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 Oscar-Worthy Comebacks 

Some celebs are best after years of fermenting

Dec 30, 08 9:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Some stars combust and others fizzle, but a few are reborn. Metromix honors the second wave:
  • The Wrestler was made for Mickey Rourke, the "one-time '80s sex symbol" turned professional boxer.
  • Drug habits wrote off Robert Downey Jr. until the Iron Man returned with back-to-back
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California • Hollywood • film • celebrity • acting • Oscars

Cash-Strapped Studios Spend Big on Oscars

Pricey ads run for contenders despite industry layoffs

Dec 20, 08 10:00 AM CST
(Newser) - America's financial crisis hasn't stopped studios from dropping big money in their quest for Oscars, Nikki Finke writes on Deadline Hollywood Daily. Amid layoffs and cutbacks, Paramount took out 7 full-page ads for Revolutionary Road in the New York Times, and Disney spent $675,000 for a Wall-E insert in... More »

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Academy Awards • award show • Paramount • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences • movies • Wall-E • Revolutionary Road • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button • Oscars

Jackman to Host
Classed-Up Oscars 

Hugh has 'style, elegance, and a sense of occasion': producers

Dec 12, 08 4:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Australian hottie Hugh Jackman will host the next Academy Awards, but don't expect Jon Stewart-style wisecracking or mugging à la Robin Williams, Deadline Hollywood Daily reports. The ceremony's producers "were looking for Cary Grant or Clark Gable," they said today, and tapped People's "Sexiest Man Alive,"... More »

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Hollywood • Academy Awards • awards • award show • Jon Stewart • host • Robin Williams • Hugh Jackman • Oscars

(Newser) - Warner Bros. is tiptoeing around the possible Oscar nomination for Heath Ledger, the late star of Dark Knight, writes Rachel Abramowitz in the Los Angeles Times. Hollywood insiders contend that a nod for Ledger is almost certain, but the studio must tread the line between boosting his chances... More »

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Academy Awards • film • award show • publicity • The Dark Knight • Heath Ledger • Warner Brothers • movies • Oscars

 Writer Marked by 
 Mob to Flee Italy 

Mob wants author dead by Christmas

Oct 16, 08 4:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - A best-selling author who has become a target of Italian mobsters is fleeing Italy, reports the Guardian. Writer Roberto Saviano, 28, has spent the last two years as a virtual prisoner in army barracks, surrounded by bodyguards protecting him from a Neapolitan mob family. Saviano's book, Gomorra, now an... More »

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Naples • literature • assassination • Camorra • Roberto Saviano • Gomorra • Casal di Principe • Oscars

opinion

Ledger May Not Be Dark Knight's Only Oscar Nod

Many on the crew
are no strangers to Academy Award buzz

Jul 22, 08 7:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Buzz about a possible Oscar nod for Heath Ledger's Joker has been circulating since long before last week's release of The Dark Knight, but could others behind the film be honored, too? In the Los Angeles Times, Tom O'Neil looks at past honorees involved in the film's creation.
  • Lee
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Academy Awards • The Dark Knight • Oscars

 Gore's New Hard
 Truth: Nothing
 Is Changing 

Climate change too low on priority list: Gore

Apr 21, 08 3:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite the impact of his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, the success of Live Earth concerts and news stories about melting ice caps, little has changed and action is needed more urgently than ever to stem global warming, Al Gore tells the Sun. The Nobel Prize-winning former vice president believes it's... More »

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climate change • recycling • Al Gore • global warming • Kyoto Protocol • An Inconvenient Truth • polar ice caps • Live Earth • Nobel Peace Prize • low-energy light bulbs • Oscars

Director Minghella
Dead at 54

Filmmaker won
Oscar in 1997 for
The English Patient

Mar 18, 08 11:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella died today at 54, the Guardian reports. Minghella won the 1997 best director Oscar for The English Patient and was nominated as a screenwriter for The Talented Mr. Ripley in 2000. "This is a shattering blow from someone who was a major figure in... More »

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obituary • film director • movies • Anthony Minghella • Oscar winner • Oscars

Oscars:
Red Was the New Black

Some chose braver, better fashions,
fish scales included

Feb 25, 08 3:56 PM CST
(Newser) - Red was the bread-and-butter of last night's Oscars, on the carpet and on the stars. But those who bucked tradition shone brighter, Jezebel opines, giving props to Marion Cotillard's fish-scale gown by Gaultier, Cate Blanchett's purple Dries Van Noten, and Amy Adams' deep green Proenza Schouler. Juno scribe Diablo Cody... More »

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fashion • Academy Awards • Marion Cotillard • Daniel Day-Lewis • Oscars

OPINION

Writers Strike Hobbled Oscars

No prep time meant too many clips, not enough Stewart

Feb 25, 08 2:00 PM CST
(Newser) - The Oscars were mediocre, to say the least, and USA Today TV critic Robert Bianco chalks the "padded bore" up to the writers strike. With the standoff settled just 2 weeks before the big night, the staff putting clever lines in Jon Stewart's mouth was on a tight schedule.... More »

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Hollywood • Academy Awards • Jon Stewart • Hollywood writers' strike • Enchanted • host • Oscars

Non-Mainstream Seduced Oscar

Non-Americans are dominating as increasing revenue comes from overseas

Feb 25, 08 7:35 AM CST
(Newser) - For a Hollywood award, Oscar wasn't too fond of Tinseltown last night. The Academy Awards were dominated by a crew of crack European actors—and a pair of maverick brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen, operating far from the Hollywood mainstream. It was a record year for the number of Oscars... More »

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Hollywood • Academy Awards • Coen brothers • Joel Coen • Ethan Coen • No Country for Old Men • Javier Bardem • Joel and Ethan Coen • There Will Be Blood • Marion Cotillard • Daniel Day-Lewis • Tilda Swinton • Bardem • Oscars

UPDATED

No Country Wins Best Picture

Coen brothers flick is top Oscar winner with 4 prizes

Feb 24, 08 7:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Hollywood crowned the Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men with four Oscars tonight, including best picture, best direction, and best adapted screenplay, the Los Angeles Times reports. Javier Bardem won best supporting actor for his role as the film's ice-cold assassin. Daniel Day-Lewis scored best actor prize for There ... More »

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Hollywood • Academy Awards • film • Javier Bardem • Diablo Cody • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences • Marion Cotillard • Daniel Day-Lewis • Tilda Swinton • Oscars

Movie Lovers Get the Point
at Box Office

Political thriller opens
in first on slow
Oscar weekend

Feb 24, 08 7:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Vantage Point took top spot at this weekend's box office by nearly doubling the yield of number-two pic Jumper, Variety reports. The Dennis Quaid political thriller banked $24 million to Jumper''s $12.7 million and number-three The Spiderwick Chronicles' $12.6 million, both in their second... More »

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Hollywood • No Country for Old Men • There Will Be Blood • Vantage Point • Be Kind Rewind • Fool's Gold • Witless • Jumper • Spiderwick • Definitely, Maybe • movies • Oscars

Top 10 Oscars That Weren't

Film classics and actors the Academy overlooked

Feb 24, 08 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - In the Academy Awards' 80-year history, many classic films, performers, and directors have been robbed of their statues. CNN's Screening Room names the 10 most crushing Oscars that weren't, many of which lost out to—gulp—musicals:
  • 1941: Seminal Citizen Kane loses to sappy How
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Morgan Freeman • Academy Awards • Al Pacino • list • Citizen Kane • Brokeback Mountain • Martin Scorsese • Pulp Fiction • James Dean • classic cinema • Stanley Kubrick • Alfred Hitchcock • Robert Duvall • LA Confidential • movies • Oscars

There Will Be Bad Banter

Shorter schedule leaves this year's patter less edited, scribe says

Feb 24, 08 9:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Oscar banter may provide the show's shakiest moments, but stars and scribes are known to battle over these lines behind the scenes, the Los Angeles Times reports. This year though is different: The show's strike-shortened schedule is sparing writers from the usual pre-show scrutinty. "The celebrities and their support... More »

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Academy Awards • Robert Downey Jr. • Writers Guild of America • Hollywood writers' strike • scriptwriters • Bruce Vilanch • Oscars

Clooney Sees No Country Sweep

The actor shares  his Oscar picks ahead of tomorrow's ceremony; tells Time he's never wrong

Feb 23, 08 7:19 PM CST
(Newser) - If you’re betting on Oscar results this weekend, Time has an odd piece of advice: Listen to George Clooney. The actor says he's never been wrong about winners, the magazine reports, and he shares this year’s picks: The Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men will... More »

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Academy Awards • George Clooney • Javier Bardem • Cormac McCarthy • Diablo Cody • Joel and Ethan Coen • Paul Thomas Anderson • Julie Christie • Daniel Day-Lewis • Robert Elswit • Amy Ryan • Oscars

OPINION

Oscars Pose
a Threat to
Good Movies

Small, 'self-involved' clique hands out the awards: NYT critic

Feb 23, 08 3:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Oscar night may seem like fun, but it has quietly turned the US market for serious films into a “brutal blood sport,” critic AO Scott writes in the New York Times. The highly commercial fare of January through August is followed by an “avalanche of art”... More »

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Academy Awards • film • Michael Clayton • No Country for Old Men • Juno • Atonement • There Will Be Blood • Oscars

Oscar Gold Glitters, Costs a Mint

Gilded statue's price goes from $400 to $500 as gold jumps 40%

Feb 22, 08 11:23 AM CST
(Newser) - They’re worth their weight in gold to actors. And this year’s Oscars—carrying a gilding of pure gold—will cost the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences about $500 each, up $100 from last year's 13 1/2-inch tall, 8 1/2-pound statuettes. The price of gold has soared... More »

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Academy Awards • gold • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences • gold prices • Oscar statue • Oscars

Juno Barbs Prompt Protests

Adoptive parents hurt by 'iPod scene'

Feb 14, 08 4:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Angry viewers are lobbying to axe "hurtful" lines from the trailer of quirky adoption flick Juno before showing it at the Oscars, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The offending scene—televised at the Golden Globes—has the title character quipping the Chinese "give away babies like free... More »

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China • adoption • Oprah Winfrey • protests • Jennifer Garner • foreign adoptions • Diablo Cody • Juno • Golden Globes • Ellen Page • offensive • Jason Reitman • Oscars

Vanity Fair Cancels Its
Oscar Party

Magazine sides with strikers, takes year off from revels

Feb 6, 08 2:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Vanity Fair is canceling its annual Oscar party in solidarity with Hollywood's striking writers, and others affected by the walkout, reports Variety. Even though it appears the strike may be settled by Academy Awards night, a spokeswoman for the magazine said "it didn't seem like the appropriate time to... More »

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Academy Awards • Vanity Fair • Hollywood writers' strike • Oscars

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