Kim Nguyen’s “War Witch,” Canada’s entry in the Oscar foreign-language sweepstakes, is the very definition of an international film: It’s in French, set in Africa and made by a Canadian director with a Vietnamese name (courtesy of his father).

Further solidifying this film’s sense of internationalism, it’s influenced by films like Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ “City of God,” Brit Andrea Arnold’s “Fish Tank” and American John Cassavetes’ work.

Shot in Congo-Kinshasa, the film tells the wrenching story of a teenage girl forced to kill her own parents and become a child soldier -- but while it doesn...

Charlize Theron, Daniel Radcliffe, Channing Tatum, Robert Downey Jr. and Shirley Bassey are among the participants who have been added to the 75th Oscars show in the last two days, according to announcements from show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.

But the bigger Oscar news is this: Academy members can finally vote.

A full 29 days after Oscar nominations were announced on Jan. 10, the Academy opened the polls for final voting on Friday morning at 8 a.m., ending a long wait in which Academy members had to sit back and watch organizations like the Producers Guild, Directors Guild and Screen Actors Guild crown the year's best.

Members can vote online beginning Friday morning and ending Feb. 19...

Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep will likely get to induct Daniel Day-Lewis into that triple-Oscar club on Feb. 24 at the Dolby Theatre, while "The Sound of Music" star  Christopher Plummer will probably hand the Best Supporting Actress award to a new screen-musical star, Anne Hathaway.

Those are two conclusions to be drawn from the Academy's Tuesday announcement that last year's acting winners, Streep, Plummer, Jean Dujardin and Octavia Spencer, will return to serve as presenters on this year's Oscar telecast.

Streep won her third Oscar for "The Iron Lady," while Dujardin, Spencer and Plummer won their first for "The Artist," "The Help"...

Jessica Chastain has been learning the same lesson week after week for the last few months: Oscar season and Broadway don't exactly mix.

Chastain is appearing on Broadway in "The Heiress," and she's also nominated for Best Actress for her role in "Zero Dark Thirty." For the last couple of months, she's been making regular trips to Los Angeles on her play's one dark day, Monday, to take care of movie chores, usually hopping on the last flight back that night so she wouldn't have to fly the day of the show.

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