An Oscar highlight (or lowlight, depending on your point of view) was the first lady giving the award for Best Picture. This phenomenon was all the mo...

The Best Picture Winner for 2013 was announced at Sunday's Oscars, with "Argo" taking the trophy. The Ben Affleck movie bested "Life of Pi," "Silv...

The 2013 Academy Award for Best Picture was awarded to Hollywood's favorite film: "Argo." Oscar looked good in Ben Affleck's hand, especially as the s...

The 2013 Academy Awards took place on Sunday and "Amour" won Best Foreign Language Film. Austria's "Amour" was up against Norway's "Kon-Tiki," Chil...

Look at the history of the award for Best Picture. It is littered with bad choices that get more and more glaring over time as the titles that lost rise in popularity and prominence over those that won.

We can hope our favorite movie will come away with the big prize, but in the long run, some of the best pictures ever made did not receive Best Picture Oscars.

For your pre-Oscars 2013 enjoyment, What's Trending gathered YouTube's most popular parodies of the films nominated for Best Picture at this Year's Academy Awards.

In 1999, "Shakespeare in Love" picked up seven Oscars, beating out Steven Spielberg's World War II epic "Saving Private Ryan" for Best Picture. It als...

So, why not save everyone the anguish, and create a Best Actor/Actress Under 12? Or, better yet, a "You Must Be 'This' Tall to Win This Award" category? Anything would be better than the way it is now.

I still don't see "Silver Linings" gaining the kind of momentum it would need to call "Argo" back to the runway (only one more week of this metaphor, Chris, I swear!), but the campaign could help Russell win Best Adapted Screenplay and even Best Director.

NEW YORK — How accurate is "Zero Dark Thirty"? Is "Lincoln" an epic of historical recreation or a high school history lesson? What did you think...

Good thing Chris Rosen has a jolly sense of humor. Soon after Michael Hogan and I raise him up as a model of Oscar punditry for picking Argo early on to win Best Picture, we tear him down in this webcam chat.

85 percent of winners came in the top two in nominations, and 93 percent of the winners at least made bronze. So should you go ahead and fill out your Oscar ballot with Lincoln or Life of Pi, this year's runner-up with 11 nominations?

"Argo" has producers and actors behind it, a push that gives Affleck's film the momentum of a runaway freight train. Meanwhile, we're all still waiting for "Lincoln" to win one significant Oscar precursor.

Thirteen Oscarologists are backing Lincoln, compared to 10 for Argo and one for Silver Linings Playbook.

Ben Affleck's "Argo" won Best Motion Picture - Drama at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, but the film could have a difficult time repeating the vict...