Whoopi Goldberg used today's episode of The View to criticize Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott's article on race at this year's Oscars for not mentioning her Best Supporting Actress trophy.... MORE >
All those hoping for actual spontaneity at this year's super-youthy Oscars (co-hosted by conceptual artist and occasional actor James Franco!) is out of luck. The Academy, responding to the surprising Best Documentary nomination for guerrilla artist Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop, has asked the filmmaker to skip the awards ceremony if he won't show his face.... MORE >
The Fighter star Melissa Leo had won a Golden Globe and SAG Award, and given loopy if lovable speeches at both ceremonies, flirting with David O. Russell and sputtering for joy. It's the first time she's had such... MORE >
Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal's latest collaboration will hopefully fare better than Love and Other Drugs - but it's at newsstands, not the box office. The Vanity Fair "Hollywood Issue," which traditionally features either seasoned veterans (Harrison Ford and Jack Nicholson, 2003) or bright young things (Abbie Cornish and Kristen Stewart, 2010), has dropped for 2011.... MORE >
At the weekend's guild prizes, the only surprise was surprise's absence. Those who hoped for a pitched Oscar battle surely groaned when The King's Speech won the Directors Guild of America prize for its director, Tom Hooper (the prize is perhaps the most effective predictor of Oscar's Best Picture category). And the Screen Actors Guild Awards last night went to Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, and Melissa Leo - four for four with... MORE >
It’s the New Year, and the Oscar race is on. On Monday, two events took place promoting Oscar-worthy pictures, a private lunch and talk for The King’s Speech and the New York premiere of Barney’s Version. It was fitting that at a lunch given for The King’s Speech—the brilliant film about King George VI and the speech therapist who helped to cure the monarch’s stammer—should take place in a suitably grand private... MORE >
The Museum of Modern Art has picked Kathryn Bigelow to honor at its annual fund-raising Film Gala. (It's MoMA's recently-hatched version of the Met's tony cash-cow, the Costume Institute Ball.) Apart from her shiny Oscars, of course, Best-Director Bigelow's an unlikely candidate: The two previous winners, Baz Luhrmann and Tim Burton, were known for extremely elaborate visual designs.... MORE >
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