Full coverage: ‘La La Land’

The year’s most-nominated film is notable equally for its singing and dancing … and for turning a sprawling metro area into a candy-colored musical fantasy.

If, as expected, “La La Land� wins the Oscar on Sunday, it would be the first best-picture winner since Clint Eastwood’s “Million Dollar Baby� to feature a woman nominated for lead actress.

“La La Land� shined brightly at the 70th BAFTA Awards, winning in five categories at the biggest film awards show outside the U.S. a couple of weeks before the Academy Awards.

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling first worked together auditioning for the 2011 romantic-comedy “Crazy, Stupid, Love.�

The first scene of a movie is often its defining moment: In subtle and large ways it lets the audience know where they are, where they’re going — and often, what to expect along the way.

To the editor: The piece by Glenn Lovell, a teacher of film studies, includes the following analysis: First, “La La Land� is “institutionalized nostalgia� and leads in the Oscars’ Best Picture category because it appeals to Hollywood’s narcissism; second, because of recent events triggered by President Trump, the inconsequential nature of “La La Land� will spell its undoing in the vote for Best Picture; third, “Manchester by the Sea� won’t win because it is “lily white�; and finally, Meryl Streep’s Golden Globe attack on Trump got her nominated for Best Actress and helped assure that “this year’s final Oscar vote will be a referendum of sorts on Trump.�

“La La Land,� Damien Chazelle’s musical love letter to Los Angeles, is the clear favorite in this year’s Oscar race after earning 14 nominations, including nods for best picture, director, actor and actress.

Will issue-oriented movies trump eye candy at this year’s Oscars as Hollywood seeks to send a message that it won’t stand for fear-driven legislation meant to rob minorities of their rights?

There’s a scene in the often-captivating new musical “La La Land� that sums up, in miniature, what writer-director Damien Chazelle is trying to pull off.

Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land� was a passion project that was years in the making.

Hollywood’s most powerful gathered Saturday night at the Producers Guild Awards, with one eye trained on Oscar gold and the other firmly on the actions of the country’s new president.

“La La Land� passed its first audition Tuesday — and then some, earning a record-tying 14 Oscar nominations.

When executives at Lionsgate first entertained the idea of making a film about star-crossed lovers who sing and dance their way across Los Angeles, they had good reasons to hesitate.

The leading man in Damien Chazelle’s acclaimed movie “La La Land� is a Serious Musician, churning out pop music covers at Hollywood parties to pay the rent.

Ever since festival-goers got their first look at Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land� at the Venice Film Festival back in August, they’ve been enraptured by its magic-hour spell.

Writer-director Damien Chazelle’s new film “La La Land� is an unabashed love letter to the movie musical.

The Envelope brought together an accomplished group of lead actresses last week from some of the year’s most acclaimed films.

“I’m sorry, I was stuck in traffic,� director Damien Chazelle said, apologizing for arriving late to a discussion of his new film, “La La Land.�

From the beaches of Miami to the L.A. freeways, this year’s cinematography contenders find magic in the mundane.

The performers on this year’s lead actor roundtable all shared a deep commitment to their roles, their directors and a sense of adventure in pursuing their work.

As young artists on the hunt for love in “La La Land,� Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone romance their way through the Hermosa Beach pier, the SmokeHouse restaurant in Burbank and the Griffith Observatory at twilight.

“La La Land,� a musical about two beautiful young people falling for each other in Los Angeles, was always meant to be a love letter to the city.

Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land� took almost six years to get to the screen and found the filmmaker sidetracked into making the short and feature-length versions of “Whiplash,� an Oscar winner that finally got the industry to take his aforementioned movie musical seriously.

If you’ve watched “So You Think You Can Dance� or “Dancing With the Stars,� you’re probably familiar with the work of Mandy Moore.

Emma Stone discusses working with choreographer Mandy Moore on “La La Land.�

We were warned not to miss a moment of Jimmy Fallon’s Golden Globes opening number, which some had accurately predicted would be an extended tribute to “La La Land.�

“La La Land� had a record-breaking night at the Golden Globes on Sunday, taking home seven awards — more than any film in the telecast’s history.

If you were one of the relatively few people bewitched, bothered and bewildered when Damien Chazelle’s musical “La La Land� won a record seven Golden Globes a couple of weeks ago, you should probably avoid the news Tuesday morning when Oscar nominations are announced.