Blogs Posts in Winners category; 89 blog posts

Oscar winner Jennifer Jones dead at 90

Jennifer Jones, the beautiful, raven-haired actress who was nominated for Academy Awards five times, winning in 1943 for her portrayal of a saintly nun in "The Song of Bernadette," died Thursday. She was 90. Jones, who in later y [...]

Posted On : Dec, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Rachel Weisz struggles to remember Oscar win moment

Hollywood actress Rachel Weisz struggles to remember the moment she won the Academy Award in 2006 because she was so heavily pregnant it was like an "out of body" experience. The 'Mummy' star was expecting son Henry when she was [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Actress Penelope Cruz 'passed out' at Oscars

Spanish star Penelope Cruz almost fainted with shock at the Oscars this year and has no recollection of what happened at the prestigious award ceremony. The 35-year-old actress, who won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award this year f [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Oscar winner Charlize Theron among star-studded cast on Worl...

After years of fears that it would never happen, the first World Cup on the African continent will become a reality tonight. When Charlize Theron, the South African-born Oscar winner, joins a host of stars as the first teams are drawn to pl [...]

Posted On : Dec, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

Oscar Eye: Predicting Precious And The Other Winners

As my friend Nathaniel Rogers over at The Film Experience has pointed out, this Friday can safely be declared the beginning of Oscar season. That's because it's the day that we finally finally! see the release of Precious: Based on the Nove [...]

Posted On : Nov, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Can Saorise Ronan become the youngest best actress Oscar win...

A spy tells us that Saorise Ronan is in virtually every scene of "The Lovely Bones" as the central character of this compelling story of a murdered girl, her grieving family, and her killer. And we hear that Ronan steals the pictu [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Oscar-winner Haggis quits Scientology

Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis has severed his ties with the Church of Scientology in protest against the sect's position on gays and its treatment of members, it was reported Monday. The Canadian-born director, who scooped Oscars for [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

German Oscar Winner Convinces Jolie To Join The Tourist

Last week it was just a rumor that Angelina Jolie would star in The Tourist replacing Charlize Theron as an Interpol agent who drags an unaware American tourist into her spy game. Now it's confirmed, apparently thanks to the fact that Flori [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2009 | Comments : 0