Kanye West and Jay-Z are once again becoming a dream team. West has announced that his creative design and content company, Donda, has partnered up with Jay’s Roc Nation, which will manage all of DONDA Music.

The rainy Oscar-week weather didn’t deter haute Hollywood from heading to the beach to attend the 2014 Independent Spirit Awards. On Saturday, March 1, Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, handed out top honors to 12 Years a Slave, Dallas Buyers Club and Nebraska at this afternoon’s 29th Film Independent Spirit Awards.

The best and most philanthropic bash of awards season was, as usual, the Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar viewing party.

Women and Film threw its annual intimate cocktail party feting the female Academy Award nominees to kick off Oscar weekend on Friday evening. The event was co-hosted by WIF President Cathy Schulman and award-winning actress Helen Mirren at luxe West Hollywood eatery Fig & Olive.

Elton John had the reigning charity bash of awards season, taking home $5 million for his Elton John AIDS Foundation in just one evening.

When you see celebrities walking the red carpet during awards season with a stunning, radiant glow and think, ‘Why couldn’t I be as genetically blessed as they are?”, we have good news: you can. Though many stars like Jennifer Lawrence, Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jolie and Julia Roberts are genetically blessed, many have the added help of skin and beauty treatments prior to their big events.

Lupita Nyong’o may not yet have won Oscar gold, but she’s definitely the golden girl of awards season. It’s only fitting that she was honored at a fete by Lovegold on Wednesday night.

$175,000 was raised for The Art of Elysium’s Fine Arts program on Wednesday evening at The Art of Elysium and Mercedes Benz’s 7th Annual Pieces of Heaven charity art auction in partnership with Sotheby’s Wednesday evening.

Meryl Streep has received countless accolades for her acting skills, and now, she’s also about to get feted for her intelligence. The Oscar winner will receive an honorary doctoral degree from Indiana University this year.