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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 Entertainment
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  by lisasepiphany / on Jan 25, 2012
• in Film
  "War Horse", Not About War But Life
  Truthfully, can a horse win the best actor award in the Oscars?
  by stephengfm / on Dec 8, 2011
• in Film
  Oscar & Emmy Watch: Musings & Misgivings - I'm Just Wondering
  I'm Just Wondering....
  by celebguy / on Sep 6, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “oscars”

 

• Andrew Donaldson Remarks on the Nonsense We Call The Oscars

  
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• Ryan Gosling Talks Oscar Snub And New Bangok-Based Film!

  
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• Oscar’s Lobster Mania Comes to PlayStation Home + Weekly Update

  
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• Now Oscars app in iPhone, iPad

  
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  Movie fans don’t need to wait until the red carpet is rolled out to get in on the excitement of this year’s Academy Awards. The Oscars app, developed in partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Disney-ABC Television Group, provides a behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood’s biggest ...
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• The Help spurred on to Oscars by Sag awards triumph

  
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  The Help sweeps Screen Actors Guild awards becoming the frontrunner to outshine The Artist at next months Academy Awards The Help , Tate Taylors civil rights era tale of black Mississippi maids, last night emerged as a late contender to challenge The Artist at next months Oscars after taking three of the top five ...
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• The Gold Knight: Oscars to go digital, e-voting on the horizon

  
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  No postage required. The motion picture academy is looking to ditch snail-mail voting. Before next year’s Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences plans to “undertake a rigorous security and user-acceptance testing process” for an electronic voting system, the organization announced on Jan. 25. ...
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• SAG Awards 2012: The Help Dominates Film Honors, Boardwalk Empire Tops TV

  
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• Snubbed by Oscars, ‘Le Havre’ Sweeps Finland’s Jussi Awards

  
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  Scott Roxborough Aki Kaurismaki’s French-language fairytale takes six prizes, including best film, at the national film honors in Helsinki. read more
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• SAG Awards 2012: The Help Dominates Film Honors, Boardwalk Empire Tops TV

  
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• HONEST OSCAR FILM POSTERS

  
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• The artistes of France

  
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• Acadamy Awards 2012

  
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  84th Acadamy awards will honor the best film of the year 2011. It will be held on feb 26 at Kodak Theatre. As the previous year it will be shown live on ABC. The nominations where announced in january 24. The host of the show is billy crystal. Eddie murphy was supposed to host but left when the producer was replaced ...
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• Jonah Hill Is Ditching Comedy For More Dramatic Roles

  
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• Jonah Hill Is Ditching Comedy For More Dramatic Roles

  
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• Jonah Hill Is Ditching Comedy For More Dramatic Roles

  
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• Who will gain Oscar glory?

  
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    The Oscar nominations were revealed earlier this week and the actress categories are looking strong. It will be hard to predict who is going to go home with an Oscar this year but let’s take a look at the contenders.     Actress in a Leading Role   Glenn Close for Albert Nobbs Glenn Close gave ...
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• Miss Bala (2011)

  
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• Uggie

  
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  Counting on Kermit, Uggie to make up for Oscar omissions – The Chronicle Herald There are going to have to be some pretty wacky dresses to make the Oscars interesting this year. Notice to Marchesa: each dress should be equipped with 30 yards of tulle, 20 pounds of sequins, and dyed using the tears of the graduating ...
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• Your Weekend Justice #145: Will Somebody Save Somebody?

  
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