Oprah Winfrey Articles
Oprah Winfrey Jean Hersholt Award Controversy Has Precedents
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ decision to hand Oprah Winfrey a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the November 12 Governors Ball ceremony, has been widely criticized. Some have remarked that Winfrey, rumored as a possible host for the 2012 Oscarcast, is a television — not a film — personality. Others have complained that Winfrey doesn’t deserve the Humanitarian Award, period. Academy president [...]
James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Dick Smith: Honorary Oscar, Jean Hersholt Award Recipients
Actor James Earl Jones and veteran makeup artist Dick Smith will receive Honorary Awards, and former television hostess Oprah Winfrey will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced. The awards will be presented at the Academy’s 3rd Annual Governors Awards dinner on Saturday, November 12, at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center. The information [...]
Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Marisa Tomei, Oprah Winfrey: Oscar 2011 Presenters
Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Marisa Tomei and Oprah Winfrey, all former Oscar nominees and/or winners, will be presenters at the 2011 Academy Awards, telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today. In 2001 Berry won the Best Actress Oscar for Monsters Ball. She can currently be seen in Frankie & Alice. Last year, Bridges and Bullock received the Best Actor and Best [...]
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning Talk TWILIGHT on OPRAH: Five Clips
Below are five clips featuring the Oprah Winfrey interview with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner — later joined by Dakota Fanning — on her television show. Pattinson, Stewart, Lautner, and Fanning were there to promote the upcoming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third installment in the Twilight Saga series which opens in the United States and about a dozen other countries on June [...]