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...
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.
Variety, NY Daily News | Posted 02.22.2008 | Entertainment
When Vanity Fair canceled their annual Oscar party, before the strike ended and when the awards show weren't definite, it opened a void, furthered by ...
Bob Burnett | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
It's always dangerous to read too much into trends in popular culture. Nonetheless, there seems to be a strong relationship between the five movies n...
David Wallechinsky | Posted 02.14.2008 | Entertainment
The animated and live action short film awards are usually overlooked by the general public for the good reason that few people get a chance to see the nominees.
AP | Posted 02.14.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The strike is off and the star power is on for the 80th annual Academy Awards. Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Hudson, Mi...
AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 02.13.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Oscar's "Plan A" is on. "It's terrific. We don't have to worry about people crossing picket lines," show producer Gil Cates told ...
USA Today | Donna Freydkin | Posted 02.12.2008 | Entertainment
In Atonement, Saoirse Ronan coolly, purposefully destroys her sister's life by accusing her lover of a rape he never committed. She's quite convincin...
Mike Miley | Posted 02.11.2008 | Entertainment
I'd like to suggest that the Academy create a new Oscar category: Best Adapted Score, an award much like Best Adapted Screenplay.
Alex Remington | Posted 02.11.2008 | Entertainment
This is it, guys. Here are my selections for who should win the Oscars for the big 6 catetgories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Bes...
AP | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 01.29.2008 | Entertainment
One film has an oblique ending that's left some viewers dissatisfied and others floored by its profundity. The other features a slowly developing plot...
Alex Remington | Posted 01.28.2008 | Entertainment
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE OF THE YEAR: Ratatouille: This was pretty close to my favorite movie of the year. It's hard to talk about unhyperbolically -- it's simply magical.
style.com | Bronwyn Cosgrave | Posted 01.25.2008 | Living
With The Oscars stil in limbo, this Sunday's SAGs might be the stars' only chance to really shine this awards season. here, Bronwyn Cosgrave remembers...
Newsweek | Posted 01.25.2008 | Entertainment
George Clooney recently found out he lives a few houses away from Britney Spears. It was probably the night she was taken to the hospital after the cu...
The Times | John Harlow | Posted 01.06.2008 | Entertainment
The Hollywood star George Clooney is being credited with inspiring an actors' boycott against film award ceremonies that threatens to reduce next week...
AP | Posted 12.26.2007 | Entertainment
Thousands of Oscar nomination ballots were mailed out Wednesday, heralding the official start of Academy Awards season. U.S. Postal Service bins over...
Variety | Iain Blair | Posted 11.21.2007 | Entertainment
The Academy Awards ceremony is set for Feb. 24, but now that the writers' strike has become a reality, it may well take some of the luster off the gol...
AP | Posted 09.12.2007 | Entertainment
Jon Stewart will return as host of the Oscars in 2008. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced Wednesday that Stewart will host the 80...
New York Times | MICHAEL CIEPLY | Posted 09.11.2007 | Entertainment
The Academy Awards haven't exactly turned into a yearly show with Jon Stewart. But Mr. Stewart, the political satirist and star of "The Daily Show," i...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
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There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
"Extra" has learned that Heather Mills' publicist, Michele Elyzabeth, has...
Will the mainstream media cover the John Edwards love child scandal put out there by the...
I have a wait problem. I hate to wait. When...
WASHINGTON — Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000...
Ashcroft Claims Waterboarding...
236.com | Posted 02.22.2008 | Entertainment