflix via AP)The American Film Institute on Monday announced its top 10 films of the year, including Pixar’s jazz themed “Soul” and two of Chadwick Boseman’s final films: the August Wilson adaptation “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and Spike Lee’s Vietnam drama “Da 5 Bloods,” both of which are Netflix films. AFI also selected Warner Bros.’ Black Panther Party film “Judas and the Black Messiah” which will have its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Feb. 1. The AFI also named its top 10 television shows, including Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit,” the Disney+ phenomenon “The Mandalorian” and Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso.”The selection jury included filmmakers Rian Johnson and Lulu Wang. The group also included a special citation for “Hamilton.”In lieu of the annual luncheon celebrating the honorees, AFI will hold a virtual benediction on Feb. 26 streaming on YouTube and the AFI website.

New details about the rumored relationship between the late Whitney Houston and her longtime friend, Robyn Crawford, are coming to light in Crawford's new memoir, A Song For You: My Life With Whitney Houston. She later adds that it was Houston who ended the physical part of their relationship in 1982. Crawford adds that Houston's mother, Cissy Houston, was against their bond, claiming, "Whitney told me her mother said it wasn't natural for two women to be that close, but we were that close." Houston's ex-husband, Bobby Brown, also claimed the singer had a same-sex relationship with Crawford in his 2016 memoir, Every Little Step: My Story. "I really feel that if Robyn was accepted into Whitney's life, Whitney would still be alive today," he told Us Weekly at the time.

Angela Bassett and Patricia Arquette are opening up about their Otherhood co-star, Felicity Huffman. ET caught up with the actresses at a press day for the film on Friday, where they candidly discussed Huffman's college admissions scandal. Bassett shared similar sentiments, telling ET, "I think she's handling it like a grown-up person. While Huffman appeared in the Netflix mini-series, When They See Us, Otherhood marks her first movie release since pleading guilty in May for her part in a massive college admissions scam. RELATED CONTENT:Felicity Huffman Celebrates Daughter Sofia's Graduation Amid College Admissions ScandalFelicity Huffman Fights Back Tears as She Officially Pleads Guilty in College Admissions ScamFelicity Huffman Is a Mom Trying to Reconnect With Her Adult Child in 'Otherhood' Trailer