Alexander Payne

The Munich Film Festival is all set to pay tribute to filmmaker Alexander Payne with a complete retrospective of his movies.

After dominating the Oscars over the years with films like Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours and Black Swan, Fox Star Studios is all set to open 2012 with yet another highly anticipated film as a treat for Indian movie lovers — Alexander Payne and George Clooney’s Oscar front runner The Descendants.

DJ Caruso, director of Deepika Padukone's debut Hollywood film 'xXx: Return of Xander Cage,' says the film 'Piku' which had the actress in a lead role, broke his misconceptions about Bollywood being 'escapist'.

'Wild' star Reese Witherspoon is reteaming with her 'Election' director Alexander Payne for the Matt Damon-starrer 'Downsizing'.

Director Edgar Wright and actress Rebecca Hall will be on the jury panel of this year's Venice film festival.

Aishwarya Rai and US director Alexander Payne officially kicked off this year's Cannes film festival today before a theatre packed with celebrities and the great and good of world cinema.

Veteran character actor Pepe Serna has joined Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig and others in director Alexander Payne's satire 'Downsizing'.

From Ewan McGregor to Jean Paul Gaultier, the line-up of the jury that will call the shots at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival is an eclectic and prestigious one.

Searchlight Pictures' dark comedy 'The Menu' has added actor Hong Chau to the cast. Chau, best known for featuring in Alexander Payne's 'Downsizing' joins Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes in the cast.

Leena Yadav's upcoming film 'Parched' which is set in an Indian village, deals with female sexuality thriving in a repressed world of gender inequities and patriarchy.

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ leads this year’s Academy Awards with 11 nominations, including best film and director. Meryl Streep and George Clooney are nominated for the best acting prizes. The winners will be named on Feb 26.

Veteran actor Rance Howard, who was also the father of director Ron Howard, passed away. He was 89. The news of his death was shared by Ron on Twitter today. "Clint and I have been blessed to be Rance Howard's sons. Today he passed at 89," he tweeted.

The Descendants is an emotional roller coaster ride that you must take to value what you possess - your family.

Neil Patrick Harris, Alec Baldwin and Jason Sudeikis are reported to have joined Alexander Payne's 'Downsizing'.

The Kerala State Chalachitra Academy is organizing a festival of Oscar award winning films of 2011 from March 23 to 29 at the Sree Padmanabha Theatre here.

Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel... Director: Dennis Dugan Producer: Michael Bostick

Last year, the major winners at the annual Critics Choice Movie Awards went on to take home the Oscar as well

Kalki was seen attending a private screening of George Clooney starrer and Oscar front runner The Descendants in Mumbai.

Martin Scorsese, Alexander Payne, George Lucas and George Harrison have joined hands with Amitabh Bachchan and National Awardwinning director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur for a cause.

Oscar winning Alexander Payne’s upcoming film by Fox Star Studios’, “The Descendants” stars George Clooney in one of his most acclaimed roles so far.