Hanks and Ford to give out Oscars
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Actors Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford will be among the stars handing out Oscars, organisers confirm.
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Tales of tragedy and struggle will  vie for Oscar attention on Tuesday as an unusual awards season  overshadowed by the Hollywood writers strike heads into its  final stretch.
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Sponsors of Hollywood's Golden Globe Awards said on Friday they will take control from TV network NBC of a weekend news conference announcing winners of the coveted film and TV honors, which will open the live broadcast to other media.
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Oscar organizers hope Hollywood's biggest stars will let down their hair and have fun at the Academy Awards on Sunday, giving a much-needed spark to a show that runs over three hours and can grow tiresome.
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Oscar winners Charlize Theron and Christopher Walken are to receive the Hasty Pudding award for their work.
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Organizers on Thursday unveiled details of this year's Academy Awards, including Oscar-presenting roles for stars such as Tom Hanks and Nicole Kidman whose presence was in doubt due to the Hollywood writers strike.
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Actor Tom Hanks is keen to see the Oscar ceremony held as usual, and urged studios to return to the negotiating table to end a writers' strike that threatens to disrupt the climax of Hollywood's awards season.
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This year's Academy Awards has something it hasn't had in ages: A neck-and-neck race for Best Picture.
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LOS ANGELES - Oscar and the Olympics were headed for a scheduling clash, and Oscar blinked first. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Thursday said the 2006 edition of Hollywoodâs highest honors
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Academy Award winners Charlize Theron and Christopher Walken will add another trophy to their collection Â a Hasty Pudding award.
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Optimism was in the air among Academy Awards nominees Â both on their films' prospects and the chances that Hollywood's crippling writers strike will end in time for the Oscars show to go on as planned.
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Thousands of Oscar nomination ballots were mailed out Wednesday, heralding the official start of Academy Awards season.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it will now, âin a rare and extraordinary circumstance,â consider crediting more than three producers as nominees for Oscars.
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Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks has  been cast to star in an upcoming movie adaptation of Dan  Brown's best-selling mystery "The Da Vinci Code," film studio  Columbia Pictures said on Tuesday.
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Matthew McConaughey and his two-time co-star Kate Hudson are among those set to present trophies at next week's Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Hollywood's annual Oscar race heats up this week with a key group of U.S. movie awards and nominations that is expected to narrow contenders for the world's top movie awards.
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The films and actors shortlisted for the 80th Academy Awards will be named in Los Angeles later.