Oscars Reviews, Interviews & More
If there's anything Jimmy Kimmel loves more than hating on Matt Damon, it's hanging out with his celebrity friends. Last year following the Academy Awards, the late night host debuted Movie: The Movie, a star-studded parody that pocked fun at every movie from the previous year. This year, following the awards ceremony, he made a sequel with even more celebrities...
It's finally Oscar Sunday, and many of us couldn't be happier. The town of Los Angeles has just been buzzing with anticipation all week as we all quietly make bets over who will win at this year's 85th Annual Academy Awards. Now the winners will finally be announced and we hope there's a couple of upsets in the mix. If the likes of Ben...
This weekend we're finally going to find out who will be awarded a shiny new Oscar for their outstanding work in Hollywood. You can cross your fingers, hoping your favorites will go home with the trophy under their arms but it's going to be a close race. The threat of an upset always looms overhead. Since we're all speculating over who could win on Sunday, I'll be running down my own list of...
The past few hours have been exciting to say the least. Early this morning movie lovers were greeted by Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone as they announced the 2013 Academy Awards nominees. As usual, the internet completely blew up with mixed reactions on which lucky filmmakers and actors made the cut. Let's run down some of the best and worst of the nominations, along with some happy reactions...
It's the most wonderful time of the year. No, we're not referring to Christmas, but for Hollywood it's the closest thing to it. We're talking about none other than the 2013 Academy Awards. Each year movie editors, cinematographers, filmmakers and actors get their chance to win the Oscar. This year the race just got a little bit more interesting.
Though the award itself is not as important as the Oscar (in the scheme of things), when the Directors Guild of America puts out their nominations, it's a bellwether for the nominations (which will be coming January 10), and now we have a pretty clear view of the field. The nominees are: Ben Affleck for Argo, Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark...
So it gets down to it. Though December hasn't started yet, we're only a couple of days away from the first screenings of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and with prestige pictures like Les Miserables and Zero Dark Thirty having screened this weekend, it means the only big holdout is this and...
First we'd like to welcome you to Oscar Scuttlebutt, ScreenCrave's official weekly column for everything pertaining to the Academy Awards. Each week we'll be talking about a different movie or two and how it might fit into the race.
Ahead of next year’s Academy Awards ceremony, the Oscars have changed the rules for Best Original Song, so that there must always be five nominees – as opposed to last year’s two. We say it’s about time. They've also renamed one of the production categories. Read on for more.
Fan of the more fun and light-hearted Oscar ceremonies? Well, in that case we’ve got some good news for you; apparently Jimmy Fallon, host of the infectiously energetic Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, is in talks to host next year’s Academy Awards broadcast, and is sure to bring some laughter, energy and added extra sparkle to the already glittering annual awards...
Actress Sean Young was arrested on Sunday night following the Oscars, apparently for trying to enter a post Oscars party that she was not inviting to, in a move which California lawbooks unofficially refer to as “Lindsay Lohaning.” Now, she’s demanding an apology for the debacle, and threatening a lawsuit.
In a year with a number of great movies, The Oscars mostly went for comfort food over bold decisions, but what else is to be expected at this point? It's hard to be upset with a voting block that has - time and time again - picked nice and safe and maybe a little political over most of the films that tend to matter. When you look back at 1999, who still thinks American...
After the release of a study which indicates that most Oscar voters are wealthy white men, how smart a play does it seem to feature the host of the Academy Awards, Billy Crystal (a wealthy white man), in a sketch in which he appears in blackface? Well, it’s a play that the Oscars ran with on Sunday night, and it’s catching a bit of criticism (beneath the cacophony about...
Because it wouldn’t be Oscar night without a few desperate bids for shameless self-promotion, Sacha Baron Cohen did arrive to the Academy Awards telecast, as he was rumored to do, in full costume and character to promote his upcoming film, The Dictator. And the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences didn’t ban him after all, which led to a briefly...
It’s that time of year again, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences joins together with the Hollywood community to pose on a red carpet, then hand out little gold men to those who have made the greatest achievements in cinema over the past year (I dare you to say that last part aloud without snickering). Wondering who will nab best picture? Will George...
The time has come to say goodbye to the films of 2011. Au revoir The Artist, see you on Netflix! No more Michael Fassbender puns, or Octavia Spencer acceptance speeches. So what better way to say goodbye, and celebrate the Oscars, than by toasting Hollywood's cream of the crop with a fun drinking game? We understand that some of these...
Yesterday, we reported that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may revoke comedic actor Sacha Baron Cohen’s tickets to the Academy Awards on Sunday if he arrives to the awards ceremony dressed as the titular character from his upcoming film, The Dictator. And because the news that story generated is just about the best promotion the film could ask...
The process of Oscar predictions has changed completely over the last twenty years. Where there may have been favorites and hopes before that came with no sense of what could actually happen on Oscar night, blogging has turned the award ceremony into a stats game, where there are way fewer surprises than ever before. But, if you pay attention to the guilds, you have a great guide as to who is...
Because Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film, The Dictator, could use the press, and because the Academy Awards desperately, desperately needs a reason for people to tune in to a three-hour telecast in which Billy Crystal mugs his way through a series of celebrity backslappery, news broke this week that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will...
One of our most highly anticipated films of the year reunites Brad Pitt with The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford director Andrew Dominik, and after the extended post-production schedule of their last film, it was hard to know how long the wait would be for their follow-up Cogan's Trade. Wonder no more, The Weinstein...
