The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ari Folman's animated film of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre falls foul of new requirement that films have to screen in New York as well as Los Angeles to be in the running for documentary prize
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Director Mike Leigh has a knack for putting relatively unknown British actresses into Academy Awards contention, as he did with "Secrets & Lies" and "Vera Drake."
Advertising Age - MediaWorks (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- Hyundai Motor America has purchased all of the spots abandoned by embattled General Motors Corp. in next February's Academy Awards telecast, Advertising Age has learned.
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Patrick Goldstein’s article about Hollywood’s Oscar obsession is worth a read : The Oscars have become a circular firing squad, touted and debated by a small coterie of Oscar publicists, bloggers, marketers, agents, producers and antsy studio executives–all talking to themselves. The public has grown bored with the whole charade. They’d rather be watching “American Idol,” which has far more verve...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Entertainment Weekly, that paragon of journalistic integrity that was originally conceived as the fast food of showbiz journalism, has taken it upon itself to rethink past Oscars with a bootleg survey of Oscar voters and their particular likes. The magazine is actually asking Oscar voters to re-vote and -- sometimes several decades later -- see if they still give Oscars to such films as "Shakespeare...
Defamer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Entertainment Weekly embarked yesterday on "Recall the Gold," a project likely to result in its most complex listicle to date: The magazine's editors organized a mock vote by 7,000 industry insiders...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
If members of the motion-picture academy could vote again for the Oscars, would anything change? That's the question Entertainment Weekly is asking of 7,000 film industry members, with a project called "Recall the Gold." The magazine is sending out ballots to members of the industry, asking them to vote in six major Oscar categories for five years - 2003, 1998, 1993, 1988, and 1983 (that would
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | yesterday
The war on film critics is something I've been writing about in this space for two years (for instance, here, here, and here); now, Hollywood is finally starting to realize that marginalizing critics may not be such a good idea,...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Is Michael Sheen crazy to take on 'Frost/Nixon' costar Frank Langella in the lead Oscars race?
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
THE Oscars of British architecture will be held in Liverpool this weekend.
2point6billion.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Every year since the award was created in 1956, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The award is handed out annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside [...]
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
(TrendHunter.com) While most celebrity parents try to hide their babies from the media, British Oscar-nominated actress Minnie Driver is proudly showing hers off online. Minni Driver, who gave birth last month, has shown…
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Entertainment Newswire , Entertainment Black Voices Blogs : By Karu F. Daniels, BlackVoices.com Halle Berry has reached another achievement.The Academy Award winning beauty has been named the "Sexiest Woman Alive" by legendary men's magazine, 'Esquire.'"Well, I don't know exactly what it means but being... Read more
Cable &Tweed (Free subscription) | yesterday
Short notice for anyone who wasn't aware, but the Elephant 6 Surprise Holiday Tour kicks off tonight at Cine in Athens. The evening will also include the premiere screening of the Major Organ and the Adding Machine movie, probably this year's key challenger to the Flaming Lips at the Bizarro Oscars. The rundown, from the Athens Cine website: The long awaited premiere of the MAJOR ORGAN & THE ADDING...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | yesterday
This, just in trailer form, already looks like another great excuse for the Academy to toss another Oscar nomination Clint Eastwood's way. And maybe Miss Jolie, too. I'd love to see the great John Malkovich land one, doing great work...
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kellya | 14/08/2008
Catherine Ann Keener is an Emmy nominated and two times Academy Award nominated American actress. She is a close friend of Brad Pitt, from the time he was married to Jennifer Aniston and she is the mother of Clyde Keener Mulroney. Her famous quote is: “Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part … they don’t look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.”
