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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• 11/24 Oscarweb Round-up

  
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  • Pete Hammond, with box office ammunition in hand, keeps banging the gong for Sandra Bullock in a bad movie.  And it just might happen. [ Notes on a Season ] • Speaking of “The Blind Side,” Patrick Goldstein dedicates a great many words to the film’s director, John Lee Hancock. [ The Big Picture ] ...
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• On Camera Acting Audition :: Precious’s Lead Actress

  
  HOLLYWOOD ACTOR PREP — Authority: 123
  Imagine that kind of restraint, as an actress. The measuring, the meting out...of an emotional self as it blossoms at only a pace accurate to the story. Slower, than we in the audience can take. Ill probably put this on the Actors Audition page later, but it just so boss!Related Articles, Auto-generated: ...
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• Marc Shaiman Named Music Director For 82nd Academy Awards

  
  HairBoutique.com Blog — Authority: 143
  MARC SHAIMAN NAMED MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR 82ND ACADEMY AWARDSBeverly Hills, CA Oscar-nominated composer Marc Shaiman will serve as music director for the 82nd Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic announced today.“With Marc on board, we are sure to have some great musical and, hopefully, ...
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• Oscar Animated Shorts Semifinalists Announced

  
  Inside Movies — Authority: 155
  Ten films out of the 37 submitted for the Best Animated Short Oscar have been given the go-ahead through the Academys voting process. Pixar Animations Partly Cloudy -- a whimsical tale of storks, clouds and baby-making -- is the most ... Read more Filed under: Oscar News Permalink  |  Email this  |  ...
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• Academy Award countdown continues

  
  Mad About the Movies — Authority: 127
   Catching up with Oscar news: Music director : Oscar-nominated composer Marc Shaiman will serve as music director for the 82nd Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic announced today. "With Marc on board, we are sure to have some great musical and, hopefully, hysterical moments," said ...
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• The Year in Film: 1936

  
  News from the Boston Becks — Authority: 120
  My Top 10: The final shot of Modern Times (1936): Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard walking off into the future. Modern Times The Petrified Forest Mr. Deeds Goes to Town A Tale of Two Cities My Man Godfrey The Secret Agent Dodsworth Fury After the Thin Man The Great Ziegfeld ...
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• Gold Derby nuggets: Marc Shaiman added to Oscarcast team | Pete Hammond cheers Blind Side | Sasha Stone on state of Oscars race

  
  Gold Derby — Authority: 638
  • Five-time Oscar nominee Marc Shaiman is returning to the Oscarcast as musical director six years after conducting the orchestra for Billy Crystal s swan song as host. Shaiman earned three of his four Emmy nods for his work on the Oscars, sharing in the 1992 writing win for penning Crystals opening medley to the ...
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• THE HANGOVER ad for Best Picture and Unused Pics from End Credits

  
  GeekTyrant — Authority: 601
  Last week we brought you a slew of “For Your Consideration…” Posters for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. With there now being 10 nominees in each of the Best Picture Categories, the idea and hope is that this will open up the playing field for other types of films to be nominated — e.g. superhero, horror, ...
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• Oscar 2010: Marc Shaiman to Be Telecast Music Director

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 488
  Oscar-nominated composer Marc Shaiman will be the music director for the 2010 Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have announced.Shaiman received Original Score Oscar nominations for The American President (1995), The First Wives Club (1996), and Patch Adams (1998), in addition to ...
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• Marc Shaiman Named Oscars Music Director

  
  Inside Movies — Authority: 155
  The key word, we bet, is 10. With a record 10 films to be in Best Picture contention at the 2010 Academy Awards, composer Marc Shaiman had better get started on those parody songs to send up that fact. Per Indiewire.com, hell serve as music director ... Read more Filed under: Movie News , Oscar News Permalink ...
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• Blame the Academy: Marc Shaiman Is Oscars Musical Director

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 801
  Mr. Shaiman, whose credits include the musical versions of "Hairspray" and "Catch Me If You Can," spoke about his plans for the Oscars show, and explained why he hopes to be "the Adam Lambert of the Academy Awards."
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• MARC SHAIMAN NAMED OSCAR’S MUSIC DIRECTOR

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 594
  The amazingly talented MARC SHAIMAN has been tagged by HAIRSPRAY pal ADAM SHANKMAN to be Music Director for the upcoming Oscarcast. Hit the link for the full scoop: viaTHE-ENVELOPE
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• New Moon Fans Think Movie Deserves An Oscer (Video)

  
  ShowHype - Top Other Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 171
  MTV Movies found this 2 hours ago on media.mtvnservices.com Find more top entertainment news, videos, and blogs on ShowHype: Other , New Moon , Academy Awards
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• Angelina Jolie’s 2009 Oscar Dress

  
  Steal The Style — Authority: 129
  Angelina Jolie wore a simple black Elie Saab gown to the 2009 Oscars ( source ). Steal Angelina’s Style with this Trumpet Sweetheart Evening Dress , $119.99 from LightInTheBox.com .
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• The Hangover for Best Picture?

  
  /Film — Authority: 787
  Our friends at FirstShowing noticed something funny while browsing the Hollywood trade newspaper Variety tonight: an advertisement, seemingly aimed at Academy voters, for the Todd Phillips comedy The Hangover , with the text “For Your Consideration: All Categories” followed by larger and more glitzy ...
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• Hey, How Did THAT Win? Oscar Voting Process

  
  Snarkerati.com Master Site Feed — Authority: 145
  A herd of Oscars.   Did you ever wonder how the Academy winnows down a year of movies into a tiny group of nominations? Well, if so, Variety has an explanation . Well, sort of an explanation. Some things the Academy will never be able to explain (”Dances With Wolves?”). Here’s how they get to the ...
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• Buried Treasures: Come to the Stable (1949)/Mister 880 (1950)

  
  Thrilling Days of Yesteryear — Authority: 475
  I had originally planned to title this post “Movies I’ve stared at recently that were not on TCM” but I decided that might be pushing it a bit. But that part is true; I watched these two 20th Century-Fox sleepers online, courtesy of Hulu.com . As always, there may be a spoiler or two…so don’t say ...
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• 10 closest Oscar races in the past 20 years

  
  Gold Derby — Authority: 638
  One of the shrewdest Oscarologists on the planet is Tariq Khan of Fox News, who often generously shares his views of current and past derbies with Gold Derby readers. Here he takes a nostalgic look  at the past two decades, offering his take on the most competitive derbies. Words below are Tariqs. Thanks, mfriend! ...
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• 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: 428
  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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