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In the 97-year history of the Academy Awards, 611 films have been nominated for the top prize, best picture. Only 23 of those films were helmed by a woman director. While the statistic is startling, ...

Toback’s career in Hollywood has spanned more than 40 years. He’s directed such films as “The Pick-Up Artist” and “Two Girls ...

An attorney for the plaintiffs said the high judgment makes for some of the largest sex assault damages ever ordered in New ...

The director was accused of pervasive sexual assault spanning four decades that involved him luring young women into meetings ...

Wednesday’s ruling at a sexual assault trial in New York involved 40 different accusers filing a lawsuit against the Manhattan-born director, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1991 for Best ...

No jurors picked on first day of Harvey Weinstein’s #MeToo retrial Beckworth said the abuse took place between 1979 and 2014. Toback was nominated for an Oscar for writing 1991′s “Bugsy,” and his ...

Following Wednesday’s verdict, Mary Monahan, one of the plaintiffs, told The Times, “This will be his legacy, absolutely,” adding, “It won’t be Bugsy. And that is immensely validating. A jury heard us ...

Toback, a filmmaker who was nominated for an Oscar for his Bugsy screenplay in 1991, was first accused of impropriety in 2017 when a Los Angeles ... women in New York and tell them he was a famous ...

Disgraced filmmaker James Toback has been ordered to shell out $1.6billion to settle a sex-abuse lawsuit brought by 40 women.