Oscars News

YEAR 11 students enjoyed an end-of-year prom on an Oscars theme. Pupils from Calder High School, Mytholmroyd, rolled out the red carpet and got decked out in their finery for the event at Liquid, Halifax.

West Wittering Primary School's summer fair takes place on Sunday with this year's theme being At The Movies.

Things aren't so great in Tinsel Town. The financial markets collapse and general belt tightening have really hit studios and TV stations alike.

Last year past Oscar songwriting champ Bruce Springsteen was snubbed by the academy's music branch who denied him a nod for his Golden Globe winning title track to " The Wrestler ." Springsteen had won at the Academy Awards in 1993 for the song "Streets of Philadelphia" from the film "Philadelphia." And he was nominated two years later for the ...

Who says the Oscars are never surprising? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced in the middle of last week that the number of films nominated in the best picture category would be doubled to 10 from the original five.

Hugh Jackman, Seth Rogen, Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway and Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle have been invited into the exclusive Hollywood club that votes on the Academy Awards.

Heath Ledger notched a posthumous Oscar for his portrayal as The Joker in "The Dark Knight." But the movie didn't get a Best Picture nomination.

Now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has really rubbed me the wrong way.

The New York Times Media Decoder reports that the Oscars have made a change to the original song category.

America, or at least the Americans who cover the film industry, were stunned by the out-of-the-blue announcement that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would be expanding the number of Best Picture nominees next year, from five to ten .

No Academy Award will be presented for best song at next year's ceremony if none of the tunes is considered good enough, Oscar organizers said Friday.

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So the best-picture race will be twice as crowded at next year's Academy Awards, with the ceremony's organizers announcing Wednesday that they're expanding the field of nominees from five to 10.

The Academy Awards are doubling the number of best-picture nominees from five to 10.

When the Spike Guys' Choice Awards aired Sunday night, men celebrated the beauty that is Oscar winner Halle Berry by honoring her with the Decade of Hotness award.

Willow Films, a U.S. international sales agency and distribution company for films from the Middle East, will submit the film to the cinematic race, Irana s Experimental and Documentary Film Center , producer of the film, announced in a press release published on Saturday.

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The red carpet unrolls at the Savannah Center tonight for Oscar night - complete with limousine-borne "celebrities," a Joan Rivers -like interviewer and two tall Oscar statues.

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When the likes of Cary Grant, Greta Garbo, Montgomery Clift and Alfred Hitchcock went to the grave without an Oscar - not counting the consolation statuettes for lifetime achievement - the average moviegoer might rightly suspect there's something a little wonky with the movie world's biggest night of the year.