The Martian (2015) movie review: Ridley Scott proves that he still has what it takes. Amiable ‘everyman’ Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain star.
Movie Awards
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Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Submissions: Multicultural and Multinational movies as Academy more open-minded re: international cinema.
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Uggie: The Artist Dog Star that stole scenes from Oscar winner Jean Dujardin in Michel Hazanavicius’ 2011 sleeper hit has died at age 13.
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Katharine Hepburn Movies: Women in Drag, in Love and in Danger in classic movies that ultimately earned her 12 Academy Award nominations.
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Academy Invites Eddie Redmayne, Bong Joon-ho: Eclectic and International Talent that may help to diversify future Oscar choices.
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) movie review: Charlize Theron is the de facto ‘hero’ in George Miller’s post-apocalyptic actioner. Tom Hardy costars.
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Teresa Wright was one of the ‘Oldest’ Oscar Winners and the earliest surviving Best Supporting Actress winner at the time of her death.
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Oscar Winners: Meryl Streep Breaks Two Academy Award Records, Neil Patrick Harris in his underwear and politically controversial documentary winner.
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Catherine Deneuve: César Award Best Actress Record-Tier after her latest nomination. Article includes list of rare Anglophone César nominees.
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Kristen Stewart and Catherine Deneuve have achieved remarkable César Award feats. One is a First; the other one is a Record-Tier.
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Golden Globes Winners: Early Technical Glitch Led to Much Ado About Nothing while Julianne Moore took home 1 statuette as expected.
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Cecil B. DeMille Award winners range from Walt Disney to George Clooney while women are for the most part snubbed no matter how prestigious their careers.
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Selma (2014) movie review: Ava DuVernay’s ‘Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama’ drama is a reminder that Civil Rights events remain disturbingly relevant.
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Maureen O’Hara Oscar: Honorary Award given to feisty, red-headed The Quiet Man and Rio Grande actress and John Wayne leading lady.
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Interstellar (2014) movie review: Christopher Nolan sci-fier is a grandiose achievement that ultimately fails to fulfill its thematic promise.
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Gotham Awards winners include Hollywood stars Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton plus controversial political refugee Edward Snowden.
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Neil Patrick Harris: Oscar Host. Good Choice? The Tony and Emmy winner will be first openly gay (male) Academy Awards host ever.
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Whiplash (2014) movie review: Damien Chazelle directs a visually and aurally accomplished drama that gives J.K. Simmons a devil of a role.
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Christopher Reeve: Superman movies, Somewhere in Time and other films remembered 10 years after his death plus surprise Oscar speech.
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Honorary Award bypassed Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson and Rita Hayworth among dozens of other women as Academy focused on male recipients.
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Honorary Oscar NON-winner Doris Day inexplicably snubbed by the Academy. Why? Other women include Danielle Darrieux, Liv Ullmann and Mia Farrow.
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Honorary Oscars have bypassed women for decades. Is the Academy biased? Angela Lansbury, Lauren Bacall among rare winners.
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Boyhood (2014) movie review: Richard Linklater brilliantly tackles the effects of the passage of time. Ethan Hawke and Ellar Coltrane costar.
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Featuring elements from a few ‘dystopian future prevention’ thrillers, Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past is a superhero film for adults.
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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…
Amy (2015) movie review: Asif Kapadia’s remarkable Amy Winehouse documentary chronicles the rise and fall of the tragic singer.
Teresa Wright: Actress Made Oscar History for her work in The Little Foxes, Mrs Miniver and The Pride of the Yankees - feat still unmatched.
Sean Penn will receive the Honorary César. The two-time Best Actor Oscar winner is the latest Hollywood celebrity to take home the award.
Luise Rainer Dead: At 104 years old first Two-Time Oscar Winner in the acting categories was oldest surviving Academy Award recipient.
Best Documentary Short Oscar Contenders: The prospect of death and Illness are key topics plus art, oil and a hotline for war veterans.
Best Foreign Language Film Record Entries include a number of highly political movies with controversial topics.
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…