Ricky Gervais has new idea for hosting Oscars

Sandler sets worst-movie record with Razzies sweep

Adam Sandler and friends have scored a new high — or low — among voters of the Razzies, an Academy Awards spoof that presents prizes for the year's worst movies.

Oscars to return to Hollywood & Highland Feb. 24

The 85th Academy Awards have been set for Feb. 24, 2013, and they'll take place once again at the Hollywood & Highland Center.

Portman has wedding ring, but is she married?

List of black winners of acting Oscars

Black actors who have won Academy Awards:

Crystal helps improve Oscar viewership

The return of Billy Crystal helped boost viewership for the Academy Awards but not enough to prevent a cultural oddity: The Oscars weren't even the most-watched awards show on television this month.

Honorary Oscar for Angelina Jolie's leg?

Review: Oscars iPad app wonderful, but distracting

Interactivity during the Academy Awards telecast once meant booing at the television every time there was a winner I hadn't picked for my Oscars pool. This year, I had my head glued to an iPad instead.

Iran's `Separation:' Oscar glow and slap at Israel

Iran hailed the country's first Oscar-winning film as a triumph over arch-foe Israel on Monday after an Academy Award race with its own subplots: Iranian officials giving a grudging nod to cinema and Israeli audiences flocking to see a made-in-Tehran drama.

Iranian 'A Separation' wins best foreign Oscar

In a humble speech amid tense times, Asghar Farhadi accepted Iran's first Oscar for best foreign film as a chance to celebrate a culture "hidden under the heavy dust of politics."

New fashion stars include Mara, Stone and Chastain

There were many new fashion faces on the red carpet at the 84th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night, but they brought with them a lot of old Hollywood glamour.

'The Artist' rules the Oscars

Octavia Spencer, 'Hugo' win Oscars

Streep shakes up predictable Oscars

Spencer, Plummer, 'Hugo' win Oscars

'The Artist' favored going into Oscars

Weinsteins rule Oscars with 'Artist,' 'Iron Lady'

Bob and Harvey Weinstein resumed their perch as Hollywood's favorite taste-makers Sunday, with "The Artist" and "The Iron Lady" sweeping up key Academy Awards and much of this year's Oscar nominations bump.

What you didn't see on TV during the Oscars

Even the hundreds of photographers, TV cameras and webcams around the Hollywood & Highland Center can't capture every starry moment of Sunday's 84th annual Academy Awards.

France cheers Oscar wins for 'The Artist'

France's president has congratulated Jean Dujardin and Michel Hazanavicius for their Academy Awards for "The Artist," saying the silent black and white film demonstrates the vitality of French cinema.

Everything old was new again at the Oscars

Justin Bieber wasn't mincing words. "I'm here to bring you the 18 to 24 demographic," the teen pop star told Billy Crystal in the opening Oscar montage. "So, how long do you want me to stay here for?"

Sandler sets Razzie record: 11 worst-movie noms

When Adam Sandler's bad, he's really bad, according to voters for the Razzies, an Academy Awards spoof that singles out the worst movies of the year.

'Artist' wins best-picture at indie Spirit Awards

"The Artist" won best picture and three other prizes Saturday at the Spirit Awards honoring independent film, a possible prelude to a big night at the Academy Awards for the black-and-white silent movie.

Oscar turns up the star power for final rehearsal

The Academy Awards are a big deal — even to A-listers. That's why a parade of stars came through the theater at the Hollywood & Highland Center Saturday to run through their lines and prepare to address their peers in front of a worldwide audience of millions.

'The Artist' wins 6 French Cesars

Silent film "The Artist" has won six awards including best picture, best actress and best director at France's answer to the Academy Awards.

Spy on the stars with Oscar.com's hidden cameras

Academy Awards nominees and presenters are getting even more exposure at this year's show.

Since Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, the white gloves have been metaphorically pulled off, and political discourse has largely ceased to be civilized. At this point in the 2012 presidential campaign, the GOP is sputtering badly, but comments an …

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The Academy Awards are renowned for bringing out Hollywood royalty. But tonight, A-list movie stars rubbed shoulders with real royalty as Prince Albert II of Monaco and his wife Princess Charlene walked up the red carpet. The European royal, 53, and his bride, 34, followed in …

Given that Hollywood continues to have diversity problem to this day, of course the Billy Crystal blackface scene touched a nerve for many people.

  A collection of clips from all 82 Academy Award / Oscar winning Best Pictures, commemorating completion of our Best Picture Challenge: we screened all 82 best films in chronological order over eight months from June 2010 through February 2011, finishing before the 83rd  …

Sunday, Feb. 26, will feature the live broadcast of the 84th Academy Awards as movie critics, members of the Academy and movie fans find out if their favorites are winners of this year's Oscars.

Classic pictures that capture not only the glitz and glamour that has always defined the Academy Awards, but also rare moments when movie legends let down their guard — and still look more amazing than the rest of us. Read More

WHAT DO the movie The Help (nominated for four Oscars this year), Porgy and Bess (the classic musical) and the bad bwoy series The Wire all have in common? Well, they all tell stories about black people. And they're all written by white people. No big deal.

Every year when the Academy Award nominations are announced, a handful of what are ungenerously referred to as snubs inevitably makes for as important a headline as the ones that managed to snag a nod.

Lost amid the snub hubbub surrounding Albert Brooks and Ryan Gosling of "Drive" is the single most startling fact about the 2012 Academy Award nominations. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" received just one nomination.

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Picking your Academy Award pool winners based on awards that have come before is usually a pretty good idea. Taking a look at Golden Globe winners and Screen Actors Guild winners almost always gives you a boost in choosing the right picks from the list of nominees.

The Academy Awards should look to the year of 2012 as, once again, a wake up call for revision of how they go about things. Bringing back an Oscar category or two and adding more than a few should be seriously considered.

The Costume Designers Guild is one of the latest specialty awards to come to the party.

One week after promulgating rules to open up the decision-making process for documentaries to be considered for an Academy Award, the Los Angeles-based Phase One committee and the Foreign Language Award Executive committee of the Motion Picture Academy announced its shortlist …

There are some who think that Ricky Gervaisi is hysterically funny. Those people really need to catch an episode-any episode will do-of a show-any show will do-featuring Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge.

Way back around the early middle of June 2011, something happened inside a theater in New York City that must have lifted Steven Spielberg's heart and taken his mind off the fact that more Americans could probably identify the Kardashians' resident plastic surgeon than could iden …

They say that the United State Senate is the most exclusive club in America. If you are considering things in terms of how only rich people who are overwhelming white and male have been allowed in, that is probably true.

Take a look around the big wide web and collect all the information available out there from those who specialize in handicapping how the Academy Awards will turn out and one prediction becomes very easy to make.

The push is to get Andy Serkis a nomination for Best Supporting Actor for "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." Of course, if truth be told, Serkis should actually be nominated for Best Actor.

You just might be surprised at the number of actors who got their big break starring on a TV sitcom who then went on to win an Oscar for a dramatic performance.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's Board of Governors voted to change the rules for nominating Best Picture in order to insert a little more surprise into the process.

World Water Day Profile: Co-Founder, Matt Damon of Water.org

The quality of water and the quality of life, in all its infinite forms are critical parts of the overall ongoing health of our planet, our future and most importantly, ourselves.

Lara Egan, the daughter of co-producer Simon Egan, was handed the Oscar so that she could have her picture taken with it. And so she did what just about any 15-month-old does: She held it for a few moments, and then she let it go.

The 83rd Academy Awards did only a little better in the ratings than it did in reviews. From 8:30-11:30 PM, the show, which was universally panned by critics, drew a 24.6 household rating/37 share in the metered markets.