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Despite ‘Selma’ Snubs, Common And John Legend Find Oscar ‘Glory’

Though Selma didn’t win Best Picture–and though itskey players were denied merenominations for their respective categories–Common and John Legend still found a way to achieve Oscar acclaim for the film.

The duo took home the golden statuefor Best Original Song for “Glory” after performing itin front of the crowd at the 87th Academy Awards. And, at a ceremony lampooned (even by its own host, Neil Patrick Harris) for failing to embrace non-white actors andfilmmakers in its nominations, theyputSe...

Reese Witherspoon: Oscar Money Watch

Reese Witherspoon has graced the FORBES Celebrity 100 a number of times–and may again thanks to her nomination forBest Actress in a LeadingRole atthe 87th Academy Awards. Here’s a rundown on the data FORBES has collected on her in recent years.

Name:Reese Witherspoon

Age:38

Residence:Los Angeles, CA

Recent earnings:$32 million (2010)

Notable nominations:Best Actress(Wild)

Summary:After getting her start as a late 1990s starlet in films likeCruel Intentions, ElectionandPleasantville, Witherspoon won...

Steve Carell: Oscar Money Watch

Steve Carellis up for hisfirst Oscar at the 87th Annual Academy Awards, and may well bring home a golden statue for his role inFoxcatcher. Either way, expect the attention to boost his paychecks for future roles–here’s a rundown on the data FORBES has collected on him recently.

Name:

Steve Carell

Age:

52

Residence:

Los Angeles, CA

Recent earnings:

$15 million (2011)

Notable nominations:

Best Actor(Foxcatcher)

Summary:

Carell’s last appearance on our Celebrity 100 list came in 2011, the last year we inclu...

Keira Knightley: Oscar Money Watch 2015

Keira Knightley has earned plenty in her career–but a golden statue hasn’t yet been part of her haul. That may change soon, as she’s up for Best Actress in a Supporting Role atthe 87th Academy Awards. Here’s a rundown on the data FORBES has collected on her in recent years.

Name:

Keira Knightley

Age:

29

Residence:

London, U.K.

Recent earnings:

$32 million (2008)

Notable nominations:

Best SupportingActress(The Imitation Game)

Summary:

Since her debut in Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Knightley has been a fo...

Bradley Cooper: Oscar Money Watch 2015

Bradley Cooper hasn’t yet won an Oscar, but he’s one of the many nominees for the 87th Academy Awards who has enjoyed substantial success on the financial side of his career. Here’s a rundown on the data FORBES has collected on him in recent years.

Name:

Bradley Cooper

Age:

40

Residence:

Los Angeles, CA

Recent earnings:

$46 million (2014)

Notable nominations:

Best Actor (American Sniper)

Summary:

By balancing roles large and small–quite literally–Cooper landed on our Celebrity 100 list for the first time...

Bradley Cooper: Oscar Money Watch

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Bradley Cooper hasn’t yet won an Oscar, but he’s one of the many nominees for the 87th Academy Awards who has enjoyed substantial success on the financial side of his career. Here’s a rundown on the data FORBES has collected on him in recent years.

Name:

Bradley Cooper

Age:

40

Residence:

Los Angeles, CA

Recent earnings:

$46 million (2014)

Notable nominations:

Best Actor (American Sniper)

Summary:

By balancing roles...

Oscar Nominees 2015: Full List And Projected Winners

The 87th Academy Awards ceremony starts this Sunday at 8:30pm Eastern Standard Time, and though the golden envelopes haven’t yet been opened, prognosticators are already hard at work predicting the winners.

There’s a vast gambling market surrounding the festivities, perhaps because many of the categories can often be predicted with a reasonable–but far from perfect–degree of accuracy. Film data analyst Stephen Follows posits that it’s possible to pick winners with a success rate of 77% for Bes...

Inside Chris Martin’s Plan To Save The World In 15 Years

Chris Martin’s first phone call with Richard Curtis didn’t go very well. “Hello, this is Chris Martin from Coldplay,” the filmmaker recalls the singer saying. “I hear you’re doing a movie—you can’t use any of my songs.”

What a difference a few years makes. Last week at a posh lower Manhattan eatery, the pair joined Global Citizen co-founder Hugh Evans and U.N. special advisor Amina Mohammed to announce an ambitious plan: organizing a charity mega-concert in a different city each year through 2...

SNL 40 And The Live Future Of Saturday Night Live

SNL 40has come to its conclusion–at long last–and while the marathon celebration reminded millions of howSaturday Night Livehas changed over the pastfour decades, it also revealedquite a lot about what has changed about the media landscape during thesame period.

But perhaps what’s clearest is that, althoughSNLis still a live show, it’s not viewedin real-time in the way that it once was–and that its audience is moving more and more toward time-shifted consumption patterns.

Last quarter,tradition...

Brian Williams, Jon Stewart And The Line Between Real And Fake News

Usually it’s not a good sign when the newscaster is the news–and Brian Williams is a prime example.

The embattled NBC anchor, suspended six months without payon Tuesdayfor purveying a growing list of inaccuracies, has become the subject of the sort of national news headlines he previously commented on. As such, he appears tohave lost the national trust so crucial to his position–and, perhaps, the position itself–for good.

There’s been another sort of conversation brewing around another prominen...