Meryl Streep

LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- Legendary director Mike Nichols may direct Mandate Pictures' movie "Great Hope Springs" written by TV writer Vanessa Taylor.

LOS ANGELES - Christoph Waltz has won the supporting-actor Academy Award for his role as a sociable fiend of a Nazi in "Inglourious Basterds." The first award of Oscar night went to Austrian-born Waltz, a veteran stage and television actor in Europe who had been virtually unknown in Hollywood before Quentin Tarantino cast him as the prattling, ruthless Jew-hunter Hans Landa in his World War II saga.

LOS ANGELES - The Academy Awards have gotten under way with some playful ribbing of Hollywood stars by hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.

LOS ANGELES - The Academy Awards is without question Hollywood's biggest night, a time when the world stops to gawk at its celluloid heroes.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - James Cameron has won the best-director Golden Globe for his science-fiction blockbuster "Avatar," which is following in the footsteps of his "Titanic" as a box-office record-breaker and awards darling.