Academy Awards

From The Room: Hollywood Circa 2051

July 28, 2008 - INTERIOR: THE EXXON-KODAK THEATER ANGLE ON: THE PRESENTERS "And the Academy Award for best performance by a leading man goes to Alejandro Khaleed-Gold for his portrayal of "Enemy Combatant #143" in "THE JUGGLER OF GITMO." PAN AUDIENCE Applause. Applause. Alejandro Khaleed-Goldfish kisses h...

From The Room: On Our To-Do List: Javier Bardem

February 27, 2008 - Nothing is sexier than uncertainty and the unknown. Which certainly explains why Oscar-winner Javier Bardem (or Javi, as we like to call him), who is overflowing with contradictions and pulsing with unpredictability, is so sexy. With his tender eyes and broken nose, he's both a lover and a...

From The Room: My Best Picture

February 25, 2008 - My favorite movie of the year was the one about the heartless con man who's obsessed with finding oil. Its called No End In Sight...

There will be no Oscars for old atoning Juno Michael Clayton

February 25, 2008 - We were all prepared for a sloppy show. When the writer's strike ended just over a week before the Academy Awards, it left producers scrambling to cobble together the broadcast. The nearly pornographic overuse of montage meant more airtime was devoted to Oscars past than it was to this...

From The Feed: The award for best war goes to...

February 25, 2008 - An American troop in Baghdad presents the award for best documentary short subject...

From The Feed: It's no "Blame Canada"

February 25, 2008 - Kirsten Chenoweth performs a song from "Enchanted" during the Academy Awards...

From The Feed: Oscars, Schmoskers, no big whoop

February 25, 2008 - Regis interviews two lucky, online winners of seats for the Academy Awards...

The 23/6 Oscar Acceptance Speech-o-Tron

February 24, 2008 - The 80th Academy Awards have been sealed into the history books, but if you missed any of this year's most memorable acceptance speeches...

Oscar night: Hollywood masturbates itself

February 24, 2008 - Los Angeles' Kodak Theatre is swarming with stand-ins and stagehands as the Academy Awards ceremony reaches showtime. The city could have lost $400 million if the Writers' Guild strike had kept the Oscars from happe...

From The Room: There Will Be Cocktail Weenies!!

February 22, 2008 - By Monica LeTorte, Home and Garden Columnist for the Lake Mills Leader Dear Friends, Apologies for such a late invitation! With this silly writers strike (how rude!), I was unsure if the highlight of the year, my Oscar Night Party, was going to go on. Imagine, that's li...

23/6 has Oscar Fever! (symptoms include vomiting, loose stools)

February 22, 2008 - Picking "No Country for Old Men" to win Best Picture at this weekend's Academy Awards ceremony has been passé for weeks, yet the media landscape is still flooded with article after...

From The Room: The Oscars: There Will Be Liveblogging

February 24, 2008 - Click the 'bio' link for information about our livebloggers. 7:10p Brad Taylor Negron: Hello....I am at the Beverly Hilton Jim David: I'm currently under Tilda Swinton's dress. DISGRASIAN: What's it like in there? Jim David: I have my own video monitor. Brad Taylor Negron: Ruby...

From The Room: The Academy Hates Sex

January 25, 2008 - This week, when Academy Award nominations were announced, the omission of Ang Lee's Lust, Caution from the Foreign Language Film category struck us as a travesty. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences rejected th...

From The Room: Oscar Season Lifetime Achievement Awards

January 23, 2008 - With the Academy Awards coming up (or possibly not? Who knows!), I have been scanning the blogosphere trying to find crowd favorites and balancing them against previous academy decisions. Well, actually, I did a...

All the glitz, glamour and crushing disappointment of Hollywood

January 23, 2008 - Hollywood's reeling from Heath Ledger's untimely death, but that's not the only reason tears are falling in Tinseltown. In the aftermath of this year's Oscar nominations, agents and publicists are doing their damnedest to convince their...