‘The Artist’: Best Picture winner makes history. Best Picture winner ‘The Artist’: Two ‘First Times’ in Oscar history Pictured above are several cast members of Best Picture winner The Artist…
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Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw attend the Governors Ball following the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood on Feb. 26. Along with Kathleen Kennedy, Spielberg produced…
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Octavia Spencer. In this very artistic picture, Octavia Spencer admires her Oscar statuette at the Governor’s Ball, following the 2012 Annual Academy Awards from Hollywood, CA Feb. 26. Spencer was…
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Meryl Streep Best Actress Oscar: When Margaret Thatcher stares back, need for Women’s Museum and faulty Academy Award history knowledge.
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Milla Jovovich and Tim Gunn. Milla Jovovich and Tim Gunn: Academy Awards’ Red Carpet Ukrainian-born actress Milla Jovovich (on Dec. 17, 1975, in Kiev, at the time part of the…
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Christopher Plummer and Elaine Taylor. Christopher Plummer and Elaine Taylor arrive for the 2012 Academy Awards from Hollywood, CA. The Oscar ceremony was held at Hollywood & Highland on Feb.…
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Unless things change dramatically (apart from environmental chaos and apocalyptic wars), 30 or 40 years from now Martin Scorsese is going to be the best-remembered name of the current top-five…
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Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, Gentleman’s Agreement Elia Kazan: Actors Director Elia Kazan is best remembered today for two things: his association with Marlon Brando during the first half of the…
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William Wyler was one of the greatest film directors Hollywood – or any other film industry – has ever produced. Today, Wyler lacks the following of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford,…
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Just last week, an email ad plugging Meryl Streep’s performance in The Weinstein Company release The Iron Lady…
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George Clooney and Max von Sydow. George Clooney and Max Von Sydow chat away at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon held on Monday, Feb. 6, in Beverly Hills. Clooney is a…
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The Nick Nolte movie that earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination this year was Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior. In the photo, Nolte, among whose movies are The Deep, 48…
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Meryl Streep Oscar Ad Controversy “It’s been TWENTY-NINE YEARS SINCE MERYL STREEP WON AN OSCAR. And she certainly deserves to win for her performance in The Iron Lady,” reads a…
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Robert Pattinson in Bel Ami: Berlin Film Festival. A week or so ago, we wondered if the Robert Pattinson period drama Bel Ami would be screened at the 2012 Berlin…
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Ralph Fiennes in Oscar nominee (but not DGA nominee) Stephen Daldry’s The Reader. In 1948, the 12-year-old Directors Guild of America (DGA), then known as the Screen Directors Guild (SDG),…
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Was dog star Rin Tin Tin the first Best Actor Academy Award winner? Author Susan Orlean, whose book The Orchid Thief became – more or less – director Spike Jonze…
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Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady with Anthony Head. The most curious thing about Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist winning the New York Film Critics Circle’s Best Film and Best Director…
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John Travolta and Wife Kelly Preston, Star Wars Stormtroopers: Academy’s Governors Awards which honored the Voice of Darth Vader.
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Ellen Barkin on the Governors Awards’ Red Carpet Actress Ellen Barkin attends the 2011 Governors Awards in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, on Saturday, November 12.…
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Tate Taylor & James Earl Jones, Michael Fassbender & Steve McQueen: Oscar hopefuls and honorees at Governors Awards.
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Swedish lesbian film: Ruth Vega Fernandez and Liv Mjönes in With Every Heartbeat. AUDIENCE AWARDS Breakthrough Section (award accompanied by a $5,000 cash prize) WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT by Alexandra-Therese Keining…
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Nov. 10 update: Billy Crystal will be replacing Eddie Murphy as Oscar host, who quite the show after Oscarcast co-producer Brett Ratner officially resigned from his post. There has been…
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Vanessa Redgrave The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the career of Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave, one of the most distinguished performers of the second half of…
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Gilbert Cates, best known as the man behind a record 14 Academy Awards ceremonies, died at age 77 on Sept. 31 in the Los Angeles of Westwood. Cates reportedly had…
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Shame with Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender. Oscar chances? There have been precious few Oscar-winning “sex movies.” Now that Steve McQueen’s psychological drama Shame has received an NC-17 rating from…
Meryl Streep and husband Don Gummer: Oscar 2012. Meryl Streep and husband Don Gummer at the Governors Ball after 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood and Highland Center…
Fred Zinnemann began his career during the studio era, but kept on going, however sporadically, long after most of his contemporaries had retired. Even so, today his name means little…
Anna Magnani in Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima (1951). At the end of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso, small-town projectionist Philippe Noiret has died and the Nuovo…
Adolf Hitler quotes: Der Führer fumes following Academy’s Albert Brooks snub Who would have have guessed that two of Albert Brooks’ most die-hard fans are the unlikely pair of Russell…
Angelina Jolie Political Film gets Controversy and PGA Award + Animated Feature Oscar Contender Disqualified and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo reunion.
Linda Blair The Exorcist girl, Tom Hanks wife Rita Wilson and Maria Shriver (estranged Arnold Schwarzenegger wife): Governors Awards.
Armageddon Film Melancholia with Kirsten Dunst. Lars von Trier’s Melancholia is the clear favorite at the 2011 European Film Awards. Nazi joke or no, Cannes Film Festival ban or no,…