Academy Award

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) When small-town high school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) is possessed by a hungry demon, guys who never stood a chance with her, take on new luster in the light of Jennifer’s insatiable appetite.  From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Juno.” Jennifer’s Body is set to hit theaters on Sept...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Robert Burck says he has nothing to be ashamed of and is proud to have grown up in Greenhills, Ohio, near Cincinnati. Burck has become a tourist attraction in New York City's Times Square, strumming a guitar while wearing just boots, underwear and a hat.

By James In a move that could end up benefiting animated films, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that they are doubling the number of nominations for Best Picture at the Academy Awards from five to ten. AMPAS president Sid Ganis said, “After more than six decades, the...

By Demetrios Matheou Bless Darren Aronofsky's cotton socks. Most of us may be resigned to the fact that the film industry is a cynical world – dog eat dog, swimming with sharks, and all that. Aronofsky, fresh from the Oscar-nominated glory of The Wrestler, surely should be thinking "onward and upward", cutting...

By Paul MacInnes Woody Allen's Spanish comedy romance won an Oscar for Penelope Cruz and was hailed as his first bona fide comeback in years. Still don't want to watch it? Lucky, then, that Paul MacInnes has condensed it for you MARIA ELENA brandishing an espresso cup as if it were a sword) Que cabrona!

By Dr. Cole Abaius According to Variety, the Academy Award winner is going to step behind the director’s chair for the first time with the family film The Goblin. Gibson has massive experience with visual effects, but also has spent a large amount of time as a second unit director and shares his name with the a...

These days, Megan Fox’s career is nearly as hot as… well… she is. At the same time, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more desired screenwriter in Hollywood than the Oscar-winning lady behind “Juno,” Diablo Cody. Factor in demon possession, girl-on-girl brawling and Fox in a cheerleading co...

By Neil Miller Directed by internationally renowned French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by world famous director Luc Besson and narrated by five-time Academy Award® nominee Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons), Home aims to change the way people see the planet and their impact on it. S...

By tomoneil Boyer's unsuccessful bid for best actor for "Gaslight" ("Going My Way" star Bing Crosby won) was the third of an eventual four losing lead nods for the charismatic Frenchman. His loss numbers among the film's five Oscar defeats. Its other losing nominations, in addition to best picture: d...

By tomoneil Going My Way" also swept the Golden Globes, winning best drama picture, director and supporting actor, but Bing lost best actor to Alexander Knox ("Wilson"). Get Gold Derby on Twitter. Join the Gold Derby Group at Facebook. Become friends with Tom O'Neil on Facebook. Get Gold Derby RSS feed v...

By tomoneil Can Hugh Jackman continue the Oscars' love affair with Emmys? Sneak Peek: See Hugh Jackman warming up his Oscar act Get Gold Derby on Twitter. Join the Gold Derby Group at Facebook. Become friends with Tom O'Neil on Facebook. Get Gold Derby RSS feed via Facebook. RSS Feedburner. RSS Atom.

By Helen This is why he thinks DEPARTURES was chosen above all other contenders as BEST FOREIGN FILM for the Academy Awards in 2009. No other Japanese film has ever won such a prestigious The film to date, has garnered 78 Awards, including 10 Grand Awards in its native country, unprecedented to date...

It's probably safe to say there are no Kids' Choice Awards in Jamie Foxx's immediate future. After taking a call on his Sirius satellite radio show The Foxxhole Sunday, the Oscar winner and his zoo crew lashed out at tween dream and reigning box-office ... Digital Spy - The Hollywood Gossip

Clearly the Oscar winner, repeat Oscar winner, has too much time on his hands because he's launched a feud with 16 year old Miley Cyrus. During his weekly radio show, The Foxxhole, Foxx reportedly told Miley to "make a sex tape and grow up. ...

By tomoneil Other bloggers piled on afterward, but Gold Derby was the first to forecast the upset of Japan's "Departures" as best foreign film at the Oscars over faves "Waltz With Bashir" and "The Class." Unfortunately, the movie didn't have a Yankee distributor then, but now it will get a theatrical...

The Reader (Weinstein/Genius, $29.95 for DVD, $34.99 for Blu-ray) — Kate Winslet, after six nominations, finally took home an Oscar this year for her work in "The Reader." She was sensual and mysterious as the 36-year-old German who has a sex-fuelled affair with a 15-year-old boy after Wor...

By tomoneil During its first 14 years on NBC, "ER" reaped a record number of Emmy Award nominations (122), resulting in 22 wins, including a victory as best drama series of 1996. After it exits the television airwaves on Thursday, "ER" will have one last shot at Emmy glory.

 NY In addition to headliner Margaret Cho, stars like Bruce Vilanch, Alec Mapa and whatever remains of Janice Dickenson’s mind showed up to present awards. And even actual Academy Award-winner Dustin Lance Black was spotted at the afterparty, ...

By tomoneil Right photo: MGM Will Michelle Pfeiffer seduce Oscar voters with 'Cheri'? Which winners would you force to give back their Oscars? Matt Damon says Oscars usually get it wrong Easiest Oscars quiz ever: Which two movies suffered the worst shutout?

Six P.O.V. films are up for awards this weekend including: Up the Yangtze by Yung Chang (Outstanding Debut Feature, International Feature, Audience Choice and Cinematography), The English Surgeon by Geoffrey Smith (Outstanding International Feature and Music Composition), The Betr...

By misha_bsb(misha_bsb@hotmail.com) Following are the complete results: Men Angelina Jolie 25.9% Jennifer Aniston 24.1% Halle Berry 23.8% Penelope Cruz 22.4% Eva Mendes 20.7% Nicole Kidman 20.7% Sandra Bullock 19.0% Jennifer Garner 18.9% Lucy Liu 17.2% Reese Witherspoon 17.2% Demi Moore 16.7% Julia Roberts 15.5% Kate Winslet 15.3% K...

By Roger Durling The Academy Awards 2010 will be held Sunday, March 7, to avoid colliding with the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics.That shifts the awards ceremony to a spot two weeks later on the calendar than the one it occupied this year. In recent years, the Academy Awards have been held on the last...

By tomoneil Can 'Sopranos' Emmy champ James Gandolfini win a Tony Award? Will 'West Side Story' be slighted by the Tony Awards yet again? Is 'Irena's Vow' the next Holocaust awards champ? Jane Fonda is Tony Award front-runner for '33 Variations' Olivier Awards to 'Black Watch' and the Bard

By tomoneil Did Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson and other stars refuse to share the spotlight at the Oscars? Photo: AMPAS Get Gold Derby on Twitter. Join the Gold Derby Group at Facebook. Become friends with Tom O'Neil on Facebook. Get Gold Derby RSS feed via Facebook. RSS Feedburner. RSS Atom.

 CA By MARK SCHILLING TOKYO -- Yojiro Takita was hardly expecting an Oscar for "Departures," his film about a cellist-turned-apprentice undertaker that scooped foreign language film honors at the 81st Academy Awards. "I heard that we had the worst chance ...

By Monika Bartyzel When we think of child actors, it's easy to think of rich, overly indulgent scenarios like the one Don McKellar outlined in Childstar. But that's not always the case -- especially for the tykes of Slumdog Millionaire. It only lost two of its ten Oscar nominations, but for the young Azharuddi...

By tomoneil What an outrage! Poor "Slumdog Millionaire" comes out at only No. 31 on Rotten Tomatoes' ranking of the Oscars' 82 best-picture choices. Above "Slumdog Millioniare" on the list are such over-rated past champs as "The Best Years of Our Lives," "All the King's Men," "An American in Paris" an...

By Richard In the days since the film won a raft of Oscars and generated smiley goodwill across Hollywood, there's been a surge of followup stories, like the ones about the understandably tired young boy being publicly beaten by his father for being tired. Or photos of the the girl who played youngest...

Slumdog Millionaire, a rags-to-riches tale set in Mumbai's slums, was the big winner of the Academy Awards, scooping eight Oscars, including the award for best picture. They waved and blew kisses to the crowd, showing off their newly acquired red carpet skills.

By The Huffington Post News Team In the week since "Slumdog Millionaire" won eight Oscars, the child actors have gone to Disneyland, arrived to a heroes' welcome in Mumbai, and tried... In the week since "Slumdog Millionaire" won eight Oscars, the child actors have gone to Disneyland, arrived to a heroes' welcome in Mumba...

By Nestor Torre MANILA, Philippines—For many years now, the Oscars’ annual awards rites have delighted and excited hundreds of millions of viewers all over the world. The US Academy Awards must be doing something right—right? Uh, not really. ...

By dianafilmcritic By Diana Srougi MONTREAL (RushPRNews) 02/26/09- It’s an incredibly slow week for DVD releases. The Oscars are over, and the excitemBent has seemed to drastically halt. There aren’t many films that came out, but here are the main titles. What Just Happened?: Hollywood Crisis Robert De Niro...

The 34-year-old screenwriter accepted the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay on Sunday. His acceptance speech was censored in fifty different Asian nations by pan-Asian satellite TV network STAR, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

By tomoneil The Amazing Race" has won all six Emmy Awards handed out for best reality competition series. Surprisingly, Keoghan was not nominated last year for the inaugural category as reality show host -- "Survivor" wrangler Jeff Probst won that Emmy Award. The only upside to that snub was that it me...

I've never taken much interest in the Oscar Awards. Best director? Mleh. Best cinematography? Mleh. But the red carpet offers a lot-- of hot stars. I mean these women wait their entire lifetimes to be invited to the Oscars, and they aren't going to ... Magic red carpet role Weekend Post

By The Huffington Post News Editors Sharon Stone attended the17th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation's Oscar party in LA Sunday night in a daring sheer panel and lace dress and no bra. After posing on the red carpet both alone and with a mystery date, Stone, 50, mingled with guests including Quincy Jones and Elle Macpherson on...

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By Peter Martin Oscar Shocker: One of the few genuine surprises of last night's Oscar telecast was the victory by Japan's Departures (Okuribito) as Best Foreign Language Film. Most observers thought that Israel's Waltz with Bashir or France's The Class would win; the former won the Golden Globe, while...

By The Huffington Post News Editors The day after "Slumdog Millionaire" dominated the Oscars, the child actors from the film took a trip to Disneyland. For some of the children, like Rubina Ali (young Latika), the trip to Los Angeles was the first time she has left Mumbai or been on a plane.

By Jayne Lyn Stahl I remember going to see 90% of the films nominated for Best Picture, and lamenting it when I missed even one of them. Yes, those were the days of "As Good As It Gets," "Julia," "The English Patient," "Terms of Endearment," "Shakespeare In Love," "Schindler's List," and "Road to Perdition."

JANE FONDA, it’s hard to believe, is 71. While the rest of us have just about managed one life, she’s had half a dozen. She has been a sex kitten, a fashion model, a radical and war protester, an Oscar-winning movie star, an exercise impresario and the consort of a billionaire. Her marital histo...

By Peter Martin Who wants to be a Bollywood movie fan? Slumdog Millionaire has reaped rich rewards -- not only the eight Academy Awards last night, but also box office receipts totaling nearly $100 million in the US.. More people may have seen The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but Slumdog Millionaire is...

By Lewis Wallace See also: See also: Exclusive Images Reveal McG's Terminator Salvation Vision Beyond Oscar, Heath Ledger's Legacy Grew Out of Intense Devotion to Craft A preview reel that aired after Sunday's Academy Awards broadcast gave movie fans a peek at Terminator Salvation, Harry...

By The Huffington Post News Team Stars hugged, celebrated, looked stunned at winning, and had their makeup touched up off-camera at the Oscars. Below is a slideshow of some moments captured... Stars hugged, celebrated, looked stunned at winning, and had their makeup touched up off-camera at the Oscars.

By Jon Chattman Bottom line is it's bad enough the Oscars don't award mainstream movies like The Dark Knight, why should we have to sit through a telecast of meaningless vignettes and old-fashioned singing and dancing? I mean really... last night's telecast beat us over the head senseless.

By nick plowman(noreply@blogger.com) Danny, when I go up for my Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 2011, I will invite you for sure ;) I haven't seen the telecast yet, will watch it in 30 minutes, but I have read the winner list and seen a few acceptance speeches online - my favourite being Dustin Lance Black's.

By Vince Horiuchi(noreply@blogger.com) Boy, those are words I never thought I'd write in awhile.But the 81st Annual Academy Awards this year was a triumph. The ceremony, directed by new blood this year (by "Chicago" director Bill Condon), had flair, a touch of class and was mostly entertaining. And "Slumdog Millionaire" won Best...

By Chi Tung In these topsy-turvy times, it's oddly appropriate for a film like Slumdog Millionaire to storm its way nearly unobstructed to a Best Picture Oscar. One... In these topsy-turvy times, it's oddly appropriate for a film like Slumdog Millionaire to storm its way nearly unobstructed to a Best P...

By The Huffington Post News Editors After the party are the after parties, and none is more exclusive than the Vanity Fair Oscar party. This year the party moved to the Sunset Tower after a year off. Scroll down for photos of many of the guests arriving, some from the awards and others straight from home. See red carpet pictures

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) On /Film, we’ve promoted Slumdog Millionaire fairly relentlessly (in my review, I lauded it as my favorite film of 2008). Apparently, the Hollywood Foreign Press and the AMPAS are in accord with our opinion on the film, awarding four Golden Globes and a slew of Academy Award nominations,...