Oscars

The Oscars, also called the Academy Awards, is the annual ceremony where the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences hands out awards honoring the best in American film for that year. The dozens of prizes include the awards for best motion picture, best director, best actor and actress, and best supporting actor and actress .

Receiving an Oscar represents the top of the mountain for any aspirant filmmaker, actor, or director. There are your Golden Globes and SAGs, but there is only one Oscar. The history of the Oscars reads like a veritable who's who of Hollywood royalty.

Each year millions of viewers tune in to watch the nationally televised Oscars show, drawing some of the years biggest television ratings. Many tune in to see the Hollywood celebrities on the red carpet — and who is wearing or saying what — as they do to cheer on their favorite movies and actors. You never know quite what to expect, hence the mass appeal of Hollywood's biggest night.

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

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• A SPECIAL NIGHT FOR ‘SPECIAL’ OSCARS

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 568
  Special Oscars were handed out last night at a private ceremony thrown by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. These are the awards you won’t see in their entirety during the regular Oscars broadcast. The Academy doesn’t allow embedded video but hit the link to see the presentations (click on ‘See ...
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• Governor’s Award Ceremony Nostalgic All the Way

  
  Screenhead — Authority: 574
  Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall and Gordon Willis and John Calley were awarded Oscars this weekend at a special presentation at Hollywood & Highland Center called Governors’ Awards. The affair was a nostalgic celebration with attendees referring to the good old days when Oscars were handed out in such casual ...
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• See? The Academy Awards show is already shorter: Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall, Gordon Willis, John Calley get their honorary awards early

  
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  When Academy Awards planners announced the best picture nominee list would increase to 10 finalists, the response included doubts about an already long telecast getting longer. Saturday night in L.A., Oscar planners made an unprecedented move to ensure that wont happen. Rather than doing it onstage, the academy ...
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• Birthday Suits: Cougar Town

  
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  Celebrating the birthdays cinematic: actors, actresses, and other filmtypes. If its your big day, a happy one to you as well. The Penguin and The Secretary Todays B-Days 11/16 1908 Burgess Meredith two time Oscar nominee. But no, not for the Penguin in Batman: The Movie . Those honors came back to back ...
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• Steve Martin And Alec Baldwin To Co-Host The Oscars

  
  Nerdles — Authority: 442
  Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are joining forces to co-host the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman, the shows producers, said Tuesday.Doubling down on comedy, the producers said…“Steve will bring the experience of having hosted the show in the past, and Alec will be a completely fresh ...
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• For your consideration! Best animated feature contenders!

  
  QUICKFLIX BLOG — Authority: 132
  source: awardsdaily.com The Oscar season has officially arrived. I guess we could question whether it ever really ends, because it seems as soon as one Academy Award ceremony finishes, a new slate of films are assessed on their ability to claim prizes the following year. Something I have a great ...
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• Congratulations Roger, Lauren and Gordon

  
  Film Experience Blog — Authority: 590
  Pro: Cinematographer par excellence Gordon Willis, filmmaker Roger Corman and The Look Lauren Bacall all have Oscars now. Con: We didnt get to see them receiving their long awaited trophies. Stupid Academy, dissing your legends by denying them air time. [No, Im not going to get over this. I plan to be mad ...
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• The Governors Awards: On the scene at Oscar’s special honors

  
  Hollywood Insider — Authority: 741
  It was the first big experiment of a quite experimental Oscar season, and by all accounts, it was a resounding success. Last night, for the first time in Academy Award history, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out their honorary awards at a separate event from their annual Academy Award ceremony. ...
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• Hollywood Dinner Has Oscars on Menu

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Something remarkable happened at the new awards ceremony sponsored by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences: Hollywood let its guard down.
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• "Whos Not Wearing Any Clothes..."?

  
  Film Experience Blog — Authority: 590
  Thats not just a famous line from "A Call From the Vatican" to be sung by Penélope Cruz in Nine (see snippet below*) but a question we all must ask ourselves as we enter the holiday movie season. As in which film is the emperor without them? Is it Avatar, Invictus or The Lovely Bones ? Those are the three ...
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• Oscar gives out its Governors Awards

  
  The Awards Circuit Blog — Authority: 439
  The whole article in Variety is here, but heres a piece of it:On hand to receive Honorary Oscars were producer Roger Corman, cinematographer Gordon Willis and thesp Lauren Bacall. John Calley, the producer and former Sony and Warner Bros. honcho, was saluted as the 35th recipient of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial ...
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• Lauren Bacall Presented with Early Oscar

  
  Vulture — Authority: 785
  In an unprecedented early event, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed honorary Oscars on four of its members last night: Lauren Bacall, producer-director-writer Roger Corman, cinematographer Gordon Willis, and producer John Calley. [ The Envelope/LAT ] Read more posts by Lindsay Robertson ...
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• And The Oscar Goes To... [Snap Judgment]

  
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  [Los Angeles, November 14. Image via Getty .]
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• Lauren Bacall receives long overdue Oscar

  
  Mad About the Movies — Authority: 124
    Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall and Gordon Willis received Honorary Oscars at the 2009 Governors Awards last night in Hollywood. Producer John Calley, absent due to health reasons, was given  the Irving J. Thalberg Memorial Award. The awards were moved out of the regular show but there was no shortage of star power ...
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• Progeny Payback: Roger Corman Gets His Academy Award

  
  WEIMAR WORLD SERVICE — Authority: 132
  This probably wont be a Trending Topic on Twitter, because its been building for too many years. Too many decades. But 83-year-old filmmaking veteran Roger Corman received an Oscar last night in recognition of his long career, where he gave a start to many young filmmakers, including Jack Nicholson, James Cameron, ...
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• 2009 AMPAS Governor’s Awards

  
  We Are Movie Geeks — Authority: 571
  For the first time since the Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts and Science’s Board of Governors began bestowing their Honorary Award and The Irving G, Thalberg Awards, instead of presenting them during the LIVE Oscar telecast, this year the Governors Awards were handed out to Producer John Calley, actress Lauren ...
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• Inside track on the Oscars best actor race

  
  Gold Derby — Authority: 651
  Following up on the inside track we recently gave you on the best-picture race , heres an update on the slugfest over best actor. Bullets alongside entries on the list below connote the five guys I think will still be standing when nominees are announced. My own favorite performance is Viggo Mortensen s at this ...
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