Mrs. Miller, the 1960s singing sensation, will be the subject of a film which is being packaged with a view toward Annette Bening playing the title character

Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' Oscar-winning "Little Miss Sunshine" made $100 million, but it still took a series of close calls to get "Ruby" off the ground

Screenwriter Zoe Kazan plays the ultimate Manic Pixie Dream Girl in this slumpy sophomore effort from the “Little Miss Sunshine” directors

Tom Hanks and Annette Bening will also join as co-chairs of the money-gathering push to build the museum

Sure, it looks like a done deal in many categories, but just ask David Fincher, Annette Bening and "The King's Speech," there's still plenty of room for surprises on Feb. 27

The men's winners seem preordained; if there's to be an Oscar upset, it might be up to the women

More than 150 Oscar nominees come to the Beverly Hilton for a rare collegial moment on the campaign trail

Everybody's got a theory, but not everybody's theory makes sense

Four-time Oscar nominee talks about sharing the screen with Annette Bening, and the precarious art of keeping an independent film alive

Lisa Cholodenko set out to make a commercial movie -- but Hollywood, she says, was skeptical

What do most of the awards-season favorites have in common? No female characters of any great consequence -- if any women at all