Penélope Cruz

The 71st annual Cannes Film Festival kicked off with Oscar-winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Everybody Knows,’ starring real-life couple Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem.

If it wasn’t for the Oscar presenters, who else would open the golden envelope and entertain us with witty, usually awkward, banter?

Penelope Cruz has won awards for performances in three different languages—but that doesn't mean she's entirely comfortable in English. Talking with Halle Berry for Oprah's Oscar Special, Cruz revealed she still has some trouble with the title of one of Berry's most famous movies. ABC

U.S. critics think he’s a genius, but even his fellow Spaniards say he’s a fraud. Constantino Diaz-Duran on how the Golden Globe-nominated filmmaker dupes his fawning American fan base.

From Colin Firth's devastating drama A Single Man to Penelope Cruz's love affair in Broken Embraces, VIEW TRAILERS and read reviews of 20 films to see—or skip—near you.

Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, the dark art of Tim Burton at MoMA, Penelope Cruz dazzles in the new Almodóvar movie, and Will Smith and Jay-Z come to Broadway.