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Composer Marvin Hamlisch -- one of only 11 people to win all four big showbiz awards (Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony) -- died Monday at age 68.
Of the grand slam winners, Hamlisch ea…
The recipients for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors will be announced shortly after Labor Day. Each year, the selection committee chooses five entertainment veterans from a variety of fields -…
Angela Lansbury leaves "Gore Vidal's The Best Man": "Broadway favorite and Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury sheds her role of an influential women's advocate in the B…
Reigning two-time champ Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory") is heavily favored to win Best Comedy Actor again this year. The star of this CBS Thursday night staple is the top pick …
Our Experts, Editors and Users are divided as to who will win Best Drama Supporting Actress at this year's Emmys.
Ten of our Experts and five Editors expect Maggie Smith to wi…
On Tuesday, Peter O'Toole announced his retirement. He never won an Oscar, despite being nominated eight times (detailed below). That feat of being repeatedly defeated earned h…
The Motion Picture Academy increases diversity with 2012 invitees: "Earlier this year, when I wrote a story about the under-the-radar success of producer Will Packer, who’s had a …
Oscars for "Beasts of the Southern Wild"? "If you’ve never heard of Quvenzhane Wallis, odds are by the time Oscars are being handed out next February, you’ll be mo…
Tony-winner Audra McDonald sidelined from "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" due to illness: "Audra McDonald won her fifth Tony Award earlier this month for her performance i…
The first trailer for "The Master" focused on Joaquin Phoenix and his character Freddie Sutton's days as a drifter. However, in the second preview of this Paul Thomas Anderson …
Last Sunday, "Once" and "Clybourne Park" were the winners of the top prizes at the Tony Awards. In the week that followed, they each enjoyed the spoils of the victor as b…
Nominations for the Tony Awards are determined by a dedicated group of theater professionals who attend every Broadway opening during the season. Then, they meet as a group and winnow their …
"Smash" casts "Newsies" star Jeremy Jordan for season two: "Rising Broadway heartthrob Jeremy Jordan, who earned a 2012 Tony nod for his starring role in 'Newsie…
"Once," "Peter and the Starcatcher" boosted by Tonys, but the future of other shows is still up in the air: "The good news: 'Once,' which won eight Tonys inc…
Why can't the Oscars be more like the Tonys? "... until entering the Beacon Theatre in New York for the Neil Patrick Harris-hosted Tony Awards, which I did as a reporter Sunday nigh…
Almost 300 Gold Derby readers predicted the winners in the 26 races at the Tony Awards. In total, our Users logged over 6,500 predictions. To see how you fared, log in to your account a…
The Tony Awards were so eager for another "Book of Mormon"-size hit this year that they even invited the show back for an encore, opening the telecast with its number "Hello&q…
Tina Fey is rooting for Julianne Moore to win an Emmy as Sarah Palin: "Tina Fey owes Sarah Palin; after all, it was Fey's spot-on impersonation of the former Republican vice preside…
The 66th annual edition of these top theater kudos were handed out on Sunday, June 10 at New York's Beacon Theater and air live on CBS. Nominees were determined by 22 theater professiona…
"Once" won eight of its 11 bids at the Tony Awards Sunday. As our panel of Experts predicted this adaptation of the 2007 Oscar-winning film about an Irish songwriter and his Czech …
Emmy only allows two Best Song entries for "Smash": "Nineteen original songs were written, all but one by Tony-winning 'Hairspray' tunesmiths Marc Shaiman and Scott Wi…
Gold Derby has surveyed 17 Experts, 6 Editors and hundreds of Users to predict the winners of the Tony Awards Sunday.
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"Once" is forecast to win five of its 11 bids…
Ed Helms criticizes the Emmys for snubbing Steve Carell: "Helms told TVLine: 'The ceremony is fun. It's fun to just celebrate the people that we like and that make us laugh or m…
Since the Tony Awards began announcing the nominees as well as the winners at the 10th ceremony in 1956, there have been fifteen years where Best Musical did not go to the show with the most…
The majority of our Experts had been predicting "Newsies" to win Best Musical but are now backing the bid by "Once" just days before the Tony Awards Sunday.
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