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Academy Awards overseers have chosen an entertainment veteran to direct the next Oscar show.
Without the burden of a live worldwide broadcast, members of the film academy threw themselves a lively yet relaxed dinner party to honor the first Oscar winners of the season.
A record 20 films have been submitted for best animated feature at the Academy Awards.
"Hairspray" director Adam Shankman and former 20th Century Fox studio boss Bill Mechanic have been named producers of the Academy Awards, saying they hope to inject more fun and restore TV ratings glory to Hollywood's biggest party.
Top prize-winners from the Cannes and Berlin film festivals are among 65 movies competing for the foreign-language honor at the Academy Awards next March.
Dan Tyminski won two top awards at the 20th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards, including male vocalist of the year for the fourth time.
Oscar fans can win a chance to be a part of the 82nd Academy Awards.
Academy Awards voters are going to have to put extra effort into their choices for best picture.
Tom Hanks is rejoining the board that oversees the Academy Awards.
Hugh Jackman, Seth Rogen, Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway and Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle have been invited into the exclusive Hollywood club that votes on the Academy Awards.
No Academy Award will be presented for best song at next year's ceremony if none of the tunes is considered good enough, Oscar organizers said Friday.
The Academy Awards will have 10 best-picture nominees instead of the usual five starting next year, improving the odds for films such as "The Dark Knight," a fan and critic favorite that was snubbed last time.
After nine hits and four Academy Awards for films including "WALL-E" and "Ratatouille," the Pixar Animation gang finally feels it has made it to the grown-ups' table with "Up," the first animated movie to open the Cannes Film Festival.
Screenwriter Millard Kaufman, who co-created the cartoon character Mr. Magoo, was nominated for Academy Awards for his screenplays for "Take the High Ground!" and "Bad Day at Black Rock" and won a cult following as a first-time novelist at the age of 90, has died, a spokeswoman said. He was 92.
This might be insulting to the people of North Dakota. If so, I apologize in advance. But when I hear Fargo, only two things come to mind. First would be cold temperatures and blizzards. And second would be “Fargo,” the movie that won a couple of Academy Awards back in 1996.
The Coen brothers, who won Academy Awards for "Fargo" and "No Country for Old Men," have turned their sardonic sights on the coal industry.
Gay Asians voiced indignation Wednesday after television broadcasts of the Academy Awards in their region censored the words "gay" and "lesbian" in speeches that called for equal rights for homosexuals.
An estimated 36.3 million people watched this year's Academy Awards, an increase of more than 4 million from last year's least-watched Oscars ceremony ever.
This year, Oscar has a British accent, and an international flavor.
Time to brush off the tuxedo, yet again, for the Academy Awards.
Domestic box-office totals for the most-honored films at the 81st annual Academy Awards:
Quotes from Sunday night's 81st annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles:
Here's what one writer was seeing from his vantage point inside the Kodak Theatre at the 81st Academy Awards, balcony box 6.
In just one night, Indian film composer A.R. Rahman equaled the number of Oscars his fellow Indians had taken home during the first 80 years of the Academy Awards.
Who among the actors who have won multiple Best Actor / Actress Academy Awards are your favorite? And the winners are... BEST ACTRESS Katharine Hepburn 4 Best Actress Oscars Ingrid Bergman 2 Best Actress Oscars (and 1 Best Supporting Actress Oscar) Luise Rainer 2 Best Actress Osc …
Sean Hannity Thinks Gays are Bad for Your ChildrenSo imagine my surprise when I discovered that "Mouth Most In Need of Duct-Taping" contender Sean Hannity made a mess on national television by decreeing that gays are bad for your children.
Joaquin Phoenix showed up to the Late Show With David Letterman looking like the extra member of ZZ Top and acting extremely odd. He was extremely taciturn and appeared to become offended and withdraw further into his shell with each joke that Letterman did.
Oscar speeches should be fun, lively and shortAcademy sent out a Tom Hanks-hosted DVD with instructions for winners
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Is Bollywood coming to Hollywood?So, is it time for Bollywood -- as India's huge Mumbai-based film industry is called -- to come to America? "International cinema comes in cycles in the United States," said Frank Lovece, a film critic with Film Journal International. "Now, it's Bollywood's time."
Live blogging the OscarsYour up-to-the minute update about the goings-on at the Academy Awards
Looking forward to the long-awaited showdown at the Oscars between Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie? Who's your favorite? Angie? Or Jen? Have you ever wondered who sides with which woman and why?
Heath Ledger as joker | Herald SunAussie Hugh Jackman will host as Heath Ledger is remembered...
OSCARS CRISIS! Hollywood Frustrations And Fears Over Sunday's Awards; Stars And Advertisers Give Show Cold ShoulderI can report that this year's producers are privately complaining that the biggest movie stars in the world like Jack Nicholson, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, and Kate Winslet gave them excuse after excuse about why they didn't want to present awards, once considered a huge hono …
Oscars Speech Dos and Don'ts - The Daily Beastspeeches can haunt an Oscar winner forever, or even temporarily derail a career. Only by nurturing a perverse number of children has Angelina Jolie overcome her creepy declaration of love for her brother, Jamie, while clutching her Girl, Interrupted Oscar in 2000.
The clock is winding down for the 81st time in history that the Academy Awards will be handed out honoring the best in motion picture achievements for the past year. Here are my predictions for what will happen on Sunday night as well as what should happen on Sunday night.
'Slumdog' child actors jet to L.A. for OscarsThe child stars of "Slumdog Millionaire" will take their first airplane trip when they attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday.
The great, Martin Scorsese was once quoted as saying that, "Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out" and it somehow seems that with the eclectic mix of movies released last year, there were a great deal of films to consider award worthy as they were in frame …
Faye Dunaway Appears in White House Designer's Last Fashion DesignFaye Dunaway wears last known fashion of Oleg Cassini in "Say it in Russian," in theaters this May
Oscar Predictions: Weighing in on the Academy AwardsThe Oscars are around the corner and what better time to splice the neighbor's coaxial cable or invest in a dish than now (And if you opt for the latter, we're swinging by with a tray of snacks for the next pay-per-view fight), a night when even the Weather Network will have …
The Goya Awards, Spain's equivalent of the Academy Awards, were handed out in Madrid tonight. It was an evening of firsts, including an acting award for an American and directing honors for a Spaniard of African descent.
Slumdog Millionairs the Oscar FavouriteForget the office pools. The Oscar award game has gone online, where traders are betting "Slumdog Millionaire" will walk away with the golden statuette next month.
Behind the times: the nominees for the 81st Annual Academy AwardsThe 81st Annual Academy Awards nominations were announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, California. It is a poor showing, taken as a whole.
1. Best Picture: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Frost/Nixon," "Milk," "The Reader," "Slumdog Millionaire."
Academy Award nominees announced: Penn, Pitt, Jolie, Streep, Cruz, Ledger, etc.On the first anniversary of his death, Heath Ledger claimed his second Academy Award nomination when the roll call of Oscar finalists was announced this morning.
Winslet's Double Globes Win Raises Questions I would never want to rain on Kate Winslet's parade, especially when she has given two such impressive performances as she did in "Revolutionary Road" and "The Reader."
So, people say that the categories that deal with the behind the camera craft aren't as glamerous as the "big" awards. But honestly, is there no category that is as filled with glamour than Best Costume Design? I don't think so.
As another year draws to a close, the race for the Oscars is heating up once again. With so many critics organizations and press academies handing out precursor awards it can be hard to navigate what's ahead in which race.
Is anyone really believing what I've just read? I got on the internet in between classes so I could take a look at who is up for the 66th installment of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards.
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