Actors Nicole Kidman and Christoph Waltz and directors Ang Lee, Lynne Ramsay and Cristian Mungiu will join Steven Spielberg on the Cannes Film Festival jury, Cannes organizers announced on Wednesday morning in Paris.

Others on the heavyweight panel include Indian actress Vidya Balan, Japanese director Naomi Kawase and French actor/director Daniel Auteuil.

The nine-person jury, one of the most impressive (and English-heavy) in years, will be presided over by Spielberg, whose participation was previously announced by the festival.

The jury's awards will be announced on May 26, the closing night of a festival that kicks off on May 15. Films in contention for the top prize include Alexander Payne's "Nebraska," Roman Polanski's "Venus in Furs," the Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis" and Steven Soderbergh's HBO movie...

Seth MacFarlane might host next year’s Academy Awards. And he might not. And it's too early to talk about it … except that the Academy has set things in motion and can only stop the speculation by picking a host six months earlier than they’ve ever picked a host before.

It started last week, when Academy president Hawk Koch announced that producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have been hired to produce the 86th Oscars next March, making them the first producers to handle consecutive shows since Gil Cates did it in 2005 and 2006.

The move came less than two months after Zadan's and Meron's first Oscar show was lambasted by many critics but received...

The Academy has rehired Craig Zadan and Neil Meron to produce the 86th annual Academy Awards less than two months after they received extremely mixed reviews but high ratings for the 85th Oscars, AMPAS announced on Tuesday.

The move is likely the earliest that the Academy has ever hired Oscar producers. Selecting the show producers is typically the first job of the new Academy president, who takes office in August, though recent rule changes have allowed a president to begin a search before the end of his term.

The current president, Hawk Koch, is not eligible for re-election because of term limits on the Board of Governors, so Zadan and Meron will be working with a new president for the bulk of their production time.

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Bob Costas has slammed CBS Sports' television coverage of the Masters golf tournament, saying the network has never acknowledged the “history of racism and sexism” by the Augusta National Golf Club, the private club that runs the historic tournament.

Augusta National, which was established in 1933, did not admit its first black member until 1990, and it did not invite a woman to join until 2012, despite organized protests from the National Council of Women’s Organizations and pickets outside the grounds of the event.

In 2003 and 2004, it required CBS to broadcast the Masters commercial-free to stave off the threat of boycotts directed at the tournament...