Oscar Award

Oscar-winning actress Ellen Burstyn, one of the most revered performers of her generation, will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. The award recognizes Burstyn's career spanning more than five decades...

November 01, (THEWILL) - Grammy-winning singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has recounted her ordeal in an Ugandan prison. Back in 2020, Tems and her colleague, Stanley Omah Didia, aka Omah Lay, were arrested and charged to court and...

August 21, (THEWILL) - Chineze Anyaene-Abonyi has resigned as a member of the Oscar selection committee. Her resignation was made known by the Nigerian Official Selection Committee for the Best International Feature Film category of the prestigious Academy Awards,...

July 26, (THEWILL) - American actor, Kevin Spacey, has been declared not guilty of the seven sexual assault charges levelled against him. The Oscar-winning actor had faced historical sex offence charges that allegedly took place between 2004 and 2013, when...

April 02 (THEWILL) - Oscar and Grammy-winning singer, composer, actor, producer, activist and writer, Ryuichi Sakamoto, has died at 71 after his second cancer diagnosis. He shot to fame in the 70s with the influential Japanese group, ‘Yellow Magic Orchestra’....

March 06, (THEWILL) - Serena Williams' father, Richard Williams, has defended Hollywood actor, Will Smith, for slapping Chris Rock during the 2022 Oscar awards. Smith won the best actor at the 94th edition of the Academy Awards for playing Richard...

January 26, (THEWILL) - Chinonye Chukwu, Nigerian-American movie director, has called out the Oscars committee, after her movie was snubbed from this year's Oscar nominations. The 37-year-old filmmaker directed and co-wrote 'Till', a true story of Mamie Till-Mobley's relentless pursuit...

January 04, (THEWILL)  -The stars of 'Romeo and Juliet,' a 1968 Oscar-winning film, have sued Paramount Pictures. The actors, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, are alleging sexual abuse over the portrayal of a nude scene. According to the BBC, the lawsuit...

January 03,(THEWILL) - Hollywood actor, Jeremy Renner, is in critical condition after undergoing surgery following an accident while clearing snow outside of his home using a snow plough. According to BBC News, the Avengers suffered a blunt chest trauma and...

December 31, (THEWILL) - Media mogul, Mosunmola Abudu, aka Mo Abudu, has been appointed as a member of the Oscars voting committee. The entrepreneur excitedly announced the happy news on her Instagram page on Saturday and expressed her delight...