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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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Original Technorati articles tagged “oscars”

• in Film
  Can Social Media Predict Oscar Winners?
  How will the Social Oscars data visualisation do in predicting the Academy Awards Oscar winners ahead of the eagerly anticipated Hollywood ceremony?
  by elementalcomms / on Feb 15, 2013
• in Film
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• in Celebrity
  Baron Cohen Has Made His Point, But Will "The Dictator" be There?
  A lot of people may not miss Sacha if he didn’t turn up for the Oscar Night, but millions more will be disappointed if they won’t be seeing Uggie steal the whole show.
  by forgevalley / on Feb 26, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “oscars”

 

• Posterized: How Many Hepburns Have You Seen?

  
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  We end our Katharine Hepburn theme week on The Great Kates birthday, today! Katharine Hepburn made 43 motion pictures in her 62 years on the big screen. How many have you seen? Ive collected the posters here of only her Oscar nominated roles, 12 of them in total, because 43 is too many for an episode of posterized . ...
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• Did Oscars Punish ’2016: Obama’s America’? Producer Says Yes, Academy Says No

  
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  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences recently opened up first-round Oscar voting to the entire documentary branch and abandoned the previous system of allowing a small committee to determine the short list of eligible films. This radically curtails the influence of the documentary branch ...
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• Wasp: The Searing Desperation of a Forsaken Young Mother

  
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  Wasp: The Searing Desperation of a Forsaken Young Mother Through the years, Mother’s Day films have presented moms both good and bad, and Wasp features a most down-on-her-luck mother in contemporary Britain, an unfortunate mom who certainly isn’t going to be winning any Mother of the Year Awards. Wasp is an ...
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• The Weinstein Company Gears Up for the Oscars…Already

  
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  Is it Oscar season already? Just a mere few months after putting that MacFarlane spectacle behind us, it seems that some companies (ahem, The Weinstein Company) are ready to join the race once again. While it is hardly a surprise that the Weinstein Company has their game plan down– they are an award-winning-movie ...
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• Obamas America Producer Questions Michael Moores Role on Academys Governing Board

  
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  UPDATED: His doc might have been blackballed due to politics, says Gerald Molen in a letter to Hawk Koch, president of the Academy . "Your film definitely received consideration and it was not ignored," Koch tells Molen. read more
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• Yes, No, Maybe So: "August: Osage County"

  
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  Oscar-teasing trailers are just like Oscar bait movies: they all come out at the same time. Cant there be a little breathing room? After Captain Phillips warned us that Tom Hanks (and Paul Greengrass) are ready to come roaring back ... After Gravity teased us with visual effects so terrifying that the prospect of ...
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• Screen Siren Worthy Waves with Ouidad

  
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    Many a star shined bright at the Oscars last Sunday.  It was a blur of glitz, glamour and who wore what and rocked it.  A host of headlines followed the gorgeous styling on celebs like Kerry Washington, Jessica Chastain and Reese Witherspoon who all walked the red carpet with a cascade of retro waves in their ...
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• Zac Efron Thrusts, NPH Hosting the Tonys, John Travolta as Oscar Wilde & More!

  
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  - Glad to see True Blood ‘s Lafayette is back to werq . - The  Tonys  have A LOT to live up to if they wanna out-gay the  Oscars , but they’ve got a bedazzled secret weapon in returning host ,  Neil Patrick Harris . -  Zac Efron ‘s  ready for you  now. - Meanwhile, Kate Upton ‘s officially a ...
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• Yes, No, Maybe So: The Butler

  
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  abstew here with another edition of "Yes, No, Maybe So". Tonights trailer of choice Lee Danielss latest,  The Butler . Oh, and please be gentle–its my first time... When last we caught up with the Oscar nominated director, he was dishing up a heapin helpin of some southern fried, kitschy, camp in The Paperboy . ...
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• Gravity. Such a Tease.

  
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  I dont have time for a Yes No Maybe So this morning for the Gravity teaser but Im all YES anyway. And we can wait for a full trailer (though really why cant they leave it at this perfect tease?) for that. The 2013 Oscar prediction charts will be finished over the next few days (finally ~ thanks for your ...
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• Hit Me With Your Best Shot: "Summertime"

  
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  For this weeks episode of Best Shot, the collective series in which bloggers are invited to choose their favorite image from a pre-selected movie, we went to Italy for David Leans Summertime (1955) starring Katharine Hepburn. The film won both of them Oscar nominations, for Direction and Acting respectively, and ...
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• Team Experience: Great Losers, Actress Edition (Pt. 2)

  
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  As long time readers know The Film Experience started out as a one-man show. That man being myself, Nathaniel R. (Remember in Ye Olden Times when posting two goodies a week made you a prolific must-read web star? I still remember David Polands Hot Button which did just that!) Over the years the royal "We" has stopped ...
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• May Flowers: Liz & Dick

  
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  May Flowers blooming daily in the afternoons… Andrew here  to start things off. It only makes sense that the melancholic showers of Anna Karenina and The Truman Show would give root to the gloomy blossoms which open May Flowers this year. Connotatively you’d expect flowers to be a symbol of good ...
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• Between Two Ferns x The Lonely Island

  
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  New dope video from SNL alumni The Lonely Island . It’s off of their upcoming album The Wack Album and features Zach Galifianakis, dreamy ass James Franco and one of my fave actors Edward Norton . Random collection, right; but the video is hilarious and def worth watching. Check it out below.
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• Accels Breyer Leads Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors Again, While Kleiners Doerr Leads in Media Scrutiny

  
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  Forbes magazine put out its much-watched Midas List today, which is kind of the Oscars for venture capitalists in tech. (Caveat: Think more khakis and dudes than glitz and glamour.) On the Top 10 list of 100 of the best-performing and most influential tech investors, Jim Breyer of Accel Partners and Marc Andreessen ...
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• Robert Downey Jr And ‘Avengers’ Cast Ready To Rumble With Stingy Marvel Over Sequel Money And Strong-Arming

  
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  EXCLUSIVE: Robert Downey Jr is set for another huge payday from a mega-hit Marvel movie, this time Iron Man 3 . I’ve learned he’s already made $35 million from the actioner which  grossed $680 million worldwide in its first 12 days . He should exceed his biggest payday to date — that $50M from The ...
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• Ray Harryhausen, stop-motion animation master, dies in London at 92

  
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  Special effects pioneer inspired film-makers including George Lucas and Peter Jackson with sublime and fantastic creatures Stop-motion animation master Ray Harryhausen died Tuesday in London at 92. The Los Angeles-born special effects pioneer famous for his fighting skeletons and cowboy-fighting dinosaurs ...
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• The Ultimate Sports Quiz

  
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  Can You Identify These Awards & Contests? Sure, almost everyone knows that gold statues are given to finest work in television and movies (Oscars & Emmys). But how many of these athletic contests and awards can you properly identify? 1-       The Breeder’s Cup 2-       Conn-Smythe Trophy ...
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• Showbiz Sandbox 190: How The Academy’s New Voting Rules Will Affect The Oscars?

  
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  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it will now be allowing members to vote in all 24 Oscar categories, including Documentary Short Subject and Foreign Language Film. Anne Thompson, Indiewire’s editor-at-large and host of the Oscar Talk podcast, believes the change is long overdue. She explains ...
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• Hot Docs Wrap-Up: Favorites and Oscar Prediction

  
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  Amir here, to wrap up my coverage of the Hot Docs international documentary film festival. The festival is regarded as TIFF’s younger, less glitzy sister here in Toronto but that doesn’t mean there isn’t an abundance of great films on display.  The real difference is in the pleasure of discovery, since most ...
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