When the Academy announced its plans for an unprecedented gathering of the entire AMPAS membership next month, Academy CEO stated Dawn Hudson that the chief purpose of the meeting was to discuss what the organization ...
This year will mark the fifth annual Governors Awards, an event that celebrates the great and good work that members of the Hollywood community have done. We get to see both lifetime achievement awards presented...
As Kris has mentioned before, it's a shame that "Searching for Sugar Man" appears to be cruising to such an easy win in the Best Documentary Feature race. That's not because the film, an engaging audience fa...
"I was still horizontal in bed, but I was probably the happiest person on the planet. ...I'm just so happy for everyone [on the movie] and everyone just deserves it. It's incredible." (You can read Lawrence'...
LONDON -- It scarcely needs to be stated that, in terms of professional arduousness, film journalism is not exactly coal-mining -- so I understand when our occasional complaints about the wearying nature of the c...
HOLLYWOOD -- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored its own tonight in the fourth annual Governors Awards. A satellite ceremony dedicated to Honorary Oscar presentations (voted on by the AMPAS Board o...
Pro: No branch of the Academy is friendlier towards foreign-language fare than the writers, and as with “A Separation” last year, Haneke's Palme d'Or winner is the kind of intimate, articulate, character-d...
Contrary to the beliefs of some (ahem, Adam Carolla), women can be just as funny as men - and "Bridesmaids" trio Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Melissa McCarthy are some of the funniest female comedians...
Female directors and producers may have received relatively short shrift at the Academy Awards over 84 years -- for those of you keeping score, only seven women have won Best Picture, while that number famously drops ...
Recently you may recall Drew McWeeny and I separately participated in Cole Abaius's answer to the Sight & Sound all-time list of the greatest movies for Film School Rejects. In summing up his pick for the #1 movie...
