2012 Oscar Articles

Kenneth Branagh, Janet McTeer Kenneth Branagh and Janet McTeer have a conversation at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon held in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 6, 2012. Branagh is a Best Supporting Actor contender for Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, in which he plays Laurence Olivier directing/co-starring with Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) in The Prince and the Showgirl. McTeer is a contender for playing a [...]

Martin Scorsese Max von Sydow Martin Scorsese and Max von Sydow at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 6, 2012. Scorsese is in the running for Best Director for the period fantasy Hugo, starring Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, and Sacha Baron Cohen. Von Sydow is a Best Supporting Actor nominee for [...]

Walter Mirisch, Michelle Williams Former Academy president Walter Mirisch, Best Actress Oscar nominee Michelle Williams, and possibly Harvey Weinstein's beard at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Nominees Luncheon, which took place in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 6, 2012. Williams is in the running for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe during the making of Laurence Olivier's The Prince and the Showgirl [...]

George Clooney, Brad Pitt (Rooney Mara, Jonah Hill in background) George Clooney and Brad Pitt chat at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon held in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 6, 2012. Both Clooney and Pitt are Best Actor nominees for, respectively, Alexander Payne's The Descendants and Bennett Miller's Moneyball. (In the background are Best Actress nominees Rooney Mara [for David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon [...]