Can WALL-E Win Best Picture? WALL-E, Pixar's lonely little post-apocalyptic robot, is quickly collecting a lot of friends. Critics have applauded the...
AP | Posted 06.26.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES -- Heath Ledger is getting a fond tribute from his collaborators on "The Dark Knight." The end credits of the "Batman Begins" sequel incl...
James Rocchi | Posted 03.07.2008 | Entertainment
Juno may now be enshrined in Hollywood history, but the election's a long way off, a lot more than a gold statue's on the line, and a little well thought-out, principled, rational dislike might still have an effect.
Charles Warner | Posted 02.28.2008 | Media
Perhaps No Country is a film that makes people confront their fears of death by pathological foreigners and provides a psychological outlet for them.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 02.26.2008 | Entertainment
If this year's Oscar fashions were too tame for your taste, check out the Saving NOLA Mardi Gras Open House. Styles were more Bjork than Tilda Swinton, so mix up a Sazerac, crank some Subdudes and check it out.
Richard Valeriani | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
Ralph (Harold Stassen) Nader hits new nadir, throws his ego into the ring again, announces he's crawling for President. VP candidate will be the Tooth Fairy.
AP | Posted 02.25.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — The Oscars are a ratings dud. Nielsen Media Research says preliminary ratings for the 80th annual Academy Awards telecast are 14 perc...
RJ Eskow | Posted 02.25.2008 | Entertainment
Paul Thomas Anderson did something brave. He made a movie that didn't rely on the vocabulary of earlier directors and genres. He worked strictly in his own voice, which was a choice that showed courage and integrity.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business
Like I'm going to see some film about Edith Piaf," Bing said when pressed on the matter by nobody. "This is probably why the euro is doing so well against the dollar."
Bob Sassone | Posted 02.25.2008 | Entertainment
Best Picture: Norbit! Just kidding. It's No Country For Old Men. There will be pissed off fans of another film that was nominated.
Oscar Night Blog Team | Posted 02.24.2008 | Entertainment
11:40p Brad Taylor Negron: More Errands for the Coen Brothers. Move car. Buy tape. Get Oscar. 11:45p Jake Goldman: Scott Rudin is about to throw his Oscar at one of his assistants.
John Tomasic | Posted 02.24.2008 | Home
From the perspective of Oscar Sunday, Thursday's Democratic debate seemed to offer up exactly the kind of psychologically complex narrative relished by the Academy, and the specter of Ronald Reagan hangs over both candidates.
Daniel Holloway | Posted 02.24.2008 | Entertainment
Thanks to concessions made by studios and the guild, the warring factions were able to reach an accord in time to save OscarÂ’s sculpted, golden ass. But what would have happened if no deal had been reached?
AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 02.24.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The Coen brothers have completed their journey from the fringes to Hollywood's mainstream, winning four Academy Awards for "No Cou...
AP | SANDY COHEN and DERRIK J. LANG | Posted 02.23.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Jewels and parties. Stars and stand-ins. Rehearsals and news conferences. So much swag even Hollywood canines could rack up free g...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics
Given the week he's just had, you have to figure John McCain is looking for a story -- any story -- to come along and take the media spotlight off him. And what better distraction than America's favorite celebrity engorge-athon, the Academy Awards?
Kim Morgan | Posted 02.23.2008 | Entertainment
The Coen Brothers and Paul Thomas Anderson? Daniel Day-Lewis and George Clooney? Javier Bardem, Julie Christie and Mark Twain himself, Hal Holbrook? Right on Oscar.
236.com | Posted 02.22.2008 | Entertainment
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 s...
AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 02.22.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Jewels and parties. Stars and stand-ins. Rehearsals and news conferences. So much swag even Hollywood canines could rack up free g...
Bloomberg | Andrew Harris and Andy Fixmer | Posted 02.22.2008 | Business
The glitter on the central figure at this year's academy awards ceremony has never been so costly. With gold at an all-time high, the price of each g...
236.com | Posted 02.22.2008 | Entertainment
The Academy Award nominees for best picture presented by Paraphrase Theatre ...
James Rocchi | Posted 02.22.2008 | Entertainment
The dirty little secret of the Oscars is that while they're often derided and dismissed as the self-celebration of a liberal elite, they're actually more conservative than you might think.
Los Angeles Times | Meg James | Posted 02.22.2008 | Business
This year, the advertisers are better known than the movies. After being threatened by the Hollywood writers strike, the 80th Annual Academy Awards t...
NY Times | Bill Carter | Posted 02.20.2008 | Entertainment
In the bowels of the Kodak Theater, one floor below the auditorium where the elaborate set for the Academy Awards telecast on Sunday was already in pl...
USA Today | William Keck | Posted 02.11.2008 | Entertainment
If there were ever a time for Hal Holbrook to be whistlin' Dixie, it is now. The veteran actor, who turns 83 this month, is enjoying his first Oscar...
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Here we go again. Oil prices tumbling "in the steepest four...
According to Psychology Today and referencing the American Journal of Psychiatry,...
Time | Rebecca Keegan Winters | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment