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Oscar Nominees

Oscar's 6 Biggest Winners (Even if They Don’t Go Home With Trophies)

Posted 02.24.2013 | Impact

By Stephen Saito, TakePart Win or lose on Sunday, these half dozen Academy Award-nominated films have already made waves of social change. Silve...

The 10 Best Things Female Oscar Nominees Have Said This Awards Season

The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 02.22.2013 | Women

In the weeks leading up to the Academy Awards, which air Sunday Feb. 24, every news outlet has been busy interviewing the Oscar-nominated actresses. T...

Before They Were Oscar Nominees ..

Posted 02.22.2013 | TV

A long time ago, long before the word "Oscar" ever entered their lives, many of this year's nominees were appearing in minor roles on TV shows. Be...

You're Invited to My Oscar Party: A Feast of the Southern Wild

Sarah Shanfield | Posted 04.24.2013 | Comedy
Sarah Shanfield

A night filled with stars and studs, winners and losers, but mostly just a lot of double-sided tape. Bring your friends! Unless your friend is a shipwrecked tiger.

WATCH: The Best Actress Nominees

The Huffington Post | Eva Hill | Posted 02.22.2013 | Entertainment

The time has come: The 85th annual Academy Awards ceremony takes place on Sunday, Feb. 24 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif. How many of ...

Who Will Win Best Supporting Actress?

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 02.19.2013 | Entertainment

Oscar season kicked off in January of 2012 when "Beasts of the Southern Wild" wowed audiences at the Sundance Film Festival. Thirteen months later, "B...

Lights Camera Action for Producers Awards

Patricia Rust | Posted 04.13.2013 | Entertainment
Patricia Rust

The first bright face I saw at the Producers Guild's Awards Show at the Beverly Hilton was our own Marlo Thomas, there to present an award named for her father, Danny Thomas, (who is truly a founding father of television), for episodic television for Louie.

WATCH: 'Argo' Screenwriter Explains Film's Famous Line

The Huffington Post | Lindsay Wilkes-Edrington | Posted 02.08.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

In the Oscar-nominated film "Argo," there is a line repeated throughout the story for comedic relief. Turns out, it provided a few laughs in real life...

All Roads Lead To Phillip Seymour Hoffman: Photo Credits

Posted 02.05.2013 | Entertainment

This year’s acting nominees share more than the ā€˜honor’ — they each have a lover, friend or colleague in common with fellow Oscar contender Ph...

Laura Prudom

Jessica Chastain Talks Childhood Dream

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Prudom | Posted 02.13.2013 | Entertainment

Click to enlarge! On a typically balmy Los Angeles morning, a number of 2013 Oscar nominees attended the Academy Awards' annual luncheon at the Bev...

Huffington: The Oscar Issue

Posted 04.06.2013 | Entertainment

In a special Oscar edition of Huffington, we tackle the perennial question: How to fix an award show everyone loves to hate. After canvassing an exhau...

REVIEW: 'Zero Dark Thirty'

Emma Seligman | Posted 03.18.2013 | Teen
Emma Seligman

What do you get when you put a master of suspense, a tour de force of acting and the most fascinating true story of the last decade together? The answer is "Zero Dark Thirty."

5 Things To Know About the Oscar Nominees

Helen Marie Groothuis | Posted 03.17.2013 | Teen
Helen Marie Groothuis

It's that time of year again, when Hollywood pays tribute the best in cinema. There's no question that 2012 was a stellar year at the box office, but how did it translate in the eyes of the eyes of the Academy?

Mighty Movie Podcast: Philippe Falardeau on Monsieur Lazhar

Dan Persons | Posted 06.13.2012 | Entertainment
Dan Persons

Philippe Falardeau's Monsieur Lazhar finds finely-shaded drama in a venue that has defeated many a filmmaker: a classroom full of children.

Top 7 Most Charitable Oscar Nominees

Posted 02.27.2012 | Impact

For some of the Oscar nominees, getting recognition for stellar acting performances isn’t the only mark of great achievement. Making a difference...

NOW AND THEN

Posted 02.26.2012 | Celebrity

Perhaps pre-Oscars buzz surrounding Best Picture nominee "The Artist" is only right in a year where its nominees are tried-and-true Hollywood veterans...

Amy Lee

Oscars 2012: Best Actress Category Recognizes Physically Transformative Roles

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 02.24.2012 | Home

Five women in five very different roles make up the Best Actress category at the Oscars this year. But four of them share one thing: Each had to trans...

Oscar Nominee On Leaving Mexico For U.S. Acting Career

The Huffington Post/AP | By KATHERINE CORCORAN | Posted 02.24.2012 | Latino Voices

MEXICO CITY -- Demian Bichir learned an important lesson when he left his native Mexico to launch a U.S. acting career and ended up working in a Mex...

A Fast and Furious Look at the Oscars

Lawrence Shulruff | Posted 04.23.2012 | Entertainment
Lawrence Shulruff

Spicing up the broadcast would be a quick fix -- It's time to add some new award categories. So Hollywood, take note: These recommendations could be the cure for that after-party hangover.

Losing an Academy Award: The End

Rick Schwartz | Posted 04.22.2012 | Entertainment
Rick Schwartz

People I do business with every day, people who are allegedly my friends -- completely avoid me. I'm talking "see-me-and-make-a-hard-left-turn-into-the-cocktail-waitress" avoid. This fascinates me in a morbid kind of way, so I purposely begin to seek these people out.

ReThink Review: Undefeated -- Why Sports Matter

Jonathan Kim | Posted 04.18.2012 | Entertainment
Jonathan Kim

Oscar-nominated documentary Undefeated follows a season in the life of the Manassas High School football team. But as is true of any great sports story, it really isn't about the final score.

Oscars Made Easy: 'The Tree Of Life'

Posted 04.15.2012 | Entertainment

"The Tree of Life" Nominated For: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography What's It About: Considering one of the film's stars had no c...

The Long Road to Peace -- and a Short Film Nomination

Terry George | Posted 04.14.2012 | Home
Terry George

Our film The Shore is the story of one small act of reconciliation, yet it mirrors the courageous achievement of the people of Northern Ireland, Protestant and Catholic, who after 800 years of division and bloodshed came together to talk and make their peace with one another.

Losing an Academy Award: The Aftermath

Rick Schwartz | Posted 04.11.2012 | Entertainment
Rick Schwartz

As you near the roped-off section where the Big Winners gloat, you suddenly devise a really solid, well-conceived plan -- grab their statues and run for the exits. Have your name engraved over theirs later. Deny you were ever at the party in the first place.

Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Rooney Mara Attend The Academy Awards Nominations Luncheon

Posted 04.07.2012 | Entertainment

The only thing better than being nominated for an Academy Award? A free lunch, of course! Monday afternoon in Beverly Hills, this year's Oscar nominee...