The Cove (movie)

TAIJI, Japan — As children in inner tubes bob on the calm waters of this small ocean cove, a 550-pound dolphin zips through the crowd in pursuit of raw squid tossed out by a trainer. Niru, a Risso's dolphin caught......

TAIJI, Japan — Residents of the dolphin-hunting village depicted in Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" have high mercury levels, likely because of their fondness for dolphin and whale meat, a government lab said Sunday. The levels of mercury...

TOKYO — A movie theater in Tokyo decided against showing the dolphin-hunt documentary "The Cove" after nationalist pressure and warnings of protests, the distributor said Thursday. In recent months, activists have protested and screamed slogans...

TOKYO — Controversy over "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about the annual dolphin hunt in a Japanese village, has widened into a debate over free speech in the country. Three theaters last week canceled showings of the movie after they......

TOKYO — A court Friday ordered protesters to keep away from a theater that plans to show the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," about a dolphin hunt in a Japanese village. The movie shows scenes of the bloody but legal dolphin......

TOKYO — "The Cove," an Oscar-winning film about a Japanese dolphin-hunting village, opened Saturday around Japan after protests by angry nationalists pressured theaters to cancel earlier showings. Some of the six small cinemas sold out their initial...

The Japanese fishing village featured in "The Cove," which won an Oscar for best documentary, defended its practice of hunting dolphins Monday as a part of a long tradition. The movie, which mixes stunning underwater shots of gliding dolphins with......

Oscar gold is coming to Animal Planet. According to our sister blog, 24 Frames, Animal Planet is turning "The Cove" into a TV series that will possibly premiere in the fall. The documentary about the controversial dolphin trade in Japan......

In an interview with The Times' Amy Kaufman on the red carpet before the Academy Awards telecast Sunday, "The Cove" director Louie Psihoyos and star Ric O'Barry spoke about the importance of a potential Oscar win for best feature documentary.......

Here's a full list of the winners at the 82nd Academy Awards, which were bestowed Sunday night at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The Oscars ceremony was telecast on ABC, hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. BEST PICTURE: "The Hurt Locker" LEAD ACTOR:...

• In a provocative piece, Luchina Fisher asks, "Will Gabourey Sidibe's size limit her career?" Building off of Howard Stern's criticism Monday of the lead actress Oscar nominee for "Precious," Fisher interviewed, among others, New York casting...

"No one wants to do it alone," Neil Patrick Harris sang at the start Sunday's Oscar telecast on ABC. Maybe Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin did need each other for moral support, but you have to wonder, why not just let Harris emcee next year's Oscar...