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'Whiskey Cavalier' serves up spy games as Oscars chaser

ABC and NBC each play spy games, reasonably well, with two new series: "Whiskey Cavalier" -- a fun drama with an awful name, which the network will try to boost with a post-Oscars preview -- and "The Enemy Within," essentially NBC's latest attempt to do another version of "The Blacklist," only with a female twist.

Wolfgang Puck: The OG celebrity chef

Just in time for his 25th Governors Ball, the glitzy Academy Awards after-party on February 24, CNN Travel caught up with Wolfgang Puck to look back at his illustrious career and his ever-expanding empire, at his steak house CUT by Wolfgang Puck (his only New York City restaurant), at the lux

Why Netflix and Hollywood spend millions to win Oscars

Academy Award winners will likely thank their entourage, their family and God on Sunday for receiving Hollywood's highest honor, but they might owe their biggest debt to the studios that footed the bill for their pricey Oscars campaigns.

Oscars past might offer hope to host-free awards

Can the 91st Academy Awards be saved? Yes -- at least, grading on the curve that is the Oscar telecast, the mess that the Academy has made of things leading up to this year's show, and the low bar set by the last host-less Academy Awards in 1989.

Michael B. Jordan makes us all look lazy

It's late November and Michael B. Jordan is preparing to head overseas. He leaves on Thanksgiving for an international leg of press for his film "Creed II." His travels were going to take him to places like London and Africa. Then his schedule had him diving into award season here in the states. March, he said, would bring a breather.

Queen to perform at the Oscars

Less than one week until the Oscars, The Academy is still beefing up its list of performers, and its latest addition, they hope, will rock you.

'Roma' has 10 Oscar nominations, $0 at box-office

"Roma," Alfonso Cuarón's affectionate look at the Mexico City of his childhood, has 10 Academy Award nominations. It's been in theaters for three months. Most Hollywood observers consider it the favorite to win the best picture Oscar on Sunday.