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With the release of Woman of the Hour, many viewers have taken interest in the real life “Dating Game Killer.” Many have also taken note of the real life episode of The Dating Game that served as the basis of the film. As the real footage has been uploaded online, viewers are getting the chance to compare the film to what really happened.

Footage From The Original Game Show Has Shown Up On YouTube

The Netflix movie features actress Anna Kendrick, who is also making her directorial debut with the film, as Sheryl Bradshaw. Kendrick’s role is based on the real-life figure of Cheryl Bradshaw, who appeared on The Dating Game, where she chose to go out on a date with serial killer Rodney Alcala.

The film takes a few liberties to...

The new Netflix film, Woman of the Hour, bring the story of the “Dating Game Killer” to the streaming world. As in real life, the film details an episode of The Dating Game, in which one of the bachelors turned out to have been a dangerous threat. The film also reflects Netflix’s reputation as a true crime story hot spot.

The Film Marks The Directorial Debut Of Its Lead Actress

As the film details, serial killer Rodney Alcala appeared on an episode of The Dating Game, where he won a date with contestant Cheryl Bradshaw. At the time, he had already killed five women. When news of this came to light, Alcala’s appearance on the show earned him the nickname, the “Dating Game Killer.”

Anna Kendrick appears in the film as Cheryl Bradshaw. The film also marks the actress’ directorial debut. Actor Daniel Zovatto portrays Alcala.

‘Woman of the Hour...

A debut directorial feature is an exciting prospect from the audience’s perspective. It allows them to experience a new voice in the filmmaking sphere and, consequently, a fresh bout of energy in the filmmaking itself. To expect that voice to exhibit an encompassing uniqueness from its inception would be too much, but a confluence of different inspirations rising through as an expression of ideas can be fascinating.

Such is the case with Anna Kendrick. As much as it is a film squarely set in the 1970s, an adaptation of a true-crime event about serial killer Rodney Alcala, who would appear on a 1978 taping of the game show “The Dating Game,” it is also very much an examination of systemic misogyny and its intersection with violence through a 21st-century lens.

The above line might suggest the film’s flaw is the failure of faithful reconstruction of that era, but that is hardly the case.

It’s a notorious freak moment in daytime television. On Sept. 13, 1978, one of the three competing bachelors on “The Dating Game” was Rodney Alcala, who turned out to be a serial killer; he was captured the following year. It’s no joke — or maybe it’s a meaningful one — to say that Alcala had the looks and personality of a 1970s ladykiller. He was coiffed like one of the Hudson Brothers, with a chiseled grin redolent of Engelbert Humperdinck. He practically beamed good vibes — along with some semi-submerged bad ones, answering his “Dating Game” questions in a way that was so confident it was…aggressive.

TV, of course, never got much kitschier than “The Dating Game.” I used to watch it as a kid, marveling at the fact that the entire show, with its Herb Albert-on-happy-pills theme music and its flower-power décor, was a kind of leering, smirky put-on that...

You never know who you might meet on a dating show — but you might just know some of the faces you’ll see on said show in “Woman of the Hour.”

Directed by Anna Kendrick — marking her directorial debut — the film, now streaming on Netflix, tells the bizarrely true story of how a serial killer went on “The Dating Game,” and won. His appearance on the show was square in the middle of his killing spree, and he wasn’t even caught because of the show.

Not only does Kendrick direct, but she also stars in the film, alongside some other familiar faces.

Here’s who you need to know in “Woman of the Hour.”

Netflix Sheryl Bradshaw (Anna Kendrick)

Cheryl Bradshaw is indeed the woman of the hour referenced in the title, a struggling actress who goes on “The Dating Game” hoping for exposure. Instead, she meets and picks a serial killer.

A matchmaking television show that hooks you up with a blind date may not sound like the ideal place to meet your serial killer, but it is kind of ironic. I mean, you don’t get to see a man’s true face in real life either, so one really knows what goes on behind that charming smile, right? The character of Sheryl, played by debut director Anna Kendrick herself, is based on the real-life person Cheryl Bradshaw. I am not sure why the writer or the director thought of changing the first letter of her name, but maybe they did it to give the character a distinctive touch. Touche. Coming back to our real-life person, Cheryl was a drama teacher from Phoenix, Arizona, who had come to LA to fulfill her dream to be an actor. But even though Cheryl didn’t become a popular movie star, she did...

Based on a true story, Netflix’s Woman of the Hour is both memorable and chilling. Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut is the perfect blend of the crime thriller genre with reality show visuals, and is intriguing and sets the mood right. It’s the 1970s, women’s rights were still a debatable topic, and sexist jokes were the norm. An aspiring actor, Sheryl Bradshaw had moved to Los Angeles in the hopes of establishing her career. But every time she rejected nude shoots or refused to wear revealing clothes, she was made aware that Hollywood did not have a space for her. Sheryl struggled to pay her bills, but her agent boosted her confidence and offered her an opportunity to be on television. Sheryl was selected to join The Dating Game, a reality show where a woman was presented with three potential candidates. The candidates were made to sit behind a screen,...

Content warning: This article discusses themes and subject matter that some readers may find triggering, including sexual assault.

Anna Kendrick is set to make her directorial debut with the Netflix original film "Woman of the Hour" — and it's based on a seriously scary true-crime story.

In case you weren't aware of the story behind "Woman of the Hour," Kendrick and her screenwriter Ian McDonald were inspired by Rodney Alcala, a sexual predator and serial killer who murdered multiple women in California in the late 1970s. In case you didn't find Alcala's crimes disturbing enough yet, he was also in possession of thousands of explicit photographs that included underage subjects, one of which ended up reopening a cold case from 1977 years later in 2016.

Okay, wait — what does this have to do with Kendrick? Well, the Oscar-nominated actress will star in and direct "Woman of the Hour," which retells the real-life story...

More than 20 years after making her screen debut in Camp, a beloved romp about the universal experience of being a theater kid, Anna Kendrick is unpacking the sexism of Hollywood through the true-crime genre with her directorial debut.

While discussing her new movie Woman of the Hour, premiering Friday on Netflix, the Oscar nominee tells Deadline that although she was “actively shoving down” the urge to direct writer Ian McDonald’s Black List script, Kendrick was so drawn to the “heartbreak” in his depiction of “Dating Game Killer” Rodney Alcala‘s victims, she got “really sick at the idea” of anyone else helming the film.

In addition to directing, Kendrick plays Cheryl Bradshaw, an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles who finds herself courted by a serial killer (Daniel Zovatto) in the midst of a years-long killing spree, when they cross paths as contestants on popular game show The Dating Game.

Justin Timberlake is expected to change the plea to his Dwi charge to guilty, resolving a case that began when the musician was arrested after being pulled over in the Hamptons this summer.

Per ABC News, Timberlake will enter the new plea at a court hearing in Sag Harbor Village, New York this Friday, Sept. 13. The misdemeanor charge carries a fine penalty, which Timberlake will pay alongside his guilty plea, bringing the matter to a close.

Timberlake’s lawyer, Ed Burke, declined Rolling Stone’s request for comment.

Timberlake was...

Justin Timberlake appeared virtually for a court appearance in the Hamptons on Friday following his arrest for driving while intoxicating in June.

He pleaded not guilty for a second time in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court in New York, multiple outlets reported on Friday, after his attorney had previously filed a motion to dismiss the charges due to a superior officer not signing the initial charging papers.

Timberlake’s license was suspended as part of the arrest. On Friday, his lawyer, Ed Burke, clarified that, since he has an out-of-state license, it only affects his ability to drive in New York. “This is standard procedure with every Dwi case,” he told reporters, according to ABC News.

The re-arraignment comes a week after Burke had said during a proceeding on July 26 that Timberlake was “not intoxicated” when he was arrested. “I’ll say it again. Justin Timberlake was not intoxicated. And...

Despite Justin Timberlake being arrested for allegedly driving while intoxicated, his lawyer claimed in a Friday court hearing that he was “not intoxicated” when he was apprehended last month.

“He was not intoxicated. I’ll say it again. Justin Timberlake was not intoxicated,” Timberlake’s attorney Ed Burke said during the Sag Harbor, New York, proceeding, as reported by ABC7NY. “And we are very confident that charge, that criminal charge, will be dismissed.”

Burke also argued that the police “made a number of very significant errors in this case.”

“You heard the Da try to fix one of those errors, but that’s just one, and there are many others. Sometimes the police, like every one of us, make mistakes. And that’s the case in this very instance,” the attorney continued. He also noted that his client “cooperated with the police offers from the second he was ordered...

Justin Timberlake’s lawyers have claimed the singer was not drunk when he was pulled over and arrested on suspicion of a Dwi in Sag Harbor, New York, last month.

“The most important fact to know about this case is that Justin was not intoxicated and should not have been arrested for Dwi,” the lawyer, Ed Burke, said in a statement to Rolling Stone after a court hearing on Friday. “The police made a number of very significant errors in this case… Sometimes the police make mistakes and this is just one of those instances.

Police have released a mugshot of singer Justin Timberlake after his arrest for driving while intoxicated following a night out in the Hamptons.

The 43-year-old was spotted running a stop sign and failing to keep his 2025 BMW in its lane while driving on Madison Street in Sag Harbor shortly after 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, authorities said. Officers said they smelled alcohol on Timberlake’s breath and noted he had glassy eyes and slow speech.

Timberlake refused to take a breathalyzer test at the scene, his lawyer Ed Burke said. He was charged with a single count of Dwi and released without bail after an arraignment Tuesday morning.

According to witnesses, Timberlake had been drinking with friends at the American Hotel earlier in the evening.

Burke said Timberlake admitted to police he’d had one martini and was following friends home when pulled over.

The “SexyBack” singer is currently on his Forget Tomorrow World Tour.

Justin Timberlake was arrested on suspicion of driving in an “intoxicated condition” early Tuesday after he allegedly failed to stop at a posted stop sign in the Southampton village of Sag Harbor, N.Y., a court filing obtained by Rolling Stone states. He was arraigned on a single misdemeanor charge of Dwi hours later and released on his own recognizance, officials said.

The musician was pulled over at approximately 12:37 a.m. while operating a 2025 BMW sport utility vehicle, according to the court filing. He allegedly blew through the stop...

A Film by Beyoncé has become the official title used to denote pivotal entries into an archive that Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has been building for decades. It first appeared with the release of Homecoming (2019), a documentary concert film that captured the musician’s historic headline performances at Coachella in 2018. This year, Parkwood Entertainment is following up the culture-shifting Netflix release with Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, which similarly enshrines the global tour she completed in support of her seventh studio album. “In this world that is very male-dominated, I’ve had to be really tough,...

For her directorial debut, Anna Kendrick chose a particularly daunting task in tackling the story of the notorious serial killer Rodney Alcala, who staged a terrifying murder spree in the ’70s in which he is thought to have killed upwards of 130 people. The center of Kendrick’s movie, Woman of the Hour, focuses on his appearance in plain sight on a 1978 episode of ABC’s The Dating Game, in which he was the bachelor that contestant Cheryl Bradshaw wound up choosing to go on a date with, not knowing that this was a period in the middle of his murderous spree.

ABC’s 20/20 devoted a full hour in May 2021 to the story of the cold-blooded killer who died in incarceration, but Kendrick’s film version has more on its mind that just the facts. It had its world premiere Friday as a Special Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival.

Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, “Woman of the Hour,” is one of the trickiest balancing acts at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. You could call the film, which premiered Friday at the Princess of Wales Theatre, a black comedy — but that term usually suggests a seriocomic tone running through the film.

“Woman of the Hour,” by contrast, is humorous sometimes and not funny at all at others. It can be amusing when portraying kitschy ’70s pop culture shot through with casual sexism, but it is simply horrifying when sexism turns to rape and murder.

It’s the kind of tonal schizophrenia that would be a challenge for an experienced director to pull off, but first-timer Kendrick manages to make her film both weirdly entertaining and thoroughly disturbing.

The premise itself is completely bizarre, not least because it’s true. In 1978, serial killer Rodney Alcala was a contestant on “The Dating Game,...

On the day of the 2019 Chicago mayoral election, candidate Neal Sáles-Griffin went to a polling place first thing in the morning to cast a vote for himself, a celebratory moment he’d worked towards for months. Instead, the digital machine immediately failed. He had to wait as the harried volunteers rebooted it, called tech support, and assured him that any minute now, surely, he’d be able to successfully vote.

As portrayed in NatGeo’s new docuseries “City So Real,” from lauded “Hoop Dreams” documentarian Steve James, this is a small moment in the grand scheme of things. The series is comprised of just five episodes, but follows the entire Chicago mayoral election from the early days following Rahm Emanuel’s resignation, through the protests over a police officer shooting and killing 17 year-old Laquan McDonald, to Lori Lightfoot’s victory, and to the Black Lives Matter protests and coronavirus pandemic unfolding in the present.

The Grammy Awards, now in their 62nd year, once again take place at L.A.’s Staples Center. For the 2020 ceremony, 15-time winner Alicia Keys returns as host for a second consecutive year. Performers include Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, Ariana Grande, Jonas Brothers, MusiCares Person of the Year Aerosmith, Camila Cabello, Bts, H.E.R., Brandi Carlile, Gary Clark Jr. and more.

Here’s a rundown of all the Grammy winners. Rolling Stone will be updating this list as awards come in.

Rap Album: Igor, Tyler, The Creator

Comedy Album: Sticks & Stones,...

For Sama, Waad al-Kateab’s striking documentary about the start of the protests against the Assad regime in Syria, won the Best Feature prize at the International Documentary Association’s Ida Awards.

Al-Kateab shot hundreds of hours of footage over a course of the five-year siege that offered an unflinching view of life in war; the twentysomething economics student married one of the last doctors in her hometown of Aleppo, and they had a daughter, Sama, as the city crumbled around her.

Other winners Saturday at a ceremony on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles included HBO’s Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland, which won for Best Multipart Documentary, and Homecoming, Beyoncé’s Coachella concert film for Netflix.

Netflix won a leading three awards, including Best Director for American Factory co-directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert and Abstract: The Art of Design as Best Episodic Series.

Here’s the full...

Filmmakers Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ “For Sama” (PBS) took top honors at the 35th Annual Ida Documentary Awards at the Paramount Theatre Saturday night. The harrowing and intimate portrait of a young couple who continued to live in Aleppo with their new baby while under intense fire from government troops took home Best Feature. “It’s a dark time in the world,” said British filmmaker Watts, who helped Al-Kateab shape her extraordinary footage into a film. “When I think about documentaries right now I feel hope that things are going to get better.”

A show of enthusiastic Ida support came early in the evening with a rousing standing ovation when Al-Kateab accepted the coveted Courage Under Fire award, given to someone who demonstrates extraordinary courage in pursuit of the truth. The Channel 4 film has already notched documentary wins from the European Film Awards, the British Independent Film Awards,...

Filmmakers Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ “For Sama” (PBS) took top honors at the 35th Annual IDA Documentary Awards at the Paramount Theatre Saturday night. The harrowing and intimate portrait of a young couple who continued to live in Aleppo with their new baby while under intense fire from government troops took home Best Feature. a

Al-Kateab also accepted the coveted Courage Under Fire award, given to someone who demonstrates extraordinary courage in pursuit of the truth. The Channel 4 film has already notched documentary wins from the European Film Awards, the British Independent Film Awards, and Cannes, as well as a PGA nomination.

Another Syrian film, “The Cave” (NatGeo) took home Best Writing for Alisar Hasan and Feras Fayyad. Dan Reed’s searing Michael Jackson exposé “Leaving Neverland” scored Best Multi-Part Documentary; HBO did not submit the Sundance premiere for the Oscars.

Other winners include Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert,...

Syrian Civil War diary “For Sama” has won the best feature award from the International Documentary Association for Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts.

The award was presented by Frances Fisher on Saturday night at the 35th Annual Ida Documentary Awards at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.

The first-time award for Best Director went to Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert for “American

Factory,” which explores a Chinese company taking over a shuttered General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio. The film was acquired by Netflix in association with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions following its premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

“Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé,” directed by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Ed Burke, won the Best Music Documentary. The film centers on Beyoncé’s performance at the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Beyoncé also wrote and executive produced the film, which premiered on Netflix on April 17.

HBO’s “Leaving Neverland,...

“For Sama,” Waad al-Kateab’s wrenching story of raising a young daughter in war-torn Syria, has been named the best nonfiction film of 2019 at the International Documentary Association’s 35th annual Ida Documentary Awards, which were handed out on Saturday night on the Paramount Pictures lot in Los Angeles.

Al-Kateab, who directed “For Sama” with Edward Watts, also received the Ida Awards Courage Under Fire Award at the ceremony. Last week, the film also won the top award at the British Independent Film Awards, a rarity for a documentary.

Steven Bognar and Julie Reichert received the Best Director Award, the first time the Ida has handed out that particular prize, for their look at the culture clash when a Chinese company took over an American auto glass factory in Ohio in “American Factory.”

Also Read: 'For Sama' Film Review: Syrian Documentary Finds Wrenching Personal Take on Conflict

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Scores for movies including Alan Silvestri’s Avengers: Endgame, Hans Zimmer’s The Lion King and Marc Shaiman’s Mary Poppins Returns and Emmy-winning TV series Game of Thrones (Ramin Djawadi) and Chernobyl (Hildur Guðnadóttir) were nominated in the Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media category Wednesday when nominations were unveiled for the 62nd annual Grammy Awards.

The Lion King also scored noms for its soundtrack that featured Beyoncé, whose haul also included the song “Spirit” from the Disney adaptation of the animated classic. She also landed a nom for Netflix’s Coachella documentary Homecoming in the Best Music Film category, a list that includes bio-docs on Miles Davis (Birth of the Cool), Rick Rubin (Shangri-La) and David Crosby (Remember My Name).

Joining Beyoncé best song list for a visual media is Randy Newman’s “The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy” from Toy Story 4, Dolly Parton’s “Girl in...

The making of The Lion King: The Gift, an album that saluted the Disney classic, will be unveiled Monday in an hour-long documentary exploring the behind-the-scenes work on the music.

The special will air at 10 Pm Et/Pt on ABC and offers candid footage and interviews. The album came out July 19 in conjunction with Walt Disney Pictures live-action remake of the animated classic. Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records teamed up on the album, which brought together some of the most important African artists of the day with well-known American talent to reinterpret the story and themes of the film with authentic sounds of Africa.

Beyoncé Presents: Making The Gift was written, directed and produced by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, with co-director and collaborator Ed Burke. Executive producers are Steve Pamon and Erinn Williams.

Parkwood Entertainment is a film and production company, record label and management firm founded by Beyoncé in 2010. ...

ABC has announced a new behind-the-scenes look into the making of Beyoncé’s “The Lion King: The Gift” LP, which is set to air September 16 on ABC at 10 p.m. Est.

Titled “Beyoncé Presents: Making the Gift,” the new hour-long special will allow viewers to “experience the process” behind the “Lion King” companion album, according to a new teaser released by ABC.

The teaser also depicts a number of clips from the recording studio intermixed with choreography shots and scenes from the Disney film itself. Another teaser from the special will air early Monday morning on Good Morning America.

ABeyC activated. @Beyonce Presents: #MakingTheGift. Tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/suKar1CcQ4

— ABeyC (@ABCNetwork) September 15, 2019

“The Lion King: The Gift” comes from Parkwood Entertainment/Colombia Records and was released on July 19 alongside Disney’s remake of the classic animated film (read Variety‘s review here). Beyoncé, who also stars as Nala in the film,...

Netflix has released Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé, which presents an intimate look at her historic 2018 Coachella performance that paid homage to America’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Interspersed with candid footage and interviews detailing the preparation and powerful intent behind her vision, Homecoming gives a peek into the process and emotional physical sacrifices it took to conceptualize and execute a performance of that magnitude that became a cultural movement. This stand-alone Netflix original is now available globally on Netflix.

As the first black woman to headline Coachella, Homecoming recognizes the African American visionaries who inspired Beyoncé, including Hbcu alums Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, activist Marian Wright Edelman, and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, in addition to cultural luminaries such as Nina Simone, Maya Angelou, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Audre Lorde. Beyoncé’s personal knowledge of the relevance and celebration of HBCUs started with her father, Mathew Knowles, an alumnus of Fisk University.

Last April, Beyoncé marched onto a stage in the Coachella Valley and led more than 100 singers, dancers, and steppers through the greatest performance in the modern history of music festivals. Beychella — as it was destined to be known — was live-streamed by 458,000 people, watched by 43 million more on YouTube over the months that followed, and almost immediately dubbed as the definitive pop culture event of the year. This April, Beyoncé managed to fit the whole spectacle into a euphoric, triumphant, and exhaustingly fierce documentary that should help see Beychella enshrined as one of the definitive pop culture events of the century. Call it history in the making, part two.

Even at a time when everything Beyoncé does feels like history in the making, Beychella stands out as a uniquely special event — it remains an epoch unto itself. Of course, most people on this planet don’t need to be told as much.

Grammy Award-winning singer Beyonce Knowles says she pushed herself hard to "go beyond great to legendary" to make Homecoming: Afilm By Beyonce. Netflix released Homecoming: Afilm By Beyonce, which presents an intimate look at her historic 2018 Coachella performance that paid homage to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Us, read a statement.?

Interspersed with candid footage and interviews detailing the preparation and the intent behind her vision, Homecoming: Afilm By Beyonce gives a peek into the process and emotional physical sacrifices it took to conceptualise and execute a performance of that magnitude that became a cultural movement. The film is now available globally on Netflix.

In juggling dual roles as both the director of her live performance and the film that captured the process of making it, Beyonce said: "It was one of the hardest jobs I have taken on but I knew that I had to push...

Putting another year of craziness in the history books, the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards took over the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday night (August 30).

The star-studded shindig was hosted by Miley Cyrus and featured celebrity artists like Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Macklemore, Justin Bieber, Pharrell Williams and Twenty One Pilots.

And by the end of the evening, a plethora of MoonMan trophies were handed out to the biggest and brightest stars in the industry. The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards winners are:

Video of the Year

Taylor Swift, “Bad Blood”

Best Male Video

Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, “Uptown Funk”

Best Female Video

Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”

Artist To Watch

Fetty Wap, “Trap Queen”

Best Direction

Kendrick Lamar – “Alright” (Colin Tilley & The Little Homies)

Best Choreography

Ok Go – “I Won’t Let You Down” (Ok Go, air:man and Mori Harano)

Best Visual Effects

Skrillex & Diplo “Where Are U Now” with Justin Bieber (Brewer,...

Putting another year of craziness in the history books, the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards took over the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday night (August 30).

The star-studded shindig was hosted by Miley Cyrus and featured celebrity artists like Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Macklemore, Justin Bieber, Pharrell Williams and Twenty One Pilots.

And by the end of the evening, a plethora of MoonMan trophies were handed out to the biggest and brightest stars in the industry. The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards winners are:

Video of the Year

Taylor Swift, “Bad Blood”

Best Male Video

Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, “Uptown Funk”

Best Female Video

Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”

Artist To Watch

Fetty Wap, “Trap Queen”

Best Direction

Kendrick Lamar – “Alright” (Colin Tilley & The Little Homies)

Best Choreography

Ok Go – “I Won’t Let You Down” (Ok Go, air:man and Mori Harano)

Best Visual Effects

Skrillex & Diplo “Where Are U Now” with Justin Bieber (Brewer,...

The 2015 Video Music Awards were handed out Sunday, August 30, 2015 in downtown Los Angeles. The complete list of nominees and winners are as follows: Video Of The Year Beyoncé – “7/11” Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud” Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Bad Blood” - Winner Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk” Kendrick Lamar – “Alright” Best Male Video Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud” Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk” - Winner Kendrick Lamar – “Alright” The Weeknd – “Earned It” Nick Jonas – “Chains” Best Female Video Beyoncé – “7/11” Taylor Swift – “Blank Space” - Winner Nicki Minaj – “Anaconda” Sia – “Elastic Heart” Ellie Goulding – “Love Me Like You Do” Best Hip Hop Video Fetty Wap – “Trap Queen” Nicki Minaj – “Anaconda” - Winner Kendrick Lamar – “Alright” Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth – “See You Again” Big Sean ft. E-40 – “Idfwu” Best Pop Video Beyoncé – “7/11” Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud” Taylor Swift – “Blank Space” - Winner Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars...

With Nicki Minaj blasting Miley Cyrus, Cyrus' surprise new album, Kanye West's poignant Video Vanguard Award speech and the return of (a high-flying) Justin Bieber dominating the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, it's easy to forget that the show actually hands out awards throughout the night. Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Beyoncé led all nominees going into the evening, but who walked away with the coveted Moonman statue? Here's the full rundown of the evening's winners.

Best Rock Video: Fall Out Boy, "Uma Thurman"

Best Pop Video: Taylor Swift, "Blank...

Taylor Swift, Beyonce and Ed Sheeran lead the pack of 2015 MTV Video Music Awards nominations, with 10, six and five nods each, respectively. The former's summer hit "Bad Blood" (featuring another top nominee, Kendrick Lamar) and stylish vid "Blank Space -- both off of her best-selling 2014 album "1989" -- racked up noms in categories from Video Of The Year to Best Collaboration to professional category honors. Other nominees in the top Video Of The Year spot including Beyonce, Sheeran, Lamar and Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars. The VMAs take place on Aug. 30, with host Miley Cyrus. Check out the full list of 2015 MTV VMAs nominations below. Video Of The Year Beyoncé – “7/11” Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud” Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Bad Blood” Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk” Kendrick Lamar – “Alright” Best Male Video Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud” Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk” Kendrick Lamar – “Alright” The...

Fewer than 24 hours after Miley Cyrus revealed herself to be the host of this year’s show (Aug. 30, 9/8c), MTV has rolled out the full list of 2015 MTV Video Music Award nominees — and you’ll never guess who’s leading the pack.

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Just kidding, you’d totally guess: It’s Taylor Swift, whose nine nominations are split between her “Bad Blood” and “Blank Space” videos. Ed Sheeran‘s the second most decorated nominee with six nods for “Thinking Out Loud” and “Don’t.” And then there’s Beyoncé; her five nominations, all for “7/11,” put her in third.

The nominees for the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards were announced Tuesday, and the slate features lots of familiar faces as well as new sensations.

Superstar Taylor Swift led the pack with a whopping nine nominations, thanks to her "1989" singles "Blank Space" and "Bad Blood." English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran scored the second-most nods, with six.

Miley Cyrus is hosting this year's festivities, which means Vma fans are in for a wild night. (As if there was any other choice for the reliably-crazy annual awards show.)

The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards are scheduled for Sunday, August 30 at 9 p.m. Check out the full list of nominees -- including the mainstream awards as well as technical categories -- below.

Video Of The Year

Beyoncé - "7/11″

Ed Sheeran - "Thinking Out Loud"

Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar - "Bad Blood"

Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - "Uptown Funk"

Kendrick Lamar - "Alright"

Best Male...

Carrying on a longstanding and proud tradition, the Black Entertainment Television Network held its 2015 Bet Awards on Sunday (June 28) in Los Angeles.

The Microsoft Theater was overflowing with talented stars as artists like Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne and Beyoncé all competed in multiple categories.

Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson handled the hosting duties, and before the final curtain Smokey Robinson received the Lifetime Achievement Award, while Janet Jackson scored the first-ever Ultimate Icon Music Dance Visual Award.

And the 2015 Bet Awards winners are:

Best Female R&B/Pop Artist

Beyonce

Best Male R&B/Pop Artist

Chris Brown

Best Group

Rae Sremmurd

Best Collaboration

Common and John Legend, “Glory”

Best Female Hip Hop Artist

Nicki Minaj

Best Male Hip Hop Artist

Kendrick Lamar

Video of the Year

Beyoncé, “7/11″

Video Director of the Year

Beyoncé, Ed Burke, and Todd Tourso

Best New Artist

Sam Smith

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By now, we all know that Beyoncé woke up flawless. And, apparently, that lyric isn’t an exaggeration.

Bey’s on the latest cover of Out magazine, and Out magazine really wants us to know that Beyoncé is great. Flawless, even! Although the cover story’s author wasn’t able to snag an in-person interview with the Queen, he did get to talk to her team — all of whom had nothing but glowing things to say about their boss. No, really: The overarching theme of the profile is “Beyoncé is perfect.” (Given the subject matter, maybe this shouldn’t be a surprise.

She never does anything halfway, and Beyoncé Knowles ended up making 17 music videos to go along with her newly-released self-titled album.

The “Single Ladies” singer enlisted directors like Terry Richardson, Todd Tourso, Jake Nava, and Hype Williams to help bring her amazing new songs into a visual realm.

And for one of the tracks, “Blue,” Knowles and directors Ed Burke and Bill Kirstein even included some footage of Beyonce carrying her adorable daughter Blue Ivy on her hip in Rio de Janeiro.

Of her “visual album” concept, Knowles explained, "I see music. It's more than just what I hear. When I'm connected to something, I immediately see a visual or a series of images that are tied to a feeling or an emotion, a memory from my childhood, thoughts about life, my dreams or my fantasies. And they're all connected to the music."

"I didn't want to release my music the way I've done it.

She never does anything halfway, and Beyoncé Knowles ended up making 17 music videos to go along with her newly-released self-titled album.

The “Single Ladies” singer enlisted directors like Terry Richardson, Todd Tourso, Jake Nava, and Hype Williams to help bring her amazing new songs into a visual realm.

And for one of the tracks, “Blue,” Knowles and directors Ed Burke and Bill Kirstein even included some footage of Beyonce carrying her adorable daughter Blue Ivy on her hip in Rio de Janeiro.

Of her “visual album” concept, Knowles explained, "I see music. It's more than just what I hear. When I'm connected to something, I immediately see a visual or a series of images that are tied to a feeling or an emotion, a memory from my childhood, thoughts about life, my dreams or my fantasies. And they're all connected to the music."

"I didn't want to release my music the way I've done it.

“I’m trying to really live in the moment," Beyoncé told Oprah last night in their Q&A introduction to Life Is But a Dream, the singer's HBO documentary airing Saturday at 8 p.m. "This is huge for me.” Though Beyoncé herself didn't stop for print interviews on the red carpet, her co-director Ed Burke — who has worked with Beyoncé for eight years and directed her Beyoncé’s I Am... World Tour documentary — happily obliged. Here's what we learned from him. Beyoncé is "so hands-on." (Surprise!) "She was in the edit room fourteen to sixteen hours a day looking at all the footage. She goes through every piece of footage, which is nuts to me, but she spends the time and does it ... she keeps a personal [video] diary on her computer. I think that’s kind of therapy for her and not for the public eye — but she gave...

New York -- Beyonce is hoping that her ultra-revealing documentary will someday provide inspiration for Blue Ivy, the year-old daughter she and husband Jay-z have.

"I hope that she will see all of the beautiful times (and) all the tough times that led up to her being here," the singer said Tuesday night at the New York premiere of her upcoming HBO documentary, "Life is But a Dream."

She added: "I'm hoping that ... it can comfort her and inspire her in her life when she needs it."

The autobiographical film takes a no-holds-barred look at the entertainer. It stems from personal conversations the 31-year old singer made using the video camera on her computer over the past couple of years. It also includes home movies of the Grammy-winning singer and her two sisters.

In the film, Beyonce candidly discusses personal matters like her miscarriage, reports of faking her pregnancy, and...

Multiple witnesses tell TMZ ... NBA star Jason Kidd appeared to be so drunk in the moments leading up to his Dwi arrest ... that he had to be carried out of the club he spent the night partying at. TMZ has obtained a photo of the all-star point guard being carried out of a club called Sl East. Multiple witness tell TMZ that Kidd appeared "incredibly drunk" -- so much so that at one point he...

Reuters ‘Once’ with Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti.

In a diverse theater season with no clear frontrunner, the Tony Award nominations announced Tuesday morning swept across the board, with nods to major star vehicles like “Death of a Salesman,” offbeat newcomers including the new musical “Once,” work by Broadway veterans such as “Nice Work If You Can Get It” and classic revivals with “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.”

As expected, “Death of a Salesman” scored big. The play with a...

Beyoncé - I Am...Yours "You had me at hello," sings Beyoncé Knowles as the soul-pop diva embraces scores of outreached hands while working her way to the stage through a crowd of 1500 at the Wynn Hotel's Encore Theater in Las Vegas. Thus begins her new two-hour plus concert CD/DVD I Am...Yours taped in August that is meant to be an intimate, elegant framing of the singer, although that intimacy will seem super-sized when the program is broadcast on ABC-tv this Thanksgiving. This "concert" is a staged, stripped-down reconfiguration by Beyoncé and co-director Nick Wickham (filmed by Ed Burke) of her current touring extravaganza that covers her biggest hits (like "Halo," "Sweet Dreams," and "If I Were A Boy"), and even shoehorns-in a Destiny's Child tribute as she whisks us through her career highlights in two tidy acts plus an "intermission"...