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ABC Digital has rolled out a new Oscars app for the year 2012. Starting with nominations, you can use the app to stay up-to-date on all things leading up to the 84th Academy Awards, and then watch Oscar night on February 26 on your iDevice, for free. During Oscar season, the app serves you by offering access to a co... |
26 January 2012
14:11 GMT |
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James Franco and Anne Hathaway were the two hosts of this year’s Academy Awards and, as expected, they did not disappoint. Before taking to the stage though, the two took a trip through some of this year’s nominees for Best Picture.
You can see the entire opening sequence below.
The video, played o... |
28 February 2011
03:33 GMT |
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Just hours ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored the best in cinematography for the past year. The Oscars 2011 were broadcast live and, as it happens, included very few surprises in terms of winners.
The British independent film “King’s Speech,” starring Colin Firth and He... |
28 February 2011
03:02 GMT |
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Melissa Leo is one of the strongest contenders, if not actually the favorite, to win Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards 2011, yet she’s hardly getting any media for it. With this in mind, she took matters into her own hands, launching a “For Your Consideration” campaign. It’s not un... |
8 February 2011
03:22 GMT |
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It's nothing unusual for an actress to win an Academy Award and then get a divorce little time after, so could this be a curse on the Oscars, or a fact with a perfectly good scientific explanation?A new study says that Oscar win for best actress increases the risk of divorce, and this was proven by a very long l... |
29 January 2011
06:28 GMT |
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Officially, Chris Nolan is the biggest snub at this year’s Academy Awards, the nominations for which were announced earlier this week. The Hollywood Reporter has an explanation for why the Academy went – again – out of its way to ignore one of the most talented and original directors of our time.
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29 January 2011
03:26 GMT |
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Yesterday, the nominees for the 2011 Academy Awards were announced. Today, the Internet is abuzz not with talk of who will win from those who got nominated, but rather of who was not nominated at all, who was snubbed.Clearly, with “Inception” being the third most nominated film at this year’s O... |
26 January 2011
07:39 GMT |
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Minutes ago, Oscar-winning actress Mo’Nique and AMPAS boss Tom Sherak announced the nominations for the Academy Awards 2011, celebrating excellence in film for the year that ended. There were some surprises, most of them pleasant, but a few unpleasant ones as well. “True Grit,” which was just recent... |
25 January 2011
09:07 GMT |
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On July 16, one of the hottest movies of the year, arrives in theaters in the US: it is called “Inception,” is directed by Christopher Nolan (“Memento” and “The Dark Knight”), and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page and many other brilliant actors. As True/Slant puts it, rarely has... |
9 July 2010
05:17 GMT |
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Reviewers agree that the 2010 edition of the Academy Awards could have been a much better and more interesting event, and that it was mildly lame at best and excruciatingly tedious at worst. However, as with everything else, it was not completely devoid of good moments, which also included some one-liners from hosts ... |
9 March 2010
06:43 GMT |
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The Academy Awards have come and gone and, while the various winners show off their prizes at parties and public events, NVIDIA is proudly announcing that its graphics technology was used in all the films nominated for the Academy Award for Visual Effects. All three nominees strove to bring an unprecedented level of ... |
9 March 2010
06:31 GMT |
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Former model Kathy Ireland became the talk of the town over the weekend when she came across as a “hot mess” while co-hosting ABC’s pre-Oscars Red Carpet ceremony. The moment the first images of her aired, fans took to Twitter saying she was either drunk or heavily medicated, claims she bitterly rub... |
9 March 2010
06:26 GMT |
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Though critics and movie fans alike thrashed the Academy Awards ceremony saying it was both too long and too tedious, ratings went up this year by 14 percent, totaling nearly 41 million viewers for the entire event, as Variety informs. The surge in ratings is mostly due to the fact that, this year, nominees for Best ... |
9 March 2010
05:34 GMT |
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The film industry is still shocked by the Academy making what is billed as one of the biggest faux pas of recent times, with forgetting to include late “Charlie’s Angels” star Farrah Fawcett in the yearly In Memorian segment. Ryan O’Neal, longtime partner of the actress, is equally stunne... |
9 March 2010
05:10 GMT |
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It’s a well-known fact by now that, the moment the awards season begins, Hollywood goes crazy. The Oscars are the culmination of said season and the entire world knows that this is not just about the winners, the losers and the movies, as fashion also plays an important role. At this year’s Academy Awards... |
8 March 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that search results for this year's Oscars winners are riddled with malicious links leading to scareware. This comes after search results for the award ceremony's date and time were heavily poisoned yesterday.
An online battle for who gets to profit from Oscars-related news the mo... |
8 March 2010
11:33 GMT |
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Reviews of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony are already pouring in and, if we’re to trust industry people, the show hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin was anything but a fun event. There were, of course, fun moments, but they were not enough to make the impression that the gala was just dragging o... |
8 March 2010
06:02 GMT |
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At this year’s Academy Awards, Kathryn Bigelow and “The Hurt Locker” were the undeniable winners, taking home no less than six statuettes, including those for Best Director and Best Picture. Sandra Bullock also got a nod for Best Actress, while Jeff Bridges was named Best Actor. Mo’Nique and A... |
8 March 2010
04:12 GMT |
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Last night at the Academy Awards, the Best Movie category saw two very unlikely productions go neck and neck, with underdog “The Hurt Locker” taking home the much coveted statuette. Not only that, but the comparatively small budget war drama took home another 5 awards, including for Best Director, thus ma... |
8 March 2010
03:43 GMT |
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The Academy has taken concrete action against Nicolas Chartier, one of the producers on the Oscar-nominated film “The Hurt Locker,” this year’s biggest contender at the awards ceremony, together with James Cameron’s “Avatar.” Chartier has disgraced himself with the panel by breakin... |
3 March 2010
04:35 GMT |
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With the Oscars rapidly approaching, the associated black hat search engine optimization (BHSEO) campaigns have already started. Security researchers from ALWIL Software, the creators of avast! antivirus, warn that searching online for information about Academy Award nominees has a high chance of leading to scareware... |
10 February 2010
05:01 GMT |
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James Cameron’s “Avatar” has proved to be the biggest movie of all times, both in terms of performance at the box office and in those of critics’ reception. Hailed as the most groundbreaking production of all times, the film is also up for nine Oscar nominations at this year’s awards cer... |
4 February 2010
04:32 GMT |
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A little over a month ago, word got out in the media that James Cameron’s “Avatar” was up for consideration for inclusion among nominees for the Best Motion Picture category at the Academy Awards. The film then went and won a Golden Globe in the same category, with many saying the Globes are the clo... |
2 February 2010
10:12 GMT |
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The Academy Awards ceremony, while still maintaining some of its former glory and prestige, has taken quite a hit in recent years in terms of ratings, mainly because of audiences’ shift towards what is generically known as “popcorn” productions. One solution that would represent the best of both wor... |
23 December 2009
10:30 GMT |
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Director James Cameron started thinking of making his boldest project to date about 15 years ago. Of these 15, 12 he spent actually working on it: that project is called “Avatar” and it is, as of now, considered the front-runner in the race for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, a source says for the Los... |
22 December 2009
11:16 GMT |
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With Oscar winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” making over $178 million internationally so far, the father of one of the children who appear in it is now taking to the media to vent his financial frustrations. Azharuddin Ismail’s father says film bosses should take care of the 10-year-old boy by payi... |
2 March 2009
09:52 GMT |
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It’s been years that the Academy Awards have lost their appeal with the public, at least in terms of the ABC telecast, which has recorded lower and lower ratings with each edition. However, 2009 may hold yet other unpleasant surprises for the network, with reports swirling that several sponsors, among which cos... |
18 February 2009
09:18 GMT |
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Controversy is always a good thing for a film because it gets people to talk about it, and thus acknowledge it. However, some say, there is controversy, and then there’s controversy, with one of them not being the good kind, the type that can sink a project altogether. “The Reader,” Kate Winslet&rsq... |
17 February 2009
08:58 GMT |
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Despite getting no less than eight nominalizations at this year’s edition of the Academy Awards, “The Dark Knight” was snubbed by the panel in the most important category of them all – the Best Motion Picture of the Year one. A campaign was launched on the Internet a while ago asking that Heat... |
24 January 2009
08:21 GMT |
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The awards season is just an inch away from reaching its highest pitch, with the Academy Awards nominations being announced by Forest Whitaker at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles. After weeks of intense speculation as to who would make the final cut and who would not, which has only got worse after the Golde... |
23 January 2009
03:50 GMT |
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What with all the Golden Globes and Oscar madness, moviegoers were this close to forgetting about yet another major gala for the movie industry: the Raspberry Awards, also known as the Razzies. Hated by many (actors) and loved by the public at large, because it gets to point the finger at what we liked and what not i... |
21 January 2009
12:28 GMT |
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As we all know, the Oscars are the big talk of the entertainment industry today, and the only reason for which I gave it a couple of extra hours before starting to post about the big night as well was that I decided to wait for the most significant highlights of last night's award ceremony to be available online... |
25 February 2008
06:43 GMT |
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