Movie Awards

2015 Oscar winners: Chris Pratt didn’t take home an statuettes; he’s seen here during the rehearsal process. 2015 Oscar winners The complete list of Oscar 2015 winners and nominees can be found further below. Check out: Oscar 2015 presenters and performers. Now, a little Oscar…

Catherine Deneuve: Best Actress César Award ‘record-tier’ for ‘In the Courtyard,’ with Oleg Kupchik and Big Dog. Catherine Deneuve: César Award Best Actress Record-Tier (See previous post: “Kristen Stewart & Catherine Deneuve Make César Award History.”) Catherine Deneuve has received 12 Best Actress César Award…

Kristen Stewart in ‘Clouds of Sils Maria,’ with Juliette Binoche. Kristen Stewart, Catherine Deneuve make César Award history Kristen Stewart and Catherine Deneuve are two 2015 César Award nominees making history. The French Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Crafts announced the nominations on Jan.…

Sean Penn in ’21 Grams.’ Sean Penn: Honorary César once again goes Hollywood Sean Penn, 54, will receive the 2015 Honorary César (César d’Honneur), the French Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Crafts has announced. That means the French Academy’s powers-that-be are once again trying…

2015 Golden Globes’ nominee Julianne Moore in ‘Maps to the Stars.’ Watch Golden Globes online: Red Carpet arrivals and awards ceremony George Clooney will be present at the Golden Globes ceremony to pick up his Cecil B. DeMille Award. Will presenters Tina Fey and Amy…

Cecil B. DeMille Award honoree George Clooney in The Monuments Men, with Matt Damon. Produced and written by Good Night, and Good Luck. collaborators George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and directed by Clooney, The Monuments Men is a World War II drama loosely based on…

Maureen O’Hara: Honorary Oscar recipient. Maureen O’Hara: Honorary Oscar to ‘How Green Was My Valley,’ ‘The Quiet Man’ actress Veteran actress Maureen O’Hara attended the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2014 Governors Awards, where she was handed an Honorary Oscar for her body…

Gotham Awards’ Best Documentary ‘Citizenfour’ revolves around a controversial topic: Edward Snowden. Gotham Awards winners: Hollywood stars Julianne Moore, Michael Keaton - plus whistleblower and political refugee Edward Snowden The Gotham Awards, the more modest, New York City-based version of the Los Angeles-based Spirit Awards,…

Neil Patrick Harris. Neil Patrick Harris to host Oscar 2015 ceremony Stage, film, and television actor Neil Patrick Harris will host the 2015 Oscars, a.k.a. the 87th Academy Awards ceremony, Oscarcast producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today, Oct. 15, ’14. This will be…

Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2015 contender ‘Three Windows and a Hanging’: First Kosovo entry. Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2015: Record number of entries The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has made public the list of submissions for the Best Foreign Language…

The Way He Looks movie: Ghilherme Lobo and Fábio Audi. ‘The Way He Looks’ movie: Gay teen love story is Brazil’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar submission In mid-September 2014, The Way He Looks / Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho was selected as Brazil’s entry…

Honorary Award non-recipient Marlene Dietrich. Honorary Award: Academy ‘snubbed’ Gloria Swanson & Rita Hayworth + Marlene Dietrich & dozens of other women (See previous post: “Honorary Oscars: Doris Day & Danielle Darrieux ‘Snubbed.’”) A sizable chunk of part three of this three-part article about the…

Lifetime Achievement Award: Doris Day & long-running Honorary Oscar “snub.” Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award: Doris Day & Danielle Darrieux among Honorary Oscar non-recipients (See previous post: “Honorary Oscars Bypass Women: Greta Garbo & Angela Lansbury Among Rare Exceptions.”) Those who have read my Alt Film…

Honorary Oscar recipient Angela Lansbury and Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient Angelina Jolie at the 2013 Governors Awards. September 2014 Introduction: This three-part article on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Honorary Oscars and the dearth of female recipients was originally posted in…

Hayao Miyazaki. Honorary Oscars 2014: Hayao Miyazaki, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Maureen O’Hara; Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award goes to Harry Belafonte One good thing about the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards – an expedient way to remove the time-consuming…

Meryl Streep in Into the Woods: Oscar date and several early predictions. Oscar date & early predictions The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC has announced the Oscar 2015 dates. The Academy Awards ceremony will air live on ABC on Feb. 22…