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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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “oscars”

• A Serious Man

  
  MovieZeal — Authority: 116
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• Oscars to arrive late at the Precious party?

  
  Gold Derby — Authority: 664
  If all of us huffy Oscar "experts" remain so smug about " Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire " being a front-runner in many top categories, wheres the actual support within the academy , eh? Attendance was modest at its recent, official academy screening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. By contrast, the ...
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• Nine "Also Starring..."

  
  Film Experience Blog — Authority: 588
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• George Clooney and Matt Damon: The double showdown

  
  Dave Karger's OscarWatch — Authority: 534
  Only two men in Oscar history have ever received acting nominations for two different performances in the same year: Al Pacino (for 1992’s Scent of a Woman and Glengarry Glen Ross) and Jamie Foxx (for 2004’s Ray and Collateral). Though I don’t expect anyone to join that list this year, I do find it funny
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• The Kodak Theatre - Hollywood

  
  Poetic Shutterbug — Authority: 130
  Click photos to enlarge.Home to the Oscars and various major events in Hollywood, the Kodak Theatre sits along Hollywood Boulevard and is an extension of the Hollywood and Highland Center of which I will be blogging about later this week.These photos do not do justice to this theatre complex. When you walk in the ...
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• RINKU AND DINESH RETURN HOME TO THEIR VILLAGES

  
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  EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines — Authority: 466
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  EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines — Authority: 466
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• Octobers Oscar Poll

  
  Pete's Place — Authority: 127
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• Monologue - Beauty Queen

  
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• Racked Bookshelf: Grace Coddingtons Catwalk Cats

  
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• Precious star Gabby Sidibe sneaked in and was watching us!

  
  Gold Derby — Authority: 664
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• ‘A Single Man’ trailer: Do you smell Oscar buzz…or just vagueness?

  
  PopWatch — Authority: 780
  Style hounds, gird your loins: The trailer for Tom Ford’s directorial debut A Single Man is here, and lo, it is gorgeous.I’m a-quiver! Now that Mad Men has wrapped up for the season, I’ll need my dose of mid-century design in other formats, and this moody trailer is so tantalizing I can hardly contain myself.
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• Oscars: Governors Awards Presenters & Hugh Jackman

  
  Diva Diaries — Authority: 123
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