Category: Oscar winner

Sarah Polley, Daniel Roher and Brendan Fraser Among Canadian Oscar Winners

Several Canadians came away with first-time Oscar wins at the Academy Awards Sunday night. Toronto filmmaker Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” won for best adapted screenplay. It’s the first career Oscar for Polley, whose film also received a best picture nomination but lost to the interdimensional drama “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” “Women Talking” is about…


Kevin Spacey ‘Strenuously Denies’ UK Sex Charges in First Court Appearance

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey “strenuously denies” allegations of sexually assaulting three men, a court in London heard on Thursday. Spacey, 62, did not enter a formal plea to the charges but his lawyer Patrick Gibbs, QC, told Westminster Magistrates Court: “Mr. Spacey strenuously denies any and all criminality in this case. He needs to answer these…


Oscar Winner, ‘Sound of Music’ Star Christopher Plummer Dies

NEW YORK—Christopher Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film “The Sound of Music” and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award acting winner in history, has died. He was 91. Plummer died Friday morning at his home in Connecticut with his wife, Elaine Taylor, by his side, said Lou…