Entertainment News: jodie foster

Jodie Foster made headlines at the 2013 Golden Globes after giving a passionate speech about her acting career and family, in which she cited her former female partner -- Cydney Bernard -- and their two sons, and later, backstage, she talked more about her professional life.

Check out 10 highlights from Jodie Foster's press conference backstage at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards.

Kathy Griffin is looking forward to the 2013 Oscars, saying she hopes it will inspire some juicy material for her Bravo talk show.

The 52-year-old comedienne, who is known for poking fun at Hollywood's elite, made her comments to OTRC.com at HBO's Golden Globes after party on January 13. The 2013 Oscars will take place on February 24.

Jodie Foster is set to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the 70th annual Golden Globes next year for her work on the silver screen.

The actress, who has won two Oscars and two Golden Globe Awards, was announced as the recipient by her "Panic Room" co-star Kristen Stewart at a press conference on Thursday, November 1.

Jodie Foster is reportedly heading back to the director's chair.

The two-time Academy Award-winning actress is attached to direct a film called "Money Monster," according to Deadline.com. The film will be a drama about a TV personality named Lee Gates whose "insider trading tips have made him a money guru of Wall Street."

Jodie Foster is sticking up for her former "Panic Room" co-star in a new article where she criticizes the media coverage of Stewart's cheating scandal and the current celebrity-crazed culture.

The 49-year-old actress recalls in the article written for The Daily Beast, how she met and first spent time with the actress on the set of the 2002 thriller "Panic Room."

Jodie Foster's estranged father was sentenced to five years in jail for 21 counts of grand theft and nine counts of contracting without a license.

According to the Associated Press, Lucius Foster earned over $200,000 from the poor and elderly in his home-building scheme. The 89-year-old Sherman Oaks building contractor took $5,000 from 21 people, agreeing to build them affordable homes made from shipping containers.

Jodie Foster is hoping to make contact with extraterrestrials off-screen, as the actress wrote a big check to help save the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute.

Earlier in the year, the nonprofit was forced to shut down its Allen Telescope Array, which searches for alien signals, due to budget issues. Foster, who played fictional SETI scientist Ellie Arroway in the 1997 film "Contact," was one of the 2,441 private donors who helped put the telescope back to work.

Jodie Foster admits she has no idea whether her film "The Beaver" will suffer in the box office due to Mel Gibson's troubled personal life, but says her star is "a beautiful man."

"I have no idea how people will feel coming into it or if they can really put aside what they know of the public airings of a man's private life," Foster told OnTheRedCarpet.com. "I don't know if they can, that's a good question for you, can you see a movie and put that aside and really just be able to enjoy the experience of seeing this film."