In an unusual year marred by a global pandemic and theater closures nationwide, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has broken tradition by nominating two female filmmakers for a directing #Oscar for the first time latimes.com/entertainment-…
Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”)
Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”)
David Fincher (“Mank”)
Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari”)
Thomas Vinterberg (“Another Round”) #OscarNomslatimes.com/entertainment-…
Last month, Zhao won the #GoldenGlobes' best director prize.
She was the first woman of Asian descent to win that directing prize (and only the second woman ever to win it) latimes.com/entertainment-…
The season showed James falling for Kirkconnell, unaware that she was photographed at an antebellum South-themed party in 2018 and that she had “liked” racially insensitive social media posts.
Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged Monday to nominate a Black woman to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein if the 87-year-old decides to retire before her term is up in 2024.
Feinstein told Times columnist @latimesskelton in December that she has not considered retiring before the end of her term in 2024, at which point she will be 91.
Newsom’s pledge came hours after California’s most prominent elected Black leaders, including Reps. Karen Bass and Barbara Lee, promised to organize Black voters to oppose a recall if it qualifies for the ballot.
Some are skeptical that she will be able to make lasting changes to a bureaucracy with a long history of mistreating Native people. But for others, this is a moment of unparalleled opportunity.
Just days after Rodney King was brutally beaten, Latasha was killed in that shop.
Her death holds significance in L.A. history, particularly because of what took place in the deli before she lost her life: latimes.com/entertainment-…
Love her or loathe her, few here are agnostic about the sometime gardener, cooking columnist and grandmother who has become the leading antagonist against what she sees as creeping extremism in the region locals know as the North State. latimes.com/california/sto…
Doni Chamberlain has embraced the contrarian’s mantle, while other media in the Upper Sacramento River Valley have staked out more neutral terrain.
At times it feels to the late-blooming journalist like she is fighting for the very soul of her hometown. latimes.com/california/sto…
It’s no secret that Chamberlain paddles upstream against the area’s dominant political current. President Trump won Shasta County by more than 30 percentage points in November. latimes.com/california/sto…
Social media is raving about an emotional video showing Tiffany Haddish's reaction to winning a Grammy latimes.com/entertainment-…
Hadish, a nominee for comedy album, spent the day in a TV studio, hosting a segment of her CBS show, “Kids Say the Darndest Things.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
Hadish was interrupted by a producer talking into her earpiece: “Tell them you just won a Grammy for best comedy album!” he said. latimes.com/entertainment-…