Let the backlash begin. Like some of the most polarizing best picture winners -- "Shakespeare in Love," "Crash," "No Country for Old Men" -- the rules change made Wednesday to the Academy Awards' top category is splitting Oscar voters. The growing ...Read More
"Precious," the new drama from director Lee Daniels stirring up beaucoup Oscar buzz, has stirred up something else as well: controversy within the black community. That the picture would inspire some bickering is not all that surprising. It is, after all, ...Read More
In an opinion section that practically bashes President Obama every day, how can Jennifer Rubin whine about Sarah Palin being bashed ("Pummeling Sarah Palin," PostScript, Nov. 16)?
Most of the country thinks she's a joke, and, if she is going to ...Read More
LOS ANGELES—Academy Awards overseers have chosen an entertainment veteran to direct the next Oscar show. Hamish Hamilton is directing the 82nd Oscar broadcast on March 7. Hamilton's credits include directing the MTV Video Music Awards and the MTV Europe Music Awards, along ...Read More
Continuing its mantra of shaking up the status quo, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has tapped Hamish Hamilton to direct the 82nd Oscar ceremonies.Like the telecast's producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman, Hamilton is a newcomer to ...Read More
With the Oscar race wide open, is there any chance that one of those 10 Best Picture slots will go to a popcorn flick? Well, both critics and audiences loved J.J. Abrams' reboot of "Star Trek" (PG-13, $29.99) when it came ...Read More
LOS ANGELES—Without the burden of a live worldwide broadcast, members of the film academy threw themselves a lively yet relaxed dinner party to honor the first Oscar winners of the season.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences broke with ...Read More
Without the burden of a live worldwide broadcast, members of the film academy threw themselves a lively yet relaxed dinner party to honor the first Oscar winners of the season.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences broke with tradition ...Read More
The first annual Governors Awards banquet, created to bestow career-oriented Oscars on the worthy without taking up time on the annual awards broadcast, was loving, lustrous and long. Held in a giant banquet room near the Kodak Theater, where the regular ...Read More
The Academy Awards won't be presented until March, but the first Oscar statuettes of the season are set to be handed out Saturday night at a private, black-tie dinner in Hollywood. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is breaking ...Read More
Facing fierce resistance, the Obama administration on Friday backed off a plan to ban sales of raw oysters from the Gulf of Mexico during warm-weather months. The Food and Drug Administration said it would put the proposal on hold while it ...Read More
LOS ANGELES - A record 20 films have been submitted for best animated feature at the Academy Awards.
As long as at least 16 films qualify, there will be five nominees in the feature-length animation category.
The category has had only three ...Read More
An animated Oscars race It looks like the Oscars' best picture race won't be the only category getting a boost in nominees this year. Twenty animated films have been submitted for consideration in the best animated feature film race for the 82nd ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar organizers on Wednesday said a record 20 animated films have been submitted for Academy Awards, from studio hits like "Up" and "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" to independently made "Mary and Max." The Academy of ...Read More
For the first time, 20 films have been submitted for considerationin the animated feature film category of the Academy Awards.
The films are now likely to force the Academy to slot five filmsinto the animation race, a first since the category's ...Read More
Users who want the Mac OS X experience on a netbook budget have figured out how to hack the Mac OS X operating system to force it to work on netbooks based on the Intel Atom processor. The latest update ...Read More
Muslims proclaim their praise five times a day by raising their hands and declaring "Allahu akbar," or "God is great" -- the same words Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is reported to have uttered before the Fort Hood shooting rampage last ...Read More
As word spread that a gunman had opened fire at Fort Hood leaving a trail of carnage, a chilling realization swept across the U.S. Muslim community: He has an Islamic name.
From a professor who just testified in Congress, to a ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arab and Muslim Americans on Friday braced for the possibility of verbal or physical attacks after an Army psychiatrist of Arab descent allegedly killed 13 during a shooting rampage at a military base in Texas.
Suspected gunman Major ...Read More
Boyle is going to find an actor to play Aron Ralston
Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle is to film the true story of a climber who was forced to amputate part of his arm, according to US media reports.
The movie, called ...Read More
