Oscar Weekend

Beverly Hills, CA – Eighteen of the 20 nominees in the acting categories will be among more than 150 Oscar nominees who will gather at noon on Monday, February 6, at the Beverly Hilton when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors this year’s Oscar contenders at its annual Nominees Luncheon. Additional confirmations are expected to come in over the weekend. From the Best Actress and Actor categories all the nominees – Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Rooney Mara, Meryl Streep...Read Full Story

Beverly Hills, CA – Final ballots for the 84th Academy Awards® were mailed today (February 1) to the 5,783 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Completed ballots must be returned to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) by 5 p.m. Tuesday, February 21.  Ballots received after the deadline will not be counted. Listed on the ballots are nominees in 19 Awards categories.  Separate ballots for five categories (Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Foreign...Read Full Story

January 18, 2012 Download PDF Canada, "Monsieur Lazhar," Philippe Falardeau, director; Beverly Hills, CA ( RPRN ) 01/18/12 — Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 84th Academy Awards®. Sixty-three films had originally qualified in the category. The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are: Belgium, "Bullhead," Michael R. Roskam, director; Canada, "Monsieur Lazhar...Read Full Story

Jim Rash is an American actor, comedian and screenwriter. He plays Dean Pelton on Community and co-wrote The Descendants for which he is getting tons of awards and an oscar nomination. The 2011 National Board of Review Awards gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on January 10, 2012 in New York City The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 15, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. At the Premiere Of Fox Searchlight's "The Descendants" at AMPAS Samuel...Read Full Story

Thursday, ballad singer Melanie Amaro won the first U.S season of the X–Factor . For those who are unfamiliar, X–Factor is a singing competition show that was first introduced in Britain by superstar judge Simon Cowell . For the first time, this year Cowell brought the show to American televisions via Fox . More than 100,000 people auditioned to compete and once the show began running, it attracted about 12million viewers (slim numbers compared to American Idol , which attracts about double...Read Full Story

HollywoodNews.com: Nominations for the 84th Academy Awards® will be announced on Tuesday, January 24, by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and Academy member and Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence. Sherak and Lawrence will unveil the nominations in 10 of the 24 categories at a 5:30 a.m. PT news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, where hundreds of media representatives from around the world will be gathered. Nominations...Read Full Story

Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen the first Best Picture winner, “Wings,” starring Clara Bow, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Richard Arlen and Gary Cooper, as part of a celebration of Paramount Pictures’ 100th anniversary, on Wednesday, January 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The evening will premiere a restoration by Paramount Pictures in cooperation with the Academy Film Archive, with live musical accompaniment by Clark...Read Full Story

December 5, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ACADEMY SHINES NEW LIGHT ON “IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE” IN LA AND NYC “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) is one of only two motion pictures produced by Liberty Films, the independent company Frank Capra and Samuel J. Briskin created in 1945. Although the film performed only modestly at the box office when it was first released, it went on to earn five Oscar nominations, including Best Motion Picture, Best Actor (James Stewart), Directing (Capra), Film...Read Full Story

USA TODAY Oscar Nomination Ballots Mailed to Academy Voters Below the Line Nomination ballots for the 84th Academy Awards were mailed to the 5783 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences yesterday. Completed ballots must be returned to PricewaterhouseCoopers by 5 pm PST on Jan. 13. ... Wide-open field puts Academy Award race out of focus USA TODAY For your consideration: Oscar ballots mailed to voters Daily Caller First Look: New Academy Awards Poster E! Online 89.3...Read Full Story

With New York’s public school system failing to educate many of its children and the teachers union blocking the termination of members with poor success records, “The Lottery” highlights the Harlem Success Academies as a beacon of hope for many students. But the schools have room for only 475 children, so the three thousand who apply each year must trust their fate to a lottery. The film was directed by Madeleine Sackler, who also produced with Blake Ashman-Kipervaser and James Lawler...Read Full Story