Academy Awards

The Academy Awards is the annual ceremony where the American motion picture industry honors the top achievements in film for the year. Awards are handed out in numerous categories — including the top prizes for best motion picture, best director, best actor and actress, and best supporting actor and actress — by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences.

The awards, called Oscars for short, are the highest honor that a film can receive. The history of the Oscars reads like a veritable history of Hollywood royalty.

Each year, the nationally televised Oscars show is seen by millions of viewers, and draws some of the years biggest television ratings. Many tune in hoping just as much to see the outrageous antics of Hollywood celebrities on the red carpet — and who is wearing or saying what — as they do to cheer on their favorite movies and actors. For Hollywood itself, its biggest night is marked as much by glitzy parties as it is by the awards themselves.

In the blogosphere, Oscar is also a very big deal. Some bloggers will log their awards predictions, while others follow the action at the parties.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Academy Awards”

• Oscar Short List for Animated Shorts

  
  Screenhead — Authority: 575
  Academy Awards took a cleaver and shortened their Best Short Animation list from 37 to 10.  My favorite is The Cat Piano, an eight-minute Aussie short narrated by Nick Cave.  In Contention website introduced me to this short.  It’s a real gem of a short, so I am sharing it with you.Here is the full list [...]
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• Oscar Shortlist: Animated Shorts

  
  J.B. Spins — Authority: 429
  While Best Animated Short is often one of the first Oscars awarded, viewers frequently dismiss it as part of the ceremony’s typically tedious first hour. Yet, it can be tremendously significant for the nominated filmmakers. After all, Shane Acker was able to parlay his Oscar nominated short 9 into a full length ...
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• Shock: Pixar On Oscar Shortlist for Animated Shorts

  
  Get The Big Picture — Authority: 599
  Another list of potential Academy Award nominees has been released, this time in the animated short film category. No, its not exactly the inside word on Best Picture coming a few weeks early, but I can say from experience, having made a little noise in order to get a DVD of all the nominees in this category the past ...
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• 10 Animated Shorts Move Ahead in 2009 Oscar Race

  
  HairBoutique.com Blog — Authority: 142
  10 Animated Shorts Move Ahead in 2009 Oscar Race The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the category.(Image of Oscar - The Academy of Motion Picture ...
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• Oscars quiz: Who got demoted?

  
  Gold Derby — Authority: 642
  It doesnt matter what acting category you campaign for at the Academy Awards; voters can put you wherever they want. Most frequently, when ignoring category guidance, they tended to promote contenders from the supporting race to lead like  Kate Winslet ("The Reader") and Keisha Castle-Hughes ("Whale Rider"), but ...
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• Snubbed Tyson Director Claims Oscar Extortion

  
  Get The Big Picture — Authority: 599
  Earlier this week, the Oscar shortlist for documentaries was unveiled. Its the fifteen films that can wind up making it to the final round of five. There were omissions: This Is It doesnt qualify because it was released too late. The other music doc, Anvil was excused for no reason that anyone can figure. ...
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• Academy Announces 10 Best Animated Short Film Contenders

  
  GeekTyrant — Authority: 602
  AMPAS announced Friday afternoon that 10 animated short films will move on to the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. There were thirty-seven pictures that had originally qualified in the category. The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company: “The Cat ...
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• Oscars Snub Guitar Doc

  
  @U2blog - U2 news and discussion — Authority: 494
  The shortlist for Academy Award contenders in the Documentary Feature category has been announced and Davis Guggenheim’s guitar-friendly film It Might Get Loud , which featured The Edge, did not make the cut. Absent also from the list of 15 qualifying movies was Anvil! The Story of Anvil , another music ...
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• The Academy changes up the voting

  
  KillerFilm — Authority: 567
  The LA Times reports that the Academy Awards are continuing on with their minor changes to their long running awards show that they hope can help improve ratings even further. One can only assume that they expect the nominees to turn out a lot more interesting than first predicted. The old rule for someone who was ...
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• 10 Animated Shorts Make the List in 2009 Oscar Race

  
  We Are Movie Geeks — Authority: 572
  AMPAS announced late Friday afternoon that 10 animated short films will move on to the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the category. The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company: “The Cat Piano,” ...
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• Academy Announces 10 Best Animated Short Film Contenders

  
  /Film — Authority: 792
  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the animated short films short list, a list of 10 shorts, narrowed down from 37 films, that will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. The Academy branch members will select five nominees from the ten titles. I have included the list ...
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• Alec Baldwin Not Feeling Academy Awards Pressure

  
  TV Envy — Authority: 440
  Alec Baldwin isn’t nervous about next year’s Academy Awards. The 30 Rock star is co-hosting next year’s ceremony with Steve Martin and believes there are higher expectations on the comic actor. “It is all on Steve. Steve Martin has done this before, while for me it is the first time. All the pressure is ...
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• Ten animated shorts vie for Academy Award nominations

  
  gordonandthewhale.com — Authority: 579
  Last week , Wilhem told us about the twenty animated features competing for the Academy Award nomination. Today, we’ve got the list of the ten animated shorts seeking their own noms. The Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have viewed all ten, and ...
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• Oscar 2010: Animated Short Film Semi-Finalists

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 488
  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 10 semi-finalists in the animated short film category of the 2010 Academy Awards. Thirty-seven entries had originally qualified in the category. They are: The Cat Piano, Eddie White and Ari Gibson, directors (The People’s Republic of ...
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• And the Oscar Buzz Goes to ... Carey Mulligan for An Education

  
  Inside Movies — Authority: 155
  Despite having only two previous, supporting feature film roles to her name (Pride & Predjudice and When Did You Last See Your Father?) before landing the lead in tjhe coming-of-age drama An Education, the spry 24-yr-old Carey Mulligan has ... Read more Filed under: Fall Movies , Oscar News Permalink  |  ...
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• And The Oscar Goes To: Roger Corman

  
  Famous Monsters — Authority: 443
  …Ho yeah, it happened. On the evening of November 14th, and with surprisingly little fanfare. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed an honorary Academy Award to Roger Corman at the Inagural Governor’s Awards in Los Angeles this past Saturday. The event was attended by many of Corman’s former ...
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• Bookmarks for November 20th

  
  Row Three — Authority: 515
  W hat we’ve been reading over the past week or so. For Your Consideration: 25 Things The Academy Got Right In The 2000s As hard as it is for those prone to bitching about the Academy to admit, they don’t always get it wrong. In fact, it was surprisingly easy to find twenty-five examples of where they most ...
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• Oscar Snubs? Extortion Plot? Do Tell!

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 761
  Are members from the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences being paid to short list some films over others? Thats what it sounds like director James Toback was alluding to when he spoke to the New York Times recently about how his buzzed-about documentary, Tyson , was left off ...
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• Movies I’ve stared at recently on TCM #46 (Johnny Mercer, Tunesmith edition)

  
  Thrilling Days of Yesteryear — Authority: 474
  Turner Classic Movies has been devoting each Wednesday in the month of November to celebrating the genius that is songwriter Johnny Mercer with both a wonderful special ( Johnny Mercer: The Dream’s on Me ) and movies with songs written by Savannah’s favorite native son. This past Wednesday (November 18) was ...
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• Oscar Roundtable Take 4

  
  Awards Daily — Authority: 146
  It’s always illuminating to hear from various smart folks around the web and I feel grateful that they indulge my needling questions week after week; after all, it isn’t like any of the have any time to spare. I figure, the more intelligence we can bring to the table the better.  This week we’re pondering the ...
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