Academy Awards

The dark comedy "Birdman" held up a mirror to Hollywood and its struggling actors and received in return the film industry's highest recognition on Feb. 22, the Academy Award for best picture.
   

Dark comedy "Birdman" got another pre-Oscars boost Feb. 7, winning the top prize at the Directors Guild of America honors as Hollywood gears up for the all-important Academy Awards this month.
      
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu was crowned best director at the climax of the DGA show, barely two weeks before the Oscars on February 22.
      

Mike Nichols, the legendary film and theater director who won an Oscar for the classic American movie "The Graduate," has died aged 83, US media reported on Nov. 20.
      
ABC television reported that Nichols died of cardiac arrest late Wednesday.
      

LOS ANGELES - A short film ‘Way in Rye’ by young director Goran Stankovic has received a nomination for a 2014 Student Academy Award in the United States.

“The film ‘Way in Rye’ is my Master's degree film at the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles, and the story is set in Russia, at the time of World War Two,” Stankovic has told Tanjug.