Hawk revealed that the current rules for Best Picture voting, which can result in from five to ten candidates, will remain in force this year.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences brings you the Oscars (yep, that's why they're called Academy Awards), and on Friday, the organization...
Wings, the first Oscar best-picture winner (and only silent film winner), was the Star Wars or Avatar of its day.
A controversial new amendment by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is raising some red flags with documentary filmmakers. The Academy an...
If the members of the Academy cannot see the film on a regular movie screen, then they should not be able to vote for it. Period.
While it's been well established that a vegetarian diet can be healthful and adequate in nutrition, children and teens do require age-appropriate intakes of certain nutrients.
There is a fierce controversy racking Hollywood over the announcement this week that Oprah Winfrey had been selected by the Academy to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Some day, ideally, we will convert the world we live in to a place where eating well and being active are the norm for us all.
This week, Loren was honored by AMPAS at their Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. What I came away with was how extraordinary a talent this woman was, with a range of performances probably unrivaled in film history.
Will Clint's next movie be a musical? A comedy? A noir thriller? No. It will be a literal-minded tale, free from dramatic devices such as irony, metaphor or anything that might make the darn thing interesting.
Bigelow's characters are human beings, every one capable of transgressing simple definitions, forcing us to think deeply about choices we make, and ultimately about human experience and our common "reality."
Aside from economists and scientists, very few academics have been appointed to policy positions in the Obama administration. Does the fault for this gap lie with the academy or the administration?
For Internet politics, the controversial becomes conventional very quickly. This Sunday's New York Times Book Review has a salient example of blogs' ascension within the conventional wisdom.
After a great year for women at the box office, the lack of a film about a woman in the final five stings.
Yes, Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei received acting nominations. But The Wrestler -- one of the fiercest, most moving, most resourceful independent entries of the year -- was shut out in the major categories.
It's Hollywood's loss. To keep women out of the nominations and awards for the Oscars. To ignore female film critics. To pretend women directors of photography do not exist.
