Bradley Cooper could make it third time lucky at the Oscars this month, after being nominated a rare three consecutive times for Hollywood's highest awards.
The 40-year-old is shortlisted for best actor for his role in the controversial blockbuster "American Sniper" as former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, one of America's most famous warriors in the second Iraq war.

Iggy Azalea is nominated for four Grammy Awards, and the rapper wouldn't care if she won one for best accent or best hair color.
"I don't care if I get a Grammy for best album artwork. A Grammy is a Grammy, baby," she said in an interview Thursday. "Nobody says, 'Uh, what's your Grammy for? ... No, this Grammy doesn't count.' Any Grammy is equally as good. I'll take any Grammy for anything. Any Grammy you've got, send them my way. I will not complain."

A Lady Gaga's first producer and former boyfriend owes the Hollywood songwriter who discovered her $7.3 million after he promised to split profits with her, a federal judge has ruled, upholding a jury's verdict.
U.S. District court Judge Jose Linares ruled Wednesday against producer Rob Fusari's argument to reduce the amount the jury awarded last year to Wendy Starland.

Olympic champion turned reality TV star Bruce Jenner has Americans' rapt attention once again amid talk that he is soon to come out as transgender.
People magazine, a trusted conduit for Hollywood publicists, reported this week that Jenner, 65, would open up in a forthcoming interview with ABC News.

British former glam rocker Gary Glitter could spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty at a London court on Thursday of historic sex abuse against three young girls.
Glitter, 70, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was convicted of one count of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13 between 1977 and 1980.

Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp has married actress Amber Heard in secret at their home in Los Angeles, U.S. media said Wednesday, ahead of a larger bash at the weekend.
Depp, 51, and Heard, 28, got engaged in 2012 and plan a bigger wedding this weekend on Depp's private island in the Bahamas, People magazine reported, citing a source.

An attorney said Wednesday that it was his client who found Bobbi Kristina Brown face-down in a bathtub last week and called 911, not Brown's partner.
Maxwell Lomas, 24, of Duluth, Georgia — not Nick Gordon — found Brown on Jan. 31 at a townhome in suburban Atlanta, said attorney Philip Holloway. Lomas and the 25-year-old Gordon were both listed in the police report as being at the home when investigators arrived.

The 65th Berlin film festival opens on Thursday with Oscar winner Juliette Binoche starring as an early 20th-century Arctic explorer in Spanish director Isabel Coixet's period drama "Nobody Wants the Night".
Set in the forbidding reaches of Greenland's frozen tundra, the film is based on the true story of Josephine Peary, the headstrong wife of Robert Peary, an American adventurer who led several drives to reach the North Pole.

The erotic bestselling novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" was devoured across the world by millions, from British housewives to Guantanamo Bay inmates.
Now manufacturers and retailers are hoping that its Valentine's Day movie release will fuel a boom in sex toy and bondage accessory sales.

Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp has married actress Amber Heard in secret at their home in Los Angeles, U.S. media said Wednesday, ahead of a larger bash at the weekend.
Depp, 51, and Heard, 28, got engaged in 2012 and plan a bigger wedding this weekend on Depp's private island in the Bahamas, People magazine reported, citing a source.
