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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• Inside track on the Oscars supporting-actress race

  
  Gold Derby — Authority: 627
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• Screeners update: Campaign DVDs shipped to Oscar voters

  
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  Another one for the "I added it to my Netflix queue years ago and have no memory of why" file, I sat down to Colors expecting to have to endure it. For one thing, Sean Penn is not my jam, as an actor; I can set aside my distaste for his Tootight Angrylecturepants approach [...]
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• ‘Pulp Fiction’ writer Roger Avary jailed

  
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• Golden Horse Awards: Maggie Cheung, Ang Lee, Leon Dai, Tsai Ming-liang

  
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  Refresh screen for updates. T hanks to Tony for the tips. Maggie Cheung alert! She walked the carpet earlier in this white number to your left. She was presenting Best Picture at the Golden Horse Awards . The Golden Horse is Taiwanese in origin but its for Chinese language films regardless of country of ...
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• Two Chinese actors win awards at Taiwan fest

  
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• Gold Derby nuggets: Greg Ellwood: Globes seeing double | Superior Donuts shuts up shop

  
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• Directors of the Decade: Lars von Trier

  
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• Entertainment Weekly’s Fantastic Mr. Fox Roundtable (video)

  
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• Peter Jackson -- The Lovely Bones

  
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• Who Makes the Best Career Decisions in Hollywood: ACTRESS EDITION

  
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• Glenn Gives Thanks

  
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  Australias only knowledge of Thanksgiving is, essentially, what we see from TV and the movies. I feel then that it is only fitting that I "give thanks" for a certain woman who has shaped by idea of Thanksgiving more than any other: Christina Ricci . Bless her lil cotton socks, but Christina Ricci had already ...
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• Awards Countdown: foreign-language films (Screen)

  
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  Sixty-five films have been submitted for the foreign-language film Academy Award category this year but the Globes and Baftas might well recognise some of the films that failed to make the Academy cut, writes Mike Goodridge. This year’s foreign-language film category for the Academy Awards is missing a few more ...
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• Sam Rockwell’s Oscar Nomination is only a Petition Away

  
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