Oscars Reviews, Interviews & More

This week Hulk Hogan finally came clean and admitted that Darren Aronofsky wanted him to play the lead role in the 2008 critical hit The Wrestler. The role that reignited Mickey Rourke's career was originally meant for Hogan, at least according to Hogan. Also this week were the Oscar nominations: while many great...

When the Oscars were announced, there were some favorites that didn't make the cut. It happens every year, and a number of performers - like Albert Brooks in Drive, Patton Oswalt and Charlize Theron in Young Adult, and Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin were not nominated. Oswalt - on Twitter - joked about having a party for the...

The climax of award season is finally upon us--the Oscars have been announced and, for once, there are a few surprises in the mix (but that's not exactly a good thing).  The Artist is, rather shockingly, not leading the pack with the most reviews (see what film is after the jump), while the critically slammed Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close nabbed some major noms and,...

For those who like playing Oscar pools, DGA nominations tend to be a good harbinger for the actual Oscar nominations. So it's worth noting what made the cut: Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Martin Scorsese's Hugo, Alexander Payne's The Descendants, and...

The Artist is gaining steam to be the picture to beat this year at the Oscars, and just today its director Michel Hazanavicius was nominated for the DGA's best director award. The film has not had many detractors, but there was a shot across the bow today when Kim Novak - star of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo -...

In an attempt to show how edgy and hip the Academy Awards can really be,  the Academy decided to hire the clever folks at Funny or Die to make a trailer for the 84th Academy Awards ceremony.  And, despite being jam-packed with cameos by celebrities no one will really care about (host Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, William...

So, that happened. With Brett Ratner's recent exodus at the Oscars, and Eddie Murphy quickly jetting as well, it was hard to know how fast it would be until someone was set up with the gig. And now we know it's Brian Grazer who will be producing the award show to end all award shows, the 84th Academy awards.

Because his bestest buddy Brett Ratner decided to back out of producing the Oscars next year (for lobbing a an offense comment towards homosexuals, and then bragging about sex with Lindsay Lohan, and for making a ton of offensively bland films), now Eddie Murphy has also followed suit, joining his Tower Heist director in bowing out of next year’s ceremonies.

Remember earlier in the week when we reported that Brett Ratner slipped his foot into his mouth and stated that only “fag” directors rehearse their films before shooting?  Well, on top of that, he’s been spending his Tower Heist promotional tour talking less about the film (which might be for the best) and is spending more of his time graphically describing sex with...

Brett Ratner is producing the next Oscar telecast. Brett Ratner just directed Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy in Tower Heist, and has been the rumored choice for a Beverly Hills Cop 4 movie. So perhaps it's no surprise that Ratner asked Murphy to host the Academy Awards. The surprise is that Murphy has said yes (according to Deadline...

Two years back the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided that five wasn't enough best picture nominees. Some thought this had to do with 2008's biggest blockbuster The Dark Knight not making the cut. Regardless, for the last two ceremonies there have been ten nominees. This year the academy says that there will be five nominees, but for there to be more...

A very solid week on DVD this week, crowned by this year's Best Picture winner, The King's Speech, making its way on to small screens. But that's only leading a charge that includes bombs aplenty including misfires from Peter Weir, Sofia Coppola and a colossal pile of sunk costs from Jack Black! All that plus some very cool retro TV on DVD choices and the latest...

Don't get me wrong: The King's Speech is a handsome, well-shot, well-acted, well-written movie. It's quite good and Colin Firth deserved his statue. But, it's also the exact kind of movie the Oscars shouldn't be nominating in the first place, and proves that the Oscars have never been less relevant than they are now.

The 83rd Annual Academy Awards were hard to watch. Not because of their predictable winners but because of their horrible hosts. Last year we had some issues with Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin's one-two punch but this year has them beat. When we first heard that James Franco and Anne Hathaway were going to host the show we were worried. Very worried. And with good reason. They're not...

The 83rd Annual Academy Awards have come and gone and the night belonged to the king! The period piece The King's Speech won Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Motion Picture over fan favorite The Social Network. Other big winners of the night included Natalie Portman for Black Swan, and...

The winner of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Picture is The King's Speech. Producers Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin accepted the award on behalf of the cast and crew. The trio wanted to thank their financers for taking such a huge risk on the film that didn't seem like the obvious choice for backers. See who they...

The winner of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Actor is Colin Firth for The King's Speech. The actor was the front runner in the category this year and previously won the Golden Globe for it. During his speech, he joked that his career had peaked and he was getting a strange feeling in his stomach that might make its way to his legs in the form of...

The winner of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Actress is Natalie Portman for Black Swan. The actress was the front runner in the category this year and previously won the Golden Globe for her performance in the film. She thanked her parents, and everyone she's every worked with including Mike Nichols who she called her champion for the past 10...

The winner of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Director is Tom Hooper for The King's Speech. This was somewhat of an upset considering David Fincher was the frontrunner to win the award. In his speech he thanked Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth. He also thanked his mother who brought The King's Speech to his attention when she attended a play reading in London....

***For Other Sections: Part 1 - Red Carpet to Best Supporting Actress; Part 2 - Best Animated Short to Costume Design; Part 4 - Best Director to Best Picture *** Doing a quick check of the Twitter and the Facebook and the General News around the Internet, it seems as if this Oscar Ceremony is causing the most visceral negative reaction of any show in recent memory. It's...