...AP) -- Billy Bob Thornton said he and Halle Berry got through their intense, explicit love scene in the movie "Monster's Ball" because they both have stable personal lives off-camera. Thornton plays a death row prison guard who falls in...

...as the only black actors to win Oscars for lead roles. Berry won Sunday for her part as a death-row widow in "Monster's Ball," and Washington won for "Training Day," in which he dropped his nice-guy persona to play a flamboyantly corrupt...

...best-actress nominee as an executed killer's widow for "Monster's Ball," it was the first time three black actors competed...and "Bandits" and who also received praise for "Monster's Ball," got no nominations. Last year's top-grossing...

...actress as the widow of an executed death row inmate who becomes involved with one of her husband's guards in "Monster's Ball." Crowe won the lead-actor Oscar last year for "Gladiator." If he wins for "A Beautiful Mind," Crowe would...

...first Academy nomination for her portrayal of a widow who falls in love with her husband's prison executioner in "Monster's Ball." The Cleveland native got her start in a recurring role on the nighttime soap "Knots Landing," and had solid...

...had been hurt by debris from a smoke grenade. Berry, who won a best-actress Oscar last month for her role in "Monster's Ball," plays a sultry Bond girl in the 20th Bond film, "Die Another Day." Damon going on stage LONDON (AP...

...Entertainment. 6. "I Am Sam," New Line Home Video. 7. "Kate & Leopold," Miramax Home Entertainment. 8. "Monster's Ball," Lions Gate Home Entertainment. 9. "Vanilla Sky," Paramount Home Entertainment. 10. "Ocean's Eleven...