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”

• Governors Hand Out Years First Oscars

  
  ShowHype - Top Movies News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 165
  By Steve Pond Here’s one lesson to take from the Governors Awards, which took place Saturday night in the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland center: Even when they’ve only got four awards and the show isn’t being televised, it still takes the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ...
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• Two True Freaks Classic! – Episode 2C

  
  The Comics Podcast Network — Authority: 142
  PLEASE NOTE:This episode is a rerun that originally aired on August 18th, 2008 Has Steven Spielberg Ever Made A Bad Movie? –A Retrospective Pt.3 Join Chris Honeywell and Scott Gardner for their massive look back at the films of Steven Spielberg. Man, can they talk! This monster episode has been sliced it into ...
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• Oscars, a Red Carpet, Jack ... But No TV

  
  ShowHype - Top Movies News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 165
  By Steve Pond The Governors Awards, which takes place Saturday night at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland, is now a real Oscar show: Jack will be there. I’ve confirmed that Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, Alec Baldwin and Peter Fonda will join a handful of previously announced participants, ...
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• Precious Review

  
  FilmGordon — Authority: 118
  Lee Daniels’ latest film, Precious is a dark, harrowing look at the perilous world of an obese teenager. But amidst all of the hurt and pain is monumentally groundbreaking story that is a peek into a rarely if ever seen world that despite all of it’s tough and unusual circumstances still manages to remain hopeful. ...
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• Inside track on the Oscars best picture and best director races

  
  Gold Derby — Authority: 657
  Two days ago the first installment of The Envelopes print edition was inserted into the L.A. Times. In each issue, the Gold Derby column breaks down the top races into lists for easy handicapping. Click here to see a gallery of the short "spotlight" articles that accompany the lists. Below is how I size up the ...
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• Quiz: What film nabbed the most Oscars without winning best picture?

  
  Gold Derby — Authority: 657
  All of these flicks reaped at least five Oscars but did not bag the biggie. Which movie received the most Academy Awards (eight) among all also-rans? To see the answer, click here . MORE GOLD DERBY OSCARS QUIZZES Which of these Oscar champs did not go undefeated? Which nun role was not ...
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• Hmmm ... Can Inglourious Basterds pull off an upset at the Oscars?

  
  Gold Derby — Authority: 657
  Im beginning to think that this may be one of those Oscar  derbies in which the front-runner is really behind us and everybody, at this place on the track and the calendar, is looking at the wrong horses. Remember those years when pre-autumn releases "Annie Hall," "Braveheart" and "Gladiator" came trotting back, ...
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• David Rockwell Returns as Production Designer for Oscar’s Show

  
  HairBoutique.com Blog — Authority: 138
  David Rockwell Returns as Production Designer for Oscar’s ShowBeverly Hills, CA - For the second consecutive year, David Rockwell will serve as production designer for the 82nd Academy Awards, Oscar telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic announced today.(Image of Academy Awards - The Academy of Motion ...
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• The Year in Film: 1930 – 1931

  
  News from the Boston Becks — Authority: 120
  My Top 10: City Lights Charlie Chaplin in the final, touching scene in City Lights Dracula The Three Penny Opera Le Million Earth The Public Enemy Waterloo Bridge The Front Page Little Caesar Woman in the Moon Academy Awards: Best Picture:  Cimarron Best Director:  Norman ...
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• Animated Oscar Race Begins!

  
  Inside Pulse Movies — Authority: 145
  Earlier this year it was announced that the Best Picture category was going to be greatly expanded. Now it seems that the Animated Feature category is shooting for a growth spurt as well. While in past years there has usually been 3 nominees, this year there could be five. According to the Academy of Motion Picture ...
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• ADAM SHANKMAN - FUNNY CO-HOSTS = FUNNY “OSCARS”

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 578
  Adam Shankman judges the competition for Season Six of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE and still has time to produce the Academy Awards in March 2010. 2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. CR: Michael Williams/FOX. Adam Shankman has already made some changes to the 82nd Annual Academy Awards by having both Steve Martin and ...
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• B-Movie King Roger Corman Gets A-List Celebration

  
  Screamstress — Authority: 435
  Roger Corman , the filmmaker affectionately known as King of the B’s , will be receiving an honorary Oscar for a lifetime of achievement that includes being mentor to some of the most famous names in Hollywood: Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard. The news was a surprise to the ...
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• Oscar 2010: David Rockwell to Design Oscar Show

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 488
  David Rockwell will serve as production designer for the 2010 Academy Awards, Oscar telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have announced. Rockwell served in that same capacity last year.Rockwell’s set design work includes the Broadway productions of Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ...
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• Animation for the Oscars

  
  Mousekingdom Blog — Authority: 116
  There are 20 animated feature movies that have been submitted for the 82nd Academy Awards. From these 20, the academy will nominated those that deserve to get the Oscar. Among the list we can see a collection of Disney movies. “Disney’s A Christmas Carol”, “The Princess and the Frog”, “Tinker Bell and the ...
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• Oscars: Even More Animated

  
  Blog@Newsarama — Authority: 656
  Welcome to the new and current Academy Awards. Sure, there are your dramas and your foreign films, but this year, animation is where the action is. Twenty animated films from this lackluster year of film have been chosen and submitted to the Academy for consideration. These twenty films cover all aspects of ...
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• Mary and Max enters the Oscar race!

  
  QUICKFLIX BLOG — Authority: 132
  source: variety.com The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced the shortlist of films that will compete for Best Animated Feature at next years Oscar ceremony. Australias own Mary and Max is one of 20 films that are under consideration. One of the Academy rules is that if more than 16 ...
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• Twenty animated features submitted for Oscars

  
  The Pixar Blog — Authority: 417
  A record twenty animated feature films, including Pixars Up, have been submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S) for consideration in the Best Animated Feature Film category at the upcoming 82nd Academy Awards.According to A.M.P.A.S. rules, if at least sixteen of the films qualify for ...
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• Twenty Films Submitted for Best Animated Oscar, Resulting In Five Nominees Instead of Three

  
  /Film — Authority: 785
  The best animated feature Oscar is a category that has been limited in the past few years to only three nominees. At least sixteen films must be submitted each year to push the category to include five nominated films. This year, for the first time since the category was created in 2001, the Academy has twenty ...
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• Oscars get record 20 animation entries

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  The Disney film "Up" is among the record 20 films that have been submitted for best animated feature at next years Academy Awards.
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