Oscar 2023: Starring Hugh Grant, the year’s best moment was the one you didn’t see at the ceremony itself, which mostly consisted of tasteless jokes and sheer contempt for film history.
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The 2023 Oscars’ TV ratings were up a not inconsiderable 12 percent from 2022 and around 85 percent from 2021. What could be the reason? Were viewers hoping for another slap or…?
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The Academy has instituted Best Picture hiring and representation ‘Oscar Diversity’ quota requirements whose goals and potential effectiveness are debatable.
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Best remembered for playing the creepy Omni chairman in RoboCop, Dan O’Herlihy was a one-of-a-kind Best Actor Oscar nominee during the studio era.
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Best Picture Arrival – Shawn Levy. Dan Levine. Aaron Ryder. David Linde. Fences – Scott Rudin. Denzel Washington. Todd Black. Hacksaw Ridge – Bill Mechanic. David Permut. Hell or High…
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Best Visual Effects Oscar Semi-Finalists: Tom Cruise, James Bond Movies Out as Academy comes up with a few surprises.
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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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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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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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Luise Rainer Dead: At 104 years old first Two-Time Oscar Winner in the acting categories was oldest surviving Academy Award recipient.
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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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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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Christopher Reeve: Superman movies, Somewhere in Time and other films remembered 10 years after his death plus surprise Oscar speech.
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Best Foreign Language Film Record Entries include a number of highly political movies with controversial topics.
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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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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…
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Oscar selfie becomes most retweeted tweet of all time: Ellen DeGeneres, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie, and Oscar 2014 company. Oscar selfie +…
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Kelly Greyson in Alone Yet Not Alone. ‘Alone Yet Not Alone’ song has Oscar nomination revoked: Nod for obscure Christian movie had left many scratching their heads Last night, Jan.…
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Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street. Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese nominated as ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ producers: Oscar nominations According to a press release from the…
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Meryl Streep Oscar nominations record: Smirky mother in August: Osage County. Meryl Streep Oscar nominations record The 2014 Oscar nominations were announced earlier today at the Academy of Motion Picture…
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Amy Adams’ Oscar nominations: Best Actress win for American Hustle? Adams is seen here with Christian Bale. Oscar predictions Below are our last-minute Oscar 2014 predictions. The 86th Academy Award…
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Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014: Two Lives with Liv Ullmann and Julia Bache-Wiig. Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014 semifinalists: Liv Ullmann potential Academy Awards comeback Out of 76…
Actress Ann Sothern enjoyed an unusual second career peak that included a top Oscar winner and decades later she became one of the oldest nominees.
Uggie: The Artist Dog Star that stole scenes from Oscar winner Jean Dujardin in Michel Hazanavicius’ 2011 sleeper hit has died at age 13.
Teresa Wright: Actress Made Oscar History for her work in The Little Foxes, Mrs Miniver and The Pride of the Yankees - feat still unmatched.
Best Documentary Short Oscar Contenders: The prospect of death and Illness are key topics plus art, oil and a hotline for war veterans.
Honorary Award bypassed Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson and Rita Hayworth among dozens of other women as Academy focused on male recipients.
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…
Sarah Polley [with camera] directing Stories We Tell. Stories We Tell & Blackfish out of Oscar race: Does that mean the Academy’s Documentary Branch is ‘anti-female’? Besides Tom Hanks and…