Festival will host 187 films from 73 countries, and there will be 61 premieres

"The Artist" is up, George Clooney is down -- making sense of a flurry of awards activity

Five-time Oscar nominee to receive festival's Career Achievement Award, the first of many festival honors for awards contenders

At TheWrap's screening series the actress talked about her decades-long quest to play a man on screen

This year's prime acting contenders include an unusually large number of actors who've been overlooked for years ... some of them, decades

As the festival drew to a close, Swinton, Michael Fassbender, and Glenn Close all soared in dark fare it may be hard to get the public (or Academy) to see

Alexander Payne's "The Descendants" started the festival on a Rocky Mountain high, while Glenn Close in drag and Martin Scorsese's tribute to a Beatle drew more muted praise

Glenn Close will star in, produce and co-write the period passion project

"Damages" may have had chronic ratings woes, but seeing the series go to DirecTV will still be a big loss for FX

Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Glenn Close and more

Five hour mini-series will be directed by Todd Haynes