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Rolling out the red carpet: Hollywood prepares for the 84th Academy Awards as America counts down to the Oscars By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 8:45 AM on 24th February 2012 Share As the 84th Academy Awards ceremony draws ever closer, Hollywood is increasingly in the grip of Oscar fever.Preparations for the lavish awards show, which takes place on Sunday evening, are now in their final stage, as workers roll out the red carpet and festoon the show's venue with...Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Award Shows, Entertainment, Events, Featured, Movies / Diversity News Magazine Cover Beginning Days of 84th Academy Awards Setup February 21, 2012 by News Staff   Filed under Award Shows, Entertainment, Events, Featured, Movies Diversity News Magazine and Diversity News TV series of coverage of 84th Academy Awards Setup. The series of coverage of 84th Academy Awards Setup is provided here by Actor Producer Mark Valinsky of Valinsky Media Group in association...Read Full Story

84th Annual Academy Awards, February 26th, 2012The 84th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), will honor the best films of 2011. The ceremony will take place on February 26, 2012 (4:00 p.m. PST, 7:00 p.m. EST), at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California; it will be televised live in the United States on ABC. Nominations for the Academy Awards were announced by AMPAS on January 24, 2012.Billy Crystal will host the ceremony, while Brian...Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES — The Oscar ceremony has much to prove Sunday, including whether a blockbuster-free field can draw a TV audience and if Billy Crystal’s host routine remains a crowd-pleaser. Brian Grazer and Don Mischer, the show’s producers, are laughing off the challenges: “Comedy is the direction we’re going in this year,” said Mischer. For Crystal, who returns to the ceremony (8:30 p.m. EST, ABC) after an absence of eight years, that means jokes and patter that were being rehearsed at the last...Read Full Story

ABC TELEVISION NETWORK PRESENTS OSCAR® SUNDAY - A CELEBRATION OF THE 84TH ACADEMY AWARDS® - FEBRUARY 26ABC Television Network is your home for OSCAR SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26. Celebrate Oscar Sunday with exclusive coverage of the 84th Academy Awards and a day-long celebration of the Movies on Hollywood's biggest night beginning with “Good Morning America” and ending with Oscar host Billy Crystal on “Jimmy Kimmel Live: After The Academy Awards.” Oscar Sunday coverage all leads up to the main event...Read Full Story

We will be the one of many movie bloggers covering the Academy Awards, why not just hang out with us. Not only will we be covering the winners and losers, but we will also be covering what happens in between. So with no live performances of the Best Song nominees, will the once in a life time Cirque du Soleil show live up to its expectations or will Academy Producers have wished they had the Muppets sing Man or Muppet on the big stage? Plus you are already here, so why not stay a while. You...Read Full Story

Beverly Hills, CA – Nominations for the 84th Academy Awards were announced today (Tuesday, January 24) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and 2010 Oscar® nominee Jennifer Lawrence. Sherak and Lawrence, who was nominated for an Academy Award® for her lead performance in “Winter’s Bone,” announced the nominees in 10 of the 24 Award categories at a 5:38 a.m. PT live news conference attended by more than 400 international media representatives. Lists of...Read Full Story

The 84th Academy Awards is this Sunday and if you’re wondering who’s nominated for what among the top awards categories, look no further than Zennie62.com. Without delay, here they are, courtesy of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Best Picture: The Artist, The Descendants, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Hugo, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Tree of Life, War Horse Actor in a Leading Role: Demián Bichir, George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt...Read Full Story

Beverly Hills, CA – Two-time Academy Award®-winning actor Tom Hanks will present at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced today. Hanks, who is a governor of the Academy, won consecutive Oscars® in 1993 and 1994 for his lead performances in “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gump.”  He was also nominated for his leading roles in “Big,” “Saving Private Ryan” and “Cast Away.”  Hanks can currently be seen in the Best Picture-nominated “Extremely Loud...Read Full Story

This year’s Academy Awards will mark the 84th year that this event has been held. The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences puts on the annual ceremony, and the best films of 2011 will be honored. Also known as The Oscars, this year’s Academy Awards will take place on February 26, 2012 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. I mean where else would an event honor movies occur? Hollywood, of course! The Oscars will be televised live by ABC. Alternatively, you can watch...Read Full Story