Best Picture Category Articles

Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York Oscar Campaign Scandal: Robert Wise, Miramax & GANGS OF NEW YORK Part I Back to Robert Wise (right) and Gangs of New York: The plot got even thicker when Murray Weissman and others later claimed that Wise himself had approached Miramax after reading another Op-Ed piece, this one published in Variety (Feb. 3, 2003) and penned [...]

Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York Nicolas Chartier, one of the four Oscar-nominated producers of The Hurt Locker, has been penalized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because of e-mails he sent out a couple of weeks ago asking various Academy members to vote for his low-budgeted Iraq War drama and not for "a $500M film" — [...]

Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock in John Lee Hancock's The Blind Side (top); Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (bottom) Producer credits for 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees The Blind Side and The Hurt Locker have been determined by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Producers Branch Executive Committee. Credits are as follows: The Blind Side – Gil Netter, [...]

James Cameron's Avatar (top); Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw in The Blind Side (middle); Carey Mulligan in An Education (bottom) To shore up the Oscar ceremony's dwindling television audience, the Academy wanted bigger fare at the 2010 Oscars. So, they expanded the Best Picture category to include ten films, hoping that some blockbuster or other would get a nomination. Indeed, it's true that several of the [...]