Tag: Oscars

Michelle Obama made a surprise and unprecedented appearance on Sunday's Oscars telecast when she presented the award for Best Picture, the first time a...

Dame Shirley Bassey earned a standing ovation at the Oscars on Sunday when she lead a tribute to James Bond’s 50th birthday by singing...

”Zero Dark Thirty,” about the decade-long US hunt for Osama bin Laden, has received more attention in the US Congress than it did at...

"Beasts of the Southern Wild", nominated for four Oscars including Best Picture, is one the most unlikely contenders ever for Hollywood's top honors. Produced for...

This year’s Academy Awards race for Best Picture is a lot like last year’s race for the Republican presidential nomination. Only the stakes are...

The final countdown to the Oscars has begun, with silent French film The Artist as the clear favourite to take the coveted best picture...

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy became the first Pakistani filmmaker to earn an Oscar nomination with her film ‘Saving Face’, which was nominated in the ‘Documentary, Short...

Prize-heavy silent movie "The Artist" hopes for yet more good news on Tuesday, as nominations are announced for the Oscars, the climax to Hollywood's...

Oscars veteran Billy Crystal stepped in Thursday to host this year's Academy Awards show, after actor Eddie Murphy pulled out following a row over...

In a day of drama befitting Hollywood, Oscar organisers on Wednesday said comedian Eddie Murphy was bowing out as host of the world’s top...

Veteran Hollywood comedy star Eddie Murphy is to host the Oscars awards show next year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said...

Next year's Oscars show will take place on Sunday, February 26, the organisers of the movie industry's biggest awards fest said. Nominees for the...

NEW YORK - For a while there, we almost believed it. With dozens of first-time nominees - several not old enough to drink - and truly edgy films competing for the top prizes, not to mention two very pretty and zeitgeist-ruling people hosting the ceremony, we bought into the line the Academy masterfully fed us: that this was going to be, indeed, the young Oscars
So, setting aside the fact that we whine about the awards every single year we thought there was hope. We thought that

LOS ANGELES - "The King's Speech" was crowned the big winner with four Oscars, including best film and best actor for its star Colin Firth on a night with few surprises among winners at the top movie awards. Joining British actor Firth on Oscar's stage was the film's director Tom Hooper and its screenwriter, David Seidler.
Natalie Portman claimed the best actress Academy Award for her portrayal of a young ballerina who grows into womanhood in "Black Swan," and Melissa Leo and

LOS ANGELES - The question that's kept Oscar observers guessing since nominations were announced last month - Will Banksy show up? - remains unanswered. But the motion picture academy says the bad-boy British street artist is more than welcome to attend.
The elusive graffiti star is up for best documentary feature for his directing debut, 'Exit through the Gift Shop.' Since he prefers to hide his face, it has seemed unlikely he would reveal himself before half a billion viewers

LOS ANGELES - Street artist Banksy's first film "Exit Through the Gift Shop" is up for an Oscar -- and it seems the subversive Briton may be waging an unorthodox awards campaign on the walls and billboards of Los Angeles. Several examples of graffiti bearing the hallmarks of Banksy's style and humor have turned up in areas of the city in recent days, including a Charlie Brown figure apparently bent on arson, and a cocktail-swigging Mickey Mouse.
The Mickey Mouse graffiti, first

NEW YORK - In handing out 120 nominations, the Oscars inevitably spurn others. "Snub" is the word of choice for these oversights, and Christopher Nolan is well acquainted with its meaning.
Two years after seeing his "The Dark Knight" earn neither a best picture nomination nor a directing nod, Nolan was passed over for directing "Inception," another film both acclaimed and popular at the box office. Composer Hans Zimmer, nominated for his original score for "Inception," said Nolan